The demonstration organised and co-ordinated by the Bersih Organisation took place on Saturday, 28 April 2012 not only in and around the Dataran Merdeka (Independence Square), Kuala Lumpur but also in States and places overseas.
Reports from participants overseas came in from UK, Melbourne, Hong Kong, US to name a few.
By 2.00 pm on 284, a few hundred thousands people from all walks of life and ages converged from several roads to the said Dataran. The rally managed to attract as much as 500,000 in totality and they were from various townships in other States. Such was the solidarity.
It was indeed sad and rueful to note that all main roads leading to the city were blocked by the Police in the morning. The blockades caused massive traffic chaos and fumes among the people intending to zoom into the city doing their respective chores. Many including me were trapped on the roads for hours under the hot sun. Many cars stalled because of overheating. The situation turned very ugly.
Two incidents were reported - one the protesters overturned a patrol car which rammed and injured some protestors outside Sogo Departmental Stores in Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman and the other incident took place quite near to the Dataran where some protestors removed a few of the barricades which gave the Police the excuse to train the water cannons and fire the tear gas cannisters at the protestors who were peacefully assembled at Dataran.
Hell then broke loose when it was reported plain-clothed policemen wearing the yellow Bersih 3.0 T-shirt started to detain and assault by-standers and protestors of all ages. Many were taken to the police station and were subjected to inhuman treatment. Innocent bystanders were beaten up and kicked. The scene marked a black spot in the history of human development in Malaysia.
Now the Government is trying to justify her actions by trying to seet up an inquiry into the outbreak of unruliness. Opposition members were accused of hijacking the Bersih movement. What a sham!
Eventually, they will find some scapegoats and try to justify their wrong doing. It is time our political meatheads stop playing games with the people. The people will never be able to overthrow the government through the barrel of the guns but they can so so with their wisdom of their votes. Their votes at the GE 13 shall be their weapons which will decimate all these madness, incompetencies and empty vessels within the civil and uniformed services.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Nod for Lynas
The Parliamentary Select Committee that was set up to investigate the people's grievance over the setting up of the rare earth refinery plant in Gebeng, Kuantan, in my mind was yet another age-old way to deal with public objection.
The Committee might be described by the social activists and NGOs as just a group of unprepared appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. Its 31 recommendations in favour of the project were not unexpected.
Malaysian leaders must grow up and not be influenced by people who do not have concern for the long term impact of radioactive emission of the rare earth waste on the people's health and well-being.
The investors from down-under have yet to provide a good reason why their project was rejected by their Government to be built and operate in Australia. The only sound reason that I can advance is that the Government cares for the welfare of its people and listen to them. Whereas our Government could not care two hoots for her people. She does not seem to learn from the history of what had happened to the people in Bukit Merah in Perak. The untold aftermath was silenced by the might of the corrupt state government.
The Star headlined Wednesday 20 June 2012 that the Parliamentary Select Committee has given its approval for a temporary licence to be given to the Aussie company to operate the plant in Gebeng. Does the Committee have the invested authority to grant approval or recommendation for the setting up of the plant? Star is putting words into the mouth of the PSC!
By arriving at the conclusion and making its recommendations public, has not the PSC committed a subjudicial action if not blunder prempting a fair hearing at the High Court on 12 July 2012? This sort of game had been played far too often.
What the PSC did appears to give the impression to the public at large that its decision has been pre-meditated. Is the Government afraid that the High Court may arrive at a verdict that may overturn her early decision to allow the Aussie Company to operate the project in Gebeng on a temporary or trial basis? What sort of eyewash decision is this? It is either go or no go.
The masses cannot tell the Government what to do. In this country, The Government is the Supremo who does what she thinks fit, She will tell you what to do but you are not expected to do what she does. What sort of Government is this? It is so much like all the Governments in the Middle-East countries whose greed, power-craziness and corruptedness have brought so much of turmoil and miseries to the people.
In my opnion, the rigmarole stinks of remiss, nonchalence and mal-practice.
The Committee might be described by the social activists and NGOs as just a group of unprepared appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. Its 31 recommendations in favour of the project were not unexpected.
Malaysian leaders must grow up and not be influenced by people who do not have concern for the long term impact of radioactive emission of the rare earth waste on the people's health and well-being.
The investors from down-under have yet to provide a good reason why their project was rejected by their Government to be built and operate in Australia. The only sound reason that I can advance is that the Government cares for the welfare of its people and listen to them. Whereas our Government could not care two hoots for her people. She does not seem to learn from the history of what had happened to the people in Bukit Merah in Perak. The untold aftermath was silenced by the might of the corrupt state government.
The Star headlined Wednesday 20 June 2012 that the Parliamentary Select Committee has given its approval for a temporary licence to be given to the Aussie company to operate the plant in Gebeng. Does the Committee have the invested authority to grant approval or recommendation for the setting up of the plant? Star is putting words into the mouth of the PSC!
By arriving at the conclusion and making its recommendations public, has not the PSC committed a subjudicial action if not blunder prempting a fair hearing at the High Court on 12 July 2012? This sort of game had been played far too often.
What the PSC did appears to give the impression to the public at large that its decision has been pre-meditated. Is the Government afraid that the High Court may arrive at a verdict that may overturn her early decision to allow the Aussie Company to operate the project in Gebeng on a temporary or trial basis? What sort of eyewash decision is this? It is either go or no go.
The masses cannot tell the Government what to do. In this country, The Government is the Supremo who does what she thinks fit, She will tell you what to do but you are not expected to do what she does. What sort of Government is this? It is so much like all the Governments in the Middle-East countries whose greed, power-craziness and corruptedness have brought so much of turmoil and miseries to the people.
In my opnion, the rigmarole stinks of remiss, nonchalence and mal-practice.
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