4:23pm: Jalan TAR - A police vehicle allegedly hits two protestors in front of Sogo shopping centre, injuring them.
An angry crowd surrounds the police vehicle which has been abandoned, and overturns it.
Protesters overturn police car after being hit
"Sarawak Report has obtained copies of a highly intimidating email that has been sent out by an official from Malaysia’s Education Department in Washington to all Malaysian students receiving grants in the United States.
Written in dire language, the email blatantly threatens students that if they are “so rash” as to take part in tomorrow’s Bersih rallies calling for Free and Fair Elections they risk “very serious peril” and could be stripped of their scholarships."
Read more at Sarawak Report - http://alturl.com/huyh6
The threatening email -
Meeting points:
Central Market / Pasar Seni: start: 13:30
Masjid Negara : start: 13:30
Jalan Sultan : start: 13:30
Masjid India : start: 13:30
Brickfields, start: 12:30
KLCC - Himpunan Hijau, start: 12:00
NGO-leaders will lead the groups from the meeting points to Dataran.
Dear Tunku Aziz,
The system says you're a Senator! A Law Maker!
"The Police is the Legal Authority!" Those are your very words!
Many Malaysians still remember that the DAP leaders who invited you to be amongst them were thrown in Kamunting by the same Legal Authority.
Do you remember what for? Jangan mudah lupa, Tunku!
The Election Chief has just confessed he is/was an UMNO member. Do you remember?
I believe DAP don't stand for that cause. Like the Election Chief, shouldn't you be gracious in all your regality to quit before the party that honors you sinks into utter disrepute?
Your Honor, Tan Sri, Sir!
Do you remember if there might be many phantom voters in the Electoral Roll?
In the Sarawak State Elections last year PAS challenged the candidature of Taib Mahmud's brother as at the stipulated time previous period's election expenses were not officially offered and attested to. Did you not allow some 2 hours past midnight and several more past official nomination closure time, the discovery of the essential document? And declared him judiciously a legitimate candidate?
If you forgot that, isn't it about time you take a good rest from forgetting and retire? You could of course then review your UMNO membership. And Online, too!
“All religions support amongst others, principles of justice, fair play, transparency, and that no undue advantage is enjoyed by any party to the exclusion of the other.
"Any argument that such assembly may cause traffic jams and (that it) inconvenience the public is not a legitimate reason. People are prepared to put up with some inconvenience to allow for the exercise of fundamental rights by others.” ...Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism
‘‘If there is chaos, blame Bersih.’’
Ahmad Fuad, Mayor KL City [TMI]
Why would a grown-up adult say that? And a City Mayor, too!
He wasn't elected. That's why. Otherwise he wouldn't have stood past the test of scrutiny urbane KL citizens would put him to, were there local government elections. As things are in Malaysia, there have been accusations the Mayor is the political party UMNO stooge.
Prime Minister Najib should send Ahmad Puad look after a kampung where there are cows and goats.
It's a dereliction of duty for refusing to do his job!
Fatwa
“...it is compulsory for all Muslims to attend Bersih 3.0 sit-in at Dataran Merdeka this Saturday afternoon as it is a movement “against injustice”.
...Tok Guru Nik Aziz
OCCUPY Dataran Mereka had begun in the dissatisfaction of students who felt and still very strongly on how higher education has been funded. If loan interests and repayment were not enough headaches there's the growing unemployment with official suspect figures that have compounded the problem. In addition there's pervasive rationalization of ethnic policies declared to aid the purported disenfranchised plus other measures in repressive manner and intent in colleges and universities regulated by Law but which now have been repealed.
Why aren't students overjoyed if the Laws have been repealed? Well, the bigger part of the problems is in finances and unemployment, primarily because of they're very related issues. If they're lucky to get a job, mobility and transport will eat away what little is left for debt payments. Unemployed students won't gripe if mounting housedhold debts do not add to the situation.
The students and their griping have now discerned greater spaces that are really fingerpointing the ills of the country : bad governance, authoritaranism, corruption and unaccountability. And the media, despite the Internet is closely fingered by the government. So much so Zunar still could not predict winners of the World Cup.
