Mat Sabu terkulai dikaki Ambiga

Protes Bersih 3.0 secara camouflage diketuai oleh Ambiga dan Pak Samad.  Demonstrasi yang sebenar ialah pemimpin parti pembangkang mahu mengancam kerajaan sekarang. Sayang seribu kali sayang orang Melayu sudahnya bergasak dengan orang Melayu. Mungkin Mat Sabu lupa siapa Ambiga, atau Mat Sabu sudah buta mata kanan, hanya guna mata kiri sahaja. 


Mat Sabu patut ambil tahu apa rakan sekulit kita lakukan di Bekasi Indonesia. Lepas ini Mat Sabu kena beringat-ingat masa berpaut tengkuk dengan Ambiga.

Hard-Line Muslims Test Indonesia's Tolerance

by Anthony Kuhn | May 24, 2012 
 In the city of Bekasi, Indonesia, outside Jakarta, a handful of Christians head to Sunday worship. But before they can reach their destination, they are stopped and surrounded by a large crowd of local Muslims who jeer at them and demand that they leave.

This is the Filadelfia congregation, a Lutheran group. They are ethnic Bataks from the neighboring island of Sumatra who have migrated to Bekasi, and they have been blocked from holding services on several occasions. Recently, a journalist who demonstrated in support of the congregation was beaten by an angry mob.

Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim majority nation and has drawn praise for its evolution into a vibrant democracy. It's a country of more than 17,000 islands, with more than 300 ethnic groups who speak about 740 languages. But recent cases of persecution of religious minorities have led some to question whether Indonesia is still living up to its reputation for pluralism and tolerance.

The persecuted include atheists as well as minority Muslim sects, such as the Shia and Ahmadiyya. Hundreds of churches have been closed in recent years, including, most recently, 17 house churches this month in Aceh, the only province in Indonesia where Shariah, or Islamic law, is in effect.

Riot Police Intervene

Back in Bekasi, the standoff is getting tense. Truckloads of riot police arrived on the scene beforehand, but do nothing to separate the Christians and Muslims. Congregation leader Rev. Palti Panjaitan negotiates with security forces to let them pass.

"If my brothers here are the killing type, then I am ready to be killed," he says quietly. "That's it! Tell the police I am ready to be killed right here. If it's a riot you're worried about, then arrest the rioters, not me."

The congregation is headed to pray in an empty lot where they have been barred from building a church. Outside the lot, signs say Muslims are ready to wage jihad, or holy war, against the Christian group. Muslim resident Irwan Taufik, blames the Christians for the confrontation. He says rejecting infidels is a legitimate form of jihad.

"Indonesia is famous for its harmony," he says, wearing an embroidered shirt and a black felt cap. "But the Christians should have gathered the community leaders and clerics together and asked us, 'Can we worship and build a church here?' But if in fact the people are not willing and reject the request, then why must they insist?"

The police warn the Christians that they can no longer guarantee their safety, and the Christians relent, turning their motorcycles around and heading home.

An Intolerant Minority

Panjaitan complains that even though his congregation has fulfilled all the requirements, the local government in Bekasi will not grant it permission to build a church.

He says they won't even obey a Supreme Court ruling affirming their right to build it. He adds that Muslims and Christians usually get along fine here, but hard-line Islamist groups have been stirring up confrontation.

"The majority of the Muslims here are tolerant, but they are easily influenced by the intolerant," he says. "Actually, tolerant people in Indonesia are in the majority, but they are passive. I wish they would be more active and say 'no' to the intolerance which is now increasing in Bekasi."

Panjaitan particularly blames the militant Islamic Defenders Front, which, according to police records, has been involved in 34 cases of violence and destruction in the past two years.

Last week, the front persuaded authorities to deny a permit for Lady Gaga to perform in Jakarta. The week before, it disrupted a speech by liberal Canadian Muslim author Irshad Manji. Manji was assaulted and a member of her staff was injured. Manji says this has changed her view of Indonesia since her last trip here in 2008.

"Four years ago, I held a book launch here that attracted both ultraconservative Muslims and Muslim transsexuals, and each of them had their say," she recalls. "And four years later, the center of Islamic pluralism has become just another cesspool of intimidation."

