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."
Hamid Bador had nothing under control - Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Monday, May 03, 2021
Malaysiakini : “It is all under control; I know who they are and what they are doing and I will take action.” – Abdul Hamid Bador
COMMENT
| You have to give it to Abdul Hamid Bador, he is going out with a
bang. You have to wonder - with the way the PDRM is conducting business
these days and investigating certain people who exercise free speech -
if the former inspector-general of police will be on the PDRM’s manure
list.
I have no idea why people would even ask what Hamid’s
motives are for spilling the beans at this moment. What an absurd
question.
Here
we have the top cop of the country attacking the political apparatus,
making allegations against the home minister and political frogs,
questioning the legality of the appointment of his successor and some
people think that the big takeaways are his motives?
Hamid likes
to think he is revealing all now because he ”…. was busy trying to fix
internal issues”, but the fact that he held a press conference of this
nature is evidence of his failures. When he first talked about the
“cartel” which was out to topple him, he reassured everyone that he
could handle them.
Read his statements here,
where he said that he was going to handle the problems in the house and
that there was no need for an RCI (royal commission of inquiry), as if
the state security apparatus was exempt from public scrutiny and legal
processes - "I have explained it, that it is within my control. Why I
shared this issue with the public is because I want the public to know
that I know what they know (about issues plaguing the force)."
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.
