COMMENT There is no greater sacrifice for a cause than to give truly of one's self, to barter away one's very freedom, one's dreams and indeed one's life. And for PKR defacto leader Anwar Ibrahim, who has fought his battle to the brim, he has perhaps done just that – in the fight for all that is good and just.

While too jaded to see in him purely a hero, I have no doubt he has given more than most, in the quest to unseat from our sorrows.

He has sold himself not cheaply, but made the powers pay the bill, for his removal from the political chessboard, and did give the opposition a shrill battle cry. He had put himself upon the line, gambled of his own what he had hoped to give – the freedom that the rakyat sought for still.