Elaine Pearson, deputy director of the Asia Division at the New York-based Human Rights Watch, says Indonesia's backsliding on religious tolerance reflects a weak rule of law, which results in impunity for those who persecute religious minorities. This, in turn, creates a climate of fear among ordinary Indonesians.

"Even senior government officials have shown quite openly that they protect groups like the Islamic Defenders Front," Pearson says. "They're very powerful, they're very influential, and people don't really want to be seen as working against them."

Raising Old Worries 

Since the birth of the Indonesian nation in 1945, there have always been doubts about whether such a disparate collection of peoples and cultures could actually hold together.

The problem of intolerance raises this question once again. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has appealed to the public for tolerance, but he has declined to intervene on behalf of minorities.

Barred from holding their Sunday service in Bekasi, the Filadelfia congregation troops into downtown Jakarta. They set up a generator, speakers and an electric keyboard. Then they pray, sing and protest, right across the street from the presidential palace.

Source: NPR

Judge rules Pussy Riot members to remain jailed until trial

A Russian judge has ruled that three members of the punk rock protest group Pussy Riot are to remain in custody until their trial, set for June of this year. The three women are facing charges of hooliganism for performing a punk song in Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral earlier this year.

Russian news agency Ria Novosti reports that the song, called Holy Shit, included lyrics such as “Holy Mother, Blessed Virgin, chase Putin out”. Footage of the incident was captured and added to the band’s YouTube channel:

The group, a feminist band with often provocative anti-Putin lyrics, has been tapping into a growing discontent among Russian youth and have recently staged a number of risque performances. Those arrested have protested their innocence of any criminal activity:

Their case has been galvanizing support among Russian youths. Between 20 and 30 people protesting their detention reportedly arrested outside Moscow’s Tagansky Court on Thursday. Russia Today gave details of the protest:

The unauthorized demo held by Pussy Riot supporters outside the court turned into an improvised performance as protesters arrived in costumes with balloons and musical instruments, and prepared to sing and recite poetry.

The keenest Pussy Riot supporters tried to repeat the famed notorious look of the punk band members. Some cut holes in colorful hats, turning them into masks; others wore similar vivid dresses with bright tights. Several enthusiastic activists even threw flares at police, and were promptly detained.

From : Russia Today

Their case has also rallied international support, with a benefit gig organized in London, England promising to channel all proceeds to a defense fund for the women. A rally to support the group is also planned for Friday in Melbourne, Australia.

Demonstrasi di dunia dan Bersih 4

Demokrasi jika dibiarkan melampau-lampau, sudahnya orang boleh kata dan buat apa saja dia suka. Demokrasi pada prinsip yang paling asas ialah hak mengundi dalam pilihanraya. Tidak lebih dari itu.

Malangnya demokrasi dijadikan komoditi, atau barang dagangan, ada nilai, tawar menawar dan boleh dijual beli. Yang betul-betul kaya sentiasa melihat demokrasi seperti saham juga, boleh beli dan dapat untung. Maka ada orang akan sponsor pilihanraya, hulur wang. Yang kaya dalam dunia kebanyakan dari bangsa yahudi tinggal di Amerika. 

Semua orang sedar, satu demi satu negara Islam tumbang secara paksa di timur tengah. lepas satu, satu pulak.  yang paling malang ialah Iraq dan Afghanistan. Libya adalah yang terkini, sebuah negara makmur dan kuat terpaksa tunduk dengan sogokan dari Amerika untuk tumbangkan kedaulatan Libya. yang menentang Ghadafi akan bertempik gembira,  tetapi mereka tidak sedar kapal negara mereka sudah bocor. Mereka leka dengan keamanan dan tidak sedar apa-apa lagi. Mereka akhirnya alihkan kiblat kesetiaan.

