Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
'Blanket deportation' as good as ceding sovereignty by Mat Zain Ibrahim
Monday, February 25, 2013
An issue of territorial occupation in which Malaysia should have sent in the Army in the first place but instead due to some chicken brain Ministers we expect the Police and Immigration to handle it with fragile care. Leading two weeks into the controversy and turmoil the Home Minister who went in to look at the situation like a Rambo Hero turns yellow and decides that the Foreign Minister hailing from the Land Below the Wind has a better understanding of "What wind blew the armed men here ?
And if the Foreign Minister can't resolve this my next guess is he will ask his brother, the Chief Minister of Sabah to grant them a hospitable stay due to some blood relationship among their fore fathers as it is already has a precedent when the Philippine government was ready to whisk their long lost relative away to prison on a jet plane. This time the Pinoys, not trusting our Sabah Minister anymore think that a dragnet of an armada of patrol boats will do better justice. A comedy of grievous and bloody error - Black Mamba !
COMMENT I am referring to the statement by Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein that he has left it to Wisma Putra
on the Phillipine’s government request of an extension on the
deportation of the Lahad Datu intruders.This gives Foreign Minister
Anifah Aman an absolute authority to decide on the matter. I am
not questioning the noble and sincere intention of any party to have
this standoff brought to an immediate end and free of bloodshed as long
as they are done within the framework of our laws.
Neither would I at this juncture question the wisdom of the prime minister to hand over authority to Anifah Aman (left),
who hails from Sabah,who happens to be a younger brother to Musa Aman,
the Sabah CM and who in turn is related to Manuel Amalilio, to decide on
this crucial matter. What is important, is for Anifah to be
advised by none other than the attorney-general that he has no right or
power whatsoever to indemnify any one of the armed intruders or the
other members of the group from each of their criminal culpabilities.
Anifah
must realise that limitation. It is not like he is given a free hand to
make his own decision anyway he likes or he is a law unto himself. Even
the prime minister or the attorney-general themselves have no power to
strike a deal with anyone facing criminal charges or being caught in a
sticky political situation. This has been explained by the de facto law
minister, Nazri Aziz in Parliament on March 30, 2011, in answer to a
question on this issue.
Regardless of their status, ethnicity,
ideology or purpose, the Sulu intruders have committed serious criminal
acts ranging from attempting or waging war against the Yang di-Pertuan
Agong and the Yang di-Pertua Negeri, besides serious violations of the
Penal Code, Firearms Act, Immigration Act, etcetera, etcetera. I
beg to differ with Home Minister Hishammuddin when he says that the
Lahad Datu standoff is different from several previous incidents such as
those involving Al-Maunah, Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiah Malaysia.
Even
a lay person knows that killing a person by strangulation, or by
stabbing or by blowing that person into bits using explosives, is still
murder as defined in the Penal Code and the punishment is still death by
hanging, when the killer is found guilty regardless of the motive of
the murder or how it was done. The difference here is only in the manner the murder was executed.The end result is the same, that a person is dead. A standoff is still a standoff
A
standoff is still a standoff whether it is an Al-Maunah standoff or a
Lahad Datu standoff. It cannot be dealth with differently. The weapons
smuggled in by the Sulu invaders are no less lethal than the weapons
stolen from the 304 army camp by the Al-Maunah group. The Al-Maunah group’s members are no less Muslims than the Sulu invaders if religion is to be considered. If
the Al-Maunah gang members who surrendered were charged with waging war
against the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and a few of them hanged, so must the
same charges be preferred against the Sulu intruders when they
surrender.
As such Anifah must be advised that he has no powers
to promise or agree with the Phillipines government to deport all those
intruders whether individually armed or not, without all of them being
brought to face the full brunt of our laws, first. With due
respect to Anifah, it is not within his purview to decide whether an act
is criminal in nature or otherwise or whether the intruders should be
charged in court or just let them go scot-free. Neither it is
Hishammuddin’s.
In
the event Anifah is adamant in conceding to the Phillipines a “blanket
deportation” of all the armed intruders to their homeland with the
concurrence of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, for any reasons
whatsoever, without going through the due process of our laws and
constitution, then not only both of them have made a landmark decision
arbitrarily but they will be setting a very dangerous and vicious
precedent.
That decision would effectively implies that armed
invasion or incursion or anything of that sort into any part of our
country whether for temporary or permanent occupation, are no longer
prohibited but rather most welcome. Smuggling of any types of weapons
and firearms into the country are no longer considered as crimes. Deporting
the Sulu invaders lock stock and barrel and exempting them from
criminal prosecution is as good as surrendering our sovereignty.
Our beautiful Malaysia can then be proudly proclaimed to have been transformed into a lame duck nation. MAT ZAIN IBRAHIM is former chief of the Criminal Investigation Department, Kuala Lumpur Police Contingent. Malaysiakini
Neither would I at this juncture question the wisdom of the prime minister to hand over authority to Anifah Aman (left),
who hails from Sabah,who happens to be a younger brother to Musa Aman,
the Sabah CM and who in turn is related to Manuel Amalilio, to decide on
this crucial matter. What is important, is for Anifah to be
advised by none other than the attorney-general that he has no right or
power whatsoever to indemnify any one of the armed intruders or the
other members of the group from each of their criminal culpabilities.
In
the event Anifah is adamant in conceding to the Phillipines a “blanket
deportation” of all the armed intruders to their homeland with the
concurrence of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, for any reasons
whatsoever, without going through the due process of our laws and
constitution, then not only both of them have made a landmark decision
arbitrarily but they will be setting a very dangerous and vicious
precedent.
