Got an invite last night to attend a dinner tonight hosted by some of the MPs and ADUNs from Selangor.
Obviously an invite from a PR component party and not BN as I do not get invites from BN.
My point?
If there was a rally to be held in KL today, I’m sure there would have been a priority invite to attend the rally and to spread the word rather than an invite to share a meal.
Yet there was no mention of any planned rally!
Got in last night at about 10.30pm and there was aleady a massive jam along Jalan Kuching. Seems there was already a police roadblock there. Enroute to the Wharf, encountered another roadblock just before Eastin Hotel heading towards KL.
And this morning!
Photo from Star online
Star online reports that Syed Hamid Albar apologised for the inconvenience caused to the public but went on to defend the police operations as ‘undertaken in the interest of public security’.
Star online also has another report that police obtained a magistrates court order over the weekend to restrain DSAI, PR and its supporters from holding any rally within a radius of 5km of Parliament, in support of the intended no confidence motion in parliament this morning. According to this report, the ‘court has found Anwar is planning to hold a rally today at 10am to support a no-confidence motion to be tabled in Parliament against Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’.
In another Star online report, DSAI is reported to have denied that there was any planned gathering at parliament today and that the magistrates court order was ‘slander and an abuse of the legal process’ and that lawyers had been instructed to apply to set aside the order.
I’ve been surfing to see if perhaps I missed any announcement of a rally planned for this morning along the lines that the order suggests the magistrate found was planned for. I could not find any.
Has anyone noted any such announcement?
Public rallies of an anti-government nature over the last one year have always been publicised over the net and heavily through the blogs.
If indeed there was such a rally planned, why no publicity through the net this time round?
And if in fact, as DSAI claims, none was planned for, what evidence was put before the magistrates court that would have caused the presiding officer to find otherwise?
And why?
The rakyat were greatly inconvenienced this morning. We have a right to know.
The People's Parliament 
fitr
July 14, 2008
My vote for PKR last election was a vote of protest against BN.
And since then, I try to avoid being apolitical about issues.
But after what happened this morning in the rush hours traffic fiasco, I truly HATE this Barisan Nasional government.
Call for a revolution rally to weed out this government, I will be there.
Shazlan
July 14, 2008
Why you asked? Why not? It’s definitely the best way to intimidate the public and blame everything to Anwar for causing the chaos. Plus, aren’t we living in a police state?
imwatchingu
July 14, 2008
The government is now moving about with their tails between their legs. They are so damn scared even of their own shadows.
walski69
July 14, 2008
You know what? I see two possibilities to this:
1. Paranoia
2. Purposeful inconvenience to the public, then lay the blame on PR, hence giving PR bad PR (pun somewhat intended)
Whatever the reason, this action caused some people I personally know a bit of pain this morning trying to get in to work.
shaike
July 14, 2008
I would like to know, when the police filed an application for the said order. when was the order given? Was it on sunday? Which court sat on a sunday? On what evidence did the magistrate grant the applcation. I can understand that the last time they got the order was for Bersih and Hindraf rally. This time no demonstration took place..
asianguy
July 14, 2008
My guess is that the government was planning something sinister (detention of Anwar?), but whatever it was, thankfully it did not materialise…
ycg
July 14, 2008
well, PR does not have to beg the rakyat to vote them, and bloggers do not need to remind the readers the misdeed by UMNO putras…cos they are doing great by themselves. KUDOS as i am now super pissed with the current government. block my road AND U R DEAD!!
Animah
July 14, 2008
I don’t understand the ambit of the injunction order: a ban from rallies within 5 km from Parliament? If rallies are allegedly illegal anyway (according to the police), why do they seek an injunction? And how can a court order single out Anwar and opposition members? Who are opposition members anyway, as parts of the 5km radius strays into Selangor where the BN is the opposition.
From my days of practice, I recall that there are some strict legal principles which need to be shown to a judge before an injunction can be obtained.
Can you find out more about this order and how it was obtained?
Was hoping an application set aside would facilitate making public the grounds and facts advanced by the police to get the order
I like chopin
July 14, 2008
Rally,Really,Where,When,ah……..?
