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

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

18 minutes ago

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

20 minutes ago

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

20 minutes ago

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

23 minutes ago

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

24 minutes ago

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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

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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

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

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

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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.

InSyed the Umno Windbag ....

(This note, is for some idiots who don't know how to follow links, and have attributed some articles I've posted here to me:-
The following is Haris Ibrahim's entry at his blog)

Syeditious Akbar Ali, Munafiq Extraordinaire!

July 2, 2011

Dr M’s chief spin doctor, Syeditious Akbar Ali, who holds that semen is discharged by women, in his post on 15th June, urges the police to arrest Ambiga if she ‘steps out into the street’.

‘If they break the law, throw the book at them. Throw them in the lockup to cool their heels, along with the druggies and the other riff raff ‘ , Syed continues, in obvious reference to anyone participating in the Bersih rally now scheduled to happen on 9th July.

Syed, of course, has had his own run in with the men in blue.

Syed actually alludes to this in an interview with The Star on 6th March, this year.

This is what he says of that episode.

‘…I was charged but the case was nothing. I was charged for an anonymous comment on his blog. My comment was on Arabs misbehaving in Bukit Bintang, so I don’t know how seditious that is…The case dragged on for two years and finally they said they had no case and it was dropped’.

Case was nothing, eh, Syed?

Syed was charged under section 4(1)(c) of the Sedition Act, 1948.

Syed says that he was charged for posting a comment on Malaysia Today about Arabs misbehaving in Bukit Bintang, but the charges were dropped two years later because the prosecutors opined that they had no case against him.

No case against him?

When I and some of the other lawyers told him that after closely assessing his case, we thought he was right royally screwed, he started to squeal like the proverbial pig being led to the slaughterhouse.

Cold sweat on the forehead!

Damn nearly pissed in his pants!

Let me reproduce here for you his comment in full, which he says was nothing.

Hehe, nothing, eh Syed?

IS EASY TO IMPRESS THE MALAYS
bythenameofwrote: In Malaysia, ever wonder why massage centers are
mushrooming in Bukit Bintang? Because of SUDDEN increased of ARAB visitors.

EXACTLY BTN. The Arab camel shaggers are here in town. Also please note the
amount of alcohol sold in Bukit Bintang. The Arabs are drinking up too. Not only
prostitution but the arabs are also into young boys, their all time favorites.
You will notice young Malay boys and some Chinese hanging around the Bukit
Bintang area. The Arabs are diseased man. It takes an exceptionally stupid
people (the Batu Gang Malays) to think that it is such a great thing to welcome
Arab camel shaggers to our country.

The Arabs are kafirs or disbelievers. They founded the religion of the Batu Gang.
They have conned millions into believing that a stupid stone structure in their
shit hole desert should be the centre of focus of people’s worship — another
stupid concept.
True to Arab homosexual tradition, the sick Arabs have conned millions of people
into raising their arse above their heads five times a day — supposedly in prayer.
Ass holes! Staring up each others backsides! Yo Brader Anwar. Just thought of
you.”

The charge sheet, in PDF, is linked below.

Charge Sheet against Seditious Akbar Ali

Now for those of you unfamiliar with Syed who, by the way, has not only written several books, but is also the individual who authored, published and printed a booklet entitled Biblical Sunnism ( credit is indeed due to him for coining this phrase ), let me share with you what Syed means or is referring to by the words and phrases he used in his comment that appear in red.

Batu Gang Malays : The Malays who follow the sunni tradition of Islam which includes, turning to the Ka’aba in Mecca in performing the ritual of prayer

They founded the religion of the Batu Gang : The Arabs founded the religion of the Malay Sunni Muslims

a stupid stone structure … the centre of focus of people’s worship : the Ka’aba in Mecca

the sick Arabs have conned millions of people into raising their arse above their heads five times a day : Err, do I really need to explain this one?

Actually, its not that there was no case against Syeditious.

Can you imagine a Malay judge hearing this case? You think he or she would say, ‘Oh, there’s nothing here’?

Would a Malay prosecutor from the AG’s Chambers prosecuting this case also say, ‘No case against this fellow’?

They would have roasted him!

Syed wanted to know how long the matter would take to go to trial. We gave him our thoughts.

We also advised him on certain technical objections that might be taken to forestall the trial taking off. He said to hold on and that he would revert to us with instructions.

He did.

We were instructed not to take the technical objections. The case against him would be dropped, so we were not to irritate the prosecution with technical objections.

I knew then that the prosecution had been gotten to. My question was, ‘At what price?’.

I told the other counsels that I did not want to have anything else to do with his case.

This Article 160(2) Malay, who joins Ibrahim Ali to champion the cause of the Malays, through his comment, actually pissed on the religion of the Malays yet, when necessary, will join them in prayers!

