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Thursday, February 09, 2006

How many more clampdowns?

AS the sun rises (or the sin rises) daily, so is the number of clamps on the rise in Bahrain. With enough and more clamps already in force, here comes yet two more latest clamps called "The bachelors clamp" (GDN, January 23) and "The Peeping Tom clamp" (GDN, January 24).
According to the Muharraq Municipal Council chairman Mr Al Jowder, in future , owners of new multi-storey buildings located in residential areas, will be permitted to instal only one-way windows. This is in order to prevent people peeping into the privacy of a woman's freedom of movement within her home. It means that, if a land is situated in the middle of four or five houses surrounding it then the high-rise buildings will have no windows at all.
Well, if that is the case, then what is the worry for Mr Sadiq Rahma concerning the bachelors living in Manama?
I can give two good suggestions. Whether you accept it or not is another matter.
1. The Manama municipal councillor can sign a long-term contract with the Muharraq municipal councillor to house all the bachelors living in Manama, who exhibit their body parts, in the new buildings of Muharraq without windows. Provide each building with enough number of telescopes on the roof top, focusing up into the sky, so that the bachelors are kept busy gazing at the stars and moon all through.
2. Animal cages of many of the circus companies in India are lying idle. Import a few of those cages and erect them in Askar overlooking the scrap yard. Then hunt down all the bachelors in and around Bahrain and lock them up in these cages. Release them only at the time of reporting for work.
I don't think that anybody else could have given you a faster solution than this, for such a complex issue. However I will advise you to choose proposal no 1, because the end result will be tremendous. You can get two birds with one shot. The major problem faced by the families on account of these indecent bachelors will be contained and they will emerge as great astronomers of tomorrow.
Anyway, whatever you people may do, or whatever action you may take all that I wish to say is that "Let not your actions make the citizens of other countries think that the people of Bahrain are living in a real mad, mad world".
Abraham Samuel (Bijji)

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