COMMENT | Does Nazir Razak not get it?

“He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.”

- Ernest Hemingway (For whom the bell tolls)

COMMENT | Nazir Abdul Razak’s amnesty and then “shoot to kill” idea of dealing with corruption in this country would be a tenuous proposition even if the political system itself was not so corrupt.

The entire political system of this country is part of a complex ecosystem of private and public interests that seek not only political hegemony but also religious hegemony.

We are not dealing with corrupt individuals within a system but rather a system of corruption with a few honest men and women.

Corruption is not a recent phenomenon, but rather it is part of the DNA of the organism fueled by racial and religious imperatives and a compromised electoral system.

Umno/BN designed the system, so any attempt at...