COMMENT | Najib has used up all his nine lives

COMMENT | The main lessons some of us may learn from the convicted felon Najib Abdul Razak's outburst outside the Federal Court on Aug 16 are these:

i) If you want something done properly, especially after decades of predominantly Malay, male chauvinism, ask a woman to take charge.

ii) The verbal assault on the judiciary by Najib has backfired. The earlier attack on the High Court judge, Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali, has also failed.

iii) Najib is responsible for shattering the myth that political elites, like him, are untouchable.

Who does Najib think he is? He is the last person on earth to lecture us on fairness and liberty.  Like everyone else, he, too, has the right to life, but in his warped little world, his right to life included the licence to rob the rakyat and the nation of its wealth and its reputation.

By playing the race and religion cards, Najib condoned corruption and abuse of power...