B e n s t a k e s

Since 1998, nothing had so gripped the nation than the charging of and detention of prominent blogger cum webmaster of Malaysia-today, Raja Petra Kamarudin.

Sedition? - Sedicious Tendency? - Irrespective of Intention? These are big and confusing words to me.

"Lets send the Altantuya murderers to Hell" to me, means just that. Give them HELL on earth - whoever or where ever they are. Period.

Peace

The main stream media (MSM) have been feeding us with lies after lies. And whenever they do not tell lies, they do not tell the truth either. We have seen how they spin stories in favour of UMNO and the BN.

Netizens of Cyberspace have had enough. They, especially The Peoples Parliament, decided to take some action and launched a "Tuesdays" boycott of the newspapers. It started with Tuesday 29 January 2008. I have joined in the boycott.

Was it efffective? I didn't know.

Then on Friday 1st February 2008, as it was holiday for Kuala Lumpur, my wife, Maria, went marketing at the open market in Taman Midah. And as usuall, she bought newspapers, the New Straits Times (we had given up on TheStar which we felt was more pro UMNO then the UMNO owned NST). As I was getting ready to go and witness the action (pix on right) termed "Biadab" by Abdullah Badawi, I picked up the papers and was reading the front page news.

Hey, wait a minute, it looks like I have read this news before. I then asked Maria "Did you get today's papers?".
"And what are you reading now?" she answered, giving me a piercing look. I then checked the date on the papers. Guess what? It was stated as Tuesday 29 January 2008. The papers they could not sell that 1st Tuesday of the boycottt was sold on the following Friday. 3 weeks later, Maria was given newspapers without charge and no questions asked when she told the vendor about that Friday. Was the boycott effective?

There has been minimal change, if any, on the part of the MSM. So now it is BOYCOTT for a whole week effective Monday 24/03/2008. Lets see how the MSM will react.


Peace

Attended the launch of the The People's Declaration (original pdf version here at Malaysia-today) at Blog House In Bukit Damansara on Saturday 23/02/2008.


Wee Choo Keong of the MDP, Ronnie Liu of DAP, Badrul Hisham of PKR and Dr. Siti Mariah of PAS (pic copied from The Peoples Parliament) were on hand to endorse this declaration. Pasok could not make it, nevertheless they phoned in thier endorsment.

There were loud cheers when Dr Siti pointed out that there was no mention of "Negara Islam" (Islamic Country) in the PAS manifesto.

But the 100 odd Malaysians who turned up in yellow t-shirts nearly brought the roof down with their 'Woopies', clappings and cheerings when Ronnie Liu of DAP annouced that there will no three-cornered fights this around. The first aspiration of the PEOPLE has been achieved.

It is generally acknowledged that Haris Ibrahim was the initiator and mover of this declaration which he said was an old document of the Opposition which never saw the light of day some two elections ago.

Check what Haris said at the DAP ceramah in SS2. It's about 13 mins long.

If the video below does not play or is slow in bufferin, then view it here: Haris Ibrahim at DAP ceramah





Peace