Last night, the number of signatories to the petition stood at 1,251.
As at 7.30 pm tonight, the total number of signatories was 1,600.
People, this is your petition.
5,000 signatories is not impossible if we all make a real effort to help friends and relatives overcome an unfounded fear.
If each person who has signed on can get another 2 persons to sign the petition, we would have come within striking distance of the target of 5,000.
Please help to set right our judiciary.
Have you signed on to the petition to His Majesty the Yang DiPertuan Agung to ask for the establishment of a Royal Commission to look into and stop the rot in the judiciary and to return the judiciary back to the rakyat?
Have not read the petition?
To read the draft petition in English, please click HERE.
The actual petition, complete with the language of protocol, can be viewed HERE.
To sign up in support of this petition, please send your name and i.c. number to :
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If this country faced a serious military invasion from external forces, all able-bodied Malaysian men and women might be called upon to take up arms in defence of the realm.Â
Kiss the hubby / wife and children, say goodbye with a promise to see them soon.
Yet knowing full well that you may in fact never see them again.Â
We would have no choice.
The threat to our country today is not from external forces.
Insiduously, the sanctity of this nation is under threat from the very institutions you and I are entitled to expect will serve us faithfully
SERVE US, NOT THEMSELVES.
We are lumbered with an executive, so pompous and full of itself, arrogantly confident that we, the citizens, have not what it takes to unseat it from power no matter what wrong it does or how blatantly so.
A Parliament whose members have not the slightest inkling as to their role and functions, much less care. They have over the years, wittingly or otherwise, ravaged the Federal Constitution, at the behest of leaders who craved eternal rule.
Yet it is the systematic emasculation of the judiciary that has most left the citizenry open to state abuse and violation.
Democracy in this country is near dead.
And you think we have a choice whether to rise to the defence of our nation?
Have we not already for too long stood by and watched, our cowardice shrouded in any number of reasons why it was best to turn and look the other way?
Many have now asked :
‘Is RPK’s petition not enough?’
‘How effective will this petition be?’
I signed RPK’s petition.
It is an important appeal by the rakyat to His Majesty.
Yet, on the matter of the state of the judiciary, mention of the same is only made in paragraph 6 and that too, principally in respect of the matter of promotion of judges.
This is understandable as RPK launched his petition before the VK Lingam video made the news.
The petition that you are now being asked to sign addresses what is, to my mind, the most pressing issue that faces this country.
A judiciary in seeming shambles.
I ask you now, if you signed RPK’s, why will you not sign another?
How effective will this petition prove to be?
Truthfully, I cannot say.Â
What I will say, though, is that continuing to complain in pubs and coffeeshops and on the internet about the state of things and doing little else will leave the status quo intact.
1,600 of us have signed the petition to His Majesty appealing that the judiciary be restored to us, the rakyat.
If it comes to nought, 1,600 Malaysians will know that we tried.
We can look you in the eye and say, ‘Yes, we tried to defend our constitution, our country and our fellow Malaysians’.
Can you look us in the eye and say the same?
October 4, 2007 at 9:42 pm
The greatest threat to security and peace is not terrorism. It’s social injustice.
October 4, 2007 at 10:11 pm
[...] I will defend my constitution, my country and my fellow Malaysians. Will you? [...]
October 4, 2007 at 11:08 pm
I don’t understand why we could have about 2000 people at the March to Justice and yet find it so difficult to get people to sign a petition??! Come on people, lend your support to uphold righteousness and justice in this country. If the “leaders and powers that be” have lost their semblance of integrity, we must instead uphold ours! Sign up PLEASE!
October 5, 2007 at 1:17 am
I think we are in a “now or never” situation, so it has better be “NOW” or else all will be lost.
Please, please people – spread the word to sign the petition for the well being of our future generations.
Let’s hit the 5000 signatories target.
October 5, 2007 at 8:42 am
There are more than 10,000 members of the Malaysian Bar. If only have signed up, you would have hit the target already. Come on members of the Malaysian Bar. You made us proud last week. Don’t let us down now.
Yes, splim, there are 10,000++ members of the Bar. There are some 11,000,000 registered voters and ( I think ) internet subscribers. This blog has had an average of 3,000 hits a day over the last couple of days.
Fellow Malaysians, whether of the Bar or otherwise, please help to get this petition to His Majesty
October 5, 2007 at 9:29 am
[...] I will defend my constitution, my country and my fellow Malaysians. Will you? [...]
October 5, 2007 at 2:11 pm
i have signed without even a second though coz this is for the country’s future. if we lose the judiciary permanently, whats left of this country? whats left for our children? if we dont have that anymore, whats that to fear?
i await for you all to sign up. let me stress again that this is for your future, your children’ and grandchildren’s future.
