Wisdom is evidenced when correcting mistakes; unsound mind is evidenced when defending faults. – Huineng, 7th century monk MANY world leaders, past and present, are known to have endured some degree of mental incapacitation best known to their inner circles and a discerning public. Usually, the truth surfaces after these
Law without justice is a wound without a cure. – Anonymous All international treaties, covenants, pacts, proclamations, declarations and Executive Orders must pass muster within the confines of three Latin maxims, viz, primum non nocere, (first, do no harm), erga omnes (rights, duties and obligations owed toward all under international
To dare a thought is to risk being wrong. – James Dale Davidson, American investment writer Your first contract with government is triggered by your birth certificate. Your inalienable sovereign status denies you a certificate of conception that becomes irrelevant in the cacophony of citizenship. You may be a sovereign
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. — Julius Caesar, Roman dictator It is the sine qua non of governments to break, besiege, or bend laws to seize power. It’s their inherent call of nature. The governed are mandated to obey the law,
There is a great deal of ruin in a nation. – Adam Smith, Scottish economist The required form or substance of identification is a passport or an identification card with a recent photograph. Will a birth certificate with a newborn infant’s photograph on it be accepted by any government agency
The apotheosis of the controlling mind is monstrous and terrifying. – Stewart Stafford, American author Control freaks traditionally tend to have a psychological need to be in charge of things and people — even circumstances that cannot be controlled. The need for control, in extreme cases, stems from deeper psychological
Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.– Edward Teller, theoretical physicist There was a flurry of reports and allegations recently concerning foreign bank accounts belonging to Malaysian public officials. Facts supposedly reveal proof and evidence. Its axiomatic that people have the same right as facts to change their minds and perspectives.
The absence of the consent of the governed in government is the very definition of slavery. — Jonathan Swift, Irish satirist One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws, explained Martin Luther King, Jr., for which there should be no retribution. Howard Zinn explained that protest beyond the law
Lawless are they that make their wills their law. – William Shakespeare (The Two Gentlemen of Verona) The culture of lawlessness is the bane of elected government actors in the role of ‘robbinghoods’ engaging in unstoppable, uncontrollable and unspeakable illegal activities under colour of law. The voters are in a
The criminal law is no use to decent people. – George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright A code is universally known as “a system of words, letters, figures, or symbols used to represent others, especially for the purposes of secrecy”. Going by this definition, the United States Code, Malaysia’s Criminal Procedure
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