任何对马来西亚企业界只有一般认识的人都听过丹斯里美加美加纳兹慕丁（Megat Najmuddin Megat Khas）这个名字。总而言之，他是一名四家上市公司的主席，以及其他三家公司的总裁，所担任都是非执行总裁一职。除此之外，他一直以来都是联邦公共上市公司（Federation of Public Listed Companies），以及马来西亚政府企业机构（Malaysian Institute of Corporate Governance）的主席。身为一名受过训练的律师，他也是巫统的政治老将，担任党内的纪律委员会。
丹斯里美加美加纳兹慕丁私下回答……
为何最近您公开劝告您的老同学，《今日大马》网站的拉惹博特拉卡玛鲁丁（Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin）『回来面对烂摊子』（come back and face the music）呢？——吉隆坡李宝拉（Paul Lee）
当年我在寄宿学院瓜拉江沙马来学院（Malay College Kuala Kangsar，MCKK）就读时，他是我的学弟。他曾经指责，一些还真的是严重的指责，可是他却无法有证据证明这些指责。逃出国外，隔空放话并不会给他带来任何好处，别再耍猴戏了，像个男子汉般的回来，对你自己的言论负责。在学校，我们被教育成一名绅士，他应该面对法庭，使用他的事实证明和证人，说服法庭他才是对的。公正是两方面的，他会获得我永远的敬重，最重要的是，他愿意这样做！
※“What maketh a man?”—原文改编自莎士比亚《哈姆雷特》剧一幕三，原文是由国王卫士普罗尼尔斯（Polonius）所说的“For the apparel oft' proclaims the man”，翻译成白话英语即是“Because clothes often make the man”，也即是成语『人靠衣装，佛靠金装』。后来马克吐温也说了类似的句子。现在这句话被修改成『怎样才叫男子汉大丈夫？』（What make a man?）
出处∶Malaysia Today
原题∶No Hold Barred∶Lawyer ini macam cakap ke?
作者 ∶拉惹柏特拉
发表日期∶30-01-10
翻译 ∶西西留
Hey, this is not a popularity contest. I am not trying to win a popularity contest here. I am trying to end the more than 50 years hegemony of Umno and bring change to Malaysia. And if I am the most hated man in Malaysia for trying this I do not care a damn.
NO HOLDS BARRRED
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Your 10 questions
Anybody with even a casual interest in corporate Malaysia would have heard of Tan Sri Megat Najmuddin Megat Khas. After all, he is chairman of four listed companies and a director of three others, all in a non-executive capacity. On top of that, he has long been president of both the Federation of Public Listed Companies and the Malaysian Institute of Corporate Governance. A lawyer by training, he is also a veteran Umno politician and sits on the party’s disciplinary board.
Tan Sri Megat Najmuddin Megat Khas, Corporate personality answers...
Why did you publicly advise your former schoolmate, Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin of the Malaysia Today website to “come back and face the music” recently? – Paul Lee, Kuala Lumpur
He was a junior schoolmate at the fully residential Malay College Kuala Kangsar (MCKK). He has made allegations, some of which are really grave allegations, but he has yet to prove these allegations according to accepted criteria for proof. Going abroad and hurling unsupported allegations from afar would not do him any good. Don’t make a mockery of the law. Come back and be responsible for your allegations like a man. We were brought up at school to be gentlemen. He should face the court with whatever facts and witnesses at his disposal and convince the court that he is right. Justice is a two-way traffic. He will earn our eternal respect and mine, most of all, if he is willing to do that!
(Read the other nine questions and answers here: http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/1/30/business/5566395&sec=business)
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The above is one of the ten questions posed to Megat Najmuddin Megat Khas. You can read the other nine at the link above.
I want to respond to the one question that relates to me. I can, if you wish (and may even do that later), respond to all ten questions -- like I did recently to Shamsul Akmar of the New Straits Times. But then, considering how cheong hei I can be, this piece will probably run into so many pages. Therefore, let me talk about this one question and the answer Megat gave.