As lost as you are on this piece of shit….ah,the gomen
lying again,as it always does when it gets desperate.
Last night’s and today’s massive jam is SATU LAGI PROJEK KERAJAAN BARISAN NERAKA for the rakyat.
LIES YESTERDAY,LIES TODAY,LIES TOMMORROW AND LIES EVERYDAY THAT UMNO IS IN POWER(although they faithfully pray 5 times a day and swears on the Quran)
MALAYSIA IS A LAND OF LIES AND LIARS.
Parli-Man
July 14, 2008
This corrupt govt is trying very hard to get us all to choose PR in the next GE…..not that I needed any convincing
vince
July 14, 2008
If we are bullied by the “rightful” govt in constricting roads with NO evidence of any intelligent checking whatsoever WHO do we have to turn to for justice? God? the Agong? Ombudsman? We are truly Asially Screwed. Reducing 3 lane roads to 1 lane with mata mata sitting by eating nasi lemak and drinking coffee is an insane insult to the Rakyat. Why don’t we subcontract our incredible road constriction system to the F1 race track so that Lewis Hamilton has to slow down around them instead of any chicanes – now that’s a profitable thought.
alvin lee
July 14, 2008
BN is now mobilizing all its resources to eliminate all possible threats to them. Let me be clear, its them, BN ,and not the country.
BN has been in power for so long that just the thought of losing would immediately put their mind into defensive mode irrespective of whether the threats are real or just imaginary.
These people have already lost their ability to think and analyse. Fear has overtaken their minds and that has destroyed their ability to think logically.No wonder why we are now seeing so many flip flop decisions .
husain
July 14, 2008
I agree with asianguy {1.39pm} It might be a ploy to distract the public on maybe the detention of DSAI,when he goes to peace hill on their request.
Police state it is ! Im just hoping for a MOTHER OF ALL RALLIES to be held soon.
Enough is positively ENOUGH.
We really dont need more crap anymore.
BaronV
July 14, 2008
I say we should collectively demand Syed Hamid’s immediate and unconditional resignation!!
The very fact that he “apologised” means that he admits that it is his fault as home minister. (though i doubt he had even the slightest shred of regret due to his towering botak arrogance)
In any respectable democracy, public outcry at such a ‘boy cries wolf’ incident that caused such a huge inconvinience to the public would have had heads rolling within hours!! The relavent minister(s) would be forced to resign on the same day and the police would be hit at realy hard.
To resign is the only decent thing to do. I will be writing to malaysiakini to demand Syed Hamid’s immediate resignation. In fact the public should take the police to task. Immagine the ammount of time and petrol wasted because of all their road blocks. If only the police could be sued….then again this is Bolehland anything is possible!
Lets all start a campaign to demand Syed Hamid’s resignation
galadriel
July 14, 2008
tarak! where got rally? this is weird. they r claiming there is a fire without any hint of a smoke.
i guess this is on the surface, a preemptive gesture buy those fella in blue.
the only casualty is the people getting to work today.
I got to work 35 mins late despite leaving earlier than usual.missed morning meeting.
Syed Hamid can take his apology an shove it where the sun and the moon don’t shine.
grrr
john weinthal
July 14, 2008
There was no call at any time to a rally near Parliament or anywhere else.
Road blocks, hence chaos, began Saturday afternoon.
All part of plot to justify introducing State of Emergency – with military to follow on streets after recent joint police/army exercises.
Please be careful and avoid all unnecessary travel.
They are out to harass u and everybody including valuable tourists. Crazy.
Vijay Kumar
July 14, 2008
A case of unreliable intelligence gathering.
Or PKR discovered a mole/s and decided to throw a red herring to test their theory.
To the ordinary rakyat- its just a bloody inconvenience.
Vijay Kumar
shar101
July 14, 2008
The AAB administration’s propensity to get ‘legal’ restraining orders as a preventive tool to stop ‘illegal’ rallies is getting to be the SOP by an inept federal government and an equally incompetent RMP.
