The Judicial Hocus pocus. Contrarian essays no 19.

1. You all can see the farce of it all. Rafizi may have initially raised the issue of judicial appointments. He called for a RCI.

2. The issue was hijacked. Embellished, amplified and exaggerated. It was given more prominence than it should.

3. Political parties, NGOs, the lunatic fringe, Anwar haters have escalated the issue calling it a crisis .

4. The latest, I see is the formation of a secretariat. Headed unofficially by centenarian Dr M .

5. But Dr M must come to equity with clean hands.

6. When doc M sacked tun salleh abas and other justices, that event was more of a crisis then the present one.

7. Then , he was more interested to have as CJ a malleable person who would agree to his gentler requests .

8. If Dr m wanted a pliant judiciary, what makes anwars conduct, if he advises the JAC any different?

9. Which makes the hastily creation of a secretariat like a pot calling the kettle black.

10. The present case in which we see, slowness in naming a CJ and other federal court justices, hardly constitutes a crisis.

11. Do we see the sky falling down , people dropping off in the streets and rampaging?

12. Hello, cost of living going up, prices of food skyrocketing, cost of utilities, petrol, lack of FDI, growing national debt are crises .

13. No secretariat for these nor were there for a corruption free judiciary, secretariat for stiffer penalties for corruption, no house arrest and so on .

14. The weaponisation of this issue, ie using it as an excuse demanding that Anwar steps down is politicising it.

15. The amplification, embellishing and exaggeration of the issue are done by the UMNO portals and other portals specializing in the spreading of lies and misinformation.

16. By the way isnt ,the thought of demanding that Anwar steps down , just by gratuitously asking him to do so, is an UMNO way of thinking?

17. Isn't asking things for free, free loading and believing UMNO people are entitled to get what they demand, is UMNO way of thinking?

18. So when groups, NGOs, political parties and now a secretariat ask Anwar to turun, just by verbally asking , they are actually following UMNO footsteps?

19. You think you can get something automatically and entitled to, without exerting efforts and sacrifices?

20. Have you all heard of the saying, popularized by the great economist Milton Friedman, there's no such thing as a free lunch?

21. In general, you don't get something without efforts and sacrifices.

22. In this case, not by talking cock and screaming demands.

23. Do something substantive like organizing nation wide protests, moving a motion of no confidence or winning an election.

24. You think by just talking, scratching balls and marching hand in hand you get, hey presto, the mamak padukang steps down ?

25. In an earlier article, I said I am prepared to accept a judicial Phillips curve.

26. That is, Anwar by any conduct such as having a Tete a Tete with the JAC, manages to install a CJ and other justices, the judiciary carries out a number of 'suchs'.

27. But I doubt the new judiciary will carry them out as Anwar appears intent at preserving the bourgeois status quo .

28. Apparently hes not the reformasist, we think he is. He's a LV liberal after all.

29. The only way to knock some senses in him is for you to exercise your options at the next GE. Ada butot?

30. Finally and this my opinion only, the judicial institution is not worth over protecting and over championed of.

31. It has enough highly intelligent people to take care of themselves through their artful arguments.

32. The judiciary is not a sacred cow institution we think it is. There's data showing that the incidence and prevalence of corruption there is highest, higher than even the legislature

33. It's better to organize lawyers walk for a corruption free judiciary or walk for merits based judicial appointments. The secretariat does the same too.

34. Also I think many of these organisations now talking about judicial independence are a big bloody farce and are duplicitous.

35. Just suppose that Anwar, suffering from temporary non compos mentis, appoints a non Malay CJ.

36. You can be sure that many of these groups talking sanctimoniously about judicial shit, will make a big ruckus.

37. Doctor m will say , see the Anwar government is dictated by the DAP.