Tony, Wong Chen: be sensible or take responsibility for your own actions
“Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” The court’s decision was inevitable. The addendum could never have stood in any court, as every addendum must still follow the proper process of Royal pardon. Sultan Ibrahim himself has affirmed that anyone may appeal again, but only by respecting the process. In this matter, you must bear responsibility for your own actions—especially when they are carried out so blatantly (and probably intentionally) to provoke UMNO. If your intention is to drag DAP into disrepute and create conditions for adversaries to topple yet another Prime Minister, as was once done to Tunku, then that burden rests with you alone. Do not, however, drag the Chinese community into another racial confrontation simply because of political rivalry. What happened in 1969 was a political clash between the winning and losing parties, never truly a racial riots. There are many testimonies of Malays protecting the Chinese and vic...