Dimalaysia pun tidak terkecuali. Kita boleh kata apa saja dengan kerajaan sekarang, rahsuahlah, tidak teluslah, penuhkan perut kronilah..... katalah apa saja, kerana setiap tuduhan sebegitu sering tanpa bukti, sekadar membakar semangat. Semangat itu pernah dibakar waktu Anwar ajak budak2 universiti era lampau turun kejalanraya kononnya ada orang Baling mati kebuluran. Walhal amat mustahil untuk sesiapa mati kebuluran di negara khatulistiwa. Waktu sengsara zaman Jepun dulu, tiada beras orang boleh guna ubi kayu sebagai ganti. Zaman itu orang tidak mati sebab kebuluran tetapi sebab di penggal kepala oleh askar Jepun dan selepas itu bintang tiga.

Kali ini Anwar ajak orang ramai turun ke jalanraya lagi dengan tuduhan SPR tidak telus. Pada masa yang sama mereka masih bergembira dengan kemenangan Kelantan, Penang, Perak dan Selangor waktu PRU 12 dulu, juga dengan kendalian SPR yang sama.

Demonstrasi sering bertukar menjadi ganas dipentas dunia. Bila ganas, isu asal demonstrasi sudah tidak dipedulikan lagi. Hari berikutnya demonstrasi adalah medan membalas dendam, semalam pedih mata kena gas pemedih, hari ini nak beri penumbuk supaya polis pulak merah biji mata. Polis yang kena belasah semalam, hari ini tangan dan kakinya jadi lebih ringan waktu berhadapan dengan peserta demonstrasi. Waktu itu manusia jadi binatang....

Pencetus demonstrasi tidak akan ada dijalanraya..., mereka menyorok dan bersuka ria ditempat lain. Sebagaimana pengusaha senjata moden dunia, mereka senyum sahaja bila senjata yang mereka hasilkan dan dapat dijual, digunakan dengan tepat dan efektif memusnahkan tamadun manusia.

Jika kita sudi meneroka ruang-ruang gelap dalam amalan demokrasi yang menjadikan demonstrasi sebagai paksi, kita akan dapat meneka siapa sebenarnya binatang, anjing, celaka dan syaitan. 

Bersih 4 kalau pun perlu ada, adalah semata-mata satu agenda jualbeli saham orang kaya-kaya. yang berpeluh dan menjerit takbirrrr, adalah lembu dan kaldai proses demokrasi.  Dalam video keganasan baru-baru kita sudah lihat seorang berbangsa china, menjerit suruh hero-hero melayu berbaju kuning, belasah polis hingga separuh mati. Itu sudahnya, keldai, lembu dalam percaturan orang kaya-kaya.

Bukan sedikit dosa disebalik memusnahkan satu tamadun bangsa.

DEMONSTRASI adalah ANTI DEMOKRASI

Kalau kita rasa selesa dengan kaedah demokrasi, yang memberi hak kepada rakyat untuk memilih wakil rakyat, demonstrasi sebenarnya adalah penafian hak itu. Seolah-olah kita merasakan kita tidak pernah punya hak disebalik demokrasi itu. Seolah-olah kita berarak dijalanraya untuk menuntut sesuatu yang tidak boleh diperolehi melalui proses demokrasi. Sedangkan semua itu adalah tanggungjawab wakil yang kita pilih dalam pilihanraya.

Demonstrasi sebenarnya adalah bisnes dalam amalan demokrasi, kerana memang diketahui umum demonstrasi adalah pakej soft loan dari penaja sama ada dari dalam atau luar negara. Memang semua orang tahu Amerika adalah sponsor demonstrasi serata dunia.

Cuma masalahnya Anwar sangka dia seorang saja yang bijak, orang lain haprak dan anjing.

Students Involved In ISA Gathering Will Face Legal Action

BANGI, Aug 1 (Bernama) -- Tertiary students will not be spared from legal action if they are found to be participating in gatherings to oppose or support the Internal Security Act (ISA), Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin said Saturday.

"If there are students involved in the gatherings and they allow themselves to be victimised and used for other people's agenda, I will not protect them," he told reporters after opening the Asean Universities Build-and-Break Competition 2009 here.

He was asked whether there were students invovled in the gatherings planned in Kuala Lumpur today by two groups of non-governmental organisations -- the Gabungan Mansuhkan ISA (GMI), which opposed the ISA, and the Majlis Permuafakatan Ummah (Perwaris)together with the Pertubuhan Pribumi Perkasa Malaysia (Perkasa), which wanted the act retained.