October 5, 2007 at 2:54 pm
I am having trouble signing, its asking for HTML> POP nos, what are these? HelP!
Have sent you an explanatory e-mail.
Just send your name and ic number to savethejudiciary@gmail.com
October 5, 2007 at 4:07 pm
2000 people walked.
They know that their foto’s will be taken – big deal.
But to put down IC# & name, is different. Now we talking putting serious money on the table. We have all been conditioned to believe that our rights are a privilege which can be removed. So when it comes to walking the talk, it gets tougher.
Please wake up & smell the atmosphere. There aint roses out there. It’s more like “my gym socks”, but something’s not right. We are where Sri Lanka was 30 / 40 years ago. Whether we head to the same direction depends on each & everyone of u. Basically 2 peopl groups, one from Southern India, and the other from Eastern India (West Bengal). They both settled down on a beautiful island, and one of the people got the “Ketuanan” habit. They pushed, & pushed, until something broke. I m not a historian, but I recall in 83 innocent people including my uncle was killed by thugs who had electoral roles.
Now with the Mat Rempits being brought in as supporters by people who have shown that they are on the same wavelength as the Nazi’s of the past, whilst MIC & MCA have thugs in place, we are getting ripe. I raise my hat (if I had one that is) to Haris & his fellow troupe (per KJ’s definition). This is risky. Putting ones words, one’s picture, marching down a street, you could be forcemarched all the way to Kamunting or like in Burma these days into the nearest ditch for u to meet ur maker.
There is a mug waiting for me at the pub. Do I have time to stop by the Burmese embassy to inform them I dont like what they are doing? Is there time for me to tell KJ, is he getting ideas from the Generals of Burma in his supposedly anti-crackdown stance. How does one reconcile what happened in Trengganu the other day with this so called anti-Myanmarese stance of certain people in power.
But the people have to tell their elected officials (MP’s / Adun’s) that they are tired. Have you?
I have. I informed the Umno MP & MCA ADUN, and the Umno MP’s staff told me that the place I live in is now designated under a different electoral zone. I then gave him some friendly advice. The last time around, this was done so that the green-colored opposition party will not win Bangi. But if the so-called balancing voters who brought back BN’s MCA & Umno’s ADUN back into power, dont turn up, or spoil their votes, it will certainly go “green” again.
The issue we face now is that there might not be a swing to the opposition, BUT there could be an increase in the number of voters who dont turn up to vote.
SO JUST REGISTER TO VOTE, and send an email to Haris with ur IC# & name per IC. Make this a NIKE moment, JUST DO IT!
October 5, 2007 at 4:10 pm
I guess it is time for the Mug to warm up, whilst I hear the call of my country.
Can you guys hear it? The person in the mirror will be reminding you – its a “jampi” (pre-haloween gift) from me…
October 7, 2007 at 10:11 am
Everyone loves to complain but few bother to do something about it. I have big problems with the judiciary and have filed ACA reports as well as write to the AG , CJ and the Ministers and the extremely impotent PM. The secretary at the PM’S office told me that the only way to proceed was to either know the ‘ cara’ and/or convert to ISLAM, which he was happy to help me with. THIS IS THE MALAYSIA OF TODAY !! Thankfully my distribution of my documents and events has reached somebody’s legs and there are now people speaking out for me. Do the same. No one could imagine that even MARCOS and SUHARTO could be finished. Do your part. The inaction to so call protect your rice bowl will result in an empty ricebowl ..and if that is what you want, then god bless your families and the future.
October 7, 2007 at 10:22 am
My wife is a foreigner and the only thing she knows about being here for 23 yeras is that she has no I/C and our Indonesian part time maid years back , stepped off the sampan to collect her I/C at the beach! She would boast to my wife that she was a ‘ bumiputra’. My wife is a PR and the Depatment says they won’t issue a MyKad ( already processed and paid in 2005 ! )to her as her husband loves compalining to the PM and included them. Who cares if the husband has paid more than a million RM in income tax to pay for sampan bumiputras and castles in France for the Ministers. She asked me last night , ” In such a big country , can’t you find 5000 people to sign the petition? Should there not be 20 000 in 2 weeks ? I told her to just think of how much tax I’ve paid and how we lined up with the sampan people , squatting outside the Shah Alam Immigration office from 3.30 am to get our Q number to get the chop in her passport !!! The husband is a Captain and was expected to be a global diplomat and advertisement for Malaysia. Sign the petition , we start with the judiciary.
October 8, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Thank you to all for your effort. We must set things rihgt for the next generation.
October 24, 2007 at 9:57 pm
I hope you do get all the signatures you need and more.