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."
Ferdtan:
Police, arrest former Court of Appeal judge Mohd Noor Abdullah. We
think what he said at the ‘GE13 post-mortem: Muslim leadership and
survival' forum borders on sedition. Based on the standards used
by the police to arrest the opposition leaders for sedition for
something much less, Mohd Noor should be arrested and charged in court. Noor
must be censured and condemned vigorously by all Malaysians. Let us lay
our politics aside, BN or Pakatan Rakyat, this obnoxious ex-judge must
be punished so that no one would dare to play racial politics again. We
are extremely ashamed to have an ex-judge to come out with such
statements. Your family and your children should be shocked to have a
father who speaks like you did.
Fairplayer: Quote: In an immediate reaction, DAP chairperson Karpal Singh described Mohd Noor's remarks as seditious. "There
is no doubt Mohd Noor has used language which is extremely provocative.
What he has said amounts to sedition. I call upon the police to have
the necessary report lodged against Mohd Noor with a view to his being
charged for sedition." Karpal, the day your words are heeded by
the police and the day this racist looney is charged with sedition is
the day Malaysia is liberated from racism. I wait impatiently for that
day to dawn in Malaysia.
Anonymous #49857050: It's amazing, the police say that 28 speakersat
the Kelana Jaya assembly on May 8 were making seditious speeches. What
about Mohd Noor's speech, was it not seditious? I can't imagine that he
was an appellate court judge.
DrumBeat: Isn't it not long ago the Malay Chamber of Commerce lamented that even they do not benefitfrom the New Economic Policy (NEP) which favours the bumiputera. I wonder why it is so for over 40 years that the Malay bumiputera have
not benefitted from NEP but we have a few well-known Malay billionaires,
especially those closely connected to those who rule Malaysia. To
provide and reserve two-thirds quota for bumiputera will certainly
increase the wealth of these billionaires and not the general Malay
bumiputera.
Tehachapi: My learned judge, you can't stop the march of time. The new generation fortunately does not think the same as you do. Please
know the truth, outside of your small privileged and protected class,
everyone else in Malaysia has to earn a living. No one gives us free
food and lodging. Even Umno can't afford to give us more than a few
hundred ringgit in return for votes. It would be a national
disaster to have 67 percent of able bodied bumiputera waiting to be fed
by 37 percent of non-bumiputera. Are we really intent on building a
nation of invalids? Are you suggesting that we crawl back to the dark ages or to the pre-Merdeka days?
Krish:
It beats me how such seditious statements can come from a former Court
of Appeal judge. Shame on him for tarnishing the image of the judiciary. This
is a dangerous precedent and it should be checked before it gets out of
hand. If he can get away with it, merely because of his past position,
then there's no telling that others will want to try their luck. Well,
the ball is at the feet of the police to act. The Malaysian
Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), too, should review his position in
its complaints committee. Finally, the Bar Council should also state its
stand on this matter.
Hearty Malaysian: This
ex-judge knows what he says is seditious and yet he speaks without fear
because he knows the Umno-run government will not charge him with the
act of threatening the people who do not support the current regime. Utusan Malaysia is another glaring example.
Tim'sTime: The
support for BN will only come if they manage the country's wealth
properly. Until and unless they change for the better and stop milking
the rakyat on toll and taxes, our vote will continue to go anyone -
Pakatan or any party - who don't increase our country's national debt. RM502
billion of deficit is already going into the extreme given the
resources that Malaysia has. There is no reason to have a deficit
budget. By right, we should be a developed country and have an
economy stronger than Singapore, Brunei, South Korea and Taiwan. We are
so lagging behind these countries. What is BN going to do about it? Continue to increase the deficit to an even higher amount?
Quigonbond:
Mohd Noor, by continuing the line of attack that the May 5 poll results
was a Chinese tsunami, and knowing full well that the Chinese only
constitute 25 percent of the population, and not all of them voted for
Pakatan, you have just admitted that the other 26 percent of the
population who voted for Pakatan are not Malaysians. Are they foreigners
then? You can't have it both ways. It's either a Chinese
tsunami, or it is not. If it is a Chinese tsunami, then BN has to answer
for treason for allowing that many foreigners to vote. But if they are
not foreigners, then they are Malaysians, and this continued accusation
of Chinese tsunami is a lie. But in the end, we know what's the
Umno game plan. Pakatan is hot on your heels asking for accountability
of electoral fraud, and the Election Commission can't even answer the
simple question of the ‘delible' ink. This is a diversion, but
it's dangerous. To the hot tempered mat rempit, if Umno provokes you to
take it out on the Chinese, I suggest you think carefully. Some deeds
cannot be undone.
Mahashitla: The idiotic mind
of this ex-judge tells us all about Umno's 56 years rule - if the
Chinese voted for any Malay who is not from Umno, then they have
betrayed the Malays and will face their backlash. Such threats
are not going to work in the present Internet age and Umnoputras are
just too rich and have too much to lose to want to create trouble.
Perhaps the police should haul him up for his seditious speech, which
may be seen as inciting Malays to rise against the Chinese. It is
people like Mohd Noor that 51 percent right-thinking voters of all
races were convinced that they should not vote for any party which is
associated with Umno. Fifty-three percent of voters in the peninsula
(who voted against BN) cannot be all wrong.
Amir H: As a Malaysian first and Malay second, this so-called judge's views are not shared by the majority of my community. His
pathetic vitriolic is not promoted in Islam, rather condemned in the
highest order. He, Perkasa chief Ibrahim Ali and their like should be
condemned, shunned and thrown into the vaults of oblivion, never to
resurface again in this day and age.
Mavelikara: A Malaysiakini
reader requested that all comments here be forwarded to the ex-judge.
It's a brilliant idea. Let him realise that there is a new Malaysia.
