More than 2000 members of the Malaysian Bar and some concerned citizens have joined the Walk for Justice this morning at Putrajaya, from Palace of Justice to the Prime Minister’s office to hand over the Bar’s memorandum urging the government to set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry to probe the state of judiciary and memorandum on the establishment of a judicial appointments and promotion commission.

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21 Responses to “Walk for Justice”

  1. Stephen Lau on September 26th, 2007 at 9:43pm

    As a concerned citizen of Malaysia, I share the view with the Malaysian Bar that something has gone seriously wrong with the Malaysian Judiciary. A Royal Commission of Inguiry needs to be set up immediaty to probe into the allegation of corruption, manipulation and misconduct of our judges. This is of upmost importance in order to restore public trust and confidence in our Judiciary system.

  2. savindaraju on September 26th, 2007 at 10:01pm

    yes i share the bar council concern,but what a pity it took so long for the bar council and concern citizen.

  3. savindaraju on September 26th, 2007 at 10:13pm

    yes i am with the the bar council concern,but what a pity it took
    so long for the bar council and concern citizen to realise.
    Tunku Abdul Rahman knows this will happen if the mamak become the prime minister.that’s why he did mention in parliament,if you happen to see a copra snake and a keling,whack the kling first.society was mistaken that he is attacking the late opposition leader senivasgann.no actually i belive he was attacking the mamak(the wolf in sheep skin) in umno.
    too late,anyway nothing is to late,keep trying,and my support is for you people and god will be with us.

  4. ffad on September 26th, 2007 at 10:23pm

    ..so the concerned citizens of malaysia finally sees corruption is not good afterall. I wonders and amazes by citizens who like some kind of corruptions and condems certain kind of corruptions, for the benefits of their own. I would say malaysia is really multi.

  5. YeinJee on September 26th, 2007 at 10:56pm

    Lots of citizens do know that our country top administration is corrupted (mostly)… just that lots of the times we don’t have solid evidence or lead to pin those corrupted VIP.

    This Chief Justice scandal is quite a weak case; the video could actually prove nothing legally… but it’s a rare chance that provides the people a doorway to express the discontent.

  6. ffad on September 26th, 2007 at 11:47pm

    YeinJee,
    Lots of citizens did and do know that our country administration is corrupted (mostly) from bottom to top, and lots of the time we ignore or somehow did not support, any evidence that may lead to charge VIPs. The chief justice video craps wont lead to any doorway of any kind with results. There are many chances throughout the past decades… questionable wealth and questionable government delegation for top post, either ignored or succumbed or diverted.

    So whats the big deal of having some video clips mutters about something that makes something of only suspicions? worst comes to worst, the “in boat” corrupted VIPs will only have to “divert” all to someone to be blame. We never catch the big fish.

  7. YeinJee on September 26th, 2007 at 11:57pm

    We always suspect that our leaders are corrupted… Mahathir, Badawi, Najib etc… how many Malaysians would believe these leaders are ‘clean’? Thing is, as common citizens, most of us can only suspect without knowing how to expose their corruption.

    That actually is the sad thing about Malaysia corruption… a small hint like this video has managed to raise such an impact, simply because we rarely have any good hints in exposing corruption.

    Set that aside, the walk and the responses so far at least show that some Malaysians are not willing to keep silent over these kind of matters.

  8. ffad on September 27th, 2007 at 12:12am

    YeinJee,
    What can this 2000 malaysians do? They are just wasting their time. “Concerned citizens” like stephen lau, savindaraju, ffad and also yeinjee can only be warriors sitting on a chair. Like what happened in myanmar lately, even stuffs like 100,000 respected ones as to date, also cannot do anything. Cmon lar…malaysia is not that democracy lar..

  9. YeinJee on September 27th, 2007 at 12:44am

    It’s better than doing nothing at all… every small steps might count.

  10. ffad on September 27th, 2007 at 1:37am

    I am not against “doing something”. All i want to say is the sins that we accumulated so far could not be stop by just abdopting opposition stance. The sins i am talking about is did we offerred bribes to authority? And for those authority who took bribes, did you agreeably took it and spend it?

    I have this thinking, “if you, the official want, do it professionally without harming the society. No one will say anything, even supporting, if you keep the economy uphill. Take the prize only if you are worth of it, dont touch if you are not. Do something good for malaysian citizens”

  11. YeinJee on September 27th, 2007 at 9:17am

    ffad… I can get what you mean. Lots of people are thinking that way, especially when the economy is booming.

    Lots of Malaysians are guilty of bribery as well. The culture has been here for years (or decades)… it will need some time to change it. Frankly I am not sure where or how to start changing the culture, besides making a change to myself first.

  12. ffad on September 27th, 2007 at 7:05pm

    Well…i havent given any bribe for around 7 years. Have you lately?

  13. YeinJee on September 27th, 2007 at 7:30pm

    Not in the past few years.

    As you mentioned earlier it was a bad culture (bribing) in Malaysia… when a Malaysia is blocked for traffic offense, 9 out of 10 would try to bribe, and 99 out of 100 officers would accept it. The practice was implanted in our mind since we were young… even a small kid would know what is ‘kopi duit’.

    I am not sure when I started to feel embarrass of myself for being one of the bribers… somehow I started to realize that what I did was wrong and stopped practicing it. Not that I had bribe many… I rarely got myself into trouble.

    Speaking of which, I still have a summon that I haven’t pay after months… guilty as charge for procrastination.

  14. ffad on September 28th, 2007 at 12:52am

    ya know jeinjee, as you yourself stated 9 out of 10 and 99 out of 100, then why would we condemn on certain corruptions and accept some? If i am a gevernment official, how would i think about people condemning this? Kind of headache right?

  15. YeinJee on September 29th, 2007 at 8:25pm

    We = who?

    Most of people who bribe or take bribes are probably thinking that… “everyone is doing it, why not?”

    Besides, lots of my friends are already adapted to the bribing culture… for them as long as things are getting done, and the country is prospering… they don’t really bother people taking (or giving) bribes.

    The situation is not going to change overnight; and I am not sure how it could be changed in near future. What I can do, is to make a change to myself, and perhaps some others around me… and probably a few that happens to read what I wrote.

  16. ffad on September 29th, 2007 at 8:56pm

    we = most.

  17. YeinJee on September 29th, 2007 at 9:03pm

    Well, I certainly can’t answer for most of the others. As mentioned at the earlier reply… it’s something that’s beyond my wisdom. I don’t really understand how the corruption started, and how it managed to rot to this state… and how to overturn it.

    Somehow it already reach a state that it’s difficult to be a ‘clean’ person… for both common citizens and those potential bribe takers. Imagine being a newbie in a working environment… most of the seniors are taking bribes; life would be much easier to join them than to resist them, or even to go against them. Imagine going against a group of cops that are taking bribes… who knows how many guns could be pointing at your back.

  18. ffad on September 30th, 2007 at 5:57pm

    Yeinjee,

    Hahaha, am i chasing everybody (bloggers) away?

  19. YeinJee on September 30th, 2007 at 9:15pm

    Chasing every bloggers away? How?

  20. ffad on September 30th, 2007 at 9:48pm

    Not many people will accept what they believe in and suddenly some idiot aka ffad(their point of view of an idiot) makes them looks like one. So they (bloggers) usually ignores what they dont want to read by not visiting the site.

  21. YeinJee on September 30th, 2007 at 10:31pm

    Haven’t thought of that before.


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