For pardoned activists, the truth finally prevails

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YOURSAY ‘They are patriots, not criminals as gov’t made them appear to be.’

 

Royal pardon for jailed Perak coup activists

Swipenter: Perak Sultan Nazrin Shah does the right thing to pardon the 11. However, his act will never be able to erase completely the black dot on the once pristine piece of white paper. That is a sad fact of life.

 

Ferdtan: The truth finally prevails. It is corrected on the eve of the Holy Month by a royal pardon.

 

A bout of conscience must have pricked the guilty ones, whoever they are. These 11 activists never gave up the fight by pleading guilty, they fought on regardless of their personal liberty.

 

Though the royal pardon is the right way but it came a bit too late as almost seven years had passed after the incident. Much hardship had been suffered by these activists.

 

And it has to take the son of the previous sultan, now reigning Sultan Nazrin, to pardon them. For that we are grateful.

 

However, read the Facebook posting by Nashita Md Noor, the wife of Bad Latif Mansor, who is among those jailed.

 

The pardon was devoid of the usual profuse words of gratitude that often followed. Either it was disbelief that they were released after such a long fight, or the anger was still there.

 

Well, I guess the thanks will come when they see their loved ones back home to celebrate with the family during the Holy Month.

 

Transformasi: Wise move by Sultan Nazrin. If only the Agong will show the same wisdom and intervene to release PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim from Sungai Buloh prison where he most definitely does not belong.

 

Jesse: The Perak ‘coup’ was engineered by a BN leader, causing so much angst among its citizens. Instead of focusing on developing the country, he spends his energy on seizing power and gloats over it.

 

Now that he is in the prime position, he is still wheeling and dealing to benefit himself and his cronies while the nation slides into the slippery slope of a failed state.

 

Freeing these activists who were genuinely frustrated by the whole dirty episode is the right thing to do. They are patriots and not criminals as the government made them appear to be.

 

One up for the Perak royalty.

 

Jaycee: Indeed, they should not be in jail in the first place. The state of Perak should pay compensation for these activists based on the time spent in jail.

Ong Guan Sin: Yes, fantastic news and a great way to start Ramadan.

Bravo to the Perak sultan. Contrast this (and the recent coronation ceremony which was nimble but full of adat) to all the going-ons in the south. Sigh.

 

 

What other off-budget spending is being hidden?

ABS: Some of these practices are probably in keeping with 'global financial world standards'.

 

So people, maybe we need to consider that there are some intricacies in the financial world that when put and considered in layman's terms seems bad/wrong, but is par for the course in the financial world?

 

I don't know - I'm not a finance person but I do know there are things that I don't know.

 

On the one hand, we don't want to be ‘jaguh kampung’ (village champion) - but maybe also, the 'global practice' does not match our morals either. Just a thought that there is always two sides of the story at least.

 

Nasib Nazak: Such serious creative accounting and breach of trust stems solely from the lack of education of people. Almost all the voters are now slaves of a system built over the years to serve the greed of one percent of the population.

 

They only understand the percentage numbers of handout given in the Budget every year, not the concealed debt or slumping rate of government services and facilities.

 

Take a look at the Scottish Youth Parliament . That generation of youths lives a life of keeping tabs on national issues and as they progress, they will soon grow to monitor the operations of the powers-that-be, regardless of whether they succeed in gaining seats in parliament.

 

Look at Malaysia - poor education, controlled media, racial/religion instigation, mistrust of exposure and politicking for self-enriching is putting everyone behind.

 

Youths today have no interest nor the environment permissible to keep their interest in such matters. These are the majority of the 47 percent of voters.

 

Bamboo: Smart (false) accounting to hide debts and expenditures to make the government’s debt ratio pretty. God help us with so much hidden government debts that we don't know of.

 

I guess a big chunk of it landed in the pockets of crony contractors with inflated prices of contracts.

 

Fateh: 1MDB is just the tip of the iceberg. The rakyat and taxpayers have to brace for deeper and bigger holes.

 

The ringgit will also go further down with the massive irregularities, translated to higher and higher taxes (high government debt), higher price of goods (weak ringgit), and more burden and suffering for the rakyat.


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