Peaceful assemblers at BERSIH 2.0 get shot at with teargas and chemical-laced water.
But police cannot afford protection to those who wish to make reports at police stations, against the perpetrators of violent disruptions of peaceful meetings?
Violent agitators can gather outside police stations, damage the vehicles of those there to lodge police reports, and get away with impunity?
Even as those in the vehicles in question are leaving the station, under police escort?
Malaysiakini reports that the Solidariti Mahasiswa Malaysia (SMM) forum on academic freedom could not proceed in Klang because the venue was earlier wrecked and blockaded by a group of rowdy youth.
Sounds eerily familiar, does it not?
Forum organisers made their way to Pandamaran police station to lodge police reports on the incident, but were tailed there by the same thugs who prevented the forum proceeding.
Now get this.
According to the news report, due to the tense situation at the Pandamaran station, local police decided to escort the forum reps to the Klang district police headquarters to lodge their report.
Suggesting, therefore, that the cops could not deal with the mobsters outside.
The report also has it that the same thugs tailed the convoy, including the police escorts, to the Klang district police station where, after reports were made, the forum reps were advised not to leave due to the presence of the thugs outside.
“Even at 4am, the gangsters were still outside, we had to escape through another door with the help of local residents,”, Malaysiakini reports the forum rep who was at the Klang district police station, as saying.
This is the police force?
Ganesan (@ghane01)
February 13, 2012
A new phenomena is taking root in Malaysia,”Mob Rule”,hired thugs disrupting civil liberty group’s discussion/meetings.
Who are this thugs,who is harbouring/sponsoring such recalcitrant idiots,could it be Umno,they’d say that they are not involved but all indication seems to point the finger at non other but them.
Are the two incident,one at Shah Alam and another at Pandamaran. a forewarning of what’s to come when the ruling parties lose power in the next election.
We need to make a stand now,that this country belongs to us all and not to a selected corrupted few who’d go to any length to fan racial unrest to stay in power,of course with the help of the police.Lets all come together to say “Enough is Enough”
Socrates
February 13, 2012
The police are contriving not a state of lawlessness, but a perennial state of governance by BN/ UMNO. Isn’t this crystal clear for all to see?? So if the police can’t protect us, it is up to us to protect ourselves … and this will deteriorate into armed gangs, and private armed militias. Of course only the non-UMNO/ BN supporting militias, or vigilantes will be persecuted by the police …
The police is not solving the problem nor are they interested in doing so. Never have. They are only interested in supporting BN/ UMNO who they erroneously see as the hand that feeds them.
shakuntala
February 13, 2012
Never have the police been Ra’ayat friendly. You need ony to watch tear gas being fired and you get the immediate impression that they are a uniform-powerful and power itchy arm of the government.
In brief encounters, some, very few that you can count on fingers, have been approachable, but on the whole, the people regard them as only protectors of the ruling class.
Everyone knows that there is a certain aura about the malaysian police which if translated into words means….” we are the elite police, and we are on the side of the government. You do not count, but you do as we say”
Would you think of happily walking up to a malaysian policeman if you wanted to know the time, for iinstant?
A miserable lot, who create miserable news for us to read.!!
dollah
February 13, 2012
Simple explanation for this.
The forum organisers forgot to pay the police, that’s why they couldn’t even get out of the police station.
fair play
February 13, 2012
If this is the kind of personnel we have in the PDRM, then can the IGP please resign. How can your personnel let these hudlums surround and threatened your police station. How to put our trust in PDRM?
Leithaisor
February 13, 2012
Let us not forget UMNO Youth Chief Khairy and his Gerak Gempur hoods at Ijok, and before that Hisham, as UMNO Youth chief waving, unsheathing and kissing that long keris, and before that, UMNO Youth and assorted louts attacking the APCET II conference hall. Infamous milestones along a road of anarchy?
And of late, Ibrahim Ali and his Perkasa wannabe-wiras, which once featured Armand Azhar swaggering around threatening this and that regularly until he started his PJ Utara UMNO Youth stint.
Some talk about the shadowy Perkida outfit and its alleged agenda, connections and immunity.
Assorted Pakatan related events ranging from by-elections campaigning, ceramahs and functions have increasingly been targeted by goons.
Meanwhile, Najib and his ministers want to spend millions on boosting the membership of RELA and its so-called roles.
And when it comes to the police doing their law enforcement job, what exactly have they done about the above?
Contrast that with FRU and arrests of even peaceful anti-ISA candlelight vigil participants.
Wonderful illustration of “best democracy” as claimed by Najib, and the unmatched job performance of his cousin Hishamuddin “Keris” Hussein as Home Minister, eh?
pathmanp
February 15, 2012
Reblogged this on Angry Malaysian….