Waging war

At the Anwar tape trial the Anwar tape was shown even though the accused had pleaded guilty. It has always been thought that the legal procedure is that when an accused person pleads guilty the evidence is not produced. That the magistrate had the “evidence” screened shows how low the standard of our courts is. That is the level of thought in this police state, with its tendency to hysterics as shown recently with a Bersih gathering for clean elections which was greeted with screams of “waging war against the King”! This war cry exposes the staggering ignorance of the ruling clique. They don’t even know that we have no “king” in their sense of the word. We have however an “Agong” who swears allegiance to the constitution on taking office. Will they cook up a new law to be called “waging war against the constitution”?

The electrifying emergence of the famous A Samad Said in support of the movement for clean elections signals how fed up people are. We are in a police state and yet there are writers who still write that “we are sliding into a police state”! Will they please wake up, and ask themselves why A Samad Said is angry! Except of course the PAS Sarawak who seem proud of the official uniform that their legislators wear. At least that is the impression we get when we read in the papers that PAS Sarawak condemned the DAP for not wearing the official uniform.

Here is something from the blog, Malaysia Today:

“Remember, Imam Malik issued a fatwa forbidding us from pledging allegiance to the Ruler (whether Caliph, Agong, Sultan or whatever). And for that he was jailed and flogged. However, the Caliph realised he had erred and later released Imam Malik, apologised, and offered him compensation.”

Rashid Maidin memoirs (cont)

18 Wak Mat Tinggal

In 1955 when Kamal (Ibrahim Chik) and I were at Kem Bukit Tinggi, about an hour from the main body led by Abdullah C.D. and Musa Ahmad, we saw smoke. What was it?

For an answer, I sent two guards to investigate. One returned to report that they found a man with a rifle who said he wanted to join us. I asked the man to come and meet us. The man told us that his name was Wak Mat Tinggal. He said he had escaped from prison in Narathiwat and had lived the life of a guerrilla and had tried to find our army. He said, “Whatever happens to Wak, Wak will join you.”

It was policy not to accept recruits and I would be wrong if I allowed him to join us. But take him or not, Wak was not going to leave this place. He was 55 years old.

From that moment we educated him to make him a good man, to serve the people without reserve, truly study, work and to train. He was diligent and learnt the A B C, then to read and write. His world view underwent a rapid change and he learnt fast.

Towards the end of 1955, the 10th Regiment received some instructions from Central, one of which was that Musa Ahmad and two other fighters were to be sent to study abroad. I was to go to Betong to meet Chin Peng so as to attend the talks with the Tunku Abdul Rahman administration.