A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the government. — Byron White, former Associate Justice, US Supreme Court Section 302, Penal Code, Malaysia (Act 574): Whoever commits murder shall be punished with death. These ominous eight words defying constitutional gravity to the
Treaties are like girls and roses; they last while they last. – Charles de Gaulle, France’s first president The international treaty Malaysia Agreement of 1963 was designed as a non-military federation between Malaya, Singapore, Brunei, British North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak, ostensibly, to discourage and prevent the spread of communism
Political parties, over-anxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups. — Wendell Willkie, American lawyer A political party in Sarawak recently unleashed a refreshingly bold concept to discourage party-hopping by imposing a minimum RM20 million penalty upon those who decide to play pucks with Article 10(1)(c) of the Federal Constitution
The only thing permanent in life is change. – G.K. ‘Baboo’ Ganjoor, assassinated airline pilot There are many who like the status quo and thus totally shun change. There are also those who shun the status quo and clamour for change. In America, it is the battle cry for Republicans
When a dog looks at you, you know he is not judging you. – Eckhart Tolle, Canadian spiritual teacher It was in the 1930s that the dog-eat-dog world surfaced in defiance of the Latin aphorism canis caninam non est (dog will not eat dog) when society started becoming ever so
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. – Sun Tzu, Chinese strategist Usually attributed to the military, Fabian tactics have been used successfully in the early centuries of empire-sponsored maritime exploration, discovery and conquest; politics and government, and in the
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. – Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss philosopher To reasonably understand law, justice, politics and government where doublespeak and tongue-in-cheek statements concerning public policy are mercilessly unleashed upon a pliant citizenry, one must embark on a one-year study
Fortune befriends the bold. – John Dryden, English poet When you begin to “thync” different, you will automatically shed being diffident and scale the realms of derring-do. Moving away from forced cowardice to heroic courage is a very natural human tendency. Many of us have experienced this reformation. Helen Keller,
Anarchism is democracy taken seriously. – Edward Abbey, American author It has been said that a concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason, or thrown through the window of governmental deception that shatters it even before the brick finds its mark. It
Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it. – Mark Twain, American writer Freedom of speech and expression has become a political landmine in that one could get caught in the vortex of one’s thoughts getting wrongly expressed as words swirling
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