The Story of Brown Country, Episode 1: No, we have no rats, the rats are all opposition!

There was a serious rat problem in this Brown country. The populace have tried many methods to solve the problem, they tried rat-poison, rat-trap, rat-glue and even had run a RM1 one mouse campaign. All of these didn't work. There are still over-population of rats in their country. So, after much pressure from the people, the government of Brown country finally decided to seek the advice of an international consultant. Of course the consultant didn't come cheap, rumors have it that they have to pay Millions of RM to get this consultant's advice.

Anyway, the consultant came to the Brown country. After looking at the situation Brown country is in, the consultant concluded that the country have two options:
1) To run an image campaign to tell the people that the country didn't really have a rat problem. Everything is fine, there are no overrunning of rats in the country. There are no rats stealing people's food, there are no rats contaminating the water source, no rats biting off people's clothes, all these rats problems are political ploys of the oppositions. In fact, the rat problems are the doing of the oppositions. If the oppositions are all locked up in jail, then the country would no longer have any rats, because all the oppositions are the rats.

Without hearing the second options offered by the consultant, the government of Brown country jumped with joy and jubilation. "That is IT! That is what we would do!!" The PM of the Brown country government said.

So, that is what the government do. They run media campaign on newspaper, TV, and Radio, reporting that the rats are the oppositions. If the oppositions were gotten rid of there will be no rat in the country.

The people believed the government, so for 50 over years, the opposition in Brown country were the rats. Who, in their right mind would want a rat to run their country? So, in these 50 years, there were no hope for the opposition. For there were no one, whom would listen to the opposition. After all, who would listen to what a rat have to say?

Then the people started to realized that the rat problem has become worse, in fact, it's such a big problem that the people do not need to look for a rat to find a rat. The rats were so rampant and bold that they are parading in front of the people! As if to telling the people there are nothing you could do!

The people become enraged, they demanded that the government to do more to show some results in catching the rats.

Being a democratically elected government, the government of the Brown country have no choice but to do something, so they decided to form an Anti-Rat Agency (ARA). A special investigation agency with the power to investigate rats but have no power to prosecute rats. The power of prosecutions lies with the AG, the government explains, "But don't worry, the AG will prosecute based the finding of the investigation of ARA."

The people sigh with relieve, finally there is an institution to deal with rats.

For sometimes, rats are being caught, then the people realized something. All the rats that are caught are all small rats. The big ones always got away scot-free. So the people started asking the government:"Why is the big one always got away?"

The government assuring the people:"NO, that is not true, the ARA is independent, it doesn't matter if the rat is big or small, all will be investigated."

So, the ARA went to work, now they are investigating the big rat. Then the opposition making noises, "Why, is the ARA only investigating the big rats in Opposition? Why is it not investigate the bigger rats in the government?" Ask the opposition.

The government responded: "That is not true! The ARA is investigating all the rats be it big, small, governmental or from opposition!"

But the people sees what happened. They finally realized that the biggest rat in the country is the government! So, the people decided to send the government a big message. The people put more opposition into the parliament. Now, the opposition become stronger, much stronger than the government of the Brown country have ever experienced. The government suddenly realized that they need to do more to show the people that they are serious in tackling the rats problem.

So, the government reform the ARA in to BARC (Brown Anti-Rat Council). BARC will have more power than ARA, but still hold no prosecution power. The government also promised the people that with BARC, rats will have no place to hide.

True to the government's word, BARC was given a free hand to work. But only to target the opposition. BARC have gone further than ARA. BARC have gone to the extend to make rat out of a non-rat in the opposition. BARC in their pursuit of the opposition, oops! correction, rats. An opposition figure died in their office.

Suddenly, BARC is in deep trouble. People are now suspecting that BARC have committed a murder. BARC, together with the police, and the governmental pathologist have come out and desperately trying to tell the people that the man committed suicide. BARC have nothing to do with the man's death. But BARC couldn't afford a reasonable explanation how would a man choose to end his life the day before he was going to marry the love of his life.

Under intense pressure from the people, the government open up a coronal court to investigate the cause of death of the opposition figure in BARC office.

The coronal court session is still in progress, and it's anyone guess what would be the outcome. But the modus operandi of BARC remains the same: "There are no rats but those from the opposition."