10/11

What 4,000 people??

I hope this day would mark a turning point in Malaysia; a day when at least 40,000 Malaysians irrespective of age, race or religion came heeding the call for concrete electoral changes, participating in a peaceful rally in Kuala Lumpur...it was so unfortunate I could not join them as I was away. Nevertheless, my spirit was with them all the way.

As expected the police (aka Government, aka Barisan Nasional, aka UMNO) tried scare tactics to dissuade people from joining the rally...but came they did. On that day, not even water cannons, chemical water or tear gas made any difference; the people made their point. The memorandum was delivered to the Istana Negara as planned. Now the Government has to sit up and listen...

What irks me the most is that the local media hushed the whole event up, with minimal mention of the rally. Is this how journalism has degenerated over the years in this country? Is there no journalists with balls left? So much for press freedom in this country... Thank God for the Internet - now every Malaysian can see for themselves the real news that matters to us!

Let us see for ourselves how the event was carried by the local and foreign media:

The NTV news footage

The Al-Jazeera news footage

And as usual you have those certain individuals who has their foot-in-their-mouth while trying to explain the whole situation (OK, not explaining...more like berating the news channel), and making the country the laughing stock of the international community...

Zam, oh Zam

He did mention that Malaysians are laughing at the reporter for being an actor (maybe what he means is that he is over-dramatizing the whole police action?)...more like Malaysians are laughing at him for his stupidity...

"We are Burma, we are Myanmar?" He also does not know that Myanmar and Burma is the same country now...back to school for Geography lessons?

And hello, the rally is for electoral reforms...everyone knows that it is not about whether elections are held regularly or not...aaaaaaaaaduh!!

Finally, if the police cannot disperse demonstrators in the future, they will compromise and allow the demonstrators to do what they intend to do in the first place!!?? Hell yeah!

Bodoh! Bodoh! Bodoh!

Anyway, here's a link where you can get the pics of the historic day!

P.S.: And I wonder which 10,000 people went for this gathering?