MACBETH in the state of PERAK?

They say life imitates art but the great writers like Shakespeare used the events of the time to create their plots and people are able to easily relate to their stories.
Many artists too used to portray prominent persons in paintings in subtle ways that showed their flaws.
I think Raja Nazrin acted well in the circumstances for having endured such a long wait and it must have tested the royal patience. I think having to wait for anything more than 10 minutes is a real bother but I suppose royalty are brought up to face such challenges.
After all the state assembly would have been in total chaos is he had left after a delay of say 30 minutes of freestyle wrestling among the state legislators.
If what the Star reported is true about his aside to Nizar, it appears that there is still some hope that a PR government may be acceptable in the near future.
Again it is the Police who appear to have come off the worst in the state assembly fiasco.
First of all, they decided that wearing black was an offence and then they enforced a 500m "no go" radius all around the state secretariat building.
There was no emergency, no bomb threat and yet the public and businesses in the area were being penalised so that they would look good at bullying ordinary folks who wanted to see how the politicians would resolve the Perak imbroglio.
They did not have to wait long. You see the Speaker was forcibly removed from his chair without proper ceremony. Since he could not be removed via any proper procedure, the BN decided that force was the only means. Some media reported that special branch was involved and if this the the case, it means that democracy in Perak was not only raped but trampled upon.
It is the blackest day for democracy in Malaysia and I daresay like most victims, sometimes the mind becomes too numb to react. The abuse is too great and the violation too unspeakable.
But back to Macbeth and perhaps this quote is relevant.

"But in these cases
We still have judgement here, that we but teach
Bloody instructions which, being taught, return
To plague th'inventor. This even-handed justice
Commends th'ingredience of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips."

You can read more in malaysiakini on how more lawyers were arrested after they turned up at a police station to inquire about a Bersih leader who was arrested.
It appears that the BN government is incapable of keeping the police under control after they rejected the IPCMC.

Photo: thanks to the Star (in Malaysia drinking teh tarek can be an offence)