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."
KKB polls: Indians and the futility of voting By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Thursday, May 02, 2024
Malaysiakini : “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” - Martin Luther King Jr
COMMENT
| If you want to understand why it really does not matter if Indians
vote or who they vote for in the upcoming Kuala Kubu Baharu by-election,
look no further than at Selangor exco V Papparaidu, who used
bureaucratic legerdemain to placate the grievances of Indian estate
workers from five plantations around Hulu Selangor.
If these were
different people backed by economic and electoral power the response
would have been much different. With these people, the road is long.
It’s normally a party like PSM, which does not get votes but does the
hard work, that sticks around.
For example, PSM settled the housing issue of 393 families from four estates in Dengkil.
“The
houses are expected to be completed in October. BN and Pakatan Harapan
had a hand in the project but it was PSM and its movement that helped
bring the matter to their attention and demand action,” PSM stalwart S
Arutchelvan said in 2023.
This is just one example of the
sometimes decades-long struggles that PSM has been involved with but as
Arutchelvan said: “We nominated a candidate in Dengkil and they are surprised to know that we are a political party.
MS : The plight of displaced Indians, left to fend for themselves after losing the security and succor of the plantations they toiled in will continue.
Just as it has in the past.
For Malay supremacists like Anwar, they are invisible for most of the time except during elections when they magically emerge from the fog of forgetfulness to be entertained with a Tamil song or jig before receding into the background.
Rayer knows this as much as Ramasamy but his principles blunted by the DAP do not allow him to do or say anything.
Ramasamy, on the other hand, who has been consistent as a prickly thorn in the side of his erstwhile party, and now free of its suffocating embrace, has made his case for doing what the late Haris Ibrahim started - Anything but UMNO of which Harapan is a miserable and useless appendage.
Boycotting Madani and its manipulators should be as legitimate as that other boycott of KK Mart and MacDonalds approved by Anwar and his fawning enablers. Any difference in the stench between PN manure and the bullcrap of UMNO’s Harapan?
