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Prior to Bersih 2.0, I cautioned the organisers that we must be careful about using street demonstrations lest trouble should erupt and the Government should declare an Emergency. The practice of democracy in our country is tenuous and we should be extra-careful in our actions so that irresponsible parties cannot take advantage of the situation to bring chaos.
An idiot is someone who is foolish or senseless. Khalid Samad, PAS Member of Parliament for Shah Alam, is one such person.
In a Press conference a few days ago he called KITA an UMNO-sponsored political party. “Sponsored” means KITA is supposedly funded by UMNO. Khalid did not provide any proof, except to say that a former Kedah member of KITA by the name of Zamil had been attacking Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. That was apparently enough for Khalid to conclude that KITA is being sponsored by UMNO. We expect more from an MP, especially one wearing a kuffiah. If we are good Muslims, we should not malign and say bad things about others without any basis. Only an idiot would make the kind of deduction that Khalid did.
If there is one issue the Opposition should unite over it is pushing for Malaysia to have a Right to Information law. Only then can we all finally be talking sense about the electoral rolls.
This law would grant us at least some access to the classified documents in the hands of the Election Commission (EC). At the moment, all debate or discourse about the voter rolls and our electoral process is based on guesswork. Only with real information can we know the actual reason why, for example, there has been a huge upsurge of registered voters since 2008...
The Barisan Nasional has pulled out all the stops in their effort to show that Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is immoral and a sexual pervert. Last night TV3 featured Datuk S. Nallakaruppan and Umi Hafilda Ali relating – again and again – the story of Anwar’s alleged sexual tryst with Shamshida, the wife of PKR Deputy President Azmin Ali. The interview featured explicit statements about oral sex (or as Nalla called it, “ice cream”), all during prime time. We can probably expect a video of the act on the air waves very soon.
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This speech was delivered at Amnesty International, London, in conjuction with the 50th anniversary of Malaysia's Internal Security Act - organized by The Solicitors International Human Rights Group and the Abolish ISA Movement UK - on April 2nd 2011.
The Internal Security Act, the ISA, is a source of constant consternation for Malaysian society. It is a piece of legislation that has succeeded in instilling fear into the hearts of every one of our citizens. So much so that parents no longer use the threat of the boogeyman to get their children to behave but rather the home minister and the ISA enforcer that will come and get them in the middle of the night.