My brother-in-law who was in Seremban yesterday phoned me at about 6pm to say that there were roadblocks in Mantin (45 minutes) and Cheras (30minutes) whilst returning to KL. Timeframes stated were the waiting periods to get through the roadblocks manned by a bunch of dis-interested cops.
The PROTES rally on 6th July ’08 had massive police presence and roadblocks within the Kelana Jaya vicinity two days prior to the event and practically none on the day itself although Haris’s legal eagle eye noted some suspicious characters hobbling around the top-side of an adjacent building.
It would seem that every opportunity is used by BN to inconvenience the masses in the name of public security as if they are doing something positive for Malaysians. If there is such a thing as a shadow government, then it must be waiting to replace the current ‘pretend to be genuine’ administration.
And we are told by AAB not to listen to rumours. The inconvenient truth of GE12 is still lost to him.
Patricia
July 14, 2008
Hi Haris,
Been away for the weekend, and crawled home from the point we reached Seremban, from PD, all the way home. This was around 10 something. I think there was a roadblock earlier – could see police on the side just before the toll station at Sg Besi. If this was planned to make us mad, it succeeded. I guess we’re gonna be made mad many more times in the near future, eh?
Pat
amoker
July 14, 2008
Anything that goes wrong, it is DSAI. What an easy scapegoat. Syed Hamid need to resign. After bothing up Pulau Batu Putih with less than adequate preparation & even doctored photos, he made a mother of all mistakes by lying to the public. There is no rally planned. And his apology is not accepted when people sengsara in the traffic jam for long hours.
Since KL and Selangor is now under Pakatan, UMNO does not need to care for them any more. Put the whole state under curfew and police/ military rule. Fascist.
AuntyG
July 14, 2008
What SHITHEADS ordered the roadblocks and grossly inconveniencing the rakyat!! I’m no Anwar diehard fan
nor anti-BN. But just thinking aloud – if BN appear to be so afraid of Anwar for every little move he makes or reportedly intend to make (where’s the rally anyway?)
so does that answer the question who is weak and who is strong ???
Visvanathan M
July 14, 2008
The police has been reduced to a mere political tool of the BN! BLOODY NONSENSE!!!
Oneman
July 14, 2008
Roads closed for “security reasons.”
Give me at least one reason.
Politicians fighting, we rakyat inconvenienced.
Meng
July 14, 2008
“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed,law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded,
by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured,
numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed
under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harrassed,
hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is
government; that is its justice; that is its morality.”
P. J. Proudhon, _General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century_
http://www.spunk.org/library/quotes/sp000102.txt
hahaha
July 14, 2008
The biggest culprits are the lapdogs from the BN govt.
The Home Minister should slap ISA on those responsible for the rumor. (We bloggers are well behaved, we are more sensible and responsible than you thought.) oooops! I forgot, he is on the same side.
Hey Botak! don’t keep on apologising, it is no blooming joke to inconvenient the rakyat for your own political end. This country does not belong to you goons!
matt
July 14, 2008
It is said never play chess with a grandmaster,well in the end DSAI’s checkmate came like a slap to face of bn govt.Well done DSAI.
malayamuda
July 14, 2008
cant the dumb police differentiate btwn people who are going to work, parents taking their children to school and people who are attending a rally ?
Damn the police man….they have no brains at all. They’re just good at taking orders from the BN without even analysing it…………..
The traffic was stagnant this mornig from Kajang to Bangi and the police werent even checking. Just narrow the 3 lanes to 1 for fun ?
May Thia
July 14, 2008
We Protest, Road BlockS to Block “Protests”. Isn’t this abuse of our system?. Every single person has something to do in KL suffered today! OVER WHAT? Doesn’t make sense but waste $ens.
mugabe
July 14, 2008
In Zimbabwe we fever cars and motorists, so it is easier for us to catch and nab our disloyal Opponents.
We Zimbabweans don’t believe there should exist any Opposition. Opposition are American and Jewish stooges.
The Police and Army belong to our National Zimbabwe Party , we control them .
Long Live Zimbabwe Timur !
TJ
July 14, 2008
Haris,
I admire your and other bloggers’ tenacity in continually pointing out the absurdities of the Bloody Nonsense BN.
