Peaceful Malaysians taking a walk | Photo by Marcus van Geyzel for LoyarBurok
The Peaceful Assembly Bill has been passed amidst accusations of the Bar Council having a political agenda, “Bebas Himpun” twisted into “Seks Bebas”, and the burning of yellow T-shirts.
The Bill has been passed with “unholy haste” and our petitions, our marching, our twitterature has been ignored.
We proved that street demonstrations can be peaceful yet we are faced with the same excuses.
Tomorrow, we will be demonised in the papers as trouble makers, promoters of immorality and opposition puppets.
A week from now, we will be largely forgotten by the media, flooded over by a wave of other news.
Years from now, our children will not know what it means to stand in the street with fellow Malaysians, singing Negaraku, wet and teary eyed.
We now have less rights than the Burmese, the French, the Americans, and the Egyptians.
When does it stop?
Stop it now:
I hope I did not take too much of your time. Thank you for reading, and please do spread the news.
A young Malaysian who attempts to take on the thorny (and occasionally horny) realities of Malaysian politics and its woes in his own tiny, smelly way. A person who has heard the twin arguments of "You youngsters don't care about anything else except Justin Bieber", and "You youngsters shouldn't get involved in what is too advanced for your age" and wants to disprove them once and for all ( especially the Justin Bieber part, ugh!) Read more of his posts at duriandemocracy.blogspot.com, or tweet him @duriandemocracy.
Posted on 29 November 2011. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0.
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