My Constitution Campaign
Edmund Bon and T. Shan (Perak Bar Committee Chairman)
Realising the need to educate the rakyat on the significance of the Malaysian Constitution, the Malaysian Bar Council, launched the My Constitution Campaign on November 13, 2009, at the council premises in Kuala Lumpur. This came in the wake of several controversial issues involving the Judiciary, the Legislative and the Executive. Issues such as Islamic versus Secular states, Article 153, Rights of Citizenship and the Perak Constitutional crisis of February 2009, had necessitated the Council to go back to basics – understanding the Constitution.
The Chairman of the Constitutional Law Committee of the Bar Council, Edmund Bon, will visit every state in the country, including Sabah and Sarawak, to keep the momentum going. The campaign will continue till September 2011. “We’ll conduct workshops and seminars in universities and colleges with the assistance of the state bar committees”, said Edmund to the media. Booklets on the Malaysian Constitution have been printed. Some 100,000 copies are available for distribution. They are in Bahasa Malaysia and English. The booklets are small and can easily fit into shirt pockets. “Funding is our major problem. But we’ll find ways to overcome it.”
Perak is the first stop for Edmund and his team. The state-level campaign was held at the Royal Ipoh Club on Friday, February 5, 2010. Over a hundred participants attended the campaign cum forum. Former appeal court judge, Dato’ N.H. Chan, delivered the keynote address. Chan dwelt on the subject of the Independence of Judges. “Bad judges,” said Chan, “think that independence means that they can do whatever they please so long as they side with the government in power.” He ended his speech with this ominous message – a likely prophecy to the many wrongs committed by bad judges. “I shall write their obituary when they die, just as I wrote the obituary of the late Augustine Paul. And if they outlive me I am sure there will be others who will take my place.”
A lively discussion ensued with the panel fielding questions from the floor. The subject “Separation of Powers: A Constitutional Reality or a Political Myth” was most appropriate in the light of events that had befallen Perak in recent times.
FZB
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Is there an online copy of MY Constitution to download?
firstly,before the malaysian bar council launched the my consititution campaign,they should
1.”correct your members first!”
2.”practise what you preach”.
3.”uphold your integrity,moral values and stop being a drunkard!”
4.”stop patronising the pubs,hookers joint,massage parlours,gambling den and worst,accepting bribes”.
5.”stop being a hypocrite!”.
secondly,before the malaysian bar council launched the my constitution campaign,they should
1.”free themself from the clutches of any political party.”
2.”free themself from the cluthces of any ngo.”
3.”free themself from pride,prejudice and ego”.
thirdly,before the malaysian bar council launched the my constitution campaign,they should
1.”be a human being again”.
2.”be responsible again”.
3.”be humble again”.
the teenagers,which is your main target,would again respect,uphold and honour the constitution.
otherwise,the teenagers would regard the malaysian bar council campaign as another fools rhetoric.the blind leading the blind.
the teenagers have ears,eyes and brains.
they hear the truth.
they saw the truth.
they know the truth.
that the malaysian bar council are just another puppet,drunkard,womanising,corrupt gentlement.oops!i mean,rascal.
we saw you at the bar,high class prostitute den,call girls appointment,accepting bribes,oh!my goodness!what has become of the malaysian bar council?
too late.they had just launched the my constitution campaign.
I call upon NH Chan to a public debate. He seems to think he is the ultimate judge of his time. Until this debate. Pls dont upset your audience. Accept it.
Justice Chan your concluding words are most prophetic. I’d love to read the obituaries you’ll pen for all those Umno-loving-no-balls judges. And that includes the present crop of arbiters on the Court of Appeal bench.