When liberty comes with hands dabbled in red blood it is tough to shake up hands with her.- Oscar Wilde
Abdar Rahman Koya's'In defence of attack a barricades during Dataran'is nothing some-more than a bellicose, pro-Anwar Ibrahim polemic which should be rejected by all right-thinking Malaysians interested in non-violent protests, which during this impulse is a possible entrance for helpful change in Malaysia.
Abdar Rahman laments a actuality which a equates to of electoral reform has been sidelined by a assault upon Apr 28, though nonetheless chooses to worship those who partook in it as well as ridicule those who were there for a pacific non-violent criticism as well as their annoy during those (whoever they have been as well as for whatever reason) who may have annoyed which assault by attack a barricade.
He assumes these 'law-abiding citizens' have not asked those critical questions which he thinks applicable such as 'which law' as well as 'whose courts' forgetful a actuality which there were many protesters who were repeat offenders of previous Bersih marches who obviously overlooked 'u! njust la ws' imposed by an 'unjust regime' to attend those marches.
What Abdar Rahman does not seem to cruise is whoever pennyless by those barricades did not cruise a some-more critical compress in between a ubiquitous open as well as a Bersih steering committee for a pacific non-violent protest.
They (and him) did not cruise a assorted alternative seductiveness groups who were there similar to a Himpunan Hijau transformation as well as assorted alternative NGOs which signed up for a non-violent criticism as wel! l as who concluded with a parameters a Bersih steering committee concluded to.
In alternative words, what was some-more critical than a state laws were those 'laws' which these assorted interests groups as well as a ubiquitous open made in between themselves - 'laws' which those (for whatever reasons) who pennyless by a barriers had no respect for. This to me is a some-more gross offence.
Our answer to a Rio carnival
The writer's sycophantic colours have been upon unapproachable arrangement when he mocks those who he thinks have "an innate allergy" to antithesis parties similar to PAS as well as PKR forgetful (again) which Malaysians have been choosing by casting votes across racial as well as eremite lines as well as a little of them (indeed) a good apportionment were substantially marching though who did so underneath non-partisan banners, much similar to how PSM's S Arutchelvam as well as PKR's R Sivarasa reminded those before them which this was a Bersih non-partisan march.
They did this since they wish electoral reforms as a safeguard opposite any domestic celebration subverting a will of a rakyat.
And no, being pacific does not mean abiding to unfair laws. It equates to abiding to a will of a infancy who were there to criticism in a pacific demeanour those unfair laws which enslave us.
Bersih was in law a answer to a Rio carnival. It was a fair of people of opposite races as well as creeds marching together underneath a usual ensign for a betterment of all, instead of despicable devotees to domestic parties which have compromises upon a interest which usually benefits usually them.
It was a multiracial, multireligious street celebration which is what this type of system of administration fears a most. They fright people of all races as well as religions coming underneath a usual cause, even wo! rse a no n-partisan equates to of their own free will.
Folks who were outshouting those who screamed 'reformasi', as well as you know for a actuality there were many PKR supporters who did this, did so to remind their fellow protesters which this was bigger than a mere domestic parties which claim to represent us.
We were not forgetful anything though solely a domestic allegiances for a impulse by advocating something which were bigger than a petty domestic celebration concerns.
Non-partisan protest
Abdar Rahman's dig during blogger Marina Mahathir's indebtedness for Bersih co-coordinator S Ambiga's capability to pull in a crowd by reminding her of a numbers Anwar managed to pierce during his post-Umno exile is lovable though rsther than misleading.
I was a singular of a so-called 100.000 who were there in 1998 as well as you was there (in a symbolic gesticulate to my PAS comrades) with a mostly Malay crowd who were there looking for their next messiah.
Since afterwards Anwar's fortunes have shifted since of people similar to Ambiga as well as a becoming opposite domestic as well as social landscape cognizant which multiracialism is a many appropriate antidote to Umno's racist venom.
Of course! , there was a clever anti-BN vibe upon Apr twenty-eight though for a many part many people had no complaint compartmentalising their domestic affiliations as well as a aims of this non-partisan protest.
And a law is you did not go there to intentionally mangle a law. And a many critical thing to recollect is which breaking a law does not mean enchanting in violence. We can mangle a law, as well as in law many of have, though you do this by non-violent means.
And what disgust me about Abdar Rahman's square have been these words: "The barricades blocking a impetus int! o Datara n Merdeka have been a clearest as well as many discernible pitch of a government's passion to a typical public."
No. Every day you have been greeted by a government's discernible passion towards typical adults by a racist promotion Umno members their outsourced thugs as well as their promotion organs pour as well as a unfair demeanour in which laws have been imposed upon opposite ethnic groups.
I despiseUtusan Malaysiafor example as well as if there was a pacific criticism opposite this 'newspaper' you would never disciple attack this Umno spokesman or harming a personnel even though they incite 'us' each singular day.
