BTW, it appears the Polis Di Raja Malaysia (PDRM for short or Royal Malaysian Police in English) were TOTALLY UNPREPARED for the scale and popular support for this peaceful march. At about 11 am on the morning of Saturday, November 10 motorists driving north along the PLUS Highway around Kulai were startled by a convoy of 20 police vehicles ~ motorcycle outriders, patrol cars, red trucks carrying Federal Reserve Unit (FRU, read riot squad) personnel ~ that overtook them at speed. I say TOTALLY UNPREPARED because they had to get reinforcements from as far away as Johor as the Polis has grossly underestimated the manpower required to "keep the peace" (I use that phrase facetiously as it was the Polis themselves that broke the peace).
The Polis even had road blocks in Putrajaya ~ there was one on the border between Putrajaya and Selangor on the B15 between Cyberjaya and the Puchong toll plaza on the LDP.
Interesting to note that we have a new Deputy Inspector-General of Polis Datuk Ismail Omar as of Monday, November 12. I hope he's not part of "the rot" as the institutional corruption in the PDRM is often referred as.
From this transcript of the interview by Al-Jazeera of the Chief Spindoctor of Malaysia it is abundantly self-evident that the Mamak of Merbok has earned the moniker of ZAM Goblok.
Funny how we’ve been so indoctrinated by the Barisan Nasional (BN ~ National Front, in English) bullshit that we’ve seem to have accepted their notion that OPPOSITION is a bad word. Don’t you realise that an OPPOSITION is a necessary prerequisite for a DEMOCRACY? We’ve been so blinded by the spindoