Tear gas very cheap issit?
I was caught in a jam this morning and didn’t make it to church. I passed by the police road block along Jalan Kuching and I was wearing an orange shirt. I read somewhere that there was a call for the participants of the HINDRAF rally to be dressed in orange. Will the police confiscate my orange shirt as they’ve done to the Bersih yellow t-shirts? They didn’t. They let me pass. But many Indians were stopped by them.
Now just because I’m Chinese doesn’t mean I don’t give a shit about today’s rally. If it was held yesterday, I would have been tempted to go. Tempted. But today I wasn’t going to join the march, the best I could do was to show my support by wearing orange (I found out later that not many were dressed in orange but anyway). I’m showing my support for their right to walk and to present the petition to the British Embassy, not for the petition itself. I do feel their petition to the Queen is a tad bit extreme. Would the Queen actually fork out a trillion ringgit as compensation? If she would, I’m starting a petition!
I think, as with the Bersih rally, the real reason is to send a message. We are unhappy with the government, with the way some things are. We want equality and fairness. Stop feeding us shit, stop slapping us in the face and stop kicking us in the balls. If I want to hand in a petition, if I want to march peacefully, it’s my right. Just like it’s Khairy and his Umno Youth members’ right to protest Condoleeza Rice’s visit. "ooo… but the difference is we had a permit". There’s where the unfairness is, in the issuance of permits. Fool!
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Would there have been anything wrong with the police assisting with the submission of the petition? Designate an area where the crowd can gather, give the leaders some time to address the crowd and then usher them to the British Embassy. And everyone can go home peacefully. If the police can handle the crowd during Thaipusam, they can definitely do this. So why not?
Because those in power are ‘pantang dicabar’. When they’ve warned you repeatedly to not gather without a permit and you do so, you are in defiance. They don’t care what your intentions are. They have told the whole country that they will not tolerate anyone who gathers illegally. So they have to make an example of you to the whole country. "This is what happens when you break the law!". What the hell is happening here? We are not living in a democratic country.
Khairy said in his interview on Al Jazeera that the police handled the situation very well during the Bersih rally. Police acted according to the situation. They tried to disperse the crowd first but when they saw that the situation would become worst, they then allowed the crowd to march on to the palace. What is he going to say this time? The crowd was small enough for the tear gas and water cannons to control so the police continuously fired upon the crowd again and again? I can’t wait to read all the lies our local media is going to feed the country tomorrow. Small number of Indians caused riot? Police ‘reacted’ to crowd violence? The British Embassy did not want to be disturb? Malaysia government save Britain a trillion ringgit!
What about our top comedian, Mr. Semi Value? What is his stance going to be this time? Is the MIC going to be, as Lim Kit Siang puts it, a slave of Umno again? Or is he finally going to stand up for his own community and say "Kaninia, why so aggresive towards us? Why the excessive force? I’ve had it and I’m not going to raise the toll rates again forevar!"
is that an indian throwing back a tear canister at the police?
the next thing u know theyll be demolishing mont kiara coz here all chinese/angmoh/jap/koreans
Reply : Yes it is. I think he’s wearing a gas mask.
Comment by tingtitlei — 25 November 2007 @ 11:08 pm
agks… i didnt know wearing orange means support them today :S
i was wearing orange and walking about :P nasib tak kena tangkap!!
Reply : They only target Indians. I think they won’t expect other races to support the rally yesterday.
Comment by evelyn — 25 November 2007 @ 11:46 pm
Actually I feel that the Hindraf are barking at the wrong party. It should be their big chief that they should be after…who did not do enough for them or to fight for them. Afterall, besides the “earth ppl”, the rest were brought in as labourers too be it in the estates or the tin mines or etc.
Reply : I think that they wanted to gain some exposure for their cause. Going after the big chief would be pointless since he will just push aside their grievances as he’s done before. With the British Embassy, they will at least get some international coverage.
