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."
Another Daylight Robbery…another smash & grab by the government By Mariam Mokhtar
Thursday, October 14, 2021
Mariam Mokhtar : Multatuli wants to know when this nightmare will end. I
often marvel at the resilience of the non-Malays; how they plough on
through the travails of a system that punishes them at every turn.
I marvel at them but at the same time feel ashamed of what we have done to them.
The recent demand that
the freighting business must give up 51% to bumiputras is the latest
(but not the first) episode of ‘smash and grab’ by the government.
The
dhobi list of ‘daylight robbery’ goes back a long way – from rice
milling to transport to banking; we force them to give us a share of the
fruits of their toil without us doing a stitch of work. All because we
have the muscles to do so. Have we Malays become gangsters? Demanding
‘protection money’ for allowing others to operate their businesses.
Imagine
this; you put in years of mental and physical sweat, you risk your
savings, you live frugally, watching your pennies; you deprive yourself
of the nice things in life in order to build up your business. After
years of sweat your venture pays off.
Now you are told by the
government – YOUR Government – that you must give up the majority share
to someone else who has done nothing to build up the business. The
recent controversy about the durian orchards is exactly the same. In
that case the irate growers chopped down their trees on which they
toiled for five years. But a freighting company takes longer and costs
more to build up. I am afraid some will take the Robert Kuok route out
of the country; take their money and expertise elsewhere. How can you do
business in a country where you pay taxes and is legislated out of your
business?? Where is the fairness?
As a Malaysian I feel for them. As a Malay I am ashamed.
