The “Mother-of -all-mistakes” is to give your vote to BN and continuing to do so for the pass few GEs (Hopefully non of you for GE12 and more so GE13). Your votes becomes the government! It is fortunate that plenty changed their stand after much enlightenment through the rich and advance technology available to us today i.e. internet. I am guilty for believing in BN for the pass few GEs but am glad that I no longer trust in them. I am paying for my previous folly and still am now…until PR finally took over as the fed gov (fingers crossed).

No doubt Ex-gratia is the lousiest form of remedy, it is something that you can expect from the current gov.

Ex Gratia payment = RM50m
Dinner for the event = RM100k
Remedial action to the judicial system = Priceless

B.Ann is too blind to see that only things that no price can be attached to is priceless!

While tax payers are still being penalised for their wrong decision, lets hope that such a predicament will end in GE13! To have PR as the fed gov… priceless!

I am sure that the justice demanded by many here will happen if/when the Opposition rules but that is still a work in progress.

Now there is also talk for an independent ACA but I suggest we should remind them of the IPCMC first.
http://malaysiawatch3.blogspot.com/2008/04/independent-aca-would-be-great-but-lets.html

The issue to me is this: IF the goal of this and subsequent administration is to build a world class judiciary, can it avoid paying for the consequences of the injustices and damages done forever?

There is such a thing as a statute of limitation in law but NOT when it comes to non-financial damages. A world class judiciary cannot avoid looking at the consequences and damages even 50 or 100 years after the incidence so long as locus standi can be proven. So even if aggrieved party such as Sdr. Lim may not be around one day, so long as his sons and grandchildren keep asking for damages, sooner or later a world class court have to hear them.

This to me is the biggest danger of the NEP, its clearly unconstitutional now if you are a strict constitutionalist as it violates Article 8. If its not removed, someday when we do have a decent court system, big group(s) of Indians and Chinese will put together the mother of all class-action suits that our government cannot afford.

Sdr. Lim suggestion is correct but its about paying for the consequences of wrong under Dr. M now rather than later where it could be even worst.

Half the present cabinet was around during 1988, and also during Ops Lallang. The minutes of the cabinet meetings during these infamous incidents probably showed that the cabinet voted unanimously for the actions attributed to Mahathir. Badawi and Najib would never want to open these cans of worms.

Having removed the good judges, the not so good judges were then appointed, and resulted in our judiciary been a laughing stock of the world. And during the period these people held office, they in turn appointed the not so good judges in the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Federal Court, which explained why some people like Ezam, Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Guan Eng and many others to be sent to the prisons.

Of course these sacked judges after having suffered 20 years in disgrace deserved more than the ex gratia.

What is worrying the people is that the payment of ex gratia did not amount to an apology to these honourable men. But in the layman term, this constitutes an apology. Of course people like Najib and for that matter Mathair, which was the root cause to these problems, would continued to echo the sentiment that the ex gratia is not an apology. These are the people who never learned from mistakes and are too proud to admit (their) mistakes.

If it is not to be construed as a form of apology, what is it then?

in some way,accepting a compensation could be seen as spineless…