Reading Nik Hassan Mohd Amin's letter ( Anwar should know better ), one cannot help but conclude that many well-intending Malaysians are not able to distinguish between politics and the law. The distinction between the two is fine but appreciable, for those who choose to see.

Whether or not one is happy with Pak Lah's premiership, or that Anwar is a wounded tiger, or that elections are around the corner, has got nothing to do with Anwar's standing and rights as a citizen under the law. He is only exercising and exhausting all of his legal prerogatives.

Please do not be irritated or feel threatened by that. Unless, of course, one really fears that one fine day, he may well succeed under the law! That should be the day that all Malaysians celebrate. Not because we love or hate Anwar, but because the law has prevailed over politics. It was for the same reason, I presume, that Anwar-haters jumped for joy when he was jailed - supremacy of the law, and not that they want him out of their faces because of his politics.

Regardless of what purists of jurisprudence wish, the law is open to interpretation, and politics has a lot to do with it. But to imply that one should serve the other or vice-versa at the expense of inalienable human rights sound very Zionist to me.

So maybe, Nik Hassan was just expressing his personal wish and preference that Anwar remains in jail. He is free to do so, but please do not apply rationalisations that are beyond one's means.

To imply that Anwar is in a position to coerce, and that he is deserving of his injuries, are laughable traits of small minds with a self-serving wish list.

Regardless, I pray that Nik Hassan meant well. I know that I will be routing for him to exercise all of his legal rights and sharing the pain of his injuries, if the tables are turned. Elections or no elections, politics or no politics. That is called the human spirit.