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."
Jamal and Syed Saddiq - two sides of the same coin - By Commander (Rtd) S THAYAPARAN Royal Malaysian Navy
Sunday, October 08, 2017
Malaysiakini : COMMENT | The only difference is Jamal uses a sledgehammer and Syed uses the pen.
“You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an
airline - it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some
nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer.” ― Frank Zappa
Jamal Md Yunos’ “mabuk” behaviour of smashing boxes of beer
bottles outside the Selangor State Secretariat (SUK) building in Shah
Alam and Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman’s online petition “Hapus Budaya Pesta Arak di Malaysia” (Destroy Beer Festival Culture in Malaysia) are the same. The only difference is the former is the kind of thuggery that we are
used to and the latter the kind of bourgeois online activism that
extremists engage in when they do not want to get their hands dirty like
the leader of the red shirts.
The same kind of bigoted reasoning that Sungai Besar Umno chief Jamal (photo)
and his ilk use is right there on the online petition, that amongst
other reasons, a beer festival would lead to a “gay” carnival. How dumb.
It is like saying because people drink in private establishments, this
would lead to “gay” private establishments. I hate to break it to these
nut jobs, but the two are mutually exclusive. Jamal meanwhile continues his ‘screw you’ approach to the security
apparatus of the state. He has no problems leaving a mess in a public
space because he has the backing of the Umno state, which is making a
public mess all over the country. His type of easy Islamic extremism
entails bullying the non-Malay/non-Muslim communities, all the while
enjoying the blessing of the state, instead of fighting other Muslims on
foreign soil attempting to establish an Islamic caliphate.
Mind you, his action of smashing beer bottles in a supposedly Muslim
majority area is demonstrative of the hypocrisy of Muslims like him.
Imagine if a non-Malay had engaged in that type of behaviour, the Malay
residents would be up in arms that (1) a non-Malay was disrespectful,
and (2) that alcohol has stained their holy Malay/Muslim ground. In this
case, Jamal engaged in “haram” behaviour by handling alcohol,
stained "Malay" land, and he and his gang of thugs left other timid
Malays to clean up the mess they had created.
When he is finally arrested, he whinges that this is "going too far".
Unlike the late DAP aide Teoh Beng Hock (the most famous example of a
political operative killed in custody), Indians and other Malays charged
with various offences, he does not have to worry about death or
violence in custody. Those people were not privileged like Jamal. They
had no backing from anyone. Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid says he disavows Jamal’s behavior
but he has never been sanctioned by Umno. No punishment means no
disavowment. Umno approves of his behaviour. To Jamal, this is all part
of the myth-making process.
