"FORGIVE AND FORGET" OR "GET 'EM AND F**K THEM'? TO BE OR NOT TO BE? IS IT NOBLER TO SUFFER THE SLINGS AND ARROWS OF OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE OR TO TAKE ARMS AGAINSTA SEA OF FORTUNE AND BY OPPOSING, END THEM?" THAT'S SHAKESPEARE'S IMMORTAL QUOTE BUT NOW THE PRESSING QUESTION, LET THE CULPRITS GO SCOT-FREE OR FACE THE COURT OF JUSTICE?

KEE@FSWMAG.COM

MY LATE SAINTED FATHER WHO ASCENDED THE DRAGON (DIEDED IN SIMPLE ENGLAND) IN 2016 ALWAYS SAID IT IS BETTER TO FORGIVE AND FORGET. "BO YAU KIN, MAI CHAP LANG" WHICH IS "NEVER MIND, DON'T BOTHER ABOUT THEM", HE USED TO SAY.

BUT OF COURSE THIS IS THE HOLISTIC, ALTRUISTIC WAY TO LOOKING AT THINGS. BEING MAGNANIMOUS IS ALWAYS GOOD AND I AM MORE MAGNANIMOUS THAN MOST HUMANS (BUT THEN I AM NOT HUMAN BUT OF IMMORTAL STOCK) BUT THIS METHOD SEEMS LIKE SIMPLY FORGIVING THE SINNERS AND ALLOWING THEM TO ENJOY THEIR-ILL-GOTTEN GAINS.

THIS IS LIKE LETTING A THIEF GO SCOT-FREE AFTER STEALING RM 2.6 BILLION AND ALLOWING HIM AND WIFEY TO ENJOY THE FRUITS OF THEIR CRIMES. SHALL WE ALLOW HER TO GO SHOPPING IN LONDON, PARIS AND NEW YORK AND PERCHANCE ALMATY WHERE THEY HAVE FAB SHOPPING MALLS TOO? OR RETRIEVE OUR MONEY AND SEND THEM TO WHERE THEY  BELONG? BY WHICH I MEAN JAIL AND NOT HELL AS MANY OF MY DEAR READERS ARE THINKING.

IT SOUNDS GOOD AND LOOKS GREAT ON PAPER TO FORGIVE AND FORGET AS IT MAKES US APPEAR SO DIVINE. BUT THIS ADAGE APPLIES ONLY TO SAINTS AND NOT MORTALS MADE OF FLESH AND BLOOD.

But I noticed this only encourages future criminals who can now go on a crime spree knowing they will be forgiven, released and sent home to watch ASTRO after being caught. Provided they get caught as some are so devious they never getting caught. If only they did not try to cut costs by using their own bodyguards instead of hiring illegal migrants to get Kublai Khan's descendant! 

So now snatch thieves can resume grabbing handbags and pricey handphones from innocent bystanders, safe in the knowledge if caught they will be slapped on the wrist and sent home. 

In Europe it is quite rewarding to grab handbags. If caught, the state will pay for a lawyer to defend the accused as which self-respecting thief will pay for a lawyer? If guilty, thief goes to jail for a day or two where he enjoys free, comfy accommodation and reasonably decent food and can work out in the gym before being released. 

Whether he gets caught or manages to disappear into the crowd, the contents of the robbed handbag may range from a few hundred to thousands of euros! Plus 2 days free accommodation and meals thrown in!  

If you are black or non-Christian is is even better as you can accuse the white Government of being racist and discriminatory against a poor, powerless minority! Tsk tsk

The Bible says if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn and offer your left cheek for him to slap you again. This saves him the trouble of having to move to get a better position to slap you again.

Alas, this is akin to giving an extra RM 2.6 billion (or more) to the thief who had already stolen RM 2.6 billion so he ends up with RM 5.2 billion. Or more. 

So how?

Is open hunting season on for thieves? Tun M said he is not after revenge but only wants justice done and the rule of law to rule! 

So we all hope the crooks will be charged in court with their litany of crimes. 

Fortunately there is an alternative to offering- the-other-cheek dilemma in the Bible---an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth! So you can give what you get! Maybe with interest sumore!

If anyone slaps me on my right cheek I would poke 2 fingers in his eye and then knee him in his lan chiau where it hurts. 

When I become Pope I will amend it to "2 eyes for an eye, a mouthful of teeth for a tooth". I wonder why no one has ever called me a saint.