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."
For the police force to fly, what weighs it down must go By R Nadeswaran
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Malaysiakini : COMMENT | They were words usually
used in closed-door meetings where matters of importance are spoken and
meant just for those in the room.
The earful delivered by the boss
to his subordinates was made without reservations and a video clip of
Bukit Aman Criminal Investigation Department (CID) chief Mohd Shuhaily
Mohd Zain was shared on Royal Malaysia Police’s official Facebook page.
For the first time, a senior officer was acknowledging that some in his flock were up to no good or colluding with criminals.
If
it was an admonishment of sorts, it was long overdue. But to say his
words reflected the situation within the police force would be the
truth. For a long time, the issue of the involvement of senior officers in corruption has been poo-pooed and investigations by internal committees and consigned to files gathering dust in some obscure steel cabinet in Bukit Aman.
Shuhaily’s (above) demeanour in the deportment of the message was a show of urgency to put matters right in the police force whose image had been in tatters after a series of blunders year after year.
The deaths in police lock-ups, the unlawful killings of civilians, the abuse of authority, arbitrary arrests, and unauthorised detention – have all been chronicled in the courts and in law reports.
‘Real’ situation
Right-thinking Malaysians would certainly support Shuhaily and thank him for an honest and no-holds-barred address not to mata-mata (constables) but to CID contingent chiefs and CID division chiefs nationwide.
His stance - either you change, or you will be changed - can only be reflected as the “real” situation on the ground whose clean-up was long overdue.
But Shuhaily stopped short of saying: “I will brook no interference from any quarter. If in the past, some of you had political “Godfathers” to protect you, consider that they do not exist anymore.”
In at least two high-publicised cases, the executive had interfered with or protected supposed wrongdoers.
In 2007, in a special report headlined “Top Cop v Top Cop”, Malaysiakini outlined what was then an ongoing tiff between the then inspector-general of police Musa Hassan and Ramli Yusuff, the head of the Commercial Crime Investigation Department, who was once his superior.
Drawn into this was the then deputy internal security minister Johari Baharum was alleged to have received RM5.5 million in bribes to release three gangsters held under the Emergency Ordinance, which allows detention without trial.
Former IGP Musa Hassan
Five years later, Malaysiakini obtained documents revealing the history of how a number of whistleblowers - whose information led to the arrest of Johor kingpin Goh Cheng Poh aka Tengku Goh in 2007 - were forced to implicate six police officers investigating the case.
It was again a Musa vs Ramli feud with the then attorney-general and the Anti-Corruption Agency (now known as the MACC) making supposedly cameo appearances.
