With the acquittal by the High Court of the sodomy assign opposite the de facto Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, the pass page in the country's domestic story has been turned.
Immediate winners have been of course Anwar, his family, his team of lawyers, as good as the opposition.
For Anwar, it was not usually exoneration of the passionate smear charges brought opposite him; it was also the feat for his domestic fortunes as good as which of Pakatan Rakyat's, now re-energised, ahead of the entrance election.
As the clock winds down - much more slowly now as the result of this outcome - towards the end of the stream term of the Barisan government, Anwar has utterly righteously refrained from crowing over this astonishing verdict.
In his first comments to the press following the probity decision, Anwar asked his supporters to combine upon the larger remodel agenda, as good as upon fighting opposite corruption as good as ensuring the leisure of the media.
Tribute to the courageous as good as responsible judge
This sign which Malaysians have to focus upon the larger struggle for probity as good as leisure is salutary.
Anwar's is usually the single in the fibre of new domestic cases, the great infancy of which the autonomy as good as firmness of the country's law has been tested as good as found wanting.
Special tribute contingency be paid to decider Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah, who contingency have come under extensive vigour to return the guilty outcome in what was clearly the politically motivated trial.
Instead, he delivered the judicial preference formed upon determined beliefs of criminal justice. His judgement was! the rig ht one.
His statement which the probity could not exclude the possibility of the DNA samples being compromised addressed usually the single of the many doubts lifted opposite the prosecution's case.
It was the box which relied upon the indictment of the single person, Saiful Bukhari Azlan(right in photo), who coincidentally had met the afterwards emissary budding minister Najib Razak several days before the purported incident.
In most other approved courts of law, this assembly would have lifted immediate doubts about the credit of the charge as good as resulted in outright exclusion of the charges, as good as defamation of the charge as good as the domestic masters for attempting to make use of the courts to cripple their domestic opponents.
Losers in the Sodomy II case
The losers have been the budding minister, the attorney-general exercising his bureau as open prosecutor, as good as Umno.
Najib's unexplained assembly with Saiful as good as his warding off to testify despite being served subpoenas requiring him as good as his wife, Rosmah Mansor, to crop up in court, should have alerted his minders.
Even if the decider had returned the guilty verdict, the probity of open opinion - in Malaysia as good as the rest of the world - would not simply hold which the budding minister was not an interested party as good as had no connection during all with Saiful.
Najib's domestic station has now taken an huge beating which no volume of spinning by the Information Minister Rais Yatim which the outcome proves which the courts have been giveaway from domestic manipulation, can help salvage.
A! s for th e attorney-general, he contingency have been expecting to secure conviction as good as broach his greatest delight to his domestic masters.
Instead, he was handed the lesson in the beliefs of the smoothness of probity by the single of his colleagues in the law legal service.
The charge can still appeal opposite the preference though in doing so it can usually wear the negative opinions as good as notice of the open during large which the Attorney-General's Chambers has been incited in to the domestic apparatus of the Barisan government, with the stream attorney-general drastically lowering the standards of his bureau in his partiality towards the Executive.
Umno - more rightly the legacy of Dr Mahathir Mohamad's(left)Umno - is the greatest loser.
The greatest winner
Mahathir concocted the first sodomy assign opposite Anwar to prevent his emissary from taking over energy though before which he had already gutted the law of the firmness as good as independence.
Dr M's Umno supporters have one after another in the identical vein, taking the domestic harm of Anwar further by using it as the lynchpin of their campaign of demonisation of Anwar as good as the opposition.
Now which plan has backfired really bad as good as may be the last spike in the coffin of Barisan order over the country.
Lastly, the greatest leader of all is the thinking as good as essay Malaysian public.
Not reported in the mainstream media as good as all th! e time a head of the pundits as good as even legal analysts in their research of the Anwar case, Malaysians used the internet to voice their snub during the prosecution's box as good as to call for an end to attempts to make the mockery of the probity complement in the office of power.
Cynical observers have argued which the law is usually giveaway as good as satisfactory when it suits Umno as good as the government, as good as which the outcome was usually because the leaders felt which the guilty outcome would lead to the worse incident compared to discharging Anwar.
That may be true though it still is the testimony to the influence of new as good as colourful voices of gainsay directed during remodel as good as restoring the indeed giveaway as good as independent judiciary.
DR LIM TECK GHEE is executive of the Centre for Policy Initiatives.
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