"What do we do now?"

– Bill McKay (The Candidate)

COMMENT | There is this belief that the sight of the former (and convicted) prime minister Najib Abdul Razak in a prison jumpsuit or languishing in the slammer will ameliorate the ketuanan (supremacy) system, which is destroying this country.

Of course, Najib should be in jail but then again, so do many others whose reputations have been whitewashed because they were part of the campaign to save Malaysia. 

Najib strutting around is not a legal issue – although it does point to the inequalities of the system – but rather a political issue.

A veteran journalist who had been detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) by the Dr Mahathir Mohamad regime for daring to report on the corruption of the government of the day, snorts in derision of the political personalities – establishment and opposition – who are mortified that...