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."
‘My brother did it’ – remembering a dark day for integrity By R Nadeswaran
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Azam Baki
Malaysiakini : “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
- Winston Churchill
COMMENT
| Six months ago this week, political economist Edmund Terence Gomez
quit as a member of the MACC’s Consultation and Corruption Prevention
Panel. What started off as a ripple turned into a tidal wave culminating
in street demonstrations calling for the resignation of its head
honcho, Azam Baki.
In his resignation letter
which was made public on Dec 27 last year, Gomez said disturbing
questions had been raised about the “nexus between business and law
enforcement” and a “conflict of interest” situation involving Azam and
his ownership of corporate stock.
The matter would have ended there but Azam announced at a media conference that he allowed his share trading account to be used by his brother.
Maybe at that time, he was not aware that this was an admission of
sorts that he breached the Securities Industry (Central Depositories)
Act (SICDA). But the Securities Commission found that the trades were executed by Azam himself and not any third party.
To
put it crudely, he was caught with his pants down for having lied to
and misled the public previously by claiming “my brother did it”. Nevertheless, he was exonerated
by the Anti-Corruption Advisory Board chairperson Abu Zahar Ujang,
while the prime minister and members of his cabinet maintained an
elegant silence on the matter as if it was a trivial issue.