YOURSAY ‘Being honest, fair and truthful will get you nowhere.’
Ex-top judge’s disclosure vindicates whistleblower
Real Truth: At last, former High Court judge Syed Ahmad Idid Syed Abdullah Idid has been vindicated (by former Court of Appeal judge KC Vohrah’s revelations of ex-chief justice Eusoff Chin).
Truth will ultimately prevail. At least the good judge can sleep peacefully that he has not wronged. How many other judges can do that?
Peacemaker: Syed Ahmad Idid once served as a High Court judge in Kuching, where he still has many admirers among the senior lawyers who knew him.
The truth has eventually come out and rogue judges seem to have gotten away with it on this side of eternity. In Allah's Court of Justice, the verdict is still out.
May they be condemned to eternal damnation in hell's fires.
Dont Just Talk: The Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on Judicial Fixing proposed that action be taken against VK Lingam, former CJ Eusoff Chin and four others which include former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad. However, no action has been taken against any of the six.
Indeed, how can action be taken against any of them when two were top leaders in their own field? Both of them are now enjoying the title of ‘tun’.
If I were the ex-chief justice, I would not know where to hide my face. At least, justice Syed Ahmad Idid can hold his head high and his name will be remembered by Malaysians as a clean and honourable judge.
Hplooi: There is still no action against the miscreants in the judge-for-sale scandal. And VK Lingam is still free without any blemish? And yet here we have an honest man Syed Ahmad Idid who was penalised.
This illustrates the issue that supporting the current racist regime which is hell-bent on empowering the religious right will in the long run penalise all moderate Malaysians irrespective of race.
Chew on that, Malaysians who are constitutional Malays (the ‘nons’ are effectively disenfranchised and have no say on how this country is or will be run).
Haveagreatday: Syed Ahmad Idid said he had ".. learnt that discretion is the better part of valour.”
Yes, I believe in your case you did the right thing. Dare we hope this government will right the injustice done to him in 1996?
Straight-Talk: Perpetrators of injustice will get their reward when the time comes. Retired judge Syed Ahmad Idid surely earns the respect of Malaysians who value his role in exposing the dishonour of past justices who had answered only to their political masters and not to the bench they were sitting on.
2 Tim 1:7: A former corrupt chief justice who delivered a verdict which is “blatantly wrong in law” and who shamelessly lied in public concerning his vacation in New Zealand with lawyer Lingam (prima facie evidence of conflict of interest) has been honoured with a 'tunship’.
And we have the regime's home minister sending a testimonial to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) endorsing an international racketeer.
Are these in accord with the Islamic values that the regime professes to uphold? Rather, it seems to me to that they are the machinations of people who revere the devil as their head honcho.
Headhunter: How apt to quote the famous line "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark". The judiciary started to rot from the time of Mahathir and it has continued to this day. Judges in the country are no longer respected as they once were.
It seems that even senior judges have a price on their heads. But they should remember this; if they are in the same situation as ex-judge Syed Ahmad Idid when the gun is pointed at them, nobody will come to their defence.
YM Lee: Syed Ahmad Idid honours the bench. Shame on those who had perpetuated the dishonour. Shame on those who have accepted the call and abused the bench.
They have dishonoured themselves, their families, the nation and all of us. I am angry.
Rupert16: It is a shame the country fails to elevate an honest man and a man of integrity to a higher judicial position so as to better advance the country. Instead a good man like Syed Ahmad Idid was given the boot.
This really reflects the kind of government we have these days - inept, incompetent and corrupt.
Hope: Syed Ahmad Idid is a very rare breed. If only we can have more of such people of quality in the judicial system, especially the courts and of course the Attorney-General’s
Chambers.
Smart: To the few good men, especially Syed Ahmad Idid, my respect and a big thank you for his sacrifices for this country - he’s an unsung hero.
Pputeh: Being honest, fair and truthful in this country will get you nowhere. Today we are spiralling downwards all because the bud was not nipped early. Corruption is widespread and honest people are made to look evil.
No one can save us unless we have a new government.
SRMan: When an alternative party takes over the country one day, the first thing they should do is to set up two halls for ex-judges at the Palace of Justice. One is the Hall of Fame and the other, the Hall of Shame.
And ex-CJ Eusoff Chin should be accorded the honour of having his name at the top of the Hall of ...? Your guess is as good as mine.
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