On another development, Mohamed Khaled said the National Defence University of Malaysia (UPNM), which was closed on July 21 following Influenza A (H1N1) outbreak, was reopened last Tuesday.

-- BERNAMA

RM1500 dengan MALAYSIAKINI: 21 ORANG DILEPAS

Istilah kena ikat jamin adalah sebutan biasa mengisahkan seseorang yang dibenarkan pulang dari mahkamah, tak perlu ditahan dalam lokap, dan dijamin hadir setiap kali mahkamah memanggil. Kita kongsi dalam Malaysiakini hari ini tentang hal 21 orang yang dibenarkan pulang oleh Hakim Balqis Aini Mohd Ali selepas menetapkan jamin sebanyak RM1500 seorang.

2. Kesemua mereka berumur antara 25 hingga 62 tahun, kebanyakan adalah dari Lembah Kelang. Ada juga dari Tampin, Georgetown dan Alor Setar.

3. Mereka dituduh turut serta dalam satu perhimpunan haram di Petaling Jaya dan enggan bersurai selepas diarah polis berbuat demikian pada 9 Oktober 2008. Mereka dituduh dibawah seksyen 27(5)(a) and seksyen 27(4) of the Akta Polis.

4. Seperti dijangka, ramai turun menunjukan sokongan kepada 21 tertuduh termasuk pengerusi majlis peguam Ambiga, MP segambut dan cheras [dari DAP], blogger harris Ibrahim dan Raja Petra Kamarudin atau lebih dikenali sebagai RPK.

5. Ambiga mengulas tuduhan sebagai mengarut dan katanya ini menyalahi Federal Constitution yang membenarkan rakyat bersuara.

6. Amat malang, majlis peguam menunjukan sokongan keatas kes-kes sebegini dan sebagaimana biasa Gobind mengambil masa yang panjang meneliti isu-isu teknikaliti berkaitan tuduhan hinggakan selepas keputusan jaminan dibuat, kaunter pembayaran telah ditutup.

7. Negara jiran Singapura pula baru-baru ini akan mengetatkan lagi undang-undang tentang tunjuk perasaan. Sejak dulu lagi, Singapura secara konsisten bertegas mengenai demonstrasi. Ramai yang sudah ditahan dan dituduh dimahkamah terutamanya dari pihak parti pembangkang.[baca selanjutnya: Singapore government to tighten laws against protests: deputy PM AFP ]

8. Pengunjung kopitiam percaya setengah penunjuk perasaan sangat teruja dengan apa yang berlaku di beberapa negara jiran yang menjadikan tunjuk perasaan sebagai catalyst untuk menggoncang negara. Kempen pilihanraya sering dipanjang panjangkan melewati tempuh yang dibenarkan. Manakala Singapura pula sering membuka pintu mahkamah dan penjara untuk mereka-mereka yang dianggap deviants dalam meneruskan kelansungan pemerintahan.

Tertuduh:

1. Father Paulino Miranda
2. Tony Pua MP Petaling Jaya Utara
3. Ronnie Liu Exco Selangor
4. Lau Weng San ADUN Kampong Tunku
5. Tiew Way Keng councillorMBPJ
6. K Raman,
7. G Ramish,
8. Augustine Gan Liam Tee,
9. Andrew Ng Yew Han,
10. Lim Cheng Inn,
11. Ooi Suan Huah,
12. Ambrose Poh Teik Huat,
13. Johny Andu @ Abu Bakar Adnan,
14. K Thengaran,
15. Ong Boon Keong,
16. Mohd Fasya Mohd Tajudin,
17. Goh Jin Kiat,
18. Henry Hor @ Henry James Hor,
19. Mohd Khairul Anuar Mohd Jamil
20. Goh Chien Yee
21. ?
    

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MARCHING WITH MALAYSIAKINI: on protest and demonstration.

Most are lucky enough to hold on to their marriage and live up to the solemn oath 'till death do us apart'. But some fail along the leisure walk to their destination. A leisure walk equals to a leisure march. I would like to march with Malaysiakini on the issue of protest and demonstration worldwide.

