SECRET GARDEN 秘密花园: Visiting Dr. Sun Yet Sen's home town

I was excited to visit the great man's home town

Walk about in the village

Photographed with a great reformist doctor

Dr. Sun Yet Sen's bath tub circa 1900 AD

Village fire engine of Dr. Sun Yet Sen circa 1900 AD

Alistair Hulett's version

The Internationale

Arise ye workers from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We'll change henceforth the old tradition
And spurn the dust to win the prize.

So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.

So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.

No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we'll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They'll break ranks and fight no more

And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We'll shoot the generals on our own side.

No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver
Chains of hatred, greed and fear
E'er the thieves will out with their booty
And give to all a happier lot.
Each at the forge must do their duty
And we'll strike while the iron is hot.

Pome de Eugene Pottier (Paris 1871)
Musique de Pierre Degeyter (1888)

Debout les damnés de la terre
Debout les forçats de la faim
La raison tonne en son cratère
C'est l'éruption de la fin
Du passe faisons table rase
Foules, esclaves, debout, debout
Le monde va changer de base
Nous ne sommes rien, soyons tout

C'est la lutte finale
Groupons-nous, et demain (bis)
L'Internationale
Sera le genre humain

Il n'est pas de sauveurs suprêmes
Ni Dieu, ni César, ni tribun
Producteurs, sauvons-nous nous-mêmes
Décrétons le salut commun
Pour que le voleur rende gorge
Pour tirer l'esprit du cachot
Soufflons nous-mêmes notre forge
Battons le fer quand il est chaud.

L'état comprime et la loi triche
L'impôt saigne le malheureux
Nul devoir ne s'impose au riche
Le droit du pauvre est un mot creux
C'est assez, languir en tutelle
L'égalité veut d'autres lois
Pas de droits sans devoirs dit-elle
Egaux, pas de devoirs sans droits.

Hideux dans leur apothéose
Les rois de la mine et du rail
Ont-ils jamais fait autre chose
Que dévaliser le travail
Dans les coffres-forts de la bande
Ce qu'il a crée s'est fondu
En décrétant qu'on le lui rende
Le peuple ne veut que son dû.

Les rois nous saoulaient de fumées
Paix entre nous, guerre aux tyrans
Appliquons la grève aux armées
Crosse en l'air, et rompons les rangs
S'ils s'obstinent, ces cannibales
A faire de nous des héros
Ils sauront bientôt que nos balles
Sont pour nos propres généraux.

Ouvriers, paysans, nous sommes
Le grand parti des travailleurs
La terre n'appartient qu'aux hommes
L'oisif ira loger ailleurs
Combien, de nos chairs se repaissent
Mais si les corbeaux, les vautours
Un de ces matins disparaissent
Le soleil brillera toujours.

OPINION: Brave lawyers acted

Contributed by Charles Hector Tuesday, 02 May 2006, 21:54 On 16 April 2000, a lawyer was forcibly pushed away from his client, angrily shouted at by police officers at the Petaling Jaya Police District Headquarters and then told he was going to be charged with obstruction of public servant in the course of his duties. He was there to protect his client in the execution of his duty. Instead he was thoroughly intimidated, pushed around and accused of a criminal offence and arrested.On 18 April 2000, a group of about 15 young lawyers were there at the Ibu Pejabat Daerah Petaling Jaya to hand over a memorandum of protest, which was signed by 107 lawyers, to the Officer in Charge of the Police District (OCPD) of Petaling Jaya. That action was initiated by then young lawyers, N. Surendran and Charles Hector, who collected signatures from lawyers that Tuesday morning at the courts in Jalan Raja and Wisma Denmark and the memorandum of protest was handed over that very afternoon.Then only did the Bar Council respond by sending a delegation to meet up with the Deputy Inspector General of Police on Thursday 20 April 2000, and thereafter, a press statement entitled “Arrest of lawyer in P.J. Police Station” was issued on the same day by the then President, Haji Sulaiman Abdullah. All this happened 6 years ago, coincidently also in mid-April and at the same Petaling Jaya Police District Headquarters and the lawyer concerned then was Cheah Kah Peng.

SECRET GARDEN 秘密花园

JUSTICE AND PASSIONS 正义与激情

Visiting Dr. Sun Yet Sen's home town

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Oxford"s very own International Human Rights Fire Brigade

Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains - Jean Jacques Rousseau

Alistair Hulett's version

Remembering a fallen comrade

Nurses having fun with me again

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Me Stopping Police Abusing Client

OPINION: Brave lawyers acted

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