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http://uppercaise.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/malaysiakini-servers-knocked-out/
It as scheduled on Saturday 28th April at 2.00 p.m. at Dataran Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur and at other venues in all major towns in the country make sure we are all there.
(For those of you going to KL please not the gathering points provided at the bottom of this page.)
Up to this moment there is no news from Bersih that there will ever be a change in the venue, so do not listen to rumours expecially if it comes from the offices of either the Mayor of Kuala Lumpur, the less intelligent Hishamuddin Hussein Onn or his cousin Najib Tun Razak, it is not true, Bersih has stood steadfast and said it will be at the Dataran.
Tok Guru issues an Edict to all Muslims - It is Compulsory.
Malaysiakini reports, "PAS spiritual leader Nik Aziz Nik Mat has declared that it is compulsory for all Muslims to attend Bersih 3.0 sit-in at Dataran Merdeka this Saturday afternoon as it is a movement "against injustice".
Bersih's co chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan has hit out at the mayor for making an offer for a alternate venue at the eleventh hour, " “It is a pity that Fuad chose to be caught up in bureaucracy or we could have resolved this,” said Ambiga.Kuala Lumpur mayor Ahmad Fuad Ismail must place himself above partisan politics and behave like a gentleman and not a thug, we are peaceful people so stop intimidatingus, he is reported to have said "When the time comes, you will know. Don't worry... We are ready. We don't allow them to go to Dataran Merdeka... let us do our job,” it is not his job as mayor to intimidate the people.
What does he plan to do tell us, have they got they water filled cannons, have they got the tear gas ready, or are they going to come charging with batons beating innocent citizens.
The Minisiter of Home affairs shoud use the police to track criminals, the case agaisnt Altantuya Shaaribu is not over yet, why has he nt sent anyone to France to follow the judicial inquiry into the Scorpene case and the alleged kickbacks, that comes under his ministry, he has to busy himself with such things, the many missing children, he has to investigate reports about some of his peers children behaving like thugs assaulting security guards, etc, not coming to fix innocent citizens, what is our crime.
The mayor it seems is bent on creating chaos, by confusing the issue, if you say okay to Merdeka Stadium he will say the management will have to okay it and the management of the Stadium will refuse it, the police will block it because of its vicinity to Victoria Institution, the St. Mary's Church and all that fuss, we are not fools.
The whole world is aware that the last time Bersih planned to have the rally at Merdeka Stadium, the place was barricaded like a war zone with barbed wire and FRU personnel placed there in full force, I was there, and Hishamuddin refused to give us Merdeka Stadium, now the mayor comes and says Merdeka Stadium, is this a joke, no it isn't it is mischievous meandering to create trouble and nothing less
This time around I am told that even Tass and the Chinese press are sending in personnel to cover this rally, what a surprise, its not only CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera and the rest but the whole world.
So now you see the peaceful assembly bill is nothing but a load of bullshit. The Dataran is ours and the Mayor has no right to behave like as though it belongs to him, if any chaos is created he will have to take the blame and it will be on his shoulders, what is he trying to do, create trouble for the Rakyat?
Mark my word, there seems to an agenda being hatched here by Hishamuddin his police and the Mayor, what it is only the 28th will tell, so let us all be there, my face book is full of responses, responses saying they'll be there, so0 intimidation pays more people are heading that way.
Hishamuddin should have him arrested, for blocking a legitimate right of the people, but Hishamuddin can't because the last time he Hishamuddin handled it he had to lie through his teeth to defend himself for all the atrocities committed, now he is passing the buck to the Mayor so he and the BN can say the Mayor handled it badly and not the BN, but here the mayor is a BN agent that they will not tell us and that we all know.
It is not the duty of the office of the Mayor who should prevent people from assembling, the right to assembly is a right enshrined in our constitution, he is not above the constitution, he should stop trying to frighten us he is only a mayor and he should know that, he has no political power and he should stop playing politics.
Note The Gathering Points
The Bersih committee has also listed the gathering points for would-be protesters - Masjid Negara, Masjid Jamek, Pasar Seni, Masjid India, Brickfields and Jalan Sultan - before they proceed to Dataran Merdeka.
The committee has also listed the gathering points for would-be protesters - Masjid Negara, Masjid Jamek, Pasar Seni, Masjid India, Brickfields and Jalan Sultan - before they proceed to Dataran Merdeka.
