RIFLE RANGE BOY

This Tiger sleeps tonight! I would not do justice to this great man if I do not pen a word or two about him. He actually lived around my neighbourhood in Penang and been the punching bag of the people in power even at the time before I started reading newspapers. I used to wonder what keeps people like him and his like minded to go and on like an Energizer bunny fighting and fighting unwinnable wars for something I could not grasp at that time of life. To me then, justice and liberty was either black or white, good or black. Your actions are either good or bad, no two ways about it. It was much later that I realised that everything has two side of the coin. Somebody who is fighting back is not being disobedient but just asking for what is due to him. And the people in power are not always right. Like that Karpal Singh (1940-2014) has been fighting all his life, for the oppressed, the downtrodden, the condemned and the hopeless whose life, given by God, was numbered by Man. Stan...

MALAYSIAN BIBLE: THE JOURNEY OF THE AL   KITAB BERITA BAIK UPDATES, RECOLLECTIONS & REFLECTIONS  BY LEE MIN CHOON IN MEMORY: KARPAL SINGH, TRUE HUMANITARIAN This has nothing to do with the Malay Bible. But I can’t help but feel a sense of loss with the passing of colleague at the Bar and friend, Karpal Singh. So, here’s how I remember him. It must have been around 1985 when I was helping a convict on death row who had become a Christian while in prison. Liew Weng Seng was sentenced to death under the Internal Security Act for possession of a firearm. At the Federal Court, Liew was unrepresented and proceeded to tell the court that he was guilty and did not wish to appeal his death sentence. When court was adjourned, his family tried to pass him a bible but was prevented from doing so by the prison warders. A commotion ensued and made the news the next day. When I read the report, I thought, “Hey, this guy is a Christian and he had just told the court to go ahead to...