For a moment, leave a attack of barricades to Umno, similar to when Umno Youth (supported rsther than sensitively by BN Youth)stormed a Asia Hotel when a East Timor assembly was going on.
Or how about former Anwar stalwart Zulkifli Noordin (with a help of a police) attack theBar Council interfaith meeting.
Emotional blackmail
We charge a barricades, afterwards what? What does this show solely which pacific demonstrations will always be hijacked by those who think they know better than a infancy who were there.
What does this grasp though fool around into a lies of a Umno regime? What of a adults who were there, satisfied to criticism as well as after vent their annoy in a choosing by casting votes booth? What of a children who could have been harm since a little people have no thought which there have been assorted kinds of restraint which should be dealt with in opposite ways depending upon a situation?
And let's not forget which earlier or later, confrontations similar to these will spin into racial ones with Umno coming down upon minority groups for a solitary purpose of destabilising a opposition.
If you wish to fool around Tahrir Square heroes, have a goodness to surprise people which this was a objective of a protest. Have a bravery of your convictions as well as allow others to demonstrate a same joining by giving them a choice to attend these violent confrontational protests.
Don't h ijack a equates to as well as afterwards claim a moral high belligerent by equating what is function in Malaysia with a narrow-minded dispute in Egypt or a CIA/MI6-muddled Iranian revolution.
Gandhi's salt marchers stood by peacefully as they were thrashed by a British-sponsored internal battalions. Rosa Parks did not reason up a bus to get in though rsther than planted her ass upon a chair as well as refused to move.
And when Umno decides to make a genuine wall as opposed to a metaphoric ones separating citizens, I'll be there helping to rip it down as you do a metaphoric ones by in attendance these non-violent meet-ups. Don't piss in my ear as well as tell me it's raining.
I think a Umno system of administration regulating representative provocateurs were behind a assault though if Anwar or any one compared with PKR gave a orders to charge a barricade, it only shows how desperate they have been for domestic mileage during a responsibility of a estimable equates to which many people attended bona fide.
I reject them as you do a extreme military assault inflicted upon them... upon you who would have been unapproachable to participate in a storming.
But don't you brave try to emotionally blackmail those who disagree with those people who stormed a block by alluding to historical events which you corrupt to a Malaysian context.
Don't you brave ridicule those people who ! attended in goodwill, many substantially receiving their initial indeterminate stairs into ! publical ly objecting to this system of administration in a non-violent manner.
Don't you brave ridicule a feel-good fair atmosphere of a multiracial impulse in Malaysian story of undeserving of approval since it falls reduced of your 'revolucin' pose.
Abdar Rahman laments a actuality which a equates to of electoral reform has been sidelined by a assault upon Apr 28, though nonetheless chooses to worship those who partook in it as well as ridicule those who were there for a pacific non-violent criticism as well as their annoy during those (whoever they have been as well as for whatever reason) who may have annoyed which assault by attack a barricade.He assumes these 'law-abiding citizens' have not asked those critical questions which he thinks applicable such as 'which law' as well as 'whose courts' forgetful a actuality which there were many protesters who were repeat offenders of previous Bersih marches who obviously overlooked 'u! njust la ws' imposed by an 'unjust regime' to attend those marches.
What Abdar Rahman does not seem to cruise is whoever pennyless by those barricades did not cruise a some-more critical compress in between a ubiquitous open as well as a Bersih steering committee for a pacific non-violent protest.
They (and him) did not cruise a assorted alternative seductiveness groups who were there similar to a Himpunan Hijau transformation as well as assorted alternative NGOs which signed up for a non-violent criticism as wel! l as who concluded with a parameters a Bersih steering committee concluded to.
In alternative words, what was some-more critical than a state laws were those 'laws' which these assorted interests groups as well as a ubiquitous open made in between themselves - 'laws' which those (for whatever reasons) who pennyless by a barriers had no respect for. This to me is a some-more gross offence.
Our answer to a Rio carnival
The writer's sycophantic colours have been upon unapproachable arrangement when he mocks those who he thinks have "an innate allergy" to antithesis parties similar to PAS as well as PKR forgetful (again) which Malaysians have been choosing by casting votes across racial as well as eremite lines as well as a little of them (indeed) a good apportionment were substantially marching though who did so underneath non-partisan banners, much similar to how PSM's S Arutchelvam as well as PKR's R Sivarasa reminded those before them which this was a Bersih non-partisan march.
They did this since they wish electoral reforms as a safeguard opposite any domestic celebration subverting a will of a rakyat.
And no, being pacific does not mean abiding to unfair laws. It equates to abiding to a will of a infancy who were there to criticism in a pacific demeanour those unfair laws which enslave us.
