Saturday, April 18, 2009

Perak speaker had no right to suspend the seven BN assembly persons.

If that is the case, the logical question to ask is, who does? If the argument is that the speaker abused his powers to suspend, then that has to be challenged in court. Alas, there is no such provision.The present situation in Perak should be akin to the cat chasing its tail, but somehow the federal court has been dragged into the imbroglio and the tail has now been 'forcibly separated' from the cat. Didn't someone say something about the separation of powers? Despite compelling arguments from many a constitutional expert that Sivakumar was acting within his authority, isn't it strange that the decision by the judges was unanimous? It appears that it is such a ‘no brainer' to these judges.Najib is using everything in his powers to retain control of Perak. In the haze and throes of his power trip, he forgets that he is exposing himself in contradictory light to his lofty postulations of a ‘1Malaysia'. It is eerily reminiscent of the time when Mahathir was in power, when the end always justified the means.

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