2. Anda tentu akan lihat perkahwinan antara dua insan dalam soal ini. Tetapi apa salahnya kita lihat perjanjian antara 3 bangsa waktu memperjuangkan kemerdekaan Tanah Melayu dulu. Sejarah pakatan Tunku Abdul Rahman alHaj , Tun Tan Cheng Lock dan Tun V T Sambanthan wajar juga dilihat dan diambil pengajaran. Satu perkahwinan, perjanjian, pakatan dan kesungguhan untuk membawa rakyat dalam perjalanan panjang meniti erti kemerdekaan. Adakah mereka berjaya dan kita sekarang yang gagal?

3. Lets march on with Malaysiakini on this issue. Crisis in marriage. Week of Greek rioting taps into wider discontent The Daily Advance, NC -

ATHENS, Greece — Protesters took to the streets of Athens for the seventh consecutive day Friday, vowing to maintain pressure on the government with both peaceful demonstrations and violent clashes that left one police officer engulfed in flames.

Youths pelted riot police with rocks and firebombs. One officer flailed, covered in blazing gasoline, as his colleagues rushed to extinguish him. He was ultimately unhurt.

Demonstrators in France and Germany put on shows of support for the Greeks protests, which are driven in part by the widening gap between rich and poor in a country where the minimum monthly wage is €658 ($850), graduates have poor job prospects and the government is making painful reforms to the pension system.

4. Perkahwinan yang gagal sering diperhati dan adakala ingin diikuti. Retak menunggu Belah. Greek anger infects Europe The Age, Australia

THERE is a saying among residents of Athens' famous bohemian Exarchia neighbourhood that what most call a riot, they would describe as a street party.

This week, however, even the most hard-bitten locals have been shocked by the ferocious wave of youth violence unleashed by the police shooting — on their doorstep — of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos.

Greece has been paralysed by a six-day maelstrom of riots and strikes that have resulted in 1 billion euros ($A1.98 billion) in property damage, hundreds of arrests, the closure of schools, banks, universities and businesses.

5. Sila lihat satu perarakan aman disebuah negara yang lain 200 attend Wednesdays Greek solidarity march in Edinburgh Indymedia UK, UK - 10 hours ago

On Wednesday 10th, over two hundred people attended a march through Edinburgh city centre, in a vibrant protest against the murder of 16 year old Alexis.

6. Sementara dalam negara kita sendiri ada yang sedang membawa api protes dengan berbasikal .Malaysia: Bicycle protesters for workers’ rights defy police ... Green Left Weekly, Australia - 18 hours ago

On December 5, police stopped the Jerit cyclists from leafleting in Teluk Kumbar, Penang. The whole team was asked to go to Teluk Kumbar police station.

What is protest? What is demonstration? What is riot? What is a failed marriage?

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Perhimpunan nyalaan lilin: Polis tunggu arahan Peguam Negara

Perhimpunan nyalaan lilin: Polis tunggu arahan Peguam Negara. 16.17pm

KUALA LUMPUR: Polis masih menunggu arahan daripada Peguam Negara mengenai sama ada akan mengenakan sebarang pertuduhan terhadap 23 orang yang ditahan dalam perhimpunan nyalaan lilin di Petaling Jaya pada 9 November.

Bercakap kepada pemberita selepas melaporkan diri di Ibu Pejabat Polis Petaling Jaya pagi ini, Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri kawasan Kampung Tunku, Lau Weng San berkata polis memberitahu mereka bahawa belum ada keputusan yang dibuat berhubung penangkapan mereka ketika mengadakan perhimpunan nyalaan lilin itu.

“Kami datang ke sini kira-kira 9 pagi untuk melapor diri memandangkan jaminan polis selama dua minggu berakhir hari ini. Bagaimanapun kami diberitahu jaminan itu tidak akan dilanjutkan memandangkan polis kini menunggu arahan daripada Peguam Negara.

“Anggaplah bahawa kami bebas sekarang sehingga menerima arahan selanjutnya daripada Peguam Negara. Kami berpuas hati dengan tahap profesionalisme polis dalam mengendalikan siasatan mereka berhubung perkara ini,” katanya.

Ketua Polis Selangor, Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar tidak dapat dihubungi untuk mendapatkan ulasan.

