The government's lack of intention to prosecute International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz and former Melaka chief minister Rahim Thamby Chik because of unsubstantiated evidence, as stated by Rais Yatim, presumes one thing.

It presumes that the substantiality or lack of it is something to be decided by the attorney-general on the authority of Section 145 (3) of the Federal Constitution.

That statement seems to suggest that the attorney-general only presents cases where evidence can be substantiated and, therefore, all trials brought to the courts by the attorney-general are fool-proof and the government wins on all counts...well, we all know that to be untrue.

Should it not be that the courts are the ones to decide on whether or not the evidence is substantiated especially when in this case there would seem to be an element of conflicts of interest considering that all are seen to be from the same camp!

Surely Rais and the government know only too well how that attitude is going to draw flak. Unless of course it has come to the point that the government does not care.