Of wind, whistled judges and whistleblowers

my good friend martin jalleh email me his article this afternoon, which of course i’ll be glad to put it here in my blog to share with you all. he wrote this immedaitely after learning of irene fernandez’s sentence.

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Of wind, whistled judges and whistleblowers

The winds of change which once whistled through the corridors of the judiciary have turned into a whimper.

Promises of a rejuvenated judiciary (which was once as clean as a whistle) are viewed by the general public as nothing but wind.

“Big changes are in the wind”, so the people were once told, but a judiciary so full of wind, has their experience been.

Justice is whistled off as a magistrate sends a brave whistleblower to prison for blowing the whistle on those in charge or involved in detention camps.

Was the judgment made at a whistle from the top?

After all, retired judges have revealed that some who sit in judgment are at times whistled up by their superiors.

Sadly, the public’s optimism of a fair, free and fearless judiciary in this country has just been whistled further away.

Clear as a whistle it is, that the road to judicial independence is far from a whistle away and the judiciary will continue to whistle the tune of the executive.

Alas, for some, judicial restoration in the country will be very much like pissing into the wind or blowing in the wind.

But for the brave and the hopeful, they will continue to speak courageously — even though it be a voice like a small whistle in the dark

** by Martin Jalleh **