Turut hadir hari ini ialah Anggota Exco Kerajaan Selangor, Ronnie Liu dan Ahli Parlimen Petaling Jaya Utara, Tony Pua.

source: Perhimpunan nyalaan lilin: Polis tunggu arahan Peguam Negara

Malaysia's Anwar plans mass rally over govt crackdown

3 hours ago

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's party Sunday announced a mass rally against a government crackdown which he says is aimed at preventing him from seizing power within days.

Anwar said on the weekend that he has enough support to pull off a parliamentary coup, but that the takeover slated for next Tuesday could be delayed by the series of arrests under tough internal security laws.

"The priority is political stability. It's not an issue of deferring, we have the numbers to move," he said, adding he was "mindful" that he too could be targeted with arrest.

Anwar, a former deputy premier who was sacked and jailed a decade ago, needs 30 lawmakers to defect if he is to topple the Barisan Nasional coalition which has ruled since independence from Britain half a century ago.

That prospect would have been unthinkable before March general elections, when his opposition alliance shocked the nation by denying the government its two-thirds majority in parliament for the first time.

Since then the coalition has been in disarray, and the arrests on Friday of an opposition politician, a prominent blogger and a journalist raised fears of a widespread campaign against dissent.

"Instead of pursuing a reform agenda it has chosen to burn the country to save itself and to maintain its odious grip on power," Anwar said.

The three arrested have been accused of inciting ethnic tensions in the multicultural country, but Anwar accused the government of stirring up a phony racial crisis in order to deflect attention from its own problems.

"We ask the government how far it is willing to go to usurp justice and destroy the institutions of good governance in its attempt to drive the Malaysian people against each other," he said.

The opposition alliance said it expected some 30,000 supporters to gather for the rally at a suburban stadium on Monday night to call for the release of the two still detained, after the journalist was freed Saturday.

It will be held on the eve of September 16, Anwar's deadline to seize power and also the day in 1963 when the Borneo island states of Sabah and Sarawak joined together with Malaya to form modern Malaysia.

"We gained independence but Malaysians continue to live under repression. We believe Malaysia Day should symbolise freedom, justice and equality," said Tian Chua, information chief of Anwar's Keadilan party.

"The gathering at Kelana Jaya stadium is to express our solidarity for the two people held under the draconian security law and to demand their freedom," he told AFP.

Rights groups have condemned the use of the Internal Security Act (ISA), which allows for indefinite detention without trial, and the United States summoned Malaysia's top envoy in Washington in protest over the arrests.

Opposition lawmaker Teresa Kok, from the Chinese-based Democratic Action Party which is a member of the opposition alliance, was arrested over allegations she complained about the noise of morning prayers at a mosque.

She has said the accusation is "preposterous".

The other detainee is Malaysia's leading blogger, 58-year-old Raja Petra Kamaruddin, who has repeatedly targeted government figures on his website "Malaysia Today".

He has already been charged with sedition and defamation after linking Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak and his wife to the sensational murder of a Mongolian woman.

Police quickly released Tan Hoon Cheng from the Chinese-language Sin Chew Daily News who had reported on an outburst from a ruling party member who called ethnic Chinese "squatters".

The politician was subsequently disciplined and the decision to target Tan caused widespread dismay and disbelief including from Chinese-based parties in the coalition.

Three Malaysian newspapers -- Tan's Sin Chew Daily News, The Sun, a free English-language daily, and Suara Keadilan, which is published by the opposition -- were also Friday threatened with suspension.

refer: Malaysia's Anwar plans mass rally over govt crackdown...
AFP - 3 hours ago

An overdue honey; Abdullah and his democracy.

BERITADARIGUNUNG:

I am confused. Opposition was saying for the past few years that Malaysia under Abdullah is very democratic. Abdullah himself agreed to that, in recent press conference that he will be best remembered as that. As far as i remember, only Mahathir labels Malaysia as a police state when he was barred from seeing people and voicing his opinion. Shahrir enjoy the current political climate, which allow him to spit his mind.

I have been thinking that, this particular honey is long overdue, it lost its sweetness and turned sour. Now it will be thrown out the window. Gone are the sweetness, honey and democracy.

