Our friends & fellow Malaysians,
In less than 24 hours, on 9 January 2012 the Malaysian High Court at Jalan Duta will deliver its verdict on the Anwar Ibrahim sodomy trial. If the general public consensus is accurate, Anwar will most likely be ruled guilty and faces a lengthy jail time, effectively ending his political career.
It is pretty clear to everybody that the charge against him is politically motivated, and most well informed rakyat would agree that the charge is mala fide and faulty.
There are so many holes in the prosecution's case that in any other judicial system, the case would never have seen the light of a courtroom in the first place.
For example, the Prosecution's main witness, alleged victim, Saiful, has HIS own sperm found inside his posterior orifice. Instead of asking the prosecution to clarify this issue, the judge shockingly asked the defense (Anwar) to explain why this is so.
The trial has also seen other series of equally shocking "evidence" and "testimonial" such as Saiful not passing motion for 2 days "to preserve evidence", Saiful's private meeting with Najib before the case, and also how a 64 years old man with a chronic back problem managed to forcefully sodomise an unwilling healthy young man in his twenties.
In law, every man is innocent until proven guilty. That means the onus of finding out a person's crime is on the police and prosecution.
However, in Anwar's case, he was treated as guilty until proven innocent. That meant he had to, throughout the entire trial, prove his innocence. Malaysia boleh indeed.
Our dear friends,
You may or may not like Anwar Ibrahim. You may agree with his policies or views, or you may not. But that does not matter.
Come Monday, a huge wave of people is going to gather outside the Duta High Court at 8am to send the message to the Malaysian government that we WILL NOT tolerate this perversion of justice.
We are not there for Anwar, but for justice. If they can do this to one man and get away with it, they can do is to the rest of us in future.
For example, with this dangerous precedent, they can in future arrest you just because they do not like how you look. And you will be judged as guilty from day one until you can prove otherwise.
And this miscarriage of the justice system cannot be allowed to happen. The law is there to protect us as Rakyats, not to be used against us for whatever reasons the corridors of power deems.
With this I appeal to you, please come and join us in standing up for your own right as citizen. Let's show the Government they serve the rakyat, not the other way around.
Let us end by reusing an oft-quoted poem by Martin Niemöller
"First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me."
Thank you.
With hope,
Leon Lee & Andrew Voon
BN Must Go Administrators
Demi Rakyat
