Mandela: Wat is verby verby; Mahathir: Heads will roll

When PH won the election, Mahathir in his victory speech said he would NOT be seeking revenge and wanted to restore the rule of law.

But The Star Online has just published Dr M’s announcement sends shivers down the spines of civil service top brass (extracts):

heads will roll 

PETALING JAYA: It is with a mix of anxiety and hope that 1.6 million civil servants are awaiting the big announcement about the composition of the Cabinet on Saturday (May 12).

Some must have been squirming in their seats Friday when Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad made it clear that "heads must fall" when he spoke about forming a new Cabinet.

"Certain heads must fall. We find that some people aided and abetted a prime minister the world describes as kleptocrat," Dr Mahathir told a press conference.

The new Prime Minister went one step further and gave specifics.

didn't you win the elections? 

He said would "look into" Attorney-General Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali, Election Commission chairman Tan Sri Mohd Hashim Abdullah and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

When I was blogging up to the election, some of you urged me to "forget about the past" on Mahathir and his many wastage of national resources and persecution of his opponents like Lord President of the Judiciary Tun Salleh Abas and 5 High Court Judges, a quite (medically) sick Karpal Singh, ironically LKS, son LGE, Dr Kua Kia Soong and many Chinese educationists, not forgetting the Great Anwar Ibrahim.

Will he and more importantly, YOU now "forget about the past" on Najib, previous ministers and senior civil servants? Wakakaka.

I'm gonna get you as I got anwar
I'm waiting for it
I'm waiting to get him back

Of course not, nor do I expect that. But was there a need to announce so ominously, "Certain heads must fall. We find that some people aided and abetted a prime minister the world describes as kleptocrat." 

In so arrogantly doing so, hasn't Mahathir preempted the judgement & decision of the courts?

Those who are criminals or those who had committed social or national crimes (wakakaka) must be brought to justice, and there in the court of law, upon their proven guilt through wealth of reasonable evidence, may the court passed sentences or leniency or both. It's up to our courts, not the political-elected Administrator.

do you think LKS will now have the guts to raise this issue?

As the new powerful PM, if he wants to prosecute and persecute Najib and the latter's Administration, that is up to him, but then, based on his example, should we forget about what he had done in the past?

Welcome (BACK) to the era of the dark reign of The Mahathir Rule. He won't stop there - ask Anwar Ibrahim, Ku Li, Tun Salleh Abas, the Kelantan royal house, and various others.

And mind, his actions will be applauded by his mahathristas, his nouveau acolytes, who have shown a delight for Schadenfreude.

Yesterday the Celaka Man nearly celaka-ed TV3 but due to swift complaints by blogging matey Susan Loone to LKS, was celeka-ed himself.

Today I have just heard the Hell-Hounds have taken the law into their own hands and by mob action stop Najib and wife from flying to Jakarta for a break, even when (Star Online report) the Immigration DG denies Najib, Rosmah on travel blacklist.

But moments after after that mob action, the Immigration authorities have now put him on the blacklist, wakakaka. Najib twittered:

“I have been informed that the Malaysian Immigration Department has prohibited me and my family from traveling abroad. I respect the order and will remain in the country with my family.”

Wikipedia also informs us about the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution:

'Reign of Terror' is a label used by some historians for (part of) French history between July 1789 and July 1794, but those historians adhere that label to different periods.

The Committee of Public Safety came under the control of Maximilien Robespierre, a lawyer, and the Jacobins unleashed the Reign of Terror (1793–94). According to archival records, at least 16,594 people died under the guillotine or otherwise after accusations of counter-revolutionary activities. As many as 40,000 accused prisoners may have been summarily executed without trial or died awaiting trial.

Really hoe-liao (bloody excellent) vigilante actions.

No, I am NOT referring to the French Revolution but the Hell-Hound mob's vigilante action in ILLEGALLY stopping the plane that was supposed to take Najib and wife to Jakarta.

Wikipedia also tells us about the questionable provenance of the Trial of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu:

The trial of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu was a short trial held on 25 December 1989 by an Exceptional Military Tribunal, a drumhead court-martial created at the request of the Council of the National Salvation Front, resulting in the death sentence and execution of former Romanian President and General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena Ceaușescu.

Marked by irregularities that are typical of kangaroo courts and show trials, the main charge was genocide.

Nevertheless, the charges did not affect the trial, as the verdict had been already decided before the Tribunal had been created; General Victor Stănculescu had brought with him a specially selected team of paratroopers from a crack regiment, handpicked earlier in the morning to act as a firing squad. Before the legal proceedings began, Stănculescu had already selected the spot where the execution would take place—along one side of the wall in the barracks' square.

Are we promising to "do" better than those chowkana Romanians and the medieval French?

But now look at this, that is, in South Africa on 10 May 1994 when Nelson Mandela becomes SA's first black president.

This was what BBC reported:

Addressing the crowd President Mandela paid tribute to outgoing president Mr FW de Klerk: "He has made for himself a niche in history.

Nelson Mandela made de Klerk a Deputy President in the ANC-led coalition government 

"He has turned out to be one of the greatest reformers, one of the greatest sons of South Africa."

He also spoke of the "human disaster" of apartheid.
"We saw our country tear itself apart in terrible conflict... The time for healing of wounds has come... Never, never again will this beautiful land experience the oppression of one by another."

And urging forgiveness he said in Africaans: "Wat is verby verby" - "What is past is past".

Not everyone is a Nelson Mandela who served 27 years in an Apartheid Regime controlled prison but came out with compassion for his adversaries, least of all, the current Malaysian leaders.