I’ve always wanted to be a lawyer eversince i watch the first episode of The Practice and became obsess with Boston Legal, but the wind decide to sail me to another direction, but my passion in law stood still. I’ve always respect the character in Boston Legal name Danny Crane, he’s a maverick, in your face kinda guy, and i-can-fart-anywhere-i-want-because-i’m-that-important kinda guy. Never thought there would be anyone remotely real to this character, until i got to know the existence of the boss of the biggest law firm in Malaysia. Zaid Ibrahim of ZIco a few years back, when he made some noise in Umno Kelantan.

After the PRU, i was shocked when Pak Lah announce Zaid Ibrahim as one of his chosen Senator, and to hold the position of Law minister. That time i thought, ok its either Pak lah really wanna do the right thing in reforming the judicial system and cleansing the country from corruption or maybe Zaid Ibrahim is not the really The Man.zaid1

Thanks to the awesomeness of Pak lah, we didnt need long to find out what’s really going on. First Zaid make outragous and damaging (but true)statement against then BN government, demanding the gov to do the right thing on the Tun Salleh Abbas & the geng case. Then some noise here and there, till he made his ultimatum during the ISA fiasco. Then bravely he quit from his post before being sacked from UMNO after the ‘public flirtation’ with Pakatan Rakyat. And yesterday he made a really awesome straight forward comment…

Zaid made the remarks during a question-and-answer session at a Bar Council dinner commemorating World Human Rights Day held at a restaurant in Sri Hartamas last night.

A participant had asked his rationale for joining Umno when he knew the party has long been associated with allegations of human rights abuses.
“We all make mistakes in life,” he said, to laughter from the floor.

“It wasn’t easy for me to resign, I think you all know why I did it, I had no choice. I could not be part of a government that makes those decisions. I felt that it was wrong for me to be a part of the team that makes that kind of decision,” he said.
“Sometimes people are confronted with a situation where they have to make a decision. Some people may disagree, but that’s my decision.”

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