Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
Poor little rich man Najib’s medical melodramas By Andrew Sia
Friday, September 16, 2022
Malaysiakini : Of course, if he is genuinely unwell, then the former prime minister
should be given proper medical attention, like any other prisoner.
Let’s
not be cruel to those who are down, even if they are the most notorious
robbers the country has known. Indeed, we need Najib to be healthy
enough to be held accountable in court for many more corruption charges.
VIP treatment?
But does he deserve VIP treatment? In his second hospital visit after being jailed, Najib was seen by specialists at Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL).
In
contrast, for us normal citizens, we have to wait for hours at the
government outpatient clinic before we even get referred to see any
specialists.
Similarly, pakciks and makciks
(uncles and aunties) have to wait for ages to get a CT scan done. Even
those with broken bones have to sometimes wait days for their operations
and they have to endure the wait with painkillers.
Despite such red carpet service for Najib, his daughter Nooryana complained he was discharged while still ill. She also implied he was not being treated in a “humanitarian” manner.
Nooryana Najwa Najib
Meanwhile,
his lawyer Mohamed Shafee Abdullah created an expectation that Najib
would be sent to the plush semi-private National Heart Institute (IJN)
for treatment.
That seemed like an indirect insult to the specialists at HKL, as if
they could not handle a simple case of hypertension and stomach ulcers.
Or was Najib longing for more comfortable lodgings at IJN? Like someone with an overinflated sense of entitlement?
Najib
was deemed healthy enough to be sent back to jail by those specialists.
But it didn’t help that Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob intervened,
calling for Najib to get the “best treatment needed”.
I’m
sorry dear PM, are you saying the specialists who saw Najib were not
already giving “the best treatment”? That they didn’t really know what
they were doing?
Or are you just trying to do some damage control after you were attacked by Umno leaders for “allowing” Bossku to be jailed?
Kudos
to Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin for sticking to the rules. No,
prisoners are not entitled to private hospitals like IJN, they have to
be treated at government hospitals just like other inmates.
Stress? Cannot sleep?
Nooryana complained her father’s blood pressure shot up after his medicine “changed”. Khairy clarified, that no, he’s getting the same medicine, just that it’s a generic version.
This
is like saying that someone is given Uphamol or Actimax instead of
Panadol. All three brands contain the same key ingredient - paracetamol.
But no, generic drugs from the public health system are not good enough for Bossku, insisted his fussy lawyer Shafee.
Lawyer Mohamed Shafee Abdullah
Najib
is not suffering from a rare disease that requires overseas treatment.
Hypertension is a very common problem, in fact, 30 percent of Malaysians
suffer from this due to our unhealthy diets and lifestyles.
Friends
tell me their blood pressure shoots up to dangerously high levels when
they are stressed, when they don’t get enough sleep, or when they forget
to take their pills.
Najib has been used to seven-star luxury and perhaps finds jail too mentally stressful. Or is he so upset after two royalscautioned that a pardon cannot be simply given out? So upset that he forgot to take his pills?
There
have been various rumours that Bossku has been getting “extra
privileges” in jail. But the Kajang prison authorities denied this,
saying he has an ordinary cell with only a fan and cold showers.
Can we believe this? Or do we need a Najib-cam CCTV online channel so that the rakyat can monitor what he’s up to inside?
Poor
little rich man Najib, maybe he’s unable to sleep without air
conditioning set to 16 degrees Celcius. Has this caused his blood
pressure to spike? That may account for the heat rash too.
Tough luck, dear sir. As another columnist commented, “If you can't do the time, don't do the crime”.
One
wonders how others such as Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Kit Siang, and Mohamad
Khir Toyo survived in prison. Maybe they can give Najib some tips?
As
for his stomach ulcers, surely they must have been a long-term
condition, not something that has popped up only now. So Najib, as a
responsible adult, should very well know how to deal with them. Is he
taking his regular medication?
In addition, Nooryana should advise her father to avoid those fancy Starbucks drinks because coffee is known to aggravate such stomach ulcers.
Political parasites
Even
as a prisoner, Najib still insists on hogging the national limelight.
Does he and Umno not realise that our nation has many other serious
problems, mostly caused by the corrupt “cash is king” culture?
While
the sick have to wait for ages in public hospitals, we lack the money
to hire more doctors. Why? Because we are a rich country that has been
made poor by political parasites – such as Najib.
“We
are currently underfunded, understaffed, underpaid, overworked,
overstretched, and with overcrowded patients,” Health Ministry
director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah lamented in 2019.
Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin
Khairy also admitted there is “chronic under-investment” in the public healthcare system. The same system that Najib’s daughter and lawyer are complaining about now.
If
the best way to improve public transport is to make it compulsory for
ministers to take buses and LRT/MRT, then the best way to improve our
public health system may be to ensure VIP prisoners also have to wait in
line for hours – just as the ordinary public does.
So don’t be fooled by Najib’s antics. Stop the feudal mentality of pitying elites when they merajuk (throw tantrums) about not getting their usual luxury service.
It’s
time we all wake up and realise what corrupt leaders have done to all
of us by sucking the system dry. This is the real lesson of Najib’s
medical melodramas.
