There is another reason to salute her. In Malaysian politics, resignations on principle are uncommon as successful convictions of politicians for corruption in a court of law.
Chew joins former law minister Zaid Ibrahim, who quit in late 2008 over the Abdullah Badawi administration's use of the ISA to silence dissent, in an all-too-rare demonstration that sacrificial stances on principle matter in politics.Their personal records do not project both as knights in shining armour. Still, their resignations were noble.
Posterity may well look back on our morally marred times and say the words made famous in the King Arthur legend:
Don't let it be forgot
There once was a spot,
For one brief, shining moment
That was Camelot.
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