Who defines ‘national interest’ and in the case of legislation like the Internal Security Act, ‘national security’. Who decides who is and is not a threat to national security. What is or is not national security??

Or better, let the 5 Pakatan state form a sort of “pseudo-federal gomen” to co-ordinate their policies and let this angel of compassion and fairness to have an advisory / executive role”. She will make a heck of a shadow minister.

A form of recognition and also empower her to a certain extent to help address the inequality that exist. She might be the best person in the know

– I agree absolutely….but will there be a consistency of application by the court in Malaysia without regards to any affiliation?

– I suppose the tearing up of Koh Tsu Koon’s photos does not hurt the public or national interest; nor the words uttered during that particular emotional day

But it will only make us stronger.

This is one of those cases where the punishment is not in being found guilty as charged but to have to live under a cloud for 13 years and seeing your life ruined.

May God bless you, Irene Fernandez, our Malaysian heroine.

May God bless you.

If life’s a stage,we have it all in Malaysia…and one which is filled with hypocrisy, discrimination, exploitation, manipulation, bigotry, pretension, religious perversion, judiciary malpractices, political hegemony, financial plunder an embezzlement of the highest and worst case scenario ( though made to look nice and reasonable on the outside ), hidden racialism.

On this stage the evil appears holy and magnanimous; the good ever silenced and sterilised.

On this stage some are more equal than others.

On this stage you have to be of the right colour to be able to see the light of the day.

On this stage you have to believe as they do in order that contracts or opportunity come your way.

Else, you are doomed.

The scripts are written, perhaps in stone.

Perhaps it’s time that the stone be thrown to the sea for the “moral arc towards justice” to exert its presence…

Great and comforting words for the Oppressed but are they true?

I don’t see it happening here. Did Altantuya Shaariibuu or Irene Fernandez get justice so far? Or Noritta Samsudin or 14 year -old Chinese national student, Xu Jian Huang when those suspected are rich and powerful and could pull cables?

Barack Obama, April 4, 2008 said this moral arc “doesn’t bend on its own. It bends because each of us puts our hands on that arc and bends it in the direction of justice. Because we organize and we mobilize, we march, we vote, we parent, we’re active in our community, we’re active in our schools.”

So he said but here the rich and powerful could stronger bend the arc more the other way towards injustice.

So many of our political elites escape accountability .

Take the masses, the ordinary people. If majority have evolved to stage in which they are imbued with a clear moral sense of what is right and wrong and how to deal right and avoid wrong in conduct towards one’s fellow men, then fine they can coalesce in Obama’s fashion to form a united front against the forces of Oppression – to bend the moral arc in the direction of justice, so to speak.

However what is the point of a only a proprtionately select few have this moral sense or conscience whilst the preponderance of majority lack it and could be galvanised to act the other way?

Do the select few stay and fight for justice taking comfort in final vindication in Martin Luther King’s terms or – considering that it may take eons to change the rest – they ought to now fast exit, take flight and separate permanently from the rest?

We are reminded of Hamlet’s dilemma.

To fight or not to fight: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely
bear the whips and scorns of time,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing fight to end them – or be ended by them!

[Adapted from Hamlet's Soliloquy – Shakespeare].

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