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That poignant picture by Haris Ibrahim says it all - Malaysia On the Move (once again).

Badawi said the rally was an attempt to drag the royalty into opposition politics.

(http://tinyurl.com/333bjz)

It's hard to see his logic. The common folks didn't just come from all over to brave rain and teargas to present a memo for nothing. They saw something was wrong and sought a way out for the good of the country.

Likewise, the lawyers who had marched last month to submit a memo to his office also saw something was wrong and sought a way out for the good of the country.

Furthermore, both royalties of the state of Perak had already spoken eloquently about the widely perceived degradation of the judiciary, an area in which they are well-versed. This issue was also carried by many others, including the opposition.

Therefore in saying that he believes 'the King is more mature' in this matter, is he also implying the comments of the august royalties of Perak are less than mature in that matter?

People ask this simple question:

If they can influence the appointment of a Chief Judge, why should anyone doubt it's just a small step next to subverting the election system?

It therefore follows that if judiciary appointments are important enough to be free from influence, all the more the very election system that will decide who runs the country.

Badawi shouldn't be alluding to Kelantan and Trengganu having opposition presence as sufficient reason for the integrity of the election system. Who knows if the opposition presence would actually have been more in every state of this country if the system had been fair and square?

That is the question which remains to be answered and since one wouldn't expect the incumbent to say his own horse was doped to win, who else can this country trust to ask to find out but people who want to know the truth, and if they happen to be the opposition, what's so wrong about that?

The truth is all that the rakyat want. And in a country where transparency has been compromised by erasure of records and billions gone, the truth is what the rakyat must have.

Now, he also said that the police needed to take preventive measures such as putting up road blocks. If they already have been told that the rally would congregate at a specific place, why road-block the place? And why didn't he also mention the use of chemical-based water, teargas, and batons on ordinary people, including journalists local and foreign? And why the febrile attempts at downplaying the event to the rakyat? In plain yellow, it happened big time.

If you have done nothing wrong, there's nothing to hide. You don't need any special religious extension for this.

Maturity? The incumbents are the ones who are not mature. They are not mature in the way they answer the media, and they are not mature in the way they treat rakyat who don't toe their line.

And what is their line? To try and find it, you listen and read what comes out of the Umno GA, and shake your head. This is the 50th year of independence, and the headline in one paper is 'Be Tolerant'. You mean after 50 years of socalled 'harmonious consensual goodwilled' administration of this country, Umno is still asking the malays to be tolerant? Tolerant of who? The others? Let's then shoot a question back at Umno:

What is it that the others have done to the malays over the last 50 years that gives Umno the moral right to assume the high ground and ask its members to be tolerant of them?

Try and answer this question - but don't take another 50 years.

Secondly, there is not a single thing that came out of that general assembly that has any substance. You only get to hear juvenile jokes and attempts at bravura played to the hilt before a gallery of the same herd instinct.

Why waste national funds holding such a circus?

Fifty years - and they have no guts nor clue what to do next to excise the growing cancers in our midst.

One is sure they know the problems, one is not sure they want to solve them because to solve them, they will have to change themselves, this minority ruling percentage of the total long-suffering population. Their arrogance, greed and stupidity have gone to their heads and polluted their hearts.

That they can now have no shame to label others who don't agree with them as merely the opposition only goes to show it has become a 'them-vs-us'. They have become an elite onto themselves holding on to their own privileges, now and then throwing a morsel to the unknowing common folks who continue to suffer from one year to another not even knowing that their lives and the future of their children could have been much better if governance had been better.

Each Umno GA has increasingly become one of those self-satisfying activities more easily described by Dr Masters and Johnson.

The ones who have been really tolerant are the rakyat.

Enough has gone passed enough.

Episode IV: A New Hope

There is a great disturbance in the force.
Will empire strikes back?

Purely touching photo of Amri there; even the disabled has come to express their dissatisfaction.

Us the public aren't so blind to the media blackout; more should be made aware of this rally and how the local papers are self censoring themselves from reporting about it.

Because...it has come to the point whereby the government has decayed so much that all the public can do is to turn towards the powers of the royal house in order to intervene. They too, I believe, have been solemnly watching the decadent 50 years slip pass by.

Hi Jeff,
Check out these links to a Malaysian band website (requires registration though). There is a topic on press freedom regarding the BERSIH reports. It's rather amusing to see the reaction of those who replied.

http://www.voteband.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3091

http://www.voteband.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=93046#93046

Someone there sounds like KJ...

Hi Jeff ..

I'm waiting for you to blog about the "Broom awards for 2 state agencies". WTF Khir Toyo trying to proof !! Is he trying to catch the attention of PM for him to get promoted to Cabinet post. BTW .. the 2 state officers name look more like Indonesians than Malaysians.
Apologised for raising out of the topic issue on your blog about "BERSIH tops Technorati & YouTube".

Zam avoided all questions posed on the illegality of the protest and the use of Chemical water and used the lame excuse that there is Election, so Protest is not necessary. His quotable quote is “We are allowing Protest” – perhaps a slip of his tongue. More details & a clearer Video Clip of the Radio interview and other inserted Video Clips at
http://powerpresent.blogspot.com/2007/11/transcript-zam-al-jazeera-radio.html

Laceration:

These are just some schoolkids...It is a school band website.