umNO's police new tactic

Can anyone tell since when it is a crime to videotape an ongoing event in a public place? umNO secret police is doing just that. Is this bolehland is some kind of communist or totalitarian country and we some how have not been informed that videotaping an event in a pubic place is illegal?

I really do not know what is going on in this pathetic third-world, communist state of bolehland. Even in the communist states they will first inform you if something is illegal.

As each day passes the umNO's police is getting bolder and more vicious that ever. Is bolehland a lawless country? They are truly are a biadap bunch of pariah dogs.


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No reason for police to seize our cameras

Ong Boon Keong | Nov 13, 08 3:47pm

I refer to the Malaysiakini's report MCPX Police keep video camera for 'investigation'. With reference to the above report, I would like to bring to your attention to the fact that my video camera, too, was taken by the police at the same vigil. I would like to highlight this as it is a new, bad turn in police conduct because the police are seemingly embarking on a new tactic to stop their repressive acts from being publicised. Instead of cleaning their act and behaving professionally, they are seizing all such equipments which have recorded their outrageous actions for posterity. That night, I was recording from across the road police personnel forcibly pushing the arrested candlelight vigil attendees into a police truck without allowing them to get into the truck by themselves. Police unhappiness over my action caused them to send two personnel to come over to arrest me and to take away my video camera. Is there a law against recording video evidence of police brutality? Or it could be their attempt to wipe out any record of their outrageous, illegal and uncivilised conduct? I was disturbed to hear that there are also other video and camera persons who were forced to erase their photos and recordings or risk being arrested. If the police haven’t done anything untoward, then why take measures to ensure that all recordings and photographs are confiscated? After I was released on police bail, I asked for my camera back for after all, it belongs to me. To my shock, they at first denied any knowledge of the seized video camera. They then sent me to their general inquiry counter where again the police personnel there professed total ignorance of my video camera. They claimed to have a record of the video camera seized from Malaysiakini but none from me. I persisted with my request for over an hour before they brought in two video cameras which they said were seized from the scene of the vigil as `evidence' and as such they wouldn't return the cameras at least until their investigations were finished. One of those cameras was mine. I just wonder what `evidence' they are looking for? The police has their own video-graphers and camera persons to record events. To imply that they need our video footage - and to take it without our agreement - is totally unreasonable besides depriving of our right to use our own property for the duration of their investigations. We need to strongly protest such unjustifiable tactics by the police. This incident further proves that time has come for the police to be watch closely by an external watchdog such as the IPCMC.

PM's 'Anyone can be PM' an outright lie

Once a while I will come across a brilliantly written letter that I think I should reproduce here.
http://www1.malaysiakini.com/letters/92662

PM's 'Anyone can be PM' an outright lie

Richard Teo | Nov 7, 08 4:26pm

Our Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi never ceases to amaze me. Even in the last leg of his tenure, he is still telling lies which any one listening to would know is an outright lie. MCPX His recent statement that ‘anyone can be prime minister' in Malaysia really tops the mother of all his lies. How could anyone from a minority race - either an Indian, Chinese, Iban or Kadazan etc, - be accepted as a PM when the simple appointment of a Chinese woman to be the acting general manager of PKNS could create such a ruckus? Where was our PM when the hue and cry over that appointment took place? Not even a whimper from him and yet he has the gall to tell his audience that 'anyone can be PM’. What about in Perak after the recent general election wheb DAP won the majority of the state seats? Instead of a Chinese assembly person from the major winning party being given the menteri besar’s post (which by convention should have gone to the party winning the most seats) it was instead given to Malay assembly person whose party only won a few seats. Malaysia has a long way to go before it can emulate what Barack Obama has achieved in America. Umno and our present Malay leaders are too deeply entrenched in their Ketuanan Melayu policy that it is unlikely they will ever discard this race-based ideology that has served them so well for the last 50 years. Even the mere mention of the weaknesses of this policy has brought the wrath of the Umno leadership on the erstwhile former law minister Zaid Ibrahim. What more if there is any concerted attempt to abandon this policy in favour of one that does not discriminate against race, colour , creed or religion? Americans have the shown to the world that they have moved beyond politics based on race and that even a miniority race member can become the president of the world's most powerful nation . Unfortunately, in Malaysia we are still mired in racial and religious bigotry. Instead of uniting the various races with a multi-racial policy, they have instead embraced a divide-and-rule policy. This is a policy which emphasises the bumiputera and non-bumiputera dichotomy. And after 50 years of BN rule, our nation has never been more vulnerable. ---------------------------- In case anyone is unaware, the bolehland a.k.a Malaysia is the most racist country in the world. Here only the Malay race can earn certain sponsorships, places at premier schools or the bulk of taxi licenses etc. I can think of no other country in the world that have such discriminatory policies. A simple group of people coming together to fight for their rights as citizens, similar to what the Blacks of USA had done in the past, have been sent to detention without trial. They have been treated like dirt at every turn and here this racist PM of this bolehland has the cheek to say "anyone can be the PM of this bolehland". I hope the newly elected President of USA is aware of what is happening in this bolehland and deny the present racist government of bolehland any preferential economic pack.