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Henry Kissinger was not a proud Jew. “If it were not for the accident of my birth, I would be antisemitic,” Kissinger said in 1973, according to the authoritative 1992 biography by Walter Isaacson, citing Oval Office recordings. “Any people […] persecuted for two thousand years must be doing something wrong" he said.

The tamils like may other self perceived persecuted groups tend to borrow from the Zionistic traditions of claiming persecution instead f engagig in introspection to find the root of their problems.

The United for the Rights of Malaysians Party (abbrev: URIMAI; Malay: Parti Bersepakat Hak Rakyat Malaysia) is a Malaysian political party. It was founded by former Deputy Chief Minister of Penang Ramasamy Palanisamy after he left the Democratic Action Party (DAP). ( a Sino centric political party in Malaysia that caters almost exclusively to the needs and objectives of the Malaysian Chinese population to the exclusion of non Chinese- They say otherwise)

The party has yet to be registered by the country's Registrar of Societies.Pending legalisation, interim party chairman Ramsamy has referred to the party as "movement to defend the rights of the people, especially the non-Malays." (meaning Malaysia's Tamils)

Despite being Indian-focused (read Tamil focused), Ramasamy has asserted that it (Urimai) would be open to all ethnic groups,but has said he would not refer to it as "multi-racial like other political parties." (meaning it is going to be a Tamil version of the DAP of which he was a member before being unceremoniously dumped in true Chinese Xenophobic traditions).

The above and Ramasamy's writings clearly fly in the face of his anti Malay writings and slurs which proclaims the Malays are anti Indian and racist. In these writings he accuses the Malay dominated goverment of Malaysia (a country in which the indigenous people are ethnic Malays who constitute 71% of its population) as being racist practising a form of apartheid. Clearly ispite of his impressive academic orientation Ramasamy does not know the first thig about Apartheid or its policies.

The irony of it all is that Ramasamy and the Kit Siangs of this world fail to see how chauvanistic and race centric they themselves are (a by product of British imperialism). If they could only see the beam in their eyes instead of trying to pick the specs oout of the eyes of the Malays, they could, perhaps just, be able to relieve themselves of the burden of self infliced wounds on themselves and find a different more productive path to being inclusive and harmoniously conected to the main stream. There are benefits to such a approach.

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A pardon is the exercise of the Royal Prerogative and is not subject to an opportunity to water down the rights, powers and privileges of the monarchy.

The pardons board is not obliged and nor is it permitted to reveal the King's privileges and his prerogatives nor how it is exercised by him or his delegates (the board) in the exercise of those prvileges and prerogative.

As such no legal reasoning is required for supporting the exercise of a pardon. It is a very basic precept of law. Underlying that prerogative is the constitutional theory expressed in the legal maxim "the King can do no wrong".

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Public confidence has already been destroyed, that train has left the station. At this point the rakyat is stunned into disbelief that this matter continues to get worse with each new report. Claims to confidentiality are just comically pretentious. It's quite clear to anyone paying attention that someone is trying to pull a fast one on the public and that there clearly is something underhanded going on. The notion that Mr. Najib should ever get out of prison let alone be sentenced to house arrest is pure lunacy. This whole episode highlights how Malaysia is a country of men rather than laws where corruption and incompetence seem to be the only criteria needed to rise to power.

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If what you say has an ounce of truth to it, then Malaysian politicians learned it from Britain an the British people.

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So what? Do you have a point?

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Yes. I do have a point. Your ignorance and the arrogance of your ignorance.

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