Then who will remember Abdullah as a democratic leader? He may be seen as being democratic because for unkown reasons, he let everyone say what they like as he himself has none. This particular issue concern him most, therefore he make it clear to everyone, i am still good, and i will cling to it. The Power for whatever reasons he can think of. I suppose it will very gracious of him to step down and handover to whoever is suitable. Abdullah is just an overdue honey. So is his democracy.

So this is what really happen, in a democratic way, abdullah way:-

News: 1 hour ago

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Malaysia's opposition on Monday accused the government of turning parliament into a "war zone", as armed police sealed off the building amid fears of a protest.

Roads leading to parliament, which are important entry points to the capital Kuala Lumpur, were closed down by at least 400 heavily armed police, causing massive traffic jams that left motorists fuming over the move.

The security measures were put in place as the opposition attempted to hold a parliamentary debate on the shortcomings of beleaguered Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who is fending off calls to resign.

As expected, the parliament's speaker rejected the motion, triggering a walkout of lawmakers from the three-party opposition alliance led by Anwar Ibrahim.

"Today is a day we have never seen before in the history of the country, where parliament has become a war zone," said Anwar's wife, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, who leads their Keadilan party.

Anwar was banned from coming to parliament by a court order. Instead he was called for an interview with police over new accusations of sodomy -- the same charge that saw him jailed a decade ago.

The opposition always denied it was planning a protest and there were no signs of gatherings at parliament. Lim Guan Eng from the Democratic Action Party condemned the decision to roll out police and barbed-wire barricades.

"Why do we put parliament under siege, turning parliament into a police state? It is unnecessary and the government is trying to instil fear using the police," he told reporters.

"Parliament should be open to the public to participate so they can listen to the debates and see how participatory democracy works. What we want to see is democracy in action, not police in action," he said.

Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar defended the police measures, which included officers armed with assault rifles patrolling inside the parliament building, saying they had to take "preventive action".

"I apologise to the public for the traffic jams but the police have to do their job to ensure a smooth access to parliament. With all sorts of threats and intimidation that come out, we cannot wait for things to happen," he said.

Nazri Aziz, the minister in charge of parliament, criticised the opposition's attempt to stage a debate that would have addressed criticisms of Abdullah and accusations that he has lost the country's confidence.

"I think the no-confidence motion is a waste of time. It is eating into the house's time to debate this motion which has no voting element and so it cannot resolve anything," he said.

In the March polls, the opposition alliance won a record number of 82 seats in the 222-seat lower house of parliament.

Anwar -- a former deputy premier who was jailed for six years on sodomy and corruption charges before making a return to politics -- has rattled Abdullah's ruling coalition by saying he is poised to oust the government with the help of defecting lawmakers.

BERITADARIGUNUNG: I am confused. Opposition was saying for the past few years that Malaysia under Abdullah is very democratic. Abdullah himself agreed to that, in recent press conference that he will be best remembered as that. As far as i remember, only Mahathir labels Malaysia as a police state when he was barred from seeing people and voicing his opinion. Shahrir enjoy the current political climate, which allow him to spit his mind.

I have been thinking that, this particular honey is long overdue, it lost its sweetness and turned sour. Now it will be thrown out the window. Gone are the sweetness, honey and democracy.

Then who will remember Abdullah as a democratic leader? He may be seen as being democratic because for unkown reasons, he let everyone say what they like as he himself has none. This particular issue concern him most, therefore he make it clear to everyone, i am still good, and i will cling to it. The Power for whatever reasons he can think of. I suppose it will very gracious of him to step down and handover to whoever is suitable. Abdullah is just an overdue honey. So is his democracy. ... Malaysian opposition says parliament under siege
AFP

Malaysians demand cheap fuel back

By Robin Brant BBC News, Kuala Lumpur

The soaring price of fuel around the world has brought protesters out in many countries.
This includes Malaysia, where the government recently announced a 40% jump in the price of petrol.
Angry opposition groups are calling on a million people to descend on the capital Kuala Lumpur for a demonstration next month.
Outside a mosque in the heart of Kuala Lumpur recently, a handful of protesters gathered with home-made placards. One man chanted, while others around him applauded.
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