What bollocks!?!

The following is an excerpt from the famed Raja Petra's Malaysia Today blog where he wrote on the current smokescreens in our political landscape. In his posting, Raja Petra spoke at length about the many crimes of the Mighty Tun's regime but said UMNO were free to undo many of his rules & wrongs after he stepped down. They did not. Ok, so far, so good. Then he goes to write about the Tun Salleh Abbas case (read below):

"Okay, let us look at another case. This one involves the sacking of Tun Salleh Abbas, the Chief Justice. The story being spun is that Mahathir ordered his sacking and Zaid Ibrahim, the new ‘Minister of Law’, wants to resurrect the case and make an issue out of it. But did Mahathir really sack the Chief Justice?

What happened was that the Chief Justice had a home next door to the Agong’s and His Majesty’s house was under renovation. The Chief Justice was displeased with the noise and pollution and he wrote a letter to the Agong with copies to all the Rulers complaining about the matter. The Agong was upset with this insolence on the part of the Chief Justice. Writing a complaint letter is one thing and could be forgiven since this was a genuine grievance -- though an audience would have been the correct protocol instead of a complaint letter -- but to copy the letter to all the Rulers smacks of pressure.

The Agong was outraged and demanded that Mahathir sack the Chief Justice for this insolence that tantamount to misconduct. Mahathir, however, replied that he does not have the authority to sack the Chief Justice and that this can only be done through a Tribunal. The Agong then commanded (titah) that a Tribunal be set up, which was to report direct to His Majesty. The Tribunal found the Chief Justice guilty of misconduct and sent its recommendation to the Agong, who then removed the Chief Justice."


Am sorry, he cannot be serious rite? Firstly, as one blogger commented, if this was the case, where is the said letter. Prove it. Ok, easier said than done. But what really irks me is that if Raja Petra is to be believed, the Agong was willing to set in motion a chain of events that led to a constitutional crisis simply because someone complained about renovations in his house!!?!

Fooking incredible or what? If this is true, just goes to show what breed of people call themselves 'rulers' of this country. Nevermind the sanctity of the courts; the correct and ardours protocol relating to communiques with the Rulers must be observed at all costs!!! Really hope this isn't true, coz if it is, we are in deeper shit than we think we are.

If it is, time we seriously start thinking bout campaigning fer a republic. As usual, look forward to reading yer thoughts on this issue.