Some lawyers and their boorish ways

Some lawyers and their boorish ways

This picture is that of a pot belly pig.

I know, I know, very offensive for the Muslims. No offence intended, really.

Just that I was surfing several websites just now and came across the picture. It immediately reminds me of a lawyer.

Never mind lah who that lawyer is....just that it look very much like her lah, at least to me la...well never mind....just me and my crazy thoughts.

Anyway, I am just curious, who do you think may look like that pig anyway? Look at the face carefully....

Ok, on to a more serious matter. Today a group of lawyers and their supporters marched to the Parliament house to protest against the Peaceful Assembly Bill 2011. Hmmmm....defenders of justice indeed.

One of them, a young Malay lawyer....(read his name somewhere just now, but can't remember....and too lazy to double check)....told the crowd that the protest got nothing to do with politics (I chuckled when I read that). He said they had drafted an alternative bill which took them just three days to complete....(hmmm, I think I can draft a bill of law as according to my whims and fancies in less than a day la).

They then marched (or rather stroll) from the nearby taman to the gate of Parliament and make some noise there. One of the leaders of the crowd was that lawyer whom I think looks like that pot belly pig. The pro-Pakatan Malaysiakini said there are more than 1,000 of them while the so-called pro-BN NST in its sms alert put their number at about 300.

All that while, the Bill was being debated in the Parliament. Several Pakatan MPs came out to fetch five people each allowed from the crowd to enter the compound.

Another group of people, identified as Malay NGOs members were also there in another crowd. They were taunting the lawyers by chanting "No free sex !" in obvious reference to the Bar Council's support for the cancelled free sex carnival which was supposed to be held earlier this month. No BN MP came out to fetch anyone from this crowd to enter the Parliament compound.

As I read through the report of this incident, my mind went back to those days when I was attending constitutional law lectures. I really hate the subject, by the way. Reading the thick books of fancy words always made me want to go to sleep.

Anyway, it teaches me about the concept of seperation of powers between the executive, legislature and judiciary. Legislature is the one which is our parliament la. And its duty is to make the law. Judiciary (the courts) is to inteperate the law while the executive (the gomen of the day) is to execute the law. Something like that la in layman terms. (Layman is ordinary man who is not an expert la, in case you don't know).

Sorry ya. My language is very layman. I had quit long time ago trying to impress people with high class words which I was thought at my law school. I find that using such words made me sound like a stuck-up asshole. Many lawyers whom I know however think that it made them sound intellectual. Well, everyone have their own fancies, ya.

But I do remember those basic principles of constitutional law which are the foundation of any democratic country. In this case - laws are to be made by parliament who is elected by the people. Not by some smart ass lawyers who enjoy marching and shouting in the sweltering heat of our equatorial sun in fancy suits.

Wonder how these lawyers had passed their constitutional law examination papers....basic stuff like that also cannot remember ka??? Or you all think just because you wear fancy suit makes people think you are so smart ka? That you can make the laws? Sheeesssshhhh, I call you boorish pigs you sure get angry pulak.

Never mind...the Peaceful Assembly Bill was passed anyway by the Parliament today. Cheers.

The childish legal suit threat gambit

The childish legal suit threat gambit

The most stupid thing any self-respecting gangster would ever do before he go and whack someone is to call that someone and warned him that he is coming to whack him.

Of course the warned intended victim will either get himself ready to fight back or would have run off, isn't it?

The truth is, people only issued threats either because they want to bluff others into fearing them, or that it is the only thing they can afford to do when cornered by their enemy.

Well, this bit of wisdom is not actually the product of my original thinking or something I read in Sun Tze books. This is what I got from repetitive watching of the Godfather movies. Only low-class street punks would try to scare others with threats so that they may look tough. A real mafiosi would quietly go about killing their enemies without much fuss.


Of late, I noticed that there is a trend among the Pakatan leaders and their allies - that is to threaten people with potential legal suit. Honestly I find this new habit of theirs very irritating and so childish.

"You better stop saying that or you will be hearing from my lawyers," said a Pakatan leader. Uh Uh...like we are so scared of lawyers lah. If you want to sue me, then just sue me lah. No need to threaten threaten one. It just makes you sound like a spoilt brat in the schoolyard..."You better stop saying that or you will be hearing from my mummy...." Jeeezzzz.....