Bersih was in law a answer to a Rio carnival. It was a fair of people of opposite races as well as creeds marching together underneath a usual ensign for a betterment of all, instead of despicable devotees to domestic parties which have compromises upon a interest which usually benefits usually them.It was a multiracial, multireligious street celebration which is what this type of system of administration fears a most. They fright people of all races as well as religions coming underneath a usual cause, even wo! rse a no n-partisan equates to of their own free will.
Folks who were outshouting those who screamed 'reformasi', as well as you know for a actuality there were many PKR supporters who did this, did so to remind their fellow protesters which this was bigger than a mere domestic parties which claim to represent us.
We were not forgetful anything though solely a domestic allegiances for a impulse by advocating something which were bigger than a petty domestic celebration concerns.
Non-partisan protest
Abdar Rahman's dig during blogger Marina Mahathir's indebtedness for Bersih co-coordinator S Ambiga's capability to pull in a crowd by reminding her of a numbers Anwar managed to pierce during his post-Umno exile is lovable though rsther than misleading.
I was a singular of a so-called 100.000 who were there in 1998 as well as you was there (in a symbolic gesticulate to my PAS comrades) with a mostly Malay crowd who were there looking for their next messiah.
Since afterwards Anwar's fortunes have shifted since of people similar to Ambiga as well as a becoming opposite domestic as well as social landscape cognizant which multiracialism is a many appropriate antidote to Umno's racist venom.
Of course! , there was a clever anti-BN vibe upon Apr twenty-eight though for a many part many people had no complaint compartmentalising their domestic affiliations as well as a aims of this non-partisan protest.
And a law is you did not go there to intentionally mangle a law. And a many critical thing to recollect is which breaking a law does not mean enchanting in violence. We can mangle a law, as well as in law many of have, though you do this by non-violent means.And what disgust me about Abdar Rahman's square have been these words: "The barricades blocking a impetus int! o Datara n Merdeka have been a clearest as well as many discernible pitch of a government's passion to a typical public."
No. Every day you have been greeted by a government's discernible passion towards typical adults by a racist promotion Umno members their outsourced thugs as well as their promotion organs pour as well as a unfair demeanour in which laws have been imposed upon opposite ethnic groups.
I despiseUtusan Malaysiafor example as well as if there was a pacific criticism opposite this 'newspaper' you would never disciple attack this Umno spokesman or harming a personnel even though they incite 'us' each singular day.
For a moment, leave a attack of barricades to Umno, similar to when Umno Youth (supported rsther than sensitively by BN Youth)stormed a Asia Hotel when a East Timor assembly was going on.
Or how about former Anwar stalwart Zulkifli Noordin (with a help of a police) attack theBar Council interfaith meeting.
Emotional blackmail
We charge a barricades, afterwards what? What does this show solely which pacific demonstrations will always be hijacked by those who think they know better than a infancy who were there.
What does this grasp though fool around into a lies of a Umno regime? What of a adults who were there, satisfied to criticism as well as after vent their annoy in a choosing by casting votes booth? What of a children who could have been harm since a little people have no thought which there have been assorted kinds of restraint which should be dealt with in opposite ways depending upon a situation?
And let's not forget which earlier or later, confrontations similar to these will spin into racial ones with Umno coming down upon minority groups for a solitary purpose of destabilising a opposition.
If you wish to fool around Tahrir Square heroes, have a goodness to surprise people which this was a objective of a protest. Have a bravery of your convictions as well as allow others to demonstrate a same joining by giving them a choice to attend these violent confrontational protests.Don't h ijack a equates to as well as afterwards claim a moral high belligerent by equating what is function in Malaysia with a narrow-minded dispute in Egypt or a CIA/MI6-muddled Iranian revolution.
Gandhi's salt marchers stood by peacefully as they were thrashed by a British-sponsored internal battalions. Rosa Parks did not reason up a bus to get in though rsther than planted her ass upon a chair as well as refused to move.
And when Umno decides to make a genuine wall as opposed to a metaphoric ones separating citizens, I'll be there helping to rip it down as you do a metaphoric ones by in attendance these non-violent meet-ups. Don't piss in my ear as well as tell me it's raining.
I think a Umno system of administration regulating representative provocateurs were behind a assault though if Anwar or any one compared with PKR gave a orders to charge a barricade, it only shows how desperate they have been for domestic mileage during a responsibility of a estimable equates to which many people attended bona fide.I reject them as you do a extreme military assault inflicted upon them... upon you who would have been unapproachable to participate in a storming.
But don't you brave try to emotionally blackmail those who disagree with those people who stormed a block by alluding to historical events which you corrupt to a Malaysian context.
Don't you brave ridicule those people who ! attended in goodwill, many substantially receiving their initial indeterminate stairs into ! publical ly objecting to this system of administration in a non-violent manner.
Don't you brave ridicule a feel-good fair atmosphere of a multiracial impulse in Malaysian story of undeserving of approval since it falls reduced of your 'revolucin' pose.
S THAYAPARAN is Commander (rtd) of a Royal Malaysian Navy.
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