In another post, where Syeditious admits to receiving RM3,000 from RPK towards account of the bail he had to pay in his case, he claims that he had wanted to pay the sum back after the charges against him were dropped and the bail money returned to him. This is how he puts it.

I did ask Haris Ibrahim that I wanted to return the RM3000. He just gave me a ‘forget it lah’ type shake of the head.

Syeditious is a liar. This never happened.

In that same post, he claims that later, in January, 2009, when some 22 individuals were charged in the PJ Sessions court in relation to the anti-ISA protest in November the previous year, he handed some money to me to help with bail for some of those 22 individuals.

Syeditious is a liar. This never happened.

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*** I was called to be witness to "muftimurtad's" case- but as is mentioned above, it (the case) never materialized.
This was my entry on the arrests made back then in-

The "muftimurtad" "Sedition" Case on July 4!

Here is what I wrote in the 08/05/08 post about the comment he made :-

NOTE:Mr. Syed Akbar Ali was also arrested (posted bail) along with Raja Petra.

He has apparently been charged for a comment that allegedly "insulted Malays & Islam" in June, 2007. Someone mentioned that he was the one of the "Club of Doom" fame - I have no idea if this is the case.

Wasn't he the one who went under the pseudonym- "muftimurtad" aka "mm2007" currently listed as the commenter -"Penerangan UMNO" in the comment on THIS page - entitled IT IS EASY TO IMPRESS THE MALAYS, at 05/06 14:59:39 with his "batu-gang" comment.

A Dedication to Bersih 2.0 .....

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now does our world descend

by e. e. cummings
(1894 - 1962)
now does our world descend
the path to nothingness
(cruel now cancels kind:
friends turn to enemies)
therefore lament,my dream
and don a doer's doom

create now is contrive;
imagined,merely know
(freedom:what makes a slave)
therefore,my life,lie down
and more by most endure
all that you never were

hide,poor dishonoured mind
who thought yourself so wise;
and much could understand
concerning no and yes:
if they've become the same
it's time you unbecame

where climbing was and bright
is darkness and to fall
(now wrong's the only right
since brave are cowards all)
therefore despair,my heart
and die into the dirt

but from this endless end
of briefer each our bliss -
where seeing eyes go blind
(where lips forget to kiss)
where everything's nothing
- arise,my soul;and sing

Political Labeling:- Stick a badge .... and call him evil!

From Wikipedia:-

Labeling theory
Originating in sociology and criminology, labeling theory (also known as social reaction theory) was developed by sociologist Howard S. Becker.^[1] Labeling theory (synonymous to "identifying against") holds that deviance is not inherent to an act, but instead focuses on the linguistic tendency of majorities to negatively label minorities or those seen as deviant from norms. The theory is concerned with how the self-identity and behavior of individuals may be determined or influenced by the terms used to describe or classify them, and is associated with the concept of a self-fulfilling prophecy and stereotyping. The theory was prominent in the 1960s and 1970s, and some modified versions of the theory have developed. Unwanted descriptors or categorizations (including terms related to deviance, disability or a diagnosis of mental illness) may be rejected on the basis that they are merely "labels", often with attempts to adopt a more constructive language in its place. Labeling theory is also closely related to interactionism and social construction.

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"I think we must stick the convict's badge
on anyone and everyone who tries to undermine Marxism
... even if we don't go onto examining his case".
~Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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KUALA LUMPUR, June 26 — The police said today they are probing an alleged attempt by some Bersih activists to revive communism, and are investigating 30 Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) members, including Sungai Siput MP Dr Michael Jayakumar for “waging war against the Yang DiPertuan Agong.”
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“These (PSM’s activisms) are the acts of
desperate people who planned the rally on July 9.
They see this as an opportunity
to stir up dissent and seize power”.
~Rais Yatim

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Of late, the ruling Umno party (and its allies) seem to have got their knickers in a twist over the BERSIH 2.0 rally (planned for Saturday, 09.07.11).
Suhakam has gone public saying that a permit should be given.
The Police however refuse to give a permit for the rally- even before an application is made- and then declare it "Illegal".
This is despite the fact that there has never been any incidence of violence or destruction of public property in ANY public rally over the last 12 years!! This is also despite the fact that the ones who have made threats of violence (and indulged in violence) are those who are clearly opposed to BERSIH!!

Never mind the Kris waving episode & bloodlust of a certain politicians in the past, it is common knowledge that certain other politician has gone on record lately to say that Umno should "defend Putrajaya", even if it means "crushed bodies".
Their most vocal ally- PERKASA- has apparently decided to launch a rally of their own and even went to the extent of hinting at violence by urging the Malaysians of Chinese descent to "stock up on food" because "anything can happen".

