January 15, 2012
Time to Free Malaysia
by Dean Johns (01-11-12) @www.malaysiakini.com
Failing an interest which might nonetheless be done by a prosecution, Anwar Ibrahim is eventually giveaway of his
ultimate spurious sodomy assign as well as a possibility of up to 20 years in jail.
And now, it's time for a Malaysian people to win their freedom from 50-plus years or a homogeneous of some-more than two life sentences of seizure as well as empoisonment by a UMNO-BN regime.
Though it could be argued which a good most Malaysians have nobody though themselves to censure for this punishing experience, carrying effectively hold themselves serf by choosing by casting votes for their oppressors so regularly as well as for so long.
Some, of course, have supported a powers-that-be in lapse for sparse handouts or promises of special privileges for suitably pacifist as well as grateful inmates of a system. But a usually crime or offence which most of a UMNO-BN regime's serf voters have been guilty of, it seems to me, is ignorance.
It is a stupidity which has been combined as well as perpetuated by a system of administration itself by walls of central secrecy as well as barricades of media bias, resourceful overpower as well as lies, all delicately guarded by corrupt as well as politically-partisan Police, hopelessly compromised law officers as well as a notoriously compliant judiciary.
Yet a male most obliged for this disgraceful state of affairs, former prime apportion Dr Mahathir Mohamad, has hailed a excul! pation o f Anwar Ibrahim upon a ultimate sodomy assign opposite him as proof which there is "no supervision conspiracy or division in a country's judiciary".
Mahathir, a very male who destroyed a integrity of Malaysia's law by firing a Lord President of a (then) Supreme Court as well as multiform alternative heading jurists back in 1987, afterwards went upon to explain which "the country's law was regularly eccentric as well as was not shabby by any quarters, together with a supervision or opposition, in nearing during any decision".
Same fibbing tone
Current Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak took a same fibbing line, declaring which "the verdict shows once again which notwithstanding what most have claimed, a Malaysian law is an eccentric establishment where conjunction politics nor politicians have any influence over a management of justice."
And a operative now obliged for a political partisanship of Malaysia's ignorance-promoting mainstream media, Information Minister Rais Yatim, similarly claimed which a exculpation of Anwar "proves which Malaysia's courts have been giveaway of manipulation".
In fact, this box appears to me as well as most others to prove utterly a opposite. The sodomy assign 
itself was obviously manufactured. The two-year hearing was riddled with irregularities unfairly as well as unjustly favoring a prosecution.
And a "not guilty" verdict was so evidently a incorporate to Anwar sympathisers forward of a looming general choosing which it stank to tall heaven of system of administration manipulation.
Manipulation identical to which so glaringly clear in a good most alternative infamous trials, or rather mistrials, from which of a purported murderers of a Mongolian translator concerned in a Sco! rpene su bmarine scandal, Altantuya Shaariibuu, to a conviction as well as ridiculously light sentencing of Khir Toyo for crime as well as a so-called "Datuk T" contingent for publishing a racy DVD portraying an Anwar Ibrahim look-alike carrying sex with a prostitute.
But even some-more of an deception upon a Malaysian people than miscarriages of justice similar to a Anwar, Altantuya, Khir Toyo, Datuk T as well as alternative show-trials have been all a large no-trials.
Routine failure to take to court or even properly examine a hundreds, if not thousands, of killings of 'suspects' in military 'shoot-outs' as well as central custody, for example. As in a box of a late Ananthan Kugan, who was deemed to have succumbed to "fluid in a lungs" notwithstanding Internet images of his corpse obviously showing justification of brutal beatings as well as torture.
Or in a even some-more notorious box of Teoh Beng Hock, a immature witness whose genocide in a control of a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) was found by an inquest, as well as afterwards a stately commission, to be due to "neither suicide nor homicide," so which no suspect killers could be identified.
No-trials for killing as well as outright murder, however, have been only a partial of a low mark Malaysians have been forced to possibly similar to or lump during 54 years in UMNO-BN custody.
They've also been robbed of billions upon billions of their hard-earned ringgit as well as their nation's natural resources as well as expected to stand hopelessly, helplessly by as well as watch a culprits live tall upon a hog upon a proceeds.
Hardly any specific member in large regime-sponsored theft, fraud as well as embezzlement can legally be declared by me or anyone else, of course, as a multitude of suspicions as well as allegations have resulted in changed few prosecutions as well as even less convictions.
Suffice to mention, therefore, which large large financial scandals involving commodity, power, H2O as well as alternative monopolies, share issues, swaps as well as trades, 'soft' supervision loans, land-grabs, utility as well as airline privatisation, motor-vehicle import capitulation permits, taxi licences as well as highway fee concessions have come as well as left unpunished before such comparatively recent specific examples as a Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) fiasco as well as a National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) scam.
Astonishing business accumen
And a good most distinguished families, particularly those of former prime apportion Mahathir, Sarawak Chief Minister Mahmud "The Termite" Taib as well as stream Prime Minister Najib, have grown so abounding which they must have utterly startling business accumen, or else, as First Lady Rosmah Mansor explained in anxiety to her proposed purchase of a multi-million-ringgit solid ring, been mighty savers since they were young.
Of march any Malaysian is giveaway to join UMNO or a single of a racially-appropriate bloc parties
in a BN in a goal of scoring a "get-out-of-jail-free" card as well as a chance to squeeze a share of a loot.
But most people, it seems to me, would most rather simply be free. Free, similar to Anwar Ibrahim is, during least for now, from a hazard of selective, antagonistic assign under UMNO-BN's slew of unconstitutional, odious Acts of hang-up as well as aggression opposite opponents or protesters.
Free from regulations written to keep a trusting undeveloped as well as a ! guilty i n government, similar to UMNO-BN's Official Secrets Act, Printing, Presses as well as Publications Act as well as a Universities as well as University Colleges Act.
Free from domination by those who consider their fibbing word to be law, as well as themselves as well as their friends, families as well as cronies to be defence from assign for their crimes.
Free, in short, from a squad of goons so sum as to go to any length, from fraudulent legislative 'reform' to pulling a strings of a puppet judiciary, to try as well as supply nonetheless an additional general choosing in foster of keeping a future as well as fortunes of Malaysia as well as Malaysians in UMNO-BN's greedy grasp.
DEAN JOHNS, after most years in Asia, now lives with his Malaysian-born mother as well as daughter in Sydney, where he coaches as well as mentors writers as well as authors as well as practises as a essay therapist. Published books of his columns for Malaysiakini include 'Mad about Malaysia', 'Even Madder about Malaysia', 'Missing Malaysia' as well as '1Malaysia.con'.
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