What is Anwar doing?

I depart from my usual essays on social and political issues. While we wish Anwar all the best, the public is increasingly exasperated by his antics.

Is Anwar frustrating the process of justice? Each step of court proceedings have been met with disputations and objections. We have had numerous courts stand downs and adjournments. Anwar's antics have raised widespread suspicions that he is stalling to prevent the truth from coming out.

His primary defense stands on his accusation that all this is a conspiracy involving political leaders to end his political career. We have heard this one too many.

We can't imagine government lawyers are that inept that they have prepared the charges fraught with defects and shortcomings that debate on technicalities prevent everyone from deserving the truth. Anwar wants justice but he seems to be employing strange ways to get that justice. Instead of having a legal case being tried, he is escalating this case into a political circus. The man who nearly missed to become US President has written an article in support for Anwar in USA. How does the rest of the world as claimed by Anwar supporters come to the conclusion that this is a lopsided trail?

Oh.. because the defense has been denied access to documents that are in possession of the prosecution. The arguments for securing the documents have been put forward vociferously by the defense team, but the court has refused to do so. That refusal to the layman must have been based on sound judgments. Or that refusal can only reflect some strong reasons to deny access which will come to light anyway in court.

Why should the Malaysian judiciary and Malaysia as a whole risk world and public condemnation on account of refusing a technicality? Logic would demand us to accept, that there is a deeper and fundamental refusal to have access denied.

Then we have an objection raised because it its alleged that a member of the prosecution team is having an affair with the star witness, Saiful Bukhari. Anwar Ibrahim made a big spectacle about it by making a police report citing some link to OSA or something. The question that needs to be asked, has this bare allegation compromised the fundamentals of the case- i.e. proving that Anwar is guilty or otherwise? How can an alleged affair between the two, jeopardized the defense of Anwar? It has probably no bearing at all on the charges against Anwar.

We are again denied revelation of the findings from the chemist. That traces of semen fluid and DNA are found at the witness's body. This needs to be argued.

It would appear that Anwar's defense team has nothing to go on fighting with except by raising all sort of technical objections.

The public is frustrated by the speed at which justice is being carried out. They say justice rushed is justice crushed but justice delayed is also justice denied. The public is denied.