Perak’s Black Thursday

Today is a sad day to be a Malaysian. As a journalism student who is supposed to be good in writing, I find myself in an awkward position: I am lost for words. Maybe that’s why I am still a student.

My expansive vocabulary is of no use. Even a thesaurus is no help. All attempts to describe how I feel about what transpired in Perak came up short.

Sadness

Disgrace

Despair

Understatements, all of it.

The executive is unchecked. The judiciary is delusioned. The legislative is emasculated and more recently, subjugated. The constitution has been tampered and trampled.

The three estates (four, if you include the media) are now one. Who are our guardians now? And who watches the watcher?

But as Adam Kokesh would say:

“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.”

The fight to revive democracy shall continue. And let today’s event be forever be whispered and be remembered, the horrors of absolute power.

 

Disclaimer:
The above is not a call to arms. There are other, often better, ways to resist BN’s tyranny.