TUN ABDUL HAMID MOHAMAD
Former Chief Justice of Malaysia
RESPONSE TO ALL MY CRITICS
RESPONSE TO ALL MY CRITICS
By
Tun Abdul Hamid Mohamad
For the information of the author of the article of 16 January 2019, in spite of his efforts to get me arrested for insulting the 15th YDPA, one week after his article was published, I received a call from the office of Penyimpan Mohor Besar Raja-Raja asking for confirmation of my current residential address for them to send me an invitation to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the 16th YDPA! Surprised? Disappointed? Anyway, I told the officer that, unfortunately, I would not be able to attend due to my health condition.
On 23 January 2019, Malaysiakini published another 10 selected comments under “Yoursay: Inexcusable for ex-CJ to make an error of facts”. Note that my critics had lost in 2014, and now again, in 2018, to a bedridden man. Do you think they can forgive me? So, even an apology must be spun to the utmost in the desperate quest to undermine my integrity.
I am quoting them in full (except for their names, not their real names after all) for the readers to read and decide for themselves whether they agree with the critics. I have explained why I wrote it the way I did and why I apologized. I will say no more on it.
Now, the following are what they said, after I apologised:
A: “Quite honestly, the fact that Abdul Hamid Mohamad was the chief justice (CJ) of Malaysia is shocking, appalling, dreadful and totally inexcusable.
Decades of Malay supremacy (ketuanan) and racial and religious bigotry has created a situation where a man who in his infinite wisdom ruled that “Muslims don’t lie” and who under normal circumstances could not even have qualified to be a magistrate became the top judicial officer of Malaysia.
Do we need any more reasons to what ails our beloved nation?”
B: “It is laudable that this man has admitted his mistake (for claiming that Dr Mahathir Mohamad had gone to the Istana Negara uninvited on May 9 in an attempt to be sworn in as prime minister) and apologised for it.
However, there are still many things he wrote about previously for which he should apologise. Indeed, he is a great disappointment for a person who was a former chief justice of the country.”
C: “Before commenters “laud” this ex-chief justice, they should remember the context of his apology.
1. The ex-CJ apologised simply because it involved Mahathir. Do you think he will apologise if this is defamation regarding (say) Lim Kit Siang or the DAP or even any non-Malay?
2. The ex-CJ is a bigoted Malay elevated to the highest office of CJ simply because of his bigoted views.
Recently he has “warned” the National Unity Convention that Malays will become “Red Indians” in their own land.
Back when he was on the bench as a judge, he famously wrote a judgment which says that a testimony by a Malay is admissible simply because he is a Muslim (ostensibly Muslim do not lie) but the testimony of an Indian was rejected (ostensibly a non-Muslim cannot be trusted).
This is the measure of Abdul Hamid, an Islamo-fascist and race bigot.”
D: “Hamid, this is a good start – that you are able to apologise for not speaking the truth.
Let me remind you that there are many other things you have spoken about other communities that are not truthful. You have to apologise to them too.”
E: “I’d like to ask this honourable ex-chief judge of how many times on purpose as he made such mistakes.
This most certainly could not have been a mistake, it was not even an allegation he stated it as a fact, and therefore it was a deliberate lie coming from a former chief justice.
I’d like to ask him, I’ll refrain from making any allegation, but was he paid to tell that brazen lie? And I’d also like to remind him that telling one lie to cover another is surely not the way to go.”
F: “Shame to you, Hamid. As a former chief justice, you are supposed to be an expert in collecting facts and make a decision based on facts and law.
You are supposed to be also impartial and not to be influenced by other matters like whether you drank coffee or tea when you make a decision.
Now we know how naive and low you are. My advice to you is to stay happily retired and go hide under your “tempurung” (coconut shell).”
G: “Hamid is a self-anointed ‘jaguh Melayu’ (Malay champion), not ‘jaguh’ Malaysians, (and a skewed, weak one at that). See the difference?
His methods and his thoughts both failed his own people he purported to represent and his nation he supposedly pledged his loyalty to.
It is he who helps smear the reputation of the judiciary and the nation, and may we learn from all these shenanigans and extend our worldview beyond our coconut shells of race and religion as he does.
We, as a nation, made a mistake in having him as our CJ; and yes, we deserve better but for now accept this as a charade in our nation’s history and move on.”
H: “Can anyone disgrace and dishonour oneself more than this man has?
Yes, there are a few politicians out there awaiting free food and lodging. But then as expected, politicians somehow have it in their genes to disgrace themselves in words and conduct and end up in the sewers.
This man, however, was the CJ of this country at one time. He headed the institution that people were expected to resort to for justice to prevail. How on earth did he get elevated thus; if not for being what he has proven to be while on the bench and more so now?
It is because this was and still is a man who could easily, fervently, knowingly and racially be beholden to the rats who made him the CJ.
And that puts us all to shame, for having permitted scums to rise well above the minimum moral values expected of any ordinary man in the street.”
I: “Hamid, I wonder how many cases you made in the past were decided based on error of facts.
You were an ex-chief justice. You were supposedly trained to weigh your facts and decisions carefully with utmost duty of care. It is impossible to believe that you could have made such an error.
The swearing-in event happened eight months ago. Surely, you had plenty of time to gather your facts.
Indeed, the public should doubt Hamid’s competency as chief justice. Perhaps the Bar Council should review all his past cases to determine if they likewise contained error of facts.
This is absolutely a very shameful act from an ex-chief justice.”
Anything new? Whatever my critics say about me, show me one word similar to those used by them against me, which I use against anyone.
Looking back, all these happened in the last four years. During that period, in 2014, I was still able to stand and walk a few meters. But starting from 2015, I was unable to stand anymore and I spent most of my time on my back.
It is during that period, that I started writing and speaking on political issues in defence of the social contract and the provisions of the Constitution; in defence of the rights of the Malays and the natives of Sabah and Sarawak as well as the position of Islam, as enshrined in the Constitution against the growing challenge by non-Malay and non-Muslim groups wanting a redistribution of the rights of the Malays and natives of Sabah and Sarawak, while keeping theirs. That is my position and, for that, I apologise to none.
During that period, I also wrote many articles on other legal and constitutional issues as well as on other issues, for which the critics were silent.
But, for the former, and also for touching their icon Tommy Thomas, I earned the criticism, scorn, insult, vilification and condemnation of my critics. The critics followed me, looking for what I wrote or said, that they could spin and publish. The media would invite its subscribers to comment on (read criticize, condemn). Considering the number of criticisms against me, I am not surprised that I had become their enemy No.1. Hence, I must be followed, watched, discredited and silenced.
On the other hand, during the period, though lying on my back and in pain most of the time, merely through writing and, occasionally, speaking, I played an important part in influencing the Malay-Muslim community to influence two prime ministers, one from BN and the other from PH government, both bitter enemies, the latter from the coalition of parties supported by my critics, to change their mind over two national issues (repeal of Sedition Act and ratification of ICERD), to my critics’ frustration. (That is not taking into account other issues like the signature campaign to make the Rukun Negra a preamble to the Constitution to which I objected and died a premature death and my call for UMNO and PAS to work together for the sake of Malay/Muslim unity, which seems to be happening.)
Don’t I have a reason to smile? Do they?
25 02 2019
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