I am back from a hiatus. So, excuse me while I rant as Jimi Hendrix excuses himself kissing the sky!

So, what the hell are Malaysians going to do about the story of the Singaporean banker jailed for 54 months for a crime related to the global controversy called 1MDB?

Get four witnesses to go after those in Malaysia? Public caning in Kelantan then? Or just a slap on the diamond-studded hands? Or let “divine justice” take its course and human intervention on a mass rakyat scale step aside?

This is the nature of Malaysia's "Islamic state". Let the polluters, deforesters, and plunderers go. Silence the people with free haj tickets, and install public caning for those petty crimes, to show commitment to Islam "yang syumul".

The Enlightenment guru Jean-Jacques Rousseau was right about religion - of the religion of man and the state. They tame the spirit differently.

We are actually doomed politically. Hegemonized by the installation and institutionalisation of fear and silence, bread and circuses. Doomed. Dumb and dumber we are all made to become. The cure? Swallow more diamonds, perhaps.

These objects called “woman’s best friend” seem to crop up endlessly. They relate to the largest magnitude of greed and plundering of a nation the world has ever seen.

But diamonds are not forever, borrowing the title of an old James Bond movie.