Not a bad idea to call in for help if help is needed (my experience suggests that indeed, help is needed).
Nurin is a good start. But why didn’t they call in for the FBI in the equally gruesome and horrific murder of Altantuya?
Ever observant mom just pointed it out at lunch. She’s getting sharp!
Tags-Law EnforcementCome gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.
I’m exhausted.. :P :)
But truly encouraged to see the explosion in the blogosphere about today’s march :)
It was even more heartening to arrive at the Istana Keadilan this morning, to see the place absolutely flooded with people - most of them lawyers no less!
As they rallied behind the Bar Council, I think it’s safe to say that the profession has known few prouder days in its history. For a minute there, even I wanted to be a lawyer! :P :)
People “like me” have been to our fair share of demos, protests, etc.. Largely, we see the same people there - comrades, rakan seperjuangan, kaki lang… :)
Today, it was different.
Today, I saw new faces.
I saw faces that are usually content to sit in air conditioned rooms and charge more per hour than I usually make in a week :)
(nothing wrong with that - if there’s anyone who wants to be rich, it’s me! :)
I saw faces that don’t stick it out in the hot sun and later in the heaviest rain ever just for kicks.
I saw the faces of Malaysia’s future….. :)
If you watch carefully, the government’s primary strategy is still based on questioning the authenticity of tape.
I’ve always known that such doubts are ludicrious. But the government is used to disagreeing with me.
Now it has to disagree with over a thousand lawyers. Can’t be fun :)
But again, I can’t tell you how much it meant to me, one of those ‘full-time activists” (read: donkeys) to see new faces cast off their doubts and inertia and step forward to defend justice.
Because ultimately, that’s what it’s all about: standing up and refusing to yield the last inches of integrity and honesty in the Malaysia we love so much.
ps- special wave to the new friends I made today, great to meet ya! :) and now, for some rest…. :)
Tags-JudiciaryFrom Nurin to Chief Justice: A Collapse of Law and Order?
Organizer: Institut Kajian Dasar (IKD)
Date: 29 Sept 2007
Time: 2.15pm - 4.30pm
Venue: Corus Hotel, Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur
Speakers: Anwar Ibrahim (Ketua KeADILan, Former Deputy Prime Minister)
Tunku Abdul Aziz (Transparency International)
Bar Council Representative
Datuk Syed Ahmad Idid (Former High Court Judge) - to be confirmed
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More to come - gotta rush to the march!
Tags-EventCabinet implicated in video, cabinet pulak that appoints panel to investigate?
Where got meaning?
KeADILan called for a Royal Commission because it is the only thing that can be depended on to do a free and fair investigation without fear or favour.
Might write a little bit about who’s involved in this anything-but-independent panel..
Tags-little points:) “Mid-Autumn Festival,” I know, but Mooncake Day is so much cuter :) Yummy polytikus!!
De facto law minister Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz said he issued a denial on behalf of the chief justice in relation to the explosive ‘Lingam tape’ revelations because “I am his minister”.
I guess you can’t blame an Umno/BN fler for thinking that the whole world is subject to the Malaysian Executive.
Egoistic, cock-sure Nazri seems to think he is the Chief Justice’s boss or something.
Completely undeserving of the post though Tun Fairuz may prove to be, the position of Chief Justice is not answerable to a minister, least of all a dinky, loud-mouthed one.
Nazri and his unholy gang forget that they do not rule the Judiciary, they rule along with it.
Does this mean that the Judiciary is not answerable to anyone?
On why Ahmad Fairuz has been evading the media, Nazri said it was because the former is not answerable to the press.
Bullshit. Everyone in the government is answerable to the people. Everyone.
My original point still seems the most pressing, however:
Why would Tun Fairuz need someone else to declare his innocence?
Doesn’t speak to the press? Bullshit, he’s never been shy with the press before.
Only someone afraid of committing perjury would stoop to using someone else to tell his lies for him.
By the way, Nazri himself is the latest attacker of Nurin’s parents - blaming the victims of this senseless crime who have been through more torture than we can imagine. He touted the famous “The law is still the law… no one can be exempted”
Yeah. We’ll see just who is and isn’t exempt from the law, won’t we?
On a different note, DS Wan Azizah paid a visit to Nurin’s parents.
She’s also a new grandmother :)
Tags-Integrity, JudiciaryThe Bar Council is organizing a march on Wednesday (26/9/07), 11.00am from Palace of Justice to the PM’s office to demand for the setting up of a royal commission on the video tape of V K Lingam and CJ Fairuz.
Don’t be angry at home, be a voice of change on the ground!
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