TAXIDRIVER’S THOTS
From sticking out one’s tongue in defiance, to carelessly spoken words that can cause a lifetime’s regret, the tongue can be the source of real trouble!Our response to a scandalous mess is neat and categorised. Cash and sex are the north and south pole of mass interest, each with a sprawling magnetic field. We divide the hemispheres with the equator of logic. Cash and corruption are the preserve of politics. Sex is the province of glamour. We refuse to recognise any cross-over evidence.
CAN DATUK MOHD ARIFF SABRI ABDUL AZIZ FOOLISH WRITER FMT COLUMNIST BRING BACK A FOOLHARDY UMNO FROM BRAIN DEATH What is Umno’s latest weapon now? It’s the cultivation of the royal houses in the country. If PKR isn’t blind, they will see where the HRH Sultan of Selangor is going with his majesty’s overt political … Read more
CAN DATUK MOHD ARIFF SABRI ABDUL AZIZ FOOLISH WRITER FMT COLUMNIST BRING BACK A FOOLHARDY UMNO FROM BRAIN DEATH
Blood, we have been reliably informed, is thicker than water. Why does money become, all so often, thicker than blood?this does not matter too much, since we do not expect a high level of honesty from our blogger RPK and sakmongkol AK47. Only two letters separate use from abuse, so there will always be a quack preening himself in spining. But when a person held in high esteem dilutes the trust reposed in him, it affects the collective reputation of the bloggers Indeed, by disciplining this one bag of muscles, the tongue, one can claim to have achieved control over a major part of one's life! Many are the emotions the tongue achieves for us.
His name is Dato’ Mohd.Ariff Sabri bin Hj. Abdul Aziz. He was ADUN of Pulau Manis, Pekan.( 2004-2008) From 2000-2004, Ketua Penerangan UMNO Bahagian Pekan, under Dato Sri Najib. Studied Economics at University Malaya and University of Manchester(Owens). Datuk Mohd Ariff Sabri Abdul Aziz want to clear In that article, I suggested that Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah …Read more DATUK MOHD ARIFF SABRI ABDUL AZIZ LICKING NAJIB’S DICKY AND ROSMA’S DESIGNER VAGINA
Surprise and regret are also depicted by a poking out of the tongue and biting it.Ever wondered why Goddess Kali is always portrayed with her red tongue thrust out and dancing on Lord Shiva's body? According to the Markandeya Purana, in her form as Goddess Durga, when Kali's anger against the demons Sambhuand Nishambu couldn't be controlled and she kept on her path of destruction , the Gods enlisted the help of her consort Lord Shiva. Shiva lay down amongst the demons on whose bodies Durga was dancing. When she realized that she was dancing on her husband Shiva's body, stunned, Durga thrust out her tongue in surprise and regret and remained frozen. That is the way the Goddess is depicted always now.Of course the tongue, an essential tool in speech for humans, is also responsible for many pleasures. Sweet-tongued talk has the power of healing and pleasuring as nothing else does. Silver tongued are those people who with smartalecky talk can worm their way into hearts or through tough situations. Indeed, we are often warned about people who talk too sweetly! For every John Galliano who paved the path to his destruction with the help of an irresponsible tongue, there are many who sweet-talk their path up fanstastic careers.
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DR Mahathir says it before the sitting PM does. Dr Mahathir says Anwar’s acquittal is proof that the judiciary in independent. The information Minister said the same thing too. Finally the PM joined in saying the same thing. It’s almost like preparing the ground to justify that if Anwar is charged and convicted for some other offences, it is not possible for people to accuse the judiciary of being not independent. It is the same judiciary that acquitted Anwar in this sodomy 2 case.
Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s Sodomy II case is a “test” of Muslim-majority Malaysia’s commitment to democracy and rule of law, according to the Washington Post. The well-read and respected US daily has joined a growing choir criticising its president Barack Obama for his administration’s “weak” stand in the prosecution of the Malaysian opposition leader. The … Read more THE WELL-READ AND RESPECTED US DAILY WASHINGTON POST SAYS MALAYSIAN PROSECUTORS GONE WILD HOW MANY WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS WILL THE PUBLIC STAND FOR?
What if, Anwar is charged for other offenses? And he is convicted there because the evidence is so overwhelming. Anwar isn’t able to say the judiciary is independent now because if he is indeed convicted on another instance, he can’t turn around to say, the judiciary is not independent. That would be contradictory. So despite being acquitted, Anwar can’t say the judiciary is independent.
He can be charged for making a false report about the video showing a man resembling Anwar having sex with a China doll. Having sex is not a crime but making a false report is. Anwar is charged once more because the prosecution has the omega watch, the Chinese national in their custody and the video is proven as authentic by forensic experts. Anwar can then be charged and may be found for committal.
So, he is still not out of the woods yet. Even in the present case, the prosecution can appeal. Dr Mahathir will order DS Najib to appeal. Dr Mahathir would rather have UMNO lose than allow Anwar to be PM. He knows if Anwar ascends to the chief executive office, Mahathir and all those on the same ship are finished. So Anwar must be stopped at all cost.
Accusation is the easy exit route for UMNO. Introspection will take us back to the beginning. Betrayal is impossible without trust. We did not trust to be honest. We trusted our political class, and it continues to search for new and inventive ways to betray us again. Datuk V.K. Lingam’s former secretary, G. Jayanti, exposed … Read more DID DATUK V.K. LINGAM WROTE AN ENTIRE LEGAL JUDGMENT THEN LEAK IT TO DATO’ MOHD.ARIFF SABRI BIN HJ. ABDUL TUN DAIM ZAINUDDIN’S HITMAN
We must move this country beyond Anwar. Much energy and resources have been spent on the Anwar Saga. While Anwar and his supporters will shout of fitnah and of lies perpetrated, the public is also wasted with the tiring claim of conspiracy. It’s been 14 long and bloodletting years.
