Jam. Damned jam.
UPDATED VERSION. Took the normal route from USJ to Parliament House, started the journey at 8.55am, weaving through the New Pantai Expressway and Jalan Bangsar, but didn't reach there until 10.05am.
There were traffic jams in USJ due to backflow from the Federal Highway. There were hordes of police on the road leading to the Parliament House.
Who is under siege? The media?
UPDATES: Must call Syed Hamid's bluff. It's an anti-climax today, actually, after inconveniencing the people with massive traffic jam caused by police road-blocks.
Contrary to so-called police intelligence, there was NO rally let alone a massive rally that could threaten security. On hindsight, it looks like a made-up by Syed Hamid.
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I sincerely believe all this frequent jam caused by unnecessary roadblocks is a ploy by the police and government to pit the public sentiment against the Opposition.
Each time one get caught in a jam, they will shift the blame to Opposition, in time, Joe Public will be unhappy with the Opposition. Then, they win.
The individual roadblock has NO security search. Most of the policemen just wave you thru. It is solely just to create unhappiness.
Posted by: Neurolept
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July 14, 2008 10:17 AM
The traffic is unusually jam at Puchong, Jalan Bukit Jalil (linking Astro to LDP). It took me 2 hours to reach where I want to go, usually just 30 min, which is already bad enough.
Posted by: patriotic1994
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July 14, 2008 11:27 AM
I agree, Neurolept. But, I also noticed some unprecedended precaution taken in certain places. Something we dunno?
Posted by: LittleBird
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July 14, 2008 11:48 AM
The coalition forefathers would never have thought we would come to this day when wagons have to be rounded to ring Parliament, embodiment of the very institution of independence they had fought for.
How can there be independence when one erects barriers?
Fear of being deposed leads to simplification of the threat. A movement by the rakyat becomes the march of a few faces becomes something to be sanitised, even when the real stench resides elsewhere in the corridors of power and in the hearts of men.
We praise foreigners who praise us for being united, now divided. We praise foreigners who praise us for being democratic, now totalitarian. Soon enough they will not praise us and we will have to praise ourselves that after fifty years of clawing our way out of the mudpits of yesteryear, we have finally arrived from making rapid progress down the road but towards international disrepute. We will soon only be earning these two comments from those who know better:
tsk-tsk and snigger-snigger.
Children abducted, still missing; men shot, killers unknown; women knived, cases pending. And yet waving motorists by after creating massive fuel-burning jams is a priority.
If rakyat march, as they had not done so before for so long, something else is wrong. What are their reasons, how did we come to this, and what must be done to solve the root causes of those problems - these are the questions which should have been debated in Parliament - and answers found to be telecast live to the rakyat, sans the theatrics of buffoons and babboons.
The initial success of form-over-substance has been expanded nationwide. Opening soon at a theatre near you, more hancock devastation of this nation is assured.
Maybe before then someone will stand up and ask why is it so difficult to know why Petronas had put ten billion into egypt, a question whose answer will only be unearthed by Mr Jones, jr, a thousand years later, just because they say the accounts have met the standards of disclosure of some unknown committee. When people are in a hurry not to answer something, it means something has to be kept from the rakyat. What, and why.
The Opposition is also sleeping.
Posted by: Neil
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July 14, 2008 12:39 PM
Media is not under siege.
Public is given a Fear Factor treatment.
It is the MPs, elected by the rakyat who are under-siege.
Could this be to put pressure on BN MPs not to follow the Pakatan Rakyat to move on the no-confidence vote?
Plausible, not impossible.
Posted by: aku anak malaysia
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July 14, 2008 01:07 PM
The august house is now either a fortress or a self-made prison
To be made so very secured based on possible 'fear of treason'
With 'apologies' to all those out on the road in this driving season
When decisions based on phobias are well beyond any rational reason
(C) Samuel Goh Kim Eng - 140708
http://MotivationInMotion.blogspot.com
Mon. 14th July 2008.
Posted by: samgoh10
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July 14, 2008 03:03 PM
jam or no jam..i have given up on the behaviour of our so called veteran politicians like AAB and Syed Hamid. The fact is that UMNO chappies are still in twilight zone, whereas the people are more informed of their rights. They create diversions and blame opposition. They think the people are idiots, but they are the real idiots.
Posted by: art chan
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July 15, 2008 07:22 AM
If there's a darkest hour before dawn, we are difinitely heading towards it. We just pray the darkness will not linger for too long. Not like Zimbabwe or Myanmar.
Posted by: LC Teh
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July 15, 2008 07:48 AM
Next time I get into one of these jams and if I decide that the road has become a car park, I shall lock my car and walk to wherever I want to go.
After all, just like the smart tunnel when closed to traffic it becomes a waterway, when unnecessary road blocks are put up, there is official alteration of use of that space from road to car park.
So please the next time we get screwed by the cops like that we screw them right back.
Posted by: Observer
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July 15, 2008 12:16 PM
wouldn't call it a syed hamid bluff .... i think he really believed in his mind that there was going to be a massive rally.
it could really be that the present government instead of running the country has lost touch with reality and are seing ghost everywhere they turn. the government has lost CONFIDENCE in itself.
They seem to have lost the plot for the time being.
Posted by: CY
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July 15, 2008 06:59 PM
The proof mentioned by the Minister may be the posting by PKR Media Coordinator below:
http://ginielim.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/sokong-bahas-usul-undi-tak-percaya-terhadap-pm/
Posted by: kamil
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July 15, 2008 07:32 PM
http://khankhai.blogspot.com/2008/07/blog-post_17.html
this link above is my question to malaysia government, welcome to give an answer, especially from malaysia government.
Posted by: khankhai
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July 17, 2008 03:27 AM