Lim Kit Siang

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• Open Letter – Cabinet should end the “madness” unleashed in past week
• Bersih rally a turning point for democracy
• I’ll wear yellow baju raya
• Malaysia’s season of fear
• Why July 9 must go on
• 23 Kajang councillors hauled up over Bersih T-shirts
• EC Deputy Chairman Wan Ahmad showed his true colours of lacking 3Is of independence, impartiality and integrity when he launched attacks on Bersih as Pakatan Rakyat “stooge”
• Home minister ‘cooking up’ laws
• Bersih to cops: Name route, we will follow
• ‘Yellow wave’ in Parliament by Pakatan reps
• Anas responds to Commander (Rtd) S. Thayaparan

Open Letter – Cabinet should end the “madness” unleashed in past week Posted: 30 Jun 2011 06:00 PM PDT The Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Cabinet Ministers. Cabinet should end the "madness" unleashed in past week with police required to arrest those wearing the Bersih 2.0 T-shirt, yellow virtually becoming a colour of crime and "Bersih" a dirty word I am writing this short Open Letter to the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister [...]

Bersih rally a turning point for democracy Posted: 30 Jun 2011 12:29 PM PDT by Kim Quek The Malaysian Insider Jun 30, 2011 JUNE 30 — Amidst the frenzy of draconian measures to prevent the July 9 Bersih rally from taking place, many Malaysians have begun to wonder: Has Malaysia descended into a state of lawlessness? No sooner had the home minister declared that wearing the yellow Bersih T-shirt [...]

I’ll wear yellow baju raya Posted: 30 Jun 2011 12:10 PM PDT by Mohd Syahir Sulaiman The Malaysian Insider Jun 30, 2011 JUNE 30 — Semakin lara kita didera bara, kita laungkan juga pesan merdeka, demokrasi sebenderang mentari, sehasrat hajat semurni harga diri — A. Samad Said. Yellow symbolises wisdom. July 9th is just around the corner, and talks get heated up in every corner, from Facebook [...]

Malaysia’s season of fear Posted: 30 Jun 2011 11:48 AM PDT by Praba Ganesan The Malaysian Insider Jun 30, 2011 JUNE 30 — "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" Joseph Welch, the attorney representing the US Army, asked this of Senator Joseph McCarthy at the height of the series of "witch-hunts" under the guise of [...]

Why July 9 must go on Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:19 AM PDT by June Rubis The Malaysian Insider Jun 30, 2011 JUNE 30 — I've noticed something interesting of late. A few middle-class intellectuals back-pedalling on their initial support for Bersih 2.0. They say, yes I support this (in theory) but do we really need to march now? Haven't we done enough to highlight the issues? Haven't [...]

23 Kajang councillors hauled up over Bersih T-shirts Posted: 30 Jun 2011 03:14 AM PDT Jimadie Shah Othman | Jun 30, 11 Malaysiakini The clampdown against Bersih T-shirts continues, with 23 Kajang councillors being called up by police today for questioning for wearing the shirts at the full board meeting yesterday. But of this number, only seven were present at the Kajang district police station this evening, while the others [...]

EC Deputy Chairman Wan Ahmad showed his true colours of lacking 3Is of independence, impartiality and integrity when he launched attacks on Bersih as Pakatan Rakyat “stooge” Posted: 30 Jun 2011 02:52 AM PDT If there is a nation-wide quiz asking Malaysians who could be responsible for the two following headlines on online media today, "Bersih is Pakatan stooge in bid for Putrajaya" and "Bersih Pakatan's catspaw", I don't think anyone who is not in the know could get it right despite everyone being given three guesses each. The [...]

Home minister ‘cooking up’ laws Posted: 30 Jun 2011 02:50 AM PDT By Tarani Palani | June 30, 2011 Free Malaysia Today KUALA LUMPUR: Opposition MPs today criticised Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein for acting outside the law in banning the yellow Bersih 2.0 T-shirts and questioned the legal basis for the Bersih-related clampdown."We have a minister who is making the law on the run without parliamentary sanction," [...]

Bersih to cops: Name route, we will follow Posted: 30 Jun 2011 01:57 AM PDT Joseph Sipalan | Jun 30, 11 Malaysiakini Despite the string of arrests and dire warnings from the police, the Bersih 2.0 committee today sought to make peace with the men in blue and asked for their help to make their July 9 rally a peaceful event. Bersih 2.0 chief S Ambiga said they had a [...]

‘Yellow wave’ in Parliament by Pakatan reps Posted: 29 Jun 2011 11:55 PM PDT By Hazlan Zakaria | Jun 30, 11 Malaysiakini Pakatan Rakyat MPs turned up in Parliament decked out in various articles in the distinctive yellow of Bersih to protest the police clampdown on the electoral reform rally. Most of the men sported ties in the ‘official’ Bersih 2.0 colour or others in shades of yellow, while [...]

Anas responds to Commander (Rtd) S. Thayaparan Posted: 29 Jun 2011 11:52 PM PDT By Anas Zubedy Commander (Rtd) S. Thayaparan, Thank you for your letter. It is nice to see that you started your letter with a salam, although in zorro-unmasked.blogspot.com, they took out the earlier parts of your letter. I would like to make a few comments. Like you, I am not for race-based political parties. I [...]

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