Don't be too eager Karen Cheah

Don't be too eager Karen Cheah

Malaysian Bar president Karen Cheah is currently in a bit of an embarrassing mess, all brought upon her by herownself, yes, in her over-eagerness to 'protest' against the pardon or 'partial' pardon of Najib Razak, she stumbled forward in a disastrous way.

In FMT's Bar chief should go back to law school, says Najib’s lawyer which I had just published, Najib's lawyer Shafee Abdullah laid on the reprimand rather thickly against the Bar President, whilst in (also) FMT's Mercy must not rob justice, Karen?, FMT-reader Ibrahim Ahmad (in his letter to FMT) gave the works to her in an equally disparaging manner, even tracing Karen's quotation "..... that mercy must not rob justice” to the Book of Mormons, wakakaka (not that I believe Karen did actually quote from that religious tome - must be just a coincidence, okay? Wakakaka).

In fact, if Karen had bothered to read the Vibes' 
I beg your pardon – Rajan Navaratnam about a month back, she would have saved herself all her current embarrassment cum shame, because Senior Counsel Ravaratnam had stated quite succinctly:

... It would be more justifiable to say that the law can grant the power of pardon to a person as it is the law, to begin with, that had the power to punish. Elementally, clemency only begins when the law ends. In this regard the process to seek a pardon only begins when a person has exhausted all his legal remedies with a court of law.

and

... it is not the law that pardons but instead the law grants the right of pardon.

 

Even though the Federal Constitution requires the Pardons Board to render its advice to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, nevertheless His Majesty is not bound to act on the advice rendered and instead has the absolute discretion whether to grant pardons, reprieves and respites in respect of all or any offences as the royal prerogative of mercy is personal and exclusive to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, which is similar to a presidential pardon in the United States.

Additionally, Article 42 of the constitution does not in any way curtail the powers of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong as the power to grant a pardon are boundless, extensive and at the absolute discretion of His Majesty. In this respect a pardon granted is not exhaustive and cannot be curtailed by law.

Why O why Karen did you go fkcsh yourself so embarrassingly?

I know, I know, just like hundreds of thousands of other Malaysians, too eager to question the royal pardon which in the first place cannot be and should NOT be questioned, no matter how much one might dislike Bossku.

As Commander (rtd) S Thayparan wrote in his last column, many Malaysians howled, railed, ranted against the pardon for Najib yet at the same time ignore the reality of sheer sh*t and dirt around. 

What fkcsh-ing hypocrites, wakakaka!