Comment by WMD — 26 November 2007 @ 1:00 am
Mr. Semi value say that gathering is illegal wor… does this prove dat he bcom “yim chai” and supported umno? Haih
I wish got plague in malaysia sweep off all the huana.
Reply : He long time oledi yim chai oledi lar…
Comment by littlepolaris — 26 November 2007 @ 3:06 am
the more they throw tear gas and all, shows they dem powerful ma. But the more they throw the less votes they gonna get for the next coming election… hmm how ah?
Reply : Why u scared ah? U scared got ‘trouble’ or not if they get less vote? Dun scared, Adrian is here. *buek!* :P
Comment by sasha — 26 November 2007 @ 9:35 am
it’s sad. i just watched Sicko by Michael Moore over the weekend (very good movie), and there’s a small part where he interviewed the French. They said, “in france, the gomen is afraid of the ppl.” and if there’s anything the ppl didn’t like or thought was unfair, they’d protest. that’s what they do and they said that’s what being a democratic country is about.
its sad that its the opposite here. the ppl are scared of the gomen, and when we want to stage PEACEFUL MARCHES, we are treated with violence. Is all this violence necessary? where are our rights?!
i’m not going to read the papers today. dun want to read all the lies.
Reply : Exactly! That’s what a democratic country should be.
Here they instill fear in us. If you dun vote for us this is the violence that will grip the country! :P
Comment by lingzie — 26 November 2007 @ 10:30 am
Haha…Y others cant hold its own rally and have to be disperse by the FRU ’s while the father beruk’s youth party can hold its own rally at KLCC and march to the US embassy ???? Also the son of a certain ex PM comments that, sending out a petition is not the right thing to do and not acceptable.
What about one of his member,who also happens to be the son in law of a certain party head/also the one who runs the country, who delivered the petition to the US embassy ? Is it the matter of that , I am in power and I can determine who can do what and who cant do what ???
Reply : Exactly my point. There’s no fairness. He said he was different bcoz they got permit. Puiiit!
Comment by Alan Tan — 26 November 2007 @ 5:28 pm
father beruk = The certain son in law, who addressed the protestors as beruks.Well i think he has lost his memory, he was the one leading the protest on Rice’s visit right ? So by calling others beruk, he should be the father of all beruks then !!!!
Reply : Yeah but he claims he had a permit. I guess he’s a permitted beruk!
Comment by Alan Tan — 26 November 2007 @ 5:34 pm
Why start a war that you know you are not going to win?? Some things are untouchable in this country, and when you still insist on attacking them on it, (ie. special privileges), be prepared for them to come after you full force and take away whatever little they have given you (ie. when suqui tried to fight for chinese education).
I don’t mean to be a defeatist but sometimes you just have to be selective about your battles. No point going head on and kena hentam liddat. Like the yellow movement, this was more acceptable to many malaysians as the issue at hand affected them as a whole, and the gahmen had no reasonable excuse not to allow them to hand over the petition. The race card is a very dangerous card to play, esp when you don’t have the numbers to back you.
Reply : True. But the HINDRAF rally did manage to stir up some commotion in parliament with MIC MP speaking up against one of their own (UMNO). This went against the norm which is to stick together. Nazri later said that if anyone (MIC MPs) are unhappy then they should leave MIC and the BN. Things are slowly changing. There is discontent rising from within their own camp (BN). But will it be quelled from within.
Comment by kat — 27 November 2007 @ 1:28 pm
i like the part when the protestors actually took the gas and threw it back at the police… and the police trying to kick it away… quite a sight i must say.
i am thinking of starting a business… selling oxygen mask. wanna contribute some capital?
Reply : Hahahaha… I saw that too. The other one was the wind blowing the teargas back towards the police. :P
Govt banning mask soon. :P I heard today that the bar council is planning another march, dunno whether true or not?
Comment by zewt — 27 November 2007 @ 6:55 pm