Poor Karpal over-doing his best for the people

I am a concern citizen about all the local political news that has been going on in my country. I have reached a point of feeling disgusted and ventured to move to global news that is more interesting especially with what Obama is doing in the U.S. Atleast it is more satisfying and does make sense.

Big hoo-ha on what Karpal Singh said that a Sultan can be taken to court has become sensational news. A lot of people not happy at him for saying such things and now they are sending death threats to him and threating to harm his family. WTF!

Poor old man. At his age, he is still so active in the political arena. He started out as a young lawyer who grew into politics and being on the opposition side. The opposition party, DAP, has been struggling to take over the country in Malaysia since independence over the rulling party. The 2008 general elections finally showed fruits of their labour when they won in a few states.

Karpal's comments about the Sultan came about when the Perak state government under PKR(opposition) had to be desolved by the Sultan when the state exco members resigned. It gave BN the majority of seats in the state and BN was back in power without any state election taking place. Does this sound democratic?

So I guess people were not too happy about the dissolvement. Some tempted to challenge that decision and came out with possible solutions on how they are going to fix this issue. Karpal Singh is one of those some who challenged.

This has left me curious on who is right and who is wrong.

According to the 1957 Constitution of the Federation of Malaya with all the ammendments done throughout the years(taken from Wikipedia) , Article 181 states:

Article 181 guarantees the sovereignty, rights, powers and jurisdictions of each Malay Ruler within their respective states. They also cannot be charged in a court of law in their official capacities as a Ruler.

The Malay Rulers can be charged on any personal wrongdoing, outside of their role and duties as a Ruler. However, the charges cannot be carried out in a normal court of law, but in a Special Tribunal under the purview of the Council of Rulers.

I do not have much knowledge or experience with the law but from what I have learnt using my common-sense is that it is possible to take the Sultan to court under special conditions.

Come to think of it, would Karpal Singh even want to say something which is baseless considering the reputation he has as a prominent lawyer in Malaysia? We Malaysians aren't stupid and we can do our own investigation with the help of Google to validate his claims. Haha!

Also, could all the protest aimed at Karpal reflect the shallowness or lack of knowledge of us citizens on the constitution of our country?

Anything is possible. By using our common-sense and openning our closed minds, we should try and think about all this possibilities. We keep worshipping and thanking God for all his creations. Some of us dress up like prophets during the dawning of religion and camel handlers to show how religious we are to the outside world. But are we using God's creations to our fullest potential?

Jeez... I really do not know how I get this ideas and thoughts sometimes! Lol!