Anwar’s salvation actually lies in changing the government. And that is possible through the next general elections.
His name is Dato’ Mohd.Ariff Sabri bin Hj. Abdul Aziz. He was ADUN of Pulau Manis, Pekan.( 2004-2008) From 2000-2004, Ketua Penerangan UMNO Bahagian Pekan, under Dato Sri Najib. Studied Economics at University Malaya and University of Manchester(Owens). Datuk Mohd Ariff Sabri Abdul Aziz want to clear In that article, I suggested that Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah …Read more
I was reminded again this week, as two of the men accused of playing a part in the murder of Stephen Lawrence in Eltham, South London, in 1993 were sent to prison -- or in one of their cases, simply sent back to prison where he was serving sentence on another crime -- that there is an aspect of the human condition that is constant in us all, and that comes to the fore most often when we end up 'in the frame' for having committed an infringement of the law. We, as a species -- are essentially liars.
I grew up in Eltham in the 60's and 70's. I had my first paid job in Eltham High Street in a 'men's outfitters' as they were called in those days. I did my early acting at the Priory Players at the top of the High Street. And I used to get on the number 161 bus to Woolwich every Saturday to go and see Charlton Athletic play at the very bus stop on Well Hall Road, where Lawrence was so ruthlessly cut down in his prime. Does that make me any more of a reliable commentator in regard to whether these accused men actually played any part in the murder of Lawrence or not? No, it doesn't. But it makes my interest all the more acute, and has done since the crime was committed over 18 years ago. In the same way that all parents, especially those possibly with daughters under the age of five (I qualify again) took such a fervent and all consuming interest in the Casey Anthony trial, and shared in the outrage at the verdict -- knowing in their hearts that justice, in that case, had not been served. I have followed the case of Stephen Lawrence over the years -- not fervently -- but interestedly, mainly because of my Eltham link, so I was pleased for his parents this week to see that a sentence has finally been handed down and that they can feel whatever sense of justice it is possible to feel in such a scenario, where your son has been cruelly taken from you.
But if we didn't lie as a species, that eighteen years of prolonged frustration would not have been necessary, would it? 'Did you kill this person?' -- 'No' -- 'Right, off you go then.' Or: 'Did you kill him? 'Yes' -- 'Right, well you will have to go to prison then'. 'I understand.' Simple. Life would be like the strange nirvana that perfused the first half of the film The Invention of Lying where no one was capable of lying, or had considered it as a viable social concept.
But we do lie. We lie about the things that we would rather we had not done. The things that in hindsight we realize were catastrophic lapses in reasonable judgement. Things we have done that we worry will give people a less than rosy view of us. And we go to a psychological place where we believe that our own rampant denial of our misdemeanor will somehow render our crime as having not taken place at all. So, we start to lie. And once that mindset has kicked in, there is no going back. And we get so good at it that we could become political primary candidates overnight. Of course, this condition only self-activates regarding the miscreant stuff we don't wish to take credit for. We happily take credit for the positive stuff. I love telling people that I wrote and directed Sliding Doors, if they say they enjoyed it. I will happily take credit for that. But I still categorically deny that it was me who set fire to the dustbins round the back of our house in Eltham on November 12th 1966 with a book of matches I took from my dad's trouser pocket. Oops! Take him down.
In the case of the boys, now men, that murdered Lawrence in what was clearly a racially-motivated crime -- at the age they were at when they committed the act in a twenty-second flash of brutal mindlessness and jingoism, this 'denial of culpability' was an almost common state of being. At that young age you are doing things you shouldn't do on an almost hourly basis -- I know I was. And the naughtier the things that I did -- the more emphatic the denial became. 'The higher the liar.'
I am convinced myself that the people who were convicted this week were involved in the Lawrence killing in some way -- that they were there that day. Who inflicted the fatal wound we will never know because, as we have established, it is not an achievement that anyone currently wants to take credit for. Not publicly anyway. There was no doubt much private swaggering, boasting and strutting within the crew at the time of the crime. The reason I feel fairly sure that the wrong men have not, in this case, been found guilty, is that in February 1997, after various trials and inquiries, the Daily Mail ran a full front page story with photos of the five men and the one word headline -- 'MURDERERS.' with a sub-headline that read: 'The Mail accuses these men of killing. If we are wrong, let them sue' in bold print. They reprinted it again in July 2006 after new evidence has emerged. As far as I am aware, no law suits were ever served on the newspaper or its representatives. I am fairly sure that if I had been accused on the front page of a prominent national newspaper of a murder I know I did not commit, or play any part in whatsoever, I would be slapping down a writ pretty swiftly.
Indeed, it was the Lawrence case itself that led to the change in the law that allowed for the recent guilty verdict in the first place. Unconvinced with the validity of previous non guilty verdicts in the case, a public enquiry, headed by Sir William McPherson in 1999 led to a strident changing of UK law making the 'double jeopardy' ruling -- a contingency that decreed a person could not be tried for the same crime twice -- void in the case of murder trials where 'fresh and viable evidence is presented'.
And so, almost eighteen years after the tragic day when Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence had their son taken from them -- they have some kind of justice to hopefully placate their grief.
Why did it take so long? Because the people that played a part in the killing of Stephen Lawrence, are, as sadly we all are when needs must -- liars.
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