Finally made it down to Klang.
Cops playing usual game: arrest in Bangsar, detain in Shah Alam, charge in Klang, imprison in Sg. Buloh :|
Was driving in Shah Alam, when Li Tsin (who did an excellent job reporting for Malaysiakini!) said it’s near SK Klang, I was like… ?!?! :P :)
But it was a massive rally.
Certainly upwards of 2k, and this isn’t even Sunday yet.
I’m glad the 2 got out (the 3rd is refusing to come out in protest. I might have heard ‘hunger strike’ somewhere), and it was good to see Uthayakumar again.
A bit too early in the morning to write at length, but I really must note the fiery passion and groundswell you could feel in the crowd.
The Indian community is pissed off, and they’re not taking it lying down any more.
Samy’s panties are in a knot: the media campaign in the NST is massive.
No less than four pages dedicated to demonizing Sunday.
Looks like a) Bersih really shook them up, b) Samy/MIC’s days are numbered.
I mean, I think it’s the first bloody time four pages were ever dedicated to anything Indian :P
Too little, too late.
RACIST RACIAL-RELIGIOUS POLITICS – A DIVIDE & RULE STRATEGY OF THE MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT!!
This corrupted, coward and vicious Malaysian government is so afraid of ordinary people especially from the working class, expressing their discontent and resistance through democratic rights and means, that include through peaceful protests. The main ruling party UMNO’s elite/capitalist class of Malay leaders who professed falsely to be devoted Islamic followers have indeed hijacked the religion so as to be barbaric, uncivilized and abusers of human rights! Being a Malay myself, I’ve only contempt for this elite/capitalist class of Malay leaders who actually manipulate racial-religious capitalist ideology of “Ketuanan Melayu” i.e. Malay-Islamic racial-religious (male) supremacy. To brainwash the (imaginary) united Malay/Islamic communities especially from the mostly brainwashed Malay/Islamic masses, to go on supporting them uncritically despite of these leaders’ betrayal to the whole Malay civilization and Islamic religion! And ashamedly, despite of my high education but due to my ignorance and uncritical consciousness and activism, I myself fell into the trap of such brainwashing strategy of defending such ideologically dogmatic racial-religious supremacy out of a sense of false loyalty and patriotism almost my whole life (thus this is why we need to learn and educate ourselves with critical-thinking education throughout our whole life in order to be true human beings).
Therefore, the whole Malaysian (and hopefully, global) communities need to move towards true socialist politics based on true Marxism – see http://www.marxism.com (not pseudo ones like Maoism, Stalinism, Pol Pot-ism, Milosevic-ism and so on), to fight for true social justice for the poor and oppressed from any background, ABOVE race, religion, gender and nation-hood. That’s where loyalty and patriotism need to be for – that is for true social justice consciousness and activism that encompass true equality, true freedom and other universal and secular-based fundamental human rights principles.
Hopefully, the opposition parties in Malaysia such as the racial- religious Hindu based new party HINDRAF, despite of its good intentions, will also move away from such divisive racial-religious politics towards such socialist one; in order to fight for the oppressed and poor Indian communities. And to fight against the real enemy – the corrupted and greedy criminals of politicians from the ruling elite and capitalist class, be it from UMNO (Malay party), MCA (Chinese party), MIC (Indian party) and so on, although UMNO leaders are the main and most deceitful culprits. That is what and where the opposition parties in Malaysia need to be moving towards, in the new era of Malaysian politics, based fundamentally on true social justice consciousness and activism especially for the poor and oppressed from all backgrounds; and for the preservation of our natural environment. And hopefully, where opposition parties globally also need to be heading towards, especially against the extremely corrupted and vicious “Third World” governments and ruling elite/capitalist class.
Noor Aza Othman,
Selangor, Malaysia.
00-60-125394924.
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Hey Nate, I think this is like a coming of age for Indians in Malaysia who have always sat on the fence.
For the first time, Malaysians are taking notice of them and realising that they do have a voice and representation.
I doubt Semi Value will be out though. He’s kept there by UMNO, not the Indians.
I am a forsaken victim of SUHAKAM since 24-7-2000 after I attended its very 1st historic INQUIRY when they called me up to KL , 500km to-fro IPOH !!