As we look forward to our Merdeka Celebration this Monday, with or without the overkill collection of JG displayed on our old cars, we are shocked by another sort of procession in S23 of Shah Alam, complete with a cow head- an arrogant manifestation of racial supremacy and fabricated anger. Why racial supremacy? Because to [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Of 1Malaysia, a Cow Head and a temple in S23
Posted in current & relevant on August 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Of BPR, That Cab Driver and Shima of His Life…
Posted in life is like that on August 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Sometimes you don’t need to conjure a national policy to talk about uniting our diverse society. Sometimes, things should happen at its own course, with more honesty, willingness and understanding. Sometimes, above all those nice big words that I mentioned, what we ordinary people have to do is merely to look around us and try [...]
OF FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY, CHILDREN PARTICIPATION & THE GREY AREAS IN BETWEEN.
Posted in current & relevant on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Freedom of Assembly, should it be a person, I bet he or she will be the most easily misunderstood person if compared to say, Mr. Right to Health or Miss. Right to Food. This, to me is simply because freedom of assembly leaves a strong and influential impact on people as well as the State [...]
SUHAKAM MEDIA STATEMENT ON THE ANTI-ISA RALLY
Posted in current & relevant on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
MEDIA STATEMENT
SUHAKAM: THE RIGHT TO PEACEFUL PUBLIC ASSEMBLIES SHOULD BE RESPECTED
The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) regrets to note that in the process of dispersing the 15,000 stronghold of crowd marched in protest of the Internal Security Act 1960 (ISA) in Kuala Lumpur on August 1, the police have used teargas and water [...]
Of Tear Gas, Anti ISA Rally and Salt.
Posted in current & relevant on August 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So, yesterday it was a battle zone in Kuala Lumpur. Concerned citizens who are armed with conscience on one side, and the Police Force equipped with lots of water cannons, tear gas and I am sure, an insurmountable amount of cowardice, on the other. The score of arrest is tremendous. Perhaps one of the IGP’s KPI/KRA is to [...]