Today’s siege of the Parliament and the nonsensical road blocks by our police force is not a good sign. Not a good sign at all. Till the next GE (unless Anwar, somehow, in some way seizes power), I forsee more talking downs, dumbing downs and beating downs of the population by our present government. It seems such a long haul to our next opportunity to exercise our democratic right to boot out BN once and for all, I am despairing already.
Pak Lah’s promise of 2 years of further reforms? Hahahaha……I almost fell off my chair. Whoever believe this drivel of a promise must surely be raving mad or from planet Pluto.
Knowing Malaysians, fatigue will set in, they will then switch off caring only for themselves and loved ones and leaving everything to rot in hell.
Thank you for your blog, Haris and countless others in keeping the important issues alive so that such fatigue can be fought. And hopefully collective disgust continuously kept alive so that we will, one day soon, bury BN for good.
KL Folk
July 14, 2008
This is just another tactic by Police Jadi Raja Di Malaysia (PJRDM) trying to stir the public anger and blaming PR for the mess. Happened during Bersih and Bar Council peaceful walk etc.
Trying to test our patience? What the hell need ROAD BLOCK IDIOTS?! Think rakyat will fall into the SAME OLD SILLY trick again?
Police Day rehearsal – Road Closure
OIC – Road Closure
Agong B’day rehearsal – Road Closure
National Day rehearsal – Road Closure
Bloody gomen why don’t close down the whole KL and declare public holiday. How to expect increase in efficiency and productivity with all this nonsense going around in the capital city.
This BN goons TARAK hope already. Rakyat Malaysia have to kick them out ASAP latest by the 13th GE!
malayamuda
July 14, 2008
Pak Lah will sleep for another 2 yrs and dream of reforms. If he over sleeps he will be C4ed by you know who……
RAKYAT
July 14, 2008
The More ROAD BLOCK ! THE more NEAR BN Hangkang !
MAKE US more hard in our life ! WAT THE HELL TO BLOCK SINI BLOCK SANA ! ITU MINYAK KERETA KEEP BURN LAR !!!! DAM IT !!! I also vote PKR COS I HATE THE DACING LOGO !
AFTER NOW< I COMFIRM MYSELF I WILL VOTE PKR FOR EVER !!! DAM IT !!! PDRM< SPR < UMNO < HAKIM < SEMUA SAMA SATU MACAM ! SEKARANG PARLIMENT LAGI JADI BN !!!!! MANA HAK KAMI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RAKYAT !!!!!!!!!!!!! BANGANG BUTL LAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
malayamuda
July 14, 2008
these jokers BN and police are you ” security concerns ” and the advice of their police ” intelligence ” that there may be a security threat.
I can bet my last dollar that indeed if there is a security threat the police / army will not be able to handle it. They probably wont know what to do after ” makan gaji buta ” and ” rasuah ” for so long.
They will then probably beg JI, LTTE and others to come help them……….wearing uniform alone is not enough you suckers !! Learn how to make a decent living for once !
I’m quote one Bukit Aman officer from the IGP’s office ” Bukan semua police berani Tuan, saya cakap betul, saya tak berani Tuan “
Z
July 14, 2008
read this here, and see for yourself how ‘effective’ these police are to the rakyat!
clk
July 14, 2008
We’ll they’re trying to pin the “symptom” of the problem to the opposition.
However the “root-cause”; is why the Govt has screwed-up the Nation/people to the extent that it has given the opposition so much ammunition?
rajraman666
July 14, 2008
The devil666 in me – after increase petrol price i enjoy driving – everyday like Hari Raya -less car.
Angel in me – worried about the poor – everything increase.
This BN morons spoil my day stuck in traffic.
Time is money and the BN is wasting my $.
The morons will keep waste tax payer $ for their benefits.
rajraman.WHO IS THE RUMOUS MOGGERS NOW? BN,PKR OR BLOGGERS?
Meng
July 14, 2008
“”Damn the police man….they have no brains at all.””
If they have brains they would not be in the Police Force.
