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Does the Malaysian Royalty deserve to get back their immunity?
First of all, let us define just who the royalty are before we continue to debate this course of action. The Agong and Sultans are definitely the royalty. So are the tengku(s) and the raja(s). So are their wives and children and every Ali, Ahmad and Mohamad remotely related to any of them. Through bloodlines and via marriages, they can all be considered as royalty. Adoptions as well. Now we come to the other part, immunity. Full immunity? Partial immunity? Conditional immunity? Full immunity is very simple to define. It means that the royalty is absolutely above the constitution and the law. The government cannot bring them to court and the royalty does not have to justify for any of their words and actions. There is no longer a grey area between legal and illegal – there is just basically an unbroken line separating those subjected to the law, and the royalty. Partial immunity? This means that an understanding between the royalty and the government must be spelt out on a piece of document stating specifically what the royalty is immune from and what is not. Something like the royalty is immune from civil cases but not criminal actions. Conditional immunity might stipulate that only the sultans are immune and not anyone else, and whether it is full or partial conditional immunity. When the people empower the government to grant full immunity to the royalty, there can be no turning back. No public outcry if those immunized does something unthinkable or deplorable. No government sanctions. No legal recourse. No public prosecution. No retribution. No nothing. It is akin to granting that person(s) the absolute right to do anything they want, however they want to go about doing it and whenever they want to do it. No reasons are required. No questions can be asked and no long arms of the law can touch them. Zero accountability. Zero ramifications. If the government does in fact grant the royalty conditional full immunity, we have nine sultans that qualify for it. Add in their wives and immediate family, we could be looking at a three-figure number. In Britain, only the Duke, the Queen, her children and their spouses, and her grandchildren are granted immunity from the law. That is less than 15 in all. In the US, nobody is above the law. Think about it. Hakim Joe
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Even now, there are TWO laws for all Malaysians. For the commoner and for the VIPs. No need to create the third group, ie ABOVE ALL LAWS.