Talking about spoilt brat, remember when Guan Eng threatened to sue Bernama, TV3 and what nots over his Johor slur....well, I am still waiting la Guan Eng. Actually, you were caught over that issue isn't it Guan Eng? For lack of words to say to show you are defiant, you go about threatening legal suit isn't it? Hopefully people will say - "Wah! Guan Eng so macho, so handsome...he is fighting back liao...just threatened to sue the evil Umno people...he is so blave one...he is my herrro...."  Aiya, I know your trick lar.

See, I saw the same trick being put up by Ambiga yesterday. "I dare you! Otherwise you will be hearing from my lawyers!" she exclaimed over the Sexuality Merdeka issue. What la Ambiga, you are a lady and when a lady threaten people like that, it makes her look like an ugly witch. Ladies, when you try to show you are garang or macho, it actually makes you look a bit more fat and ugly. Really....so, be cool and composed and dignified while in front of TV camera.

Show a bit of class la Ambiga. If TV3 really twisted your words, then just sue them la. Maybe you can win and the money can be donated to the gays and lesbians fund.

The truth is, Ambiga over estimated herself. The Bersih 2.0 thing really got in her head, causing it to swell and become so big. She thought she can get away with anything. She got the backing of the mighty Pakatan what. So, she pulled this free sex stunt la. Unfortunately it blew in her face and causing untold damage, especially to Pas, which was forced by it to show their true Taliban's card.

So, what else can she do in front of the TV cameras yesterday? Well, she needed to continue to be defiant, otherwise she'll lose whatever credibility that she had left. That was why she put up that garang act of a lawyer who appeared to know everything. Same like Guan Eng, she was hoping for the same effect, at least among the Pakatan supporters "UH UH UH...die la those evil TV3 people...Ambiga had threaten to sue them...wah, this Ambiga is a real heroine ... don't fool around with her lar ... she is a lawyer you know ...."

Ya rite...sheeshhhh...

PS . Eh Ambiga, please do me a bit of a favour...please tell your friend Irene Fernandes of Tenaganita to at least comb her hair next time she got on TV...she really looked like an expired Chow Kit lady of the night la yesterday...please arr...   

One big fat snake get caught la

One big fat snake get caught la

The legal profession is supposed to be an honourable profession.

At least, that was what I was thought many years ago.

Lawyers are supposed to be honourable people who adhere strictly to ethics.

They are supposed to use their cleaverness to uphold justice and defend the innocents.

Those ideals were what made me wanted to be a lawyer back then. It all sounds so profound.

Ok, of course on the bullshit side, there was the promise of money and glamour too.

The reality of being a lawyer in this country, however, is a wee bit different as I found out later..

The way I see it now, the more eloquent lawyers go to the courts while the cleverer ones, after failing to make it in litigation, become highly paid clerks, processing S&P agreements and what nots.

Yes, some are really good lawyers and honourable individuals who are God's gifts to society.

But a lot more are just scum bags, living out of the misery of others while pretending to be God's gifts to society.

Among these are those who for kicks and honourability, posed themselves as some saints, while peddling poisonous words laced with sweet promises. Some were actually more direct - they go around killing and stealing from people before burning their bodies in some oil palm estate.

Well, that actually brought me to my source of amusement today,

I just can't help but laugh when I read the statement by Ambiga about her not being an organiser of the Sexuality Merdeka thingy.

Ya la Ambiga, you are not the organiser, but you and your Bar Council buddies endorse the whole bloody thing.

And your insistence that you were planning to launch the event in your "personal" capacity was really funny la.

Why play with words like that? What? You are trying to impress us and wriggle out of the whole free sex thing with your cleaverishness, or is it lawyerishness?

Ya, I am inventing words here. So what? Everyone can invent new words and phrases. Words are cheap la Ambiga.

You can sell them sometimes, but you can't get the buyers all the time.

Now, why the hell you want to water down your affiliation with the festival? Is it because only now that you realise your endorsement of the festival is not winning brownie points for your Pakatan allies? That it is damaging to their political interests?

Why don't you and your Bar Council buddies hold a massive rally ala Bersih 2.0 to protest the police's ban against the whole thing? Get the Pakatan people to back your crusade for the rights of the homosexuals, bisexuals and other sexuals. The Pas' Unit Amal can make sure everything under control what.

Ok lah, ok lah....guess I am asking too much. Why don't you all crooked lawyers just get Anwar, Hadi and Kit Siang to officially condemn the ban. A joint declaration by the Pakatan leaders against the evil police who are minions of BN for their suppressive and wicked action against a segment of society who are peaceful and loving and horny for each others.

Sheeshh,,,,what a sham la all these.