Wouldn't they have that sense there's no reasonable control on their lives? Children, parents, the households and the City of Kuala Lumpur are feeling it all. Don't forget the country.
Lives are determined by circumstances where people have no meaningful participation and contribution in finding solutions. It's somebody else's decision and interests. The Malaysian Government is occupying citizens' lives ...and mind, considering the fruitless religious controversies and highhanded actions of Johore Education Officers and public servants in abusing public goods and services.
Now students have regained that and they're not only occupying the physical space at Dataran Merdeka or Independence Square - they're regaining a sense of independence and responsibility.
On 28 April 2012 all these will come to a fruition when independence spaces of students and citizens will be filled with an expression to invite one and all to participate and rehash what was once not theirs to even consider. It will be an occasion for everyone, the Government of the day included, to find a new will to clear major obstacles in the path to real independence ... at Dataran Meredeka or Independence Square...or Freedom Square
Why should there be trouble on 28 April? There should be excitement; which would make citizens more productive and innovative.
Those have been declared by the BN government to the world. Am not sure if the people of Lubok Antu near the border of Indonesia heard it. You shouldn't underestimate the Government. They too have vision and want progress advancement and a great itch to lead the world into rapprochement and clear the path for the declared Gobal Middle Ground.
We could have all that if they would look into Bersih 3.0's grouses! Again!
For Saturday 28 April citizens can understand what past fears were and beyond that there'll be appreciation and understanding and hence on to some new will and "OCCUPY" Malaysia if in greater democracy higher hopes can fly.
Under ordinary specific circumstances you can make a citizen's arrest to prevent loss/damage to property public or private or perhaps preempt a crime.
In organized society where public officials are bestowed clear definite powers to act they will have the full protection of the Law which of course is sanctioned by Parliament. Different than an ordinary citizen, a public institution is organized bureaucracy where instruments of service are enormous by duly and legally sanctioned actions and procedures.
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OCCUPY sentiments elsewhere |
What's most irksome is the fact that DBKL Officers stepped off their bounds of duty and arrested the persons of the demonstrators. The Police didn't, they couldn't as they had seemed to merge with the brickworks.
Unless duly conferred by an act of Parliament or a statute, no DBKL personnel should arrest a citizen. They can confiscate property deemed inapproprite ...they cannot confiscate citizens, people, human beings.
The Occuupiers could take legal action in this. They could sue the pants off the atrocious DBKL officers.
If most of the Occupiers are students they could learn the living now. They could later live the learning.
The Minister Hishammuddin Tun Hussein, says:
“... the ministry’s initial monitoring indicated that the Bersih assembly did not require excessive presence of the police, such as Federal Reserve Unit (FRU), as the rally was not a security threat.” - TBP
He should not have stretched himself so hard for that. The only problem is the Police(PDRM). They arrested Occupiers for vague reasons best known to themselves. Save your breath. You can't tell a Malaysian Government Minister to talk simple or they'll bite their tongues.
Friend told me it was not to embarras the Agong...whatever that means. MPs have been trying to tell the country in and out of Parliament and it made no sense to the Government that we are in financial trouble and public goods are not reaching the populace but only Minister's mistresses and more than 77 virgins in Virgin Island where associate and subsidiary companies of NFC have accounts. There are more serious instances of corruption such as the PKFZ and Scorpene scandals from which public funds could have been allocated for the Occupiers education that they are now highlighting to the Public and all. Of course the Agong will accidentally hear about this. But the BN Government is in fact saying he shouldn't otherwise he'll be embarrased.
The Occupiers want reforms which could only be delivered via good and accountable rules in this forthcoming General Elections that Bersih 3.0 is laboring for to enable voters to decide "consciously and conscientiously" (no ballet, drugs or sex please, we're Malaysians). The outcome of course will in all Malaysians' democratic endeavor posthumously honor the Agong and all our ideas of what's decent for Malaysia.
