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Look like a unilateral horse trading proposal from AAB to TDM to me.

If it is indeed the case,I have to agree with TDM that AAB has no leadership quality,and has to be pushed down almost immediately.

There are three main reasons why a new commission should be established. One, the country's name was seriouly damaged within the country and internationally by the sacking of the judges and needs to be restored.Two, the judges who were hauled up and sacked were innocent and doing their job according to the oath they took i.e to interpret and hand down justice according to the laws and their innocence has to be redeemed even in death, even for those judges who have passed on.Three,the perpetrator of that shame on our national character and the men who obeyed and executed one man's command blindly lacking in courage and character because he wanted to continue to be in power have to be exposed as a lesson for these men who among them are still alive The exposure will also act as a deterrant for any one not to abuse or allow to be abused the institutions of govt in the future. In short the truth has to exposed and for posterity.

Tun Salleh’s response, reading (Nazri’s) statement “I can only conclude it was made impromptu, off the cuff, without much study... I thought it was made in haste."
It may be history now, but nothing is final as the past is being constantly recreated by each individual as attitudes and associations change. Perhaps a Royal Commission of Enquiry can undo what Mahathir did. Check details at:
http://powerpresent.blogspot.com/2006/08/tun-salleh-abbas-revealations-dr.html

Fully agree with the proposal, even though it came in very late.

I'm not amazed with the goings-on in this country, for the ruling government is so strong, and the mere citizen is left with nothing to defend themselves with.

Trust me, it will take ages before things get right again, how late it will take.

Nazri was reported to have said:

"We cannot keep on questioning past issues, otherwise there’ll never be any finality..."

If he were a lawyer acting for the defense in a court of appeal, his client would have fired him for that alone.

What if it had been him rather than Salleh Abbas who's been given the sentence? Would he wash it off and go farming instead?

We are not living in a totalitarian state. The Executive cannot simply muffle or displace the powers of the Judiciary on any grounds of national expediency.

What is happening here is that the Umno government has committed the traducible act of trying to deflect fallouts from massive foul-ups by using quicksilver but vacuous pronouncements.

However they fail to realize that when they do so, they are in fact implicitly asking the rakyat, including their own future generations, to accept that it is alright to ignore the democratic privilege of recourse to appeal and review whenever it suits them. And if they can do that on the matter of a review on the treatment of the Judiciary, what is to prevent them from not going further, quashing investigations on officials who instigate criminal acts against those impeding their personal interests or impugning their sullied reputations, for instance?

And Putrajaya's contention that since the three judges were tried by their peers, the ruling would stick. What would cost officialdom to reopen the case? Considering the international disrepute the matter had caused this country, wouldn't it behove them to allow for reexamination of the entire process, including how the constitutional changes were ramped through in the light of the deepening gulf between both wings of executive and judiciary during that period when power was arrogated to one man?

And here they talk about expediency, ergo nationalism. It seems the same reason that applies to one doesn't have to apply to another. On that score, they've already disqualified themselves from talking about the role of the Judiciary.

Of late this convenient method of brushing off unconscionable acts on frivolous grounds has gotten more frequent. Bad as it is, couple that with rabid monocommunal statements not rendered transparent by certain parties, and you get the deepening feeling that something has gone in the Umno machinery.

As DelaVega (Zorro-1) said to Rafael, "she knows".

When asked on allegations that the tribunal was a "kangaroo court", Nazri replied: "How can it be a kangaroo court? The judges were his peers. Are you saying that they were paid? You mean to say you can make deals with judges? I don’t think so. No sane judge will make a deal to implicate his own brother judge."

Absolutely no idea if I should cry or laugh at him.

I actually feel like I'm living in a family where the father used to do lots of things which seem rather doubtful in terms of principles, for the sake of pushing the family forward in progress. Now one of the elder sons has taken over the family, he has a headache. The old father still nags him, his brothers steal from him and from each other and fight each other for anythng that's of any worth. We're not living in a healthy family, but we really behave only when we have visitors. Sometimes we don't even do that. We let one of our kid brothers insult the visitor, while big brother shake hands with her and hope she doesn't notice. Sigh...where's our future???