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."
Nothing will be done about the police cartel - Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Malaysiakini : “The problem
is that in most cases the agencies they go to in order to tell them
about wrongdoing inside or outside the department respond along the
lines of: 'If we did this (the prosecuted police officers), we would
undermine the stability of society.' Or they say, 'We can’t afford a
scandal. It would undermine public confidence in our police.' But what
we’re seeing now is that it already has been undermined.”– Frank Serpico
COMMENT
| Inspector-General of Police Abdul Hamid Bador, in one of his press
conferences, said that he does not take any public criticism of him
personally. That is good because as the top cop in the country, his
attempts to downplay and handle "in house" the kind of corruption and malfeasance he is talking about is exactly the kind of "blue code of silence" he rails against.
It
is not for the IGP of this country to “handle” a group of rogue cops
out to topple him and in the process engage in possibly criminal
behaviour. The fact that de facto law minister Takiyuddin Hassan publicly stated
that these allegations should be handled “in house” is also the kind of
political interference that the IGP has railed against before - but now
seems to think is an acceptable outcome for rogue police officers whom
he claims he wants off the force.
