Forum Perdana Makkal Sakthi
December 12, 2008
The People’s Parliament
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December 12, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Wishing you all a great success.
FREE ALL ISA DETAINEES NOW
December 14, 2008 at 9:44 am
praise be to allah, be to jesus, be to buddha, be to shiva, be to all gods.
haris, you are doing a great job
December 15, 2008 at 7:16 am
Yesterday morning I remembered the vile injustice that took place in Malaysia on 13 December 2007.
It is deeply sobering to know as I sit here today that even after so much time has elapsed since that fateful day, 365 days ago to be exact, the five Hindraf peace activists – Messrs P Uthayakumar, V Ganabatirau, M Manoharan, R Kenghadharan and T Vasantha Kumar who were all unjustly arrested and detained under the evil ISA – are still being detained at the BN-Government’s unjust and sordid pleasure at their infamous Hotel KDC.
It is also more than a year now since Hindraf chairman Mr Waythamoorthy was forced into self-exile overseas and who sadly is still in that position today I believe, being unable to return to his rightful homeland and family because of the real threat of facing arrest and detention under the ISA from his conscience-less Government who seem not to care at all about the unjustifiable suffering and draconian sentence they have imposed and heaped upon his brother and fellow Hindraf colleagues.
I am angry about this unnecessary and totally pointless self-created mess. I also find it deeply regrettable that good ordinary Malaysians, and especially those who proclaim to be highly and virtuously religious, have closed their eyes, whether ignorantly or deliberately, and allowed this bad state of affairs to befall upon their fellow citizens and their democratic nation by failing to understand their Constitution, their political issues and particularly their politicians and so failing to put the brakes to the corrupt politicking that was being practised over the years with ever increasing impunity by their (self-created) absolute-power mad and hubristic government.
But we all know now that 8 March 2008 changed the status quo in a seismic way. The sterile deadness and pervasive numbness that had veiled the country with a cloud of deadly gloom, like that from an ever worsening terminal illness, seems to have been lifted and finally supplanted with some new hope. New hope to maybe get back in the here and now to that good constitutional starting point in 1957 and to once again work on gathering democratic strength and sustainable momentum to change all the present badness and progress forward in a peaceful united way in great diversity and goodwill.
This new hope is probably what has led to the recent good news about the release of Yazid Sufaat from his unjustifiable incarceration under the ISA for over six years. Yes six, long miserable years in detention without being charged or given access to due process as was his inalienable and also his constitutional right. Treating Yazid Sufaat in that way is an unacceptable and undeniably criminal act in any reasonable person’s estimation, no matter what weaseling out or other devious rationalisation is used to justify the ignoble deed.
I can say without a doubt that the evil ISA has singularly and directly led to this low-point for the nation. A low moment that has undoubtedly not only shamed the present Malaysian Government and brought it into disrepute internationally (much like how the immoral and democratically-cancerous Guantanamo Bay has shamed all decent Americans and which has destroyed, maybe forever, the moral authority/superiority of the USA) but a nadir of a low-point that has also surely shamed every single decent Malaysian citizen. Everyone without exception must take responsibility for what has happened to Yazid Sufaat, to the five incarcerated Hindraf activists and also to all the others now still rotting at Hotel KDC everyday against every moral principle of human justice, not to mention of simple human decency.
But enough of the angry recriminatory polemic for now or if this comes across as uncomfortable preachy sermonising to anyone, sorry I make no apologies for it whatsoever.
To celebrate the new hope, and to do something positive in some way (even if only symbolic and so not really useful straightaway to anyone)to try to make amends to Yazid Sufaat, the Hindraf activists and others who have suffered and are still suffering injustice at the hands of their own government and people from these dreadfully bad-intentioned laws and the unconscionably corrupt governance and politicking taking place – and also to perhaps use the symbolism in this small gesture to help protect Malaysians in the future from suffering again such injustice and discrimination in the darkness through an absence of light – I have adopted an endangered Bengal tiger in India through WWF to act as a symbolic sentinel for the six Hindraf men, for Yazid Sufaat and for the other remaining ISA-detainees.
I would like to reproduce here, if I may, a part of the adoption letter that I received yesterday in the adoption pack from WWF:
“Thank you for adopting Malu Pothi through our tiger adoption scheme. This beautiful endangered Bengal tiger is one of just 5000 tigers remaining in the wild today. By adopting Malu Pothi, you are not only helping to give all these tigers a more promising future, but also helping us to tackle some of the world’s biggest conservation challenges.
Your wild tiger is a magnificent mother of three who lives in the far west of Nepal in the Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve. Suklaphanta is currently home to around 23 breeding tigers and WWF is working here and in other wildlife reserves to promote tiger conservation, carry out research and provide training equipment for reserve staff. We are also working with locals on a number of initiatives designed to create a sustainable future for tigers and other animals.”
WWF have also sent me a handmade soft toy of a tiger and a photo taken of mytiger while she was prowling in her territory at night. The word “Pothi” in her name means female in Nepali and the word “Malu” comes from the region of the wildlife reserve where she’s most often spotted – the Malumela area.
As I would like to send the adoption pack to those at Hotel KDC who she is representing, can I also ask a kind favour from you Haris? Can I send the adoption pack and future progress reports to you so that you can hand it over to Mr Uthayakumar for him to share with his fellow KDC inmates?
I would like Mr Uthayakumar and the other detainees to be able to see this beautiful tiger’s photograph and read about her and perhaps they will manage to find some measure of solace in the thought of her and in the thought that she has been adopted and is being protected in their honour so that she can in turn protect them, and others like them.
I want them to know that someone has understood their real loss, their pain and their suffering. I want them to know that what they have done and what they have undergone in their very personal and lonely battle in the name of human compassion and justice has been recognised and greatly valued.
Please let me know if you can agree to my request.
Finally, I would like to dedicate the song below to you Haris and to all those others now standing up resolutely and being counted in those candlelight vigils, walks, cycling marathons and runs and those who are doing it with just the t-shirts on their backs, because I am proud of you all now that you are standing up together in unity and muhibbah to say NO! to the evil ISA and to also DEMAND that the present BN-Government get rid of all other bad unjust legislation (such as S27 of the Police Act which must surely have been inserted as an amendment by a bad politician to give legal force to an unjustifiable and immoral political intention and to put the police force into a real quandary) by getting the AG or someone else more capable (like Haris) to immediately examine and review all existing laws on the statute book so that the bad ones can be amended or repealed forthwith.
IT’S IN EVERY ONE Of US (From Dave Clarke’s “Time”)
Written by: David Pomeranz
Sung by: Sir Cliff Richard
It’s in every one of us
To be wise
Find your heart
Open up both your eyes
We can all know everything
Without ever knowing why
It’s in every one of us
By and by
It’s in every one of us
To be wise
Find your heart
Open up both your eyes
We can all know everything
Without ever knowing why
It’s in every one of us
By and by
By and by
So please keep lighting up brightly for the good fight my aaBM friends. You will WIN in time because you are fighting for the right thing – for priceless justice against injustice – and you are doing it in the only right way possible to satisfy the infinite principle of Dharma.
“Imagine Power To The People” John Lennon.
anna,
I will send you the mailing address by e-mail.
Consider it done.
July 10, 2009 at 9:20 pm
I want to listen good music!