Posts from November, 2007

No Tear Gas And Water Cannon Used At Batu Caves Temple

The above headline is a lie. Your government frequently lies to you, so does the government-owned media and government-owned police.
Who’s the really big liar this time around? None other than Malaysia’s highest ranking police, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan.
From thestar.com.my
KUALA LUMPUR: Demonstrators broke into the Batu Caves temple compound and destroyed temple property [...]

Al Jazeera’s Top Story Report on HINDRAF Rally

Check out the Al Jazeera recording from Youtube.

Video was brought to my attention at reduced and recycled. The blog makes a good point by saying that since the last BERSIH reports were ‘biased’, now they have given a chance to the MIC man from the government to respond. Don’t you think he sounds like Zam, our Information Minister the last time around. “We have elections, people can [...]

HINDRAF Rally Thwarted By Police Violence

For the second time in 2 weeks, police have demonstrated violence by tear gassing and shooting their water cannons at protesters during the HINDRAF rally. Just look at some of the pics below.

Pic byReuters - Protestors being shot by water cannon

Pic by Reuters - Protestors throwing back tear gas canisters

Pic by Al-Jazeera - Protestor Arrested
The [...]

HINDRAF And Their Right To Assemble

Later this morning, a rally organized by HINDRAF will be submitting a 100,000 signatured petition to the British High Commission. The rally has been criticized for various reasons, just as the BERSIH rally was. But really, it just boils down to one thing for me. These are citizens who feel that they have gotten the [...]

Traffic Jams and A Case of Classical Conditioning

Why has the police put up roadblocks in response to the Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) rally planned for this coming Sunday? And why put up roadblocks 3 days before the event?

Pic from thestar.com.my
Here’s why, says City police chief DCP Datuk Zul Hasnan Najib Baharuddin, as quoted in The Sun.
City police chief DCP Datuk Zul [...]

Morons of Parliament: Demolish Christian Statues, Destroy the Crosses

Today, I will introduce you to 2 Morons of Parliament (MP). These 2 MPs recently talked smack in Parliament about Christian missionary schools and even suggested demolishing Christian statues and crosses. The text can be found here on Lucia Lai’s blog, but I will just translate the entire page to the best of my ability. [...]



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