This is what Megat said: “…..but he has yet to prove these allegations according to accepted criteria for proof…..Come back and be responsible for your allegations like a man…..He should face the court with whatever facts and witnesses at his disposal and convince the court that he is right.…..He will earn our eternal respect and mine, most of all, if he is willing to do that!”
I think Megat just does not get it. Is he so naïve or just pretending to be stupid? As a lawyer, how can he talk that way? Lawyer ini macam cakap ke?
I have said this before and let me say it again. I do not need to prove anything. I have been arrested and charged and put on trial. It is the Prosecution that needs to prove my guilt. The onus is on them to offer the evidence and bring forward witnesses to prove my guilt. All I have to do is to raise reasonable doubt. And if I succeed in doing that, then the court MUST give me the benefit of the doubt and declare me innocent.
Megat never once walked into court to attend or witness my many days of hearings. If he did then he would probably have spoken more like lawyer and would not have made that very embarrassing statement, which reflects very badly on his abilities and qualities as a lawyer.
An accused person has the right to defend himself in any way he sees fit. Whether it is a brilliant or stupid defence is not for the court (and certainly not for the Prosecution) to decide and interfere in. But when the court blocks certain evidence from surfacing or certain witnesses from being called to testify, then the accused is being denied his right to a proper trial.
If the court wants to fuck around with me then why should I bother to layan (entertain) the court? I am telling the court and the government to go to hell. If they want to play fair then I will play ball. But if they fuck around with the legal system then I walk away.
What is so difficult for Megat to understand this? I am telling the court that if they fuck me then I will tell them to go fuck themselves. Megat can’t even get this through his thick head?
About the other remarks -- “come back and be responsible for your allegations like a man, he should face the court with whatever facts and witnesses at his disposal and convince the court that he is right, he will earn our eternal respect and mine, most of all, if he is willing to do that!” -- again, I think Megat is missing the plot here.
“What maketh a man?” as Shakespeare would probably say if Megat were to address this statement to him. Meekly walking into court without a fuss and bending over so that the court can screw you in the arse is a mark of a ‘man’? I would have imagined that his MCKK education would have made him smarter than that. I can only say that the MCKK education was wasted on him.
It appears we have different ideas about what being a man means. Megat’s idea of being a man is to subject yourself to persecution and perversion of justice. My idea of being a man is never to allow yourself to be screwed in the arse by anyone -- even the government of Malaysia and the Malaysian judicial system -- and if they try to, then turn your back on them, show them your arse, and tell them to go screw themselves.
Different strokes for different folks, as they say. So, being a man to Megat’s perspective is being a mouse as far as I am concerned. Being a man, to me, means the courage to say “No!” And that is what I am telling the Malaysian government and the Malaysian judicial system -- “No! No! No!”
Oh, and what makes Megat think I need to earn his or anyone’s 'eternal respect'? Does he think I am doing all this to make a name for myself? Seriously, I do not care one bit what Megat and any of the other Umno and Barisan Nasional people think of me. Their opinion of me does not matter one bit.
My objective is to try to bring down Barisan Nasional and Umno in any way possible. Barisan Nasional’s and Umno’s objective is to try to stay in power -- by hook or by crook, by fair means or foul. To Barisan Nasional and Umno, anything is fair game, even racism and religious strife. Just a few days ago, Jakim told hundreds of participants in its lecture that another May 13 is looming over the horizon. Umno is going round the country telling its members that there is soon going to be a ‘civil war’ in Malaysia.
Is Megat saying that Barisan Nasional and Umno are noble and honourable and I am not?
I really don’t care what people say about me and what they think about me as long as I can fight and beat Barisan Nasional and Umno at its own game.
Hey, this is not a popularity contest. I am not trying to win a popularity contest here. I am trying to end the more than 50 years hegemony of Umno and bring change to Malaysia. And if I am the most hated man in Malaysia for trying this I do not care a damn.
So, Megat, I really don’t care a damn what you and your Umno people think of me. Seriously, if you and Umno love me then there is something wrong here. That means I am not doing my job. Only when the entire government, Umno and Barisan Nasional hate me and wish to see me dead would that mean I have done my job.
That is my mission. And regard this as my mission and vision statement.
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