Tag: BERSIH

Daulat Tuanku 2.0

I don’t care what other people think about our monarchy, I have always thought that they are a necessary part of our formula for government. Regardless of whether people think that the palace worked independently or at the behest of the government, I think that our King managed to cool some heads and lower the temperature.

For now, I think that it is a good thing that our constitutional monarch recognises the legitimacy of the Bersih 2.0 movement. Negotiations were held with people who have been accused of being foreign stooges, plotters to wage war against the king, and of being an illegal organisation.

I guess that with the royal sanction, this illegal rally has just become legal.

Daulat Tuanku.

See you on the 9th. Regardless of whether you are coming or not, wear yellow in solidarity!

Daulat Tuanku

“Stop the madness, I say!”

That’s the essential message coming from the royal palace. Our constitutional monarch, who rarely intervenes in the daily affairs of the people, finally spoke up yesterday in an official statement that basically told everyone to stop the madness.

Hakikatnya, demonstrasi jalanan banyak membawa keburukan daripada kebaikan walaupun niat asalnya baik.

Unlike the government, our constitutional monarch refrained from calling the street rally an illegal one and acknowledged that the original objectives were good ones while expressing doubts on that the ultimate outcome may not be a good one if people take to the streets.

Personally, I think that the king’s statement is a logical and sensible one. The royal palace wants everyone to talk. However, our IGP has already slammed the door shut on all negotiations. Knowing how the police works, I doubt that they will heed the advice from the palace.

Our PM has generously offered the use of a stadium to hold the rally but unfortunately, I doubt that there is a stadium big enough to hold everyone since there are indications that there might be more than 100,000 people on the streets this weekend.

I wonder how things in the country will be like come Sunday morning.

Bersih 2.0 Unlawful

If you want to make sure everyone turns up at an event, outlaw it.

Now, the government has done it – they have declared Bersih an unlawful organisation and the rally an illegal one. By doing that, they have ensured that the crazies are all going to turn up. Forbidden fruit always tastes sweeter and all that.

“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet.” — Tom Robbins.

Our government needs new advisors. Hisham is committing career suicide by doing this. It will come back and bite him in the ass in the future. The government should join in the “love”.

MCMC Work-around

As our Malaysian government begins to renege on the MSC Bill of Guarantees and starts to censor block access to more websites, it is important to understand that there are ways to work around this for now.

The MCMC will illegally typically request that an ISP block access to a website and the ISP will normally comply by blocking the website on their own DNS cache. For example, TMNET has blocked TPB and any DNS request to them will return an error.

The DNS system is a way to convert a human legible address e.g. “thepiratebay.org” to a machine address e.g. 194.71.107.15.

The simplest way to work around this is to tell your PC to use a different DNS provider, such as Google’s Public DNS service. The instructions on how to do this is provided by Google.

This will work until our ISP blocks all external DNS access, which they can technically do. However, that would have very strong repercussions on the whole issue of censorship. That said, it is still possible to work around that even if they do block DNS services.

Xanthophobia Posters

Finally, some nice posters! Print them on bright yellow paper.







Najib vs Bersih

An article in TheStar today reported that, “The July 9 rally organisers will be held responsible if the rally causes chaos in the country, warned Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on Sunday.”

I think that it is unfair to do so. It is the job of the police to ensure that things remain peaceful. If there is any party that should be blamed for any chaos, it’s the police.

Our local police should learn from some of their foreign partners on how to facilitate rallies so that they do not disrupt traffic and business too much.

Furthermore, if there is any party that is going to cause chaos in the country, it is likely to be the PERKASA group, whom have been very vocal with their intentions.

Like the adage goes, if you cannot beat them, join them. It would have been an unexpected move if our local police grow up from being bogeymen and became facilitators instead.

The article goes on further to quote our PM as saying that, “We do not want to win elections based on manipulation. We want to win because the rakyat supports and trusts us.”

That’s rich, coming from the person who engineered the defection of several state assemblymen and grabbed power in a state, expressedly against the results of the elections.

Sigh.

Fear Mongering

What can I say – we have only ourselves, as Malaysian citizens, to blame for putting jokers like him into parliament.

I’d advise all Malaysians to listen to the whole speech but the juicy part happens at around 13:30 where “anything can happen”.