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."
Former Ops Lalang detainee's daughter reminds Dr M of dictatorial past
Monday, March 20, 2023
Malaysiakini : Former lawmaker Kasthuri Patto launched an acerbic broadside against
Dr Mahathir Mohamad, stating that the 97-year-old politician does not
possess the moral authority to comment on curbing dissent.
She
recalled how her late father P Patto, who was a DAP MP, had been
detained under the now defunct Internal Security Act (ISA) during the
infamous Operasi Lalang in 1987 when Mahathir was serving his first tenure as prime minister.
“I am a child of your Operasi Lalang which you bear full responsibility as home minister and prime minister. I was eight, my sister six. “You
took my father away and many other fathers and mothers. Robbed (them)
from their families because they dissented against you and not
Malaysia,” she tweeted.
Kasthuri (above) recollected her father’s anguish when he
was unable to accompany her sister on the first day of school when she
entered Standard One in 1988.
The late P Patto
“You
detained them for months, years and decades using the draconian ISA,
while never allowing them to be tried in court. It was an iron-fisted
rule. “You curbed freedom of speech, assembly, expression and
targeted the press as your enemies. You using the (police) special
branch, targeting politicians, their families and friends are vivid in
my mind,” she said, adding that there were stories of people being
imprisoned for merely having a copy of the DAP organ, The Rocket.
In 2017, Mahathir accepted the blame for the detention of over 100 activists, journalists and opposition politicians during Operasi Lalang and expressed regret that some of them were tortured. However, he insisted that the security crackdown was not his decision.
‘A national disappointment’
Meanwhile,
Kasthuri said in 2018, Pakatan Harapan welcomed the nonagenarian in the
battle against BN, which she described as a “60-year-old hegemony which
Mahathir manufactured”.
“Malaysians
had hoped for a statesperson, a leader to steer this nation to greater
heights but it seems you have never repented and remained, above all, a
national disappointment. “So please Tun, you of all people, have no moral authority to label the prime minister a dictator,” she added.
Kasthuri,
who served as the Batu Kawan MP in Penang for two terms before deciding
not to contest in the last general election, said Malaysia needs
progressive and visionary leaders. “Your time of divide and rule,
and the government knows all is over. Please don't be a wedge between
patriotic Malaysians in nation-building,” she added.
Yesterday, Mahathir had denounced Anwar as an oppressive leader after his plan to hold a pro-Malay gathering failed to materialise.
Me : Marina Mahathir is so quiet. No amount of spinning will be enough to white wash your father's misdeeds and the hidden loot including your siblings.
Very concerned citizen: Kashthuri,despite his old age,he is still talking nonsense.No wonder the people rejected him in the last election.For 22 years he ruled the country with an iron fist.
In my view,when he came back to rule,he had already planned earlier to “go in and destroy the elected government” He was the main destroyer and Azmin was second destroyer
Deep Thought : The most evil, cunning racist of all time
