Tindakan menjual plat 'PATRIOT' sama seperti 'PELACURAN' kata ADUN UMNO

Seorang anggota Dewan Undangan Negeri Umno hari ini mengejutkan banyak pihak dengan mengaitkan lelongan nombor plat 'Patriot' dengan aktiviti pelacuran.

“Tindakan menjual plat ini sama seperti 'pelacuran', sacred word kepada pembida tertinggi membuatkan mereka bapa ayam, bukan patriot,” kata wakil rakyat Kempas Tengku Putra Haron Aminurrashid.  

Menjelaskan kenyataannya itu Tengku Putra berkata, lelongan sebegitu seolah-olah pihak yang terlibat melacurkan ungkapan suci (iaitu patriot) kepada pembida.

Tengku Putra juga mempersoalkan sama ada pengendali lelongan nombor itu Yayasan Patriot Negara Malaysia (YPN) memahami perkataan “Patriot” itu, dan sama ada latar belang pembida disemak.  

“Antara yang menang bidaan boleh jadi pengkhianat ekonomi yang mensabotaj negara untuk buat duit segera!

"Adakah mereka ini layak pakai nombor plat ini?

“Adakah penganjur tidak mahu pastikan dulu bahawa pemegang (nombor plat) itu patriot yang sejati?” soalnya.

Tengku Putra juga berkata keadaan akan lebih buruk jika pembida yang berjaya mendapatkan nombor itu bukan warganegara Malaysia.

“Jika orang asing menang bidaan 'Patriot 1', secara simbolik, penganjur telah jual negara kita ini,” katanya lapor Malaysiakini

Tengku Putra, whose blog is named 'The Patriot', questioned whether YPNM understood the word "patriot" and whether it conducted background checks on those bidding for the plates.

"Among those who win the bid could be known economic traitors who have sabotaged the nation to make a fast buck. Are they worthy of carrying these plates?

"Don't the organisers want to ascertain or ensure first that the bearers are true patriots?" he said.

Tengku Putra said this would be even worse if the winning bidders were not Malaysian citizens.

"If a foreigner wins the bid for "Patriot 1", symbolically, the organisers have sold our country.

"When it is open to any Tom, Dick and Harry with money, we might end up with a Dick who could have sold his mother not to mention his country with those plates flashed on his car!" he said.

He likened this to rapists and adulterers being able to join the bid for the plate "Saint" from 1 to 9999.

"If they can't determine the difference, then the government should scrap the idea altogether.

"By allowing it, this outfit has just put 'patriotism' on sale and if I heard the spokesman right, he even said that the owner might profit from it by re-selling it in the future.

"These people aren't patriots, they are mere salesmen in a patriot's outfit making money off the rakyat from turning 'patriotism' into a tradeable commodity," he said.

To date, the 'Patriot 1' plate bidding had reached RM1.3 million.