Since March 8, 2008, the people of Malaysia have seen one disaster over another. I have to phrase it as such. This is owing to the fact that we have over the years been of the realisation that we have a written constitution. We have come to know of it being the supreme law of this land.

We were born and also our parents were born, in this land. There is no doubt in our mind that the framers of this constitutional document have had very good intentions. That is why it provides in Article 8 that ‘all persons are equal before the law and are entitled to the equal protection of the law’.

Our constitution also provides that ‘No person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty save in accordance with the law’. In any society that believes in the rule oflLaw, we are certain that the ordinary laws are not static. It is in a state of flux, which means there would be a continuous succession of change, but not the constitution.

This comes about, because, in the first place all laws are ‘fiction.’ When the time and situations change, laws which are obsolete are repealed and laws which are no longer effective are amended. That is why we go to the polls once every five years to elect our members of Parliament and state assembly persons. We place our trust in them to promulgate laws that are generally in the wider interest of our society.

It must also be noted that all laws are developing continually. That is why no one person can blindly state or for that matter, emphasise on the paramount importance of the law, unless it is in the statute book, and it is just.

Any one or for that matter any judge of a court who emphasises on the paramount importance of there being certainty in the law might as well vacate his judicial office. The longer he sits on the bench, the greater the injustice he would cause to his fellow brothers who make decisions not on the basis of certainty, but on the basis of divine prescience and of perfect clarity (when giving their purposive interpretation to such laws).

In the Nizar vs Zambry case, the court of appeal has by its decision, deluded itself. Why? It has failed in its duty to stand by the oath the judges have taken. The judges have by their naïve decision, virtually destroyed the basic structure of the constitution. It is clearly apparent that in the passage of time with such mediocre men of justice, the constitution would be grossly misconstrued and misinterpreted out of existence.

We, as the people are the masters of all ‘temporary’ politicians. We have been in search for a common source for all the problems faced by the Malaysian people. The ‘menace of the men in blue’ has, in some ways, fitted in neatly with the various conspiracy theories that abound, which PM Najib Abdul Razak terms as rumours.

This is why Charles de Gaulle said: ‘Since a politician never believes what he says, he is always astonished when others do’.

After 52 years, we now realise that the BN parties get money from the rich and votes from the poor by promising to protect them from one another. This has given rise to some form of an irregular inventive interpretation by the men in blue with regards to our freedom of choice and assembly.

This mentality of the men in blue may delight Najib for a while. However, the novelty by which the men in blue act and conduct themselves may affect the common satiety of our lives and may only send us all on a quest. The men in blue cannot carry on with this foolish behavior for long, as sooner or later, being only human, they will get exhausted. This is when they will be reposed to face the stability of the truth, of our passive resistance.

What Najib has miserably failed to realise is that in any democracy, no leader is capable of creating ‘an empire.’ Dr Mahathir Mohamad tried and failed, and was forced to shed his tears for

the world to see. Najib may have to face the reality that on the one hand he claims to be the people’s prime minister and on the other hand he permits the men in blue to have a carte blanche to carry out their misconduct against all unarmed people who carry out a passive resistance.

It is a shame to impose such agony, as to not to allow the people to wear black as they like, or to carry candles in the night or to carry out a hunger strike for a certain number of days. Najib, your spin doctors are out of date. They cannot match the growth of our mature civil society. They cannot social engineer public sentiment with slogans.

As Abraham Lincoln said:’Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.’ So do not shoot your own feet by attempting to intimidate us, by calling on your men in blue to act.

We love and treasure our liberty above everything else. That is why Najib and his henchmen will not succeed in attempting to halt any of our campaigns to voice out our frustration on the ‘slow death of democracy’. The offensive by the men in blue is not a shrewd move. It only gives the print media something to write about, which is an insult to journalism without bias which reports news without favour.

Needless to say, Najib will not capture the head lines in the alternate media which is without borders. As it is stated that all politicians are on temporary appointment and no matter how they create and change the state into a police state, they should take a leaf from Nelson Mandela’s Book, ‘The long walk to freedom’ where at a chapter 51, page 399 he writes and I quote:

‘There is nothing so dangerous as a leader making a demand that he knows cannot be achieved. It creates false hopes among the people’. Unquote.

The people do not believe any of your slogans, Najib. You have a lot of baggage and you have not cleared the doubts in our mind. We will fervently continue with our passive non-violence acts to bring about a change and restore democracy and a civil society. Non-violence will not fail us. Contrary to our acts, your men in blue will, as time goes by, will realise and challenge your slogans which are but a myth.

They will come to the realisation that they are being compelled to act and have failed. Their duty is to maintain law and order. This is when your spin doctors and your secret intrigues will fail to flourish. If divine providence is on our side you may not finish your appointed term of office.

Malaysians can no longer be willing audience to allow this beautiful land of ours to become a police state.