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I think the power-that-be needs to realize that there are many forms of walk or march. And not every single march or walk needs to be ended by shooting tear gas and water cannon.

As the police and Malaysia had generally suffered from pretty bad press in the last two marches (very bad for tourism, bad PR..), I think some of those fast thinking strategists or PR experts inside the Government should make use of their lateral thinking power, think “out of the box” and suggest heavy involvement with the march organizer instead this time.

As Malaysia we are still in the middle of celebrating our 50th years of nationhood, having a festival to highlight and celebrate the freedom and human rights that we all Malaysians have, should rightly be one of the celebration program too. Here are some suggestions:- Instead of ending the March in Central Market, have it ended in Dataran Mederka where a really big scale celebration or festival can be held. As known, the March organizer had already line up many local artists and singers for the event. One just needs to make it bigger and happier celebration.

Instead of just having placards, posters or banners, we could have some cultural dancing troupes from related Budaya Negara bodies, lions dance troupes and the Indian drum troupes, etc and make it a colourful March. Various religious bodies should also take part in the March to reflect the true religious freedom that we enjoy. If political parties really need to get involve to gain some political publicity mileage (as some said General Election is just around the corner..), well, the BN should then send in large number of their members, else the Opposition may have thought that this is their exclusive event. PM or Ministers and opposition leaders could too share the same stage and talk about human rights and freedom in Malaysia (but the organizer MUST limit them a maximum of 10mins speech, else they can very long winded and make themselves the highlight of the festival).

Lastly, instead of shooting tear gas and water canon, police or corporates should sponsor the March by shooting some fireworks at the end to celebrate the Human Rights Day. In all, this is a golden opportunity for all of us to show to the World that we in Malaysia indeed enjoy a relative high degree of freedom and human rights which we treasure and which will also hopefully expand.

zam is getting paranoid. next thing you know, a family of 5 children and 10 grand-children going on a walk at the penang botanical gardens, he will also come out to say it is a protest walk against the gomen.

so zam is showing us again that the gomen controlled the mainstream media?

Niuku, very spot on and constructive suggestions.

Pak Lah should lend his BIG EAR to listen and ACT on it by fully supporting it.

Common la. Already end of the year. Sure got lots of budget left over (please don't spend it on car plate numbers ok?)

Right on Niuku. What you say. But sad to say our people in govt. are not smart enough to think out of the box to turn it around. It may also be they would rather sit on their high horse saying the govt. is always right and what is not sanctioned is wrong, even human rights.

This umno govt is tripping over itself. It wants to lure investors with stability and thinks political stability is all that's needed. No, it's social stability that's more important. Their missing this shows they have forgotten the objective of politics. It's not to make their mandate the sole strength of a nation. Their mandate has to be aligned to the needs of the people. Obviously they haven't been able to get that right. Why else were they so quick to miss the forest for the trees about hindraf in the same manner there has been a deafening silence on the PM's part regarding the other, earlier memo, submitted by the indian group which had marched to his office in Putrajaya? What happened to that?

To cut the chase, the umno leadership must answer these questions:

- why are they so chickinshit scared to educate their malay voters to be less inflammatory as a prelude to social stability?

- what are they really doing point-by-point for the marginalized non-malays?

- what's their real stand on national unity based on equitable governance?

The only things they are doing now are to evade and demonize. That's not helpful to solving the root of the matter.

If they're really sincere about the Malaysian Dilemma (as opposed to the Malay Dilemma), get down to details on what hasn't been done, why, and when will what be done, hopefully soon.

HI Jeff,
is there something wrong here:
was downloading the paul mccartney song on youtube halfway and the download stop midway. when i refresh the page and tried to download it again, no progress at all. then i tried downloading other youtube stuff and they all work fine. hmm....dare i say someone up there censored the net?

Lets post the event up everywhere in blogs, facebook, friendster, whatever community blogs and forums we could. :)

Let the Trinity be having yellow fever for the coming days.

Government oledi said that no public assembly is allow due to the last two 'gathering' are so kelam-kabut (kalau tak pukul orang, tak siramkan orang, mana ada kelam-kabut...)

The Government really should approve the freedom walk, because all of us have the rights to stand out to voice out what we need to have a more better life.