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."
This LGE case is symptomatic of what is wrong with our whole Criminal Justice System in Malaysia, which is clearly in need of a serious revamp and perhaps a Royal Commission of Inquiry to get to the bottom of things and to clean up the right mess we are in.
The systematic perversion of justice and instititionalised corruption of the judiciary began when Mahathir first became Prime Minister in 1981. Due to the shortage of judges, there was a serious backlog of cases waiting to be heard. The judiciary made a request for six new judges to be elevated to the bench to help ease the backlog of cases.
The wily old fox grabbed the opportunity to suit his agenda. This is what he did. He got a task force from MAMPU to study the request for six months. At the end of the six months, the task force was “instructed” to recommend in their report that not six, but 20, new judges be elevated.
Using MAMPU’s recommendation as the pretext, the sly fox elevated 20 UMNO lawyers to the bench.
This explains some of the nonsensical and rediculous rulings made by the biased judges over the following decades.
Now, let’s see how this political oppression of justice fits in within the wider global geopolitical context. It is an open secret that the AGC were “incentivised” to throw the Pulau Batu Putih case by putting up a weak and pathetic case.
The truth is that the US Navy required access to a naval base they had leased from Singapore without having to enter Malaysian waters. This naval base is used by the US 7th fleet, part of the United States Pacific Fleet that patrols the Pacific Ocean. Singapore had signed a long-term lease with Uncle Sam for a huge sum of money.
The closure of the US bases in the Philippines in the early 1990s meant that the US needed Singapore to replace Subic Bay and Clark Air Base. Just like Uncle Sam has signed a long-term lease with the UK for Diego Garcia, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory.
Uncle Sam wants a base in Singapore to counter the preceived threat of China as an emerging global superpower and rising economic power. Its part of the US hegemony — their delusional belief that they have the God-given right to be the only economic and military superpower to protect the collective North and West from the “yellow peril” in East Asia.
American foreign policy, going back to the days of the Monroe Doctrine, has always been about fighting wars in foreign lands and not on US soil. Eisenhower had warned in his last speech, his farewell address
