COMMENT | Reading the leaves in 'Tommy' in a teacup

COMMENT | Reading the leaves in 'Tommy' in a teacup
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COMMENT | Judging by the flurry of criminal and civil suits against former attorney-general Tommy Thomas after the publication of his memoir
My Story: Justice in the Wilderness, many have pronounced that it is all a “storm in a teacup”. Allow a tea lover to read the leaves to see what we can anticipate in the future.
First, as Malaysians, we must celebrate the publication of this masterly-written memoir by this illustrious barrister, Thomas. “Tell-all” memoirs are rare in Malaysia and I remember when I published my ‘Inside the DAP’ in 1995, I was pilloried by party hacks who claimed that “cultured Chinese gentlemen” just do not do spill the beans! Well, I was not in the government so there were no official secrets I could have divulged. I was open to civil defamation suits of course, except that none was forthcoming and, after all, I did not mention a single name in that record of my political experience.

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