——
It is a psychological move to inconvenience the raayat
and hopefully putting the blame on DSAI. It is also a show what they can do short of having a curfew. We are in the early stage of becoming a Police State.
The funny thing is the State own its own has no power. We were the one that have given them the power by voting them in. With the apparatus they have, they are monopolizing the public attention through the media and proportionately reducing the raayat social power throught security means/measures. It is a direct challenge to peoples power and hopefully through inconveniences the ppl would be indisposed to further demo.
Sleepy just woke up
yh
July 14, 2008
based on intelligence, there was security threat. in fact, its best the government close down the whole of KL for a week.
then, have DR Ayam organise a press conference and blame PR for the loss of business with their planned rallies which necessitate the closure of KL. Hooray, BN will win hands down in the next election.
dont believe me? asked Badawi. he just dreamt about it. And the Botak Hamid is gonna be the executioneer!
vanee
July 14, 2008
Ya..i was wondering too.
UMNODU
July 14, 2008
Hie Haris,
Yes, there was no protest (except for PR MPs who can’t stop protesting…sigh). Yes, the police were made to look like fools. Yes, everyone’s pissed about the road-blocks. Yes, now even more people hate the police and by extension Barisan. Yes, now Anwar Ibrahim is definitely right…
Who benefits in the end?
We’ve got Pak Lah weighing us down. PR should consider DSAI as a burden too.
Read more @ http://www.suaradu.com
Paul Warren
July 14, 2008
Since 4 or more could constitute an illegal assembly and when they walk together may constitute a rally, and Anwar would have been expected to go to the police station with no less than 4 others with him, would that court order have had the effect of his becoming arrestable had he gone to any police station within 5 kilometers of Parliament? Any idea which police station he was supposed to go to?
Menyalak-er
July 14, 2008
Sdr Haris, why are you so blur?
There was definite intel regarding ‘clear & present danger’ – it came from(and was only available to pdrm and atdrm) heat generated by a very, very low wattage bulb called UM-no.
But even this very dim light can bounce off a shiny Botak-head, and light up 5km radius of ridicule, angst, hatred, disgust, nausea and even ‘mencemarkan’ our august squeeker of parliament!
I believe this is the proper description of ‘Terminal’ paranoia, whatmore when object of their desire refused to play-play with them on peace-hill…
Cheers.
RKP
July 14, 2008
We support Pakatan Rakyat all the way to victory,soon!
mauryaII
July 14, 2008
Why are the BN goons scared stiff of DSAI? The very mention of his name sends these useless oafs into a brainstorming (or is IT arsestorming} session as to find ways to stop him and the imaginary rallies. The BN scumbags seem to be at a loss and running around like headless chickens. As if botak and his idiocy of equating anything and everthing with national security was not enough, the Nazi in Parliament has the cheek to say that where the Parliament is concerned, he is the head honcho, not the IGP or the mamak at the teh tarik stall.
WHO CARES WHO IS WHO? DON’T BULLY THE RAKYAT FOR WANTING AREAS WHERE THE GREY MATTER MATTERS.
With the sleepy LAH’ forever dozing off, everyone in the BN has become the BOSS to do as HE pleases. SEMUA BLOLEH IN BODOWILAND. ONLY THE RAKYAT SUFFER BECAUSE OF THESE MORONS.
The BN is even scared to call for a vote in Parliament to decide on sleepy LAH’s fate!
mauryaII
July 14, 2008
sorry for the …WANTING AREAS WHERE ….
It should have been …WANTING IN AREAS WHERE THE GREY MATEER MATTERS.
mauryaII
July 14, 2008
AH! ANOTHER TYPO: GREY MATTER and not MATEER. Sorry folks.
George
July 14, 2008
Again another ploy to flame DSAI for the rally? was there any rally, but except roadblocks??? Where the proof, but only hearsay from a reliable source from BN UMNO moron themselves…
This tell me that the BN government is damn so scare to openly debate on vote of confidence at Parlimen and so afraid of losing their power and control…
They have risen the petrol price by 41% to control us. again, they give 1mil each to sabah and sarawak to claim the politikus there and to gain control… They making the full use of Police and judges to control the people on the move and freedom…and control their movement…but do not forget our Thinking mind are never ever can be control…and u know what i trying to say here…
Jimmy Chin
July 14, 2008
We as rakyat has the right to know the REASON!!! A good and an acceptable answer…. just 2 words “security reasons”??? OMG… it caused everyone that caught in the jam today more than 2 hours!
