Nothing comes after ‘tet’
Accusations of forgery and manipulating laws with the intention of profiteering from a business are very simple and normal. However, assuming it is illegal, nobody cares about the argument that took place between two lawmakers in parliament three days ago, where one of them accused the other of registering some stores he owned in his wife’s name and not paying their rent, and the other argued that he ‘was not one of those who would forge a report in a tender or forensic reports about drug abuse’!
Well, regardless of this argument that ended by using a genuine Kuwaiti dialect term ‘Tet....tet’ (which is usually used to scare away cats intruding or trespassing into the house), none of their colleagues, Cabinet members or even their voters actually care about such accusations that may prove true or are mere provocative talk affected by childhood memories and arguments.
People in Kuwait and in other countries witnessing similar public property and fund violations and lenient administrations are used to hearing news about major crimes of abuse of powers, profiteering and bribery, which all drain public funds and most probably reach dead ends due to mistakes in imposing the law or lack of earnestness in tracking down the culprits, especially when this tracking is limited to symbolic nominal measures where the stardom of some officials is splashed in newspapers as if corruption and looting public facilities is their prime cause, or when such cases are closed because the culprits managed to find their way out of the country to wrap up the whole story with the conclusion that those with authorities did their duties according to the law and we should stop asking them for more. Accordingly, this ends another silly act of our official play.
What does it mean to forge a tender or a rent stores in a wife’s name by this or that lawmaker when compared to endless stories about mightier hotshots who remained in office for scores of years and served under many ministers who considered them (the hotshots) above suspicion? Those hotshots really knew how to mislead the law and justice that has become actually, not symbolically, blind as indicated by its famous statue.
When this blindness happens, justice no longer sees VIPs and their crimes but it strongly punishes some young people for ‘tweeting’ out of the flock and in disobedience. VIPs might have learnt how to butter and tidy up everyone when they were in office according to the principle of ‘charity cuts the tongue’. Well, a few days ago, the local press shyly reported the story of one of those hotshots as one of so many in a country where charity does cut tongues, who managed to escape like so many before him who fear nothing nor the term ‘tet’ because they knew long ago that nothing comes after ‘tet’!
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