Showing posts with label rule of law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rule of law. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

The Great Dictator's Final Speech (reprise)


Uploaded 10 July 2011 ~ Pinkie the Poop pontificates on police professionalism!


Uploaded 14 December 2011 ~ The obnoxious Wan Bari of Brickfields strikes again!


Uploaded 11 September 2011 (excerpt from The Great Dictator, released in October 1940, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin as Adenoid Hynkel)


WHO'S THE INSPIRING LEADER... 
AND WHO'S THE 
FAILED CLOWN?




[First posted 15 December 2011, reposted 4 June 2017]



Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Zaid Ibrahim on the Rule of Law

"The Rule of Law has no meaning if judges, especially apex court judges, are not prepared to enter the fray in the struggle for the preservation of human rights and the fundamental liberties.

Supreme Court judges in other jurisdictions have done so time and again. Though it is far less difficult to accommodate the will of the government, that must be resisted at all costs, particularly where justice so demands. Only then can we say that Malaysia is grounded on the Rule of Law.


To all our judges I say discard your political leanings and philosophy. Stick to justice in accordance with the law. As Lord Denning reminded us: Justice is inside all of us, not a product of intellect but of the spirit. Your oath is to the Constitution; shield yourself behind it. Without your conviction, democracy is but a concept."


~
Zaid Ibrahim (from a speech delivered at the LawAsia Conference, 30 October 2008)


"LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO VOTE UMNO!" ~ Hussein Abdul Hamid