Paying you with your own coin- The covenant.

When you seek employment, you and your employer enter into a covenant, a bargain. You provide loyal and productive service and the employer gives you security of work etc. That also means that the employees must produce more than what the employer pays out in expenses or the situation becomes untenable and eventually insolvent. So say if the employees produce say RM10,000 in value of goods or services, the employer pays you a percentage of that value.

Ergo you are paid in your own coin.

When the citizens of a Country elect a government we also enter into a covenant. The citizens give their votes  and mandate in return for wise leadership and provision of security for us and our families etc. And the government also provides the framework to manage the Country's resources to give us development etc. For in truth the resources belong to the citizens and the government are elected trustees.

Ergo we are "paid" in our own coin.

So lets stop here for a little while. Both parties give to each other in accordance to the covenant or at least the perception of it or it doesn't work. If you feel the employer has broken the covenant you move to another employer or you try to be your own boss. If you feel the Government has not lived up to its covenant you cast your vote to the other fella in the hope that he/she does a better job.

Now that is the very basic ground rules of democracy that we have chosen to live by in our covenant with each other.

MCF

But let us look at the situation with MCF now. It's a strange animal. An NGO is more similar to a government than a private entity except that it doesnt have the wide powers of Government to change the rules. MCF was governed by ROS and it seems the new rules today is designed by COS.

The sources of funding are still the parents, the players and the sponsors. Everyone else is paid. And our covenant with MCF is that they manage the sport in a way that will grow the sport. Now we must remember that all the financial resources and assets of MCF belong to the members. The committee are merely trustees. Now I challenge you to find the committee's end of the covenant. Do they not only concentrate on doing tournaments to enrich themselves. Do they do anything else?

Ergo, they take our coin and then they take our coin and then they take even more coins. And they give us back nothing. A very one sided affair and yet they feel they have that right.

Isn't that what is happening? They cannot even protect our players; there are "no rules". There are tons of facts highlighted in this blog. They do not even provide training for our National players. They abandon the strong players after 16. And then they give representation of our Country to people of their choice without healthy competition and proper selection. Aren't we a sport?

And yet we see a few defending this system. This is the most twisted and distorted system and defies all democratic principles.

Now do you see our complaint? We have individually invested heavily in the players but they can "ban" without rhyme and reason. We try to provide an independent source of training using our own resources and they attack us. They do not do anything except take our coin over and over again. And yet they will not even allow us to try and take remedial action of our own as they say it makes them look bad.

What kind of perversion is this? Isn't it time we put a stop to it?