BERSIH 2.0- The Voice of a Nation's Soul.

"Unfortunately, we are a society so paralyzed
by symptomatic solutions one has to wonder whether
we will learn anything from this mindless atrocity."
~Where is the Spirit of Merdeka?

"Lastly, but surely not the least, the
We-Have-Erection-Once-Every-5-Year
award goes to… jeng jeng jeng…
the IGP for saying that only 6000 people joined the rally.
I suggest the IGP changes his glasses and
call a new tender for calculators soon."
~ Art Harun

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"It will not do to cling to the cause
and wish the result away.
Reality does not play mind games.

What is more, to anesthetize the mind
in order to abort what comes to birth
when wrong ideas are conceived
and borne in the womb of culture,

will only kill the very life-giving force
of the nation that nurtures the idea."
- Ravi Zacharias

Peludah Warna ~ Samad Said

Peludah Warna

Kuasa gusar kini menggelegak murka;
warna kuning diisytihar racun terbisa.
Diragutnya baju-T segeram tenaga
dan diumum itulah busana bahaya.

Tapi, kita jahit semula perca kain,
menjadikannya panji terindah dan tulen.
Warna kuning yang teramat tenang dan syahdu
kita kembalikan damai ke dalam qalbu.

Kini cahaya mentari mungkin diramas
dan sinar kuningnya juga mungkin dicantas.
Memanglah mereka kini peludah warna
sedang menghimpun lendir kahak sebanyaknya.

Kerana nikmat amat lama berkuasa,
kuasa pun seolah menjadi hartanya.

~A Samad Said

KL under "Curfew"!! A Nation Under Siege!!

City roads to be closed on July 9

TheMalaysianInsider

July 07, 2011

KUALA LUMPUR, July 7 — The police are closing all major roads in and out of the city this Saturday to head off the three planned public rallies organised by the Bersih 2.0, Perkasa and Umno Youth.

City police chief Datuk Amar Singh said the police received reports some groups are planning to gather at certain hotspots downtown and advised the public to keep out of Kuala Lumpur for that day if they have no business to be in town.

But he said those who live and work in the area would be allowed in.

Amar said the police would employ the standard practice to check their identities but declined to elaborate when asked how the cops would know if a person lived there or not.

“We know,” he said.

The following are the roads closed to traffic on Saturday.

Jalan Syed Putra, Jalan Istana, Jalan Bukit Petaling, Jalan Bellamy and areas surrounding the Istana Negara.

Jalan Sultan Hishammudin, Jalan Lembah Perdana, Jalan Chenderasari and areas surrounding the National Mosque.

Areas surrounding Merdeka Square, Central Market, Majid Jamek, City Hall, Sogo, Maju Junction, Kampung Baru Mosque, Jalan Kinabalu, Jalan Kuching, Jalan Sultan Ismail, Jalan Raja Laut, Jalan Sri Amar, Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Jalan Haji Taib, Jalan Raja Muda Musa, Jalan Raja Bot, Jalan Raja Abdullah, Jalan Dang Wangi, Jalan Munshi Abdullah, Jalan Gereja, Jalan Raja Chulan, Jalan Tun Perak, Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Loke, Jalan Sultan Mahmud and all areas within.

The Idiots Complete Guide to July 9 ...

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While the Govt has agreed
to allow a rally in a Stadium,
they have denied a permit,
refused a venue,
declared unilaterally that the rally is illegal,
shutdown roads,
suspended public transport
& barred all the organizers from attending the rally using the Police Force
- when HRH DYMM YDPA has
apparently granted organizers their wish ....
Are they saying that the YDPA has acted illegally?
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In any case, here's a guide for the uninitiated on BERSIH 2.0
(which has this idiotic Govt pissing in its pants)
prepared by a conscientious citizen:-

Please click on the images to get to the website

Who is King?

However, the home minister said that Bersih could still apply for a permit for the July 9 gathering using “other methods.”
-The Malaysian Insider

“Are the police out to show that they can make lives miserable?
At the roadblock itself, the police officers were
not even looking at the cars… they were busy chatting,”
“I have only one thing to say to the police: if you think you are doing a service to the nation by such acts, think again.”
~Thousands left fuming over roadblocks
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A) Tuanku Mizan

Tuanku Mizan granted an audience to BERSIH

B) ROSMAH MANSOR

She's having a pretty good time ...

C) Najib

-Najib passes stadium buck to cops

D) Mahathir

"They have political motives", he says- while supporting Perkasa.

E) Hishamuddin

“Nobody can just walk into the palace,” Hishammuddin said.

“Just because Tuanku met them doesn’t mean the rally is no longer illegal,” he told a press conference here."
The Registrar had said last week that
Hishammuddin ordered Bersih to be outlawed.

F) Gani Patail

the organisation was still deemed illegal by the Registrar of Societies (RoS) under advice from the Attorney-General
and would remain so unless the Registrar said otherwise.

G) PDRM

The police have continued making arrests in connection with the rally, most of them for wearing yellow T-shirts with the word Bersih emblazoned on them in a clampdown that has also seen Bersih being declared illegal.
Despite Bersih moving its rally indoors, 1,200 police personnel will continue with their refresher course.

H) Khairy Jamaluddin

He's tweeting from Athens .... & trying to be a hero in Gaza.

I) Ibrahim Ali

The right-wing Malay group president, Ibrahim Ali, told a press conference today that he had already made it clear that regardless of whether Bersih’s rally is illegal or not, Perkasa would still maintain its stand to hold a counter rally.

Tweeting PDRM's "job well done" in KL (Kesesakan Lalulintas)

(NOTE: PDRM is advised to heed "intelligence" advice
& look for plastic Molotov cocktails & parangs
behind temples or in flower pots near Sogo
like that brilliant copper- Amar Singh- suggested)

kltrafficupdate KL Traffic Update

RT @ShahfiqIshak Roadblocks are everywhere. Everyone rushing to work and they setting up a roadblocks. Great!! Wat were the popo's thinking?

17 minutes ago

danleemz Daniel Lee

by imokman

This is ridiculous! Every dialogue session, police explains they are understaffed to take care of security but now multiple roadblocks?

21 minutes ago

kltrafficupdate KL Traffic Update

RT @fahroe KL living up to its name today - Kesesakkan Lalulintas!!!!! kltu #fb klrb @amptraffic

18 minutes ago

kltrafficupdate KL Traffic Update

RT @izham_hny Roadblock was done due to an order from the highest ranking goblok...kltu klrb

20 minutes ago

kltrafficupdate KL Traffic Update

RT @abbylatif Roadblocks to search for what? Kidnap victim? Bombs? Machates? #Bersih tshirt underneath working clothes ala Superman? What? k

20 minutes ago

kltrafficupdate KL Traffic Update

RT @vin_ann My colleague stuck in Puchong for 2 hours already! kltu

23 minutes ago

kltrafficupdate KL Traffic Update

RT @arysboo Stuck in a congested traffic at USJ 4!!erghhhh kltu

24 minutes ago

kltrafficupdate KL Traffic Update

RT @joonjern Jam at Jalan Kem Klang heading up the bridge cause of the road block. #kltaffic kltu klrb

24 minutes ago

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RT @amptraffic kltu 0859 LDP: crawl continues Kg Baru Puchong-Sunway tol & the Puchong Sg Besi i/change

27 minutes ago

kltrafficupdate KL Traffic Update

RT @fuad5757 @limkitsiang LKS, police starts the roadblock already. tend to create anger among public rgrding Bersih 2.0 pls do smething! #b

27 minutes ago

kltrafficupdate KL Traffic Update

RT @faizahfizie Semua org jd emosi n mengamok bile pagi2 nak pergi kerja ade roadblocks yg merepek kltu klrb

27 minutes ago

kltrafficupdate KL Traffic Update

RT @fuad5757 @anwaribrahim DS,police starts the roadblock already. tend to create anger among public regarding Bersih 2.0 pls do something!

27 minutes ago

The FC, Judiciary, The ISA, Parliament, Quotable Quotes

‘the Courts would annul any attempt
to subvert any of them whether by legislative
or administrative action or otherwise’.
~Reid Commission Report, Chapter IX,
Fundamental Rights: Constitutional Guarantees, Para 161 p. 70.

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The ISA permits the executive to detain anyone it likes:
- without a court trial,
- without any possibility of judicial review of the minister's decision and
- without any limits on how many two-year periods of detention may be ordered.
The use to detain individual dissidents indulging in non-violent opposition to the Government in peace time is a violation of the letter and spirit of Article 149 of the Federal Constitution.

Article 149 gives power to the Parliament to pass laws to suspend a person's fundamental rights vested to him in Part II of the Constitution if the Parliament believes that the person is a threat to national security or public order notwithstanding the fact that the laws are conflicting with Article 5, 9, 10 and 13 and 79.
The laws passed to the effect of this article include, to name a few:

Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 (Revised 1980)

Internal Security Act 1960 (Revised 1972)

Official Secrets Act 1972

Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984

Sedition Act 1948 (Revised 1969)

Universities and University Colleges Act 1971n

The Acts mentioned above recognize the death penalty, the detention without trial, the caning and the silencing of people critical to the government to be lawful although they contradict with the articles on fundamental rights in Part II of the Constitution.

National sovereignty is a shield against foreign aggression but it cannot be used as a weapon against one's own people. There is a difference between national security and security of the government.

The overall effect of the ISA is that the Executive is allowed to play the role of accuser, investigator as well as adjudicator

No government can allow one man to exercise such complete power over another's life and liberty.

"Not only have the Malaysian courts failed to annul the encroachments on the fundamental rights but their lack of judicial activism has in fact
subverted those rights further.

The failure of the Malaysian courts in relation to the ISA starts with the fact that they have generally accepted the subjective satisfaction of the executive
for justifying the detention of an individual .....

The current approach of the Malaysian courts only serves to reduce executive accountability and respect for human rights under the rule of law."
~ Hardial Singh Khaira

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“no one in his right senses like[s] the ISA.
It is in fact a negation of
all the principles of democracy.”
~ Mahathir Mohamed, ISA Parliamentary debate 1960

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“Laws such as the Internal Security Act
have no place in modern Malaysia.
It is a draconian and barbaric law.”
-Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, 1987

"You pass this Bill, but remember that one day
somebody else, perhaps, not as democratic as you are,
may be sitting on that very Bench;
and when that time comes you—
perhaps not you but the children of those
who to-day support this Bill—will say,
"My God! we regret the day
we introduced this Bill into this House.”
~ D.R. Seenivasagam, Debate on ISA

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“It makes this country a complete police State. .....
Independence without freedom is an empty independence, because the people of this land fought for their freedom, fought for their independence, so that they will be free.
They did not fight for independence so that they become unfree, so that they become slaves of the police.”
- Karam Singh

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“My cabinet colleagues and I gave
a solemn promise to Parliament and the nation that
the immense powers given to the government
under the ISA would never be used to
stifle legitimate opposition and silence lawful dissent.“
~Tun Dr Ismail.

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“Organised violence is the key to the preamble,
but a lot of people who had nothing to do
with organised violence at all have been arrested”
~Prof. R.H. Hickling, the man who drafted the ISA Bill,1960
[NST;30 July 2006]

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Saya menganggap bahawa kuasa yang ada
kapada Pegawai Polis sekarang ini sudah terlalu luas,
dan memberikan kuasa yang demikian ini
menangkap sa-saorang, menggelidah rumah sa-saorang
dengan tidak ada warrant,
ini ada-lah keterlaluan dalam semua kuasa2 ini.
Saya bertanya, apa-kah ini di-adakan, apa-kah ini,
di-chiptakan dengan maksud untok menjelmakan
negara ini kapada satu negara polis?
~ Ahmad Boestamam.

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“In parliamentary democracy ......
no government worthy of its name
in any democratic country will dare to abuse these powers
so long as parliamentary democracy exists,
because public opinion is the restraining influence
behind any government in any democratic country.
I say, let these powers be abused,
and you will see how
the people in the country
will rise against it.”

- Tun Dr, Ismail.

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NOTE**
The above is a "cut & paste job" from literature & blogs freely available on the www.