Does our law practise double standards? You steal canned sardines and powdered milk you are sentenced to 2 years in jail. You steal and plunder 1 billion ringgit, get a sympathetic DPP you can get all changes dropped!
I texted a few friends about this. Two said it's a sad day for our country. One mischievously said if you want to steal, steal big. Another said we are just whistling past a graveyard that is our country. We are just the reasonable man on the Clapham omnibus. We don't have the sophistication of a DPP!
Surely the AG who was a 4th college boy of UM and the DPP whose advice he took were in the minority. Even previous AG Tommy Thomas said he did not agree to any plea bargaining. So who is lying?
What is clear, the common good is sacrificed.
What I understand is that Gopal Sri Ram and possibly Thomas agreed to consider the proposals from Riza. That is different from agreeing to plea bargaining.
The AG can regale us with stories about the return of properties in Beverly Hills, New York and London or Timbuktu for that matter, the surrender of monies sequestered by the government etc.
The willingness to pay compound and strict adherence to the terms of a plea bargain. But tell us dear AG will these erase the original wrong?
So in the end we feel cheated. Tell us also, does a plea bargain lead to.a total drop of the charges.?
So this plea bargain involves complicated negotiations and all the jazz. These are but condiments to the real dish. In any case what do we pay you for?
So don't short change us Shylock AG. This is typical of a person who is not voted to office. Ditto for the DPPs.
What say the religious purists in PAS? Do we condone the kind of horse-trading?
I end my article with a saying:
When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you, you know your nation is doomed.
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