Not to be left out, a certain political novice who heads a faction of UMNO joined in the chorus to have a rally of their own. The best joke here is that apparently, even he got a "death threat"- and so sent his hoodlums to threaten to burn down a certain building in retaliation!!

The police, in working to heighten the fear among people have gone on a spree of arrests ..... even those wearing T-shirt sporting BERSIH color/logo is apparently a crime these days.
(It used to be Black some time back- now it is Yellow).

BERSIH is accused of going on a hacking spree (which was launched by an anonymous hackers group) Ambiga Sreenivasan was called to make statements for insisting on BERSIH 2.0 rally, PSM is investigated for "trying to revive communism" and "waging war on the YDPA, Police invade the parliament to take statements from parliamentarians, Literary laureate Samad Said is questioned for reading of his "seditious" poetry ....
From Govt websites hacking to communism, to foreign infiltrators, Jewish/Christian/Hindu/Anti-Islam agents, chaos on the streets, to violence, to a "planned coup d'etat" - they're all apparently due to BERSIH!!!

When invited for "ideas" which the Govt may need (to place more accusations/labels on BERSIH), people have suggested the following :-
"The next tsunami, Teenage pregnancy! Tax evasion, HIV/AIDS, a wider budget deficit, Najib's receding hairline, losing the Olympic badminton final, feral dogs, killing off endangered Hornbills, Singapore being better than us in generally everything, the Thai insurgency, the ozone layer, rising petrol costs, and Penang traffic jams".
I wonder what will be next ... LGBT lifestyle? Alien spaceships? Global Warming?

One sad development was the fact that Dr D. Jeyakumar of Sungai Siput had to be hospitalized - apparently as a result of the deliberate negligence on the part of PDRM in denying him his medication. (Reports allege mental torture and other forms of ill-treatment of PSM campaigners arrested last Saturday).

As Art Harun says, we're definitely reaching The Tipping Point- wherein the morally bankrupt UMNO politicians appear to be bent on provoking retaliation from the rakyat through their abuse of state apparatus to let loose violent actions of repression, then justify their "pre-emptive" violent repression.

It seems like UMNO is making everything many of us have mentioned in the past about them seem like a prophecy ..... and wish to "destabilize to stabilize".

Sahabatku- Usman Awang

Sahabatku
(Kepada Dr M K Rajakumar)


Menemuimu ketika remaja dulu
Ketika kemarahan rakyat bermula
Di kota raya yang memancarkan suara-suara baru
Aku mengenali sekumpulan generasi mahasiswa
Dalam keghairahan menggengam idealisme
Menolongku memperteguh keyakinan
Persahabatan dan persamaan rakyat
Impian mewujudkan satu dunia baru.

Lama masa berlalu
Pengalaman dan usia mengajar kita
Betapa ideal mimpi alam remaja
Memetik bintang-bintang di cakerawala
Dengan jari dan puisi
Dengan buku dan teori
Tanpa membakar tangan
Tanpa menghaguskan badan.

(Kini pun masih kutemui lagi
Orang-orang muda yang setengah berani
Sesekali datang membisikkan impian
Untuk membakar bintang menjolok bulan:
Aku macam memutar kembali
Pita rakaman silam.)

Sahabatku
Suatu bangsa merdeka yang kita impikan
Terasa jauh dari kenyataan
Kemarahanku menjadi kepedihan
Bila kita dipisah-pisahkan
Jarak itu semakin berjauhan
Aku dapat gelaran ‘bumiputera’ dan kau bukan.

Di klinikmu masih kutemui keramahan
Ketika jantungku hampir dilumpuhkan
Engkaulah pertama mendengar degupannya
Menyukat tekanan darah di salur nadi
Melihat paru-paru tuaku kehitaman bersawang
Asap rokok yang sangat kau benci.

Percayakah?
Aku dapat pula mendengar detak jantungmu
Detak jantung yang dulu
Kehidupan baru untuk masyarakat baru
Impian satu bangsa merdeka
Kebenaran dan keadilan yang sama
Sebagaimana pesan nenek moyang:
‘Hati kuman sama dicicah
Hati gajah sama dilapah’.

Bilakah kita dapat memadamkan
Perbezaan keturunan yang kian membakar kita
Dan membiarkan curahan minyak yang kian menyala
Oleh mereka yang sering bermuka dua?

Bilakah kita dapat mempertaruhkan nasib
anak-anak kita yang tak berdosa
dan generasi akan datang keturunan kita
oleh mereka yang mementingkan laba dan kuasa?

Bilakah kita dapat menimbusi jurang perbezaaan
kemiskinan dan kelaparan dengan kekayaan berlebihan
Antara dua golongan dan darjat masyarakat
Suatu janji dari erti kemerdekaan rakyat?

Bilakah semua warga negara mendapat hak
layanan dan keadilan yang sama
Dikenal dengan satu rupa nama:
Bangsa Malaysia?