Mr Syed Hamid – resigned!! You should be the “House Maker”!!
suresh
July 14, 2008
KL folks my sincere request to you all!
The next time if there was a deliberate attempt by polis to cause inconvenience to public in the pretext of national security, please, please stay put your vehicle right where jam is. locked it and leave the venue. By stranding thousands of vehicle we could please the polis so much. After all this is what they want.
tamade
July 14, 2008
Frankly, the police has over-reacted and millions of apologies will not save the ass of angry and frustrated motorists and people who are in the rush hour. The PR is not so stupid to ask their supporters to go to the street on working days.
May be the CPO should be sacked, Nazri and Syed Hamid should be sacked. There is no sign where PR supporters are going to the street on monday and why should the police and their political masters react in this way? If they are so afraid, they can always atation their personels in front of the parliament if they want. Why road blocks everywhere? Why court order?
These Cab Min now so free? The police so free? After makan, nothing to do huh? Criminals and illegals are roaming on the streets, why none of the Fed Guomen Min bothers? What the hell is going on?
Is the Guomen going to introduce curfew soon and they are trying to make the people get used to it? If not, why the frequent road blocks? Very weird, isn’t it?
The country’s economic situation is in shambles and yet this fed guomen is so over-zealous in “sodomy” and oppressions on the Rakyat, what’s wrong with their brains?
Looks like the federal guomen in Bolehland and their mins are fighting with shadows. How pathetic.
goldenscreen
July 15, 2008
Guys, the police was deployed not to prevent a phantom rally but to lock down the entire Parliament and KL in case the government is toppled in Parliament by the PR’s no-confidence motion. In the event PR obtained enough numbers to topple BN, the police must be close at hand to undo the toppling of BN, by whatever means necessary. They also had to control KL in case word of police interfering in the democratic process is revealed which would mobilize PR supporters to take to the streets. Therefore, they had to control the streets first.
We can learn a valuable lesson from today. The government is paranoid to the point of psychosis. They are also not sure whether their MPs are biding their time to join PR to topple BN or not. If they are so sure PR could not topple the government in Parliament, then they wouldn’t have brought out the storm troopers in the first place. Which means they suspect that some of their MPs have already defected in all but name. More importantly, the government’s actions will lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy.
However, I still believe that now is not the right time for PR to take over. Najib MUST come to power first before UMNO is toppled. Some prophecies are just meant to be aka RAHMAN.
anniyann
July 15, 2008
Aiyoyo! the present govt of BN has gone cuckoo! I name them the Great Pretenders! Simply put: You can wake up a guy who is really sleeping. Try waking up a guy who is pretending sleeping. The BN govt and the PDRM has brought shame to Malaysia TODAY! Badawi, what you doing? U can fool some people all the time and all the people sometime. BUT U FOOL! U CANNOT FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME. Show some classlah U really OTC!
ttc
July 15, 2008
Howdee 🙂
General rule in equity: Cock-ups which cause you undeserved loss deserve to be compensated.
So suggest those who wasted their (expensively-hiked up) petrol/hard-earned cash and valuable business work time because of the nasty road-blocks put up in KL by the PRDM for no reason at all, send in Rakyat’s expense claim forms to Syed Hamid Albar to request compensation for the wasted resources and ensuing inconvenience caused from the cock-up.
Suggest you also insist that Syed Hamid Albar does not (try to cleverly) opt to pay the compensation claims out of taxpayers’ (so your/rakyat’s) coffers but instead pay the claims from:
•his own pocket (and from his net, not gross pay), or
•his Ministry’s allocated budget, or
•the IGP’s pocket/net pay, or
•the PDRM’s allocated budget.
Suggest you do this from now onwards for every cock-up inflicted on the rakyat for no justifiable reason.
If the Minister/IGP does not agree to pay you, suggest you ask nice lawyer Haris to start a class action on your behalf against Syed Hamid Albar for gross and unacceptable incompetence in the discharge of his professional duties to the Rakyat.
WE SAY YEAH! 🙂
anna brella
July 15, 2008
From Malaysiakini: Asked if police had reliable intelligence on the protests – which did not materialise – Mohd Sabtu said: “Yes. We only act after we check our facts.”
….sorry, but am I..er…missing something obvious in logic here?…”reliable intelligence”?….”check our facts”?….typos?
“Imagine Power To The People” John Lennon
C H
July 15, 2008
Definitely some dastardly and coward actions taken to inconvenience the rakyat. Did you notice that on some of roadblocks set up, you actually don’t see any police monitoring vehicles as they pass. In some, you see them (police) chatting, oblivious of the traffic.
What kind of operasi is this? If it is to frighten the rakyat or to bend the rakyat’s will, I think they are goning about the wrong way. This is the surest way to get the BN fired come the 13th GE, especially if the rakyat do not see any credible “strong evidence” in the hands of this botak Menteri kediaman.
Drachen
July 15, 2008
They can’t use race riots to scare the rakyat so now they use traffic jams. I was stuck in another bloody jam when they raised petrol prices at, what, 6 in the evening? Bunch of numbskulls.
Anyway, I think they wanted to arrest AI on Monday, hence the roadblocks were in preparation for the uproar that would cause.
sinniah
July 15, 2008
Harris,
The next time they do this. We should just park our cars on the road and dont move for a minute. Just sms each other to stop the car wherever we are.
A minute of silence on the road. We can get easily into the Guiness Book of Records, BN would be HAPPY then…
KL Folk
July 15, 2008
The best thing is this Mr PM supported the road block as annouced in the BN controlled radio station this morning.
Mr Botak apologised. Mr PM insisted correct move. Mr PM and Mr Botak should give each other a tight slap for contradicting one other.
On behalf of all KL FOLKS we just wanna say ‘Screwed up big time Bully National!’ Go Fly Kite no more BN!
C
July 15, 2008
Can’t the police do some more productive works than just creating trouble to the public. I believe there are still many crimes unsolved which need to be looked into. Even if there is a rally,are we the public, the innocent civilians be the dangerous,notorious criminals to be guarded or watched?
They are treating us like fools. If there was a rally , where are the light forces armed with those red plastic helmet and shield ? Why only police can be seen?They can’t even produce a rally location. They are just laying more low morale traps by pushing the blames to PR. We are not living in stone age. Can’t you see the difference between kids nowadays and older days? We are not easily fooled like the old days.
I am really afraid that if Najib really take over , our country will become military rule seeing that now we are starting to become police state.
Bigjoe
July 15, 2008
Basically its this. Should the police do something radical like arrest Anwar OR impose a police state because of high oil prices, I say anyone hurt, the first place we go to is Syed Hamid’s house and drag him to the street to a lynch mob…
C H
July 15, 2008
I am all for Suresh’s suggestion. Why don’t we all just shut off and leave our cars on the road as is and go to the road side, find some shade and, if possible, have some chit chat for, say 5 to 10 mins. Let the whole city be at total standstill for this 5 to 10 mins duration.
Our objective – let this botak menteri kediaman fella and his cabinet half wits know that we know what they are up to, and that we collectively give them our come uppance.
Haris, why don’t you use your blog to help spread this?
barry
July 15, 2008
The more roadblocks these stupid monkeys set up in order to punish/intimidate us, the more pissed off we become. Come next GE, we shall punish the monkeys severely.
su
July 16, 2008
Haris, just found out that a Zulkifli Noordin, PKR MP did post on his blog, asking the people to datang beramai-ramai to the Parliament on Monday.
May not be enough to justify the roadblocks, but certainly PKR cannot deny that they had ever asked the people to join a rally?
His blog post:
http://zul4kulim.blogspot.com/2008/07/usul-undi-tidak-percaya-war-is-on.html
I wrote about it: