Once upon a time, King Brahmadatta was ruling in Benares in northern India. He had a clever minister who pleased him very much. To show his appreciation he appointed him headman of a remote border village. His duty was to represent the king and collect the king's taxes from the villagers.
Before long the headman was completely accepted by the villagers. Since he had been sent by the just King Brahmadatta, they respected him highly. They came to trust him as much as if he had been born among them.
In addition to being clever, the headman was also very greedy. Collecting the king's taxes was not enough reward for him. After becoming friendly with a gang of bandits, he thought up a plan to make himself rich.
The headman said to his friends, the robbers, "I will find excuses and reasons to lead all the villagers into the jungle. This will be easy for me, since they trust me as one of their own. I will keep them busy in the jungle, while you invade the village and rob everything of value. Carry everything away before I bring the people home. In return for my help, you must give me half of all the loot!" The bandits agreed, and a date was set.
When the day arrived, the headman assembled all the villagers and led them into the jungle. According to the plan, the bandits entered the unprotected village. They stole everything of value they could find. They also killed all the defenseless village cows, and cooked and ate the meat. At the end of the day the gang collected all their stolen goods and escaped.
It just so happened that on that very same day a travelling merchant came to the village to trade his goods. When he saw the bandits he stayed out of sight.
The headman brought all the villagers home in the evening. He ordered them to make a lot of noise by beating drums as they marched towards the village. If the bandits had still been there, they would have heard the villagers coming for sure.
The village people saw that they had been robbed and all their cows were dead and partly eaten. This made them very sad. The travelling merchant appeared and said to them, 'This treacherous village headman has betrayed your trust in him. He must be a partner of the gang of bandits. Only after they left with all your valuables did he lead you home. beating drums as loudly as possible!
"This man pretends to know nothing about what has happened —- as innocent as a newborn lamb! In truth, it's as if a son did something so shameful that his mother would say: "I am not his mother, he is not my son. My son is dead!"'
Before long, news of the crime reached the king. He recalled the treacherous headman and punished him according to the law.
The moral is: No one defends a betrayer of trust.
Who do they think they are?
ReplyDeleteThey think after they do this favor for arm no, arm no will reward them?
Don't they know that no one trust a turncoat?
In ancient China, a general of country A ran to country B and offered the king of country B the secret of country A.
That general thought that by doing so, the king of country B would reward him dearly.
But do you know what happened next?
The king of country B beheaded the general and sent the head back to country A.
Someone asked the King of country B, why don't you use him to defeat country A?
The king replied, a man who betray country A could betray me too.
Moral?
Those 22 turncoats will end up in a very miserable state.
Just wait and see.
The headman should be beheaded for being a silly turncoat.
ReplyDeleteDAP man wants cops to probe graft allegations against MCA’s Liow
ReplyDeleteBy Shazwan Mustafa Kamal
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 18 - Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng wants police to investigate MCA’s newly appointed deputy president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai over graft allegations posted on the Malaysia Today website.
The website alleges an inappropriate relationship between the Health Minister and a company which has dealings with the ministry.
“We are lodging a police report today because we want to find out the truth ... whether the allegations posted on Malaysia Today on October 14 are true, or whether it is fabricated,” said Lim, who was accompanied by Kelana Jaya MP Loh Gwo-Burne at the Sentul police station here today.
Lim said he had waited till today to lodge a report because he wanted the health minister to answer the allegations. He claimed that after waiting for five days, no answer had been given by Liow over the matter.
“We have no concerns at all with MCA internal fighting. We don’t bother and do not want to interfere,” said the Pakatan Rakyat MP.
“It is understood that the letter was penned by a self-proclaimed “Ong Tee Keat Supporter.”
When asked why was the report not lodged with the MACC, Lim said that they were uncertain of the validity of the letter.
“We don’t know if it’s true. If it is, the police should forward the investigation to the MACC. If it is false, the police should take action against the publisher as well as the writer of the article.”
The Segambut MP felt that the letter looked authentic as it was very detailed, and this view was echoed by Kelana Jaya MP Loh.
“I hope that the police will do their job and come up with the facts. What we are asking for is a bit more transparency so that we know whether the allegations are true or not,” said Loh.