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."
Rawang shootout - do you trust the PDRM in 'New Malaysia'? - Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Saturday, September 21, 2019
Royal Malaysian Police
Malaysiakini : "If there are 500 dirty cops, there are 125,000 more good cops. I believe my men are good."- Abdul Hamid Bador, inspector-general of police
COMMENT
| I have no idea if there are more “good” cops in the PDRM than bad
ones. Then again it’s difficult defining police officers as “good” or
“bad” in any country. You give a person a badge, gun and authority over
people and you have a whole range of variables that makes definitions
like “good” or “bad” meaningless.
In Malaysia, it is worse. I give credit to Abdul Hamid Bador (photo below), the current inspector-general of police (IGP), for making it clear that he understands the problem. His comment on cops severing ties
with the criminal elements is better than what a former IGP said in
telling his men not to enforce the law when people demanded he
apologises for the tragic shooting of teenager Aminulrasyid Amzah.
I wrote about what I thought of the PDRM – in 'old Malaysia' - here.
In that article, I discussed the hubris of the PDRM when it came to
race relations and authority. We live in a country where the
fingerprints of the political class are all over the state security
apparatus. And by political class, I mean a race-based political class
who believes that the state security apparatus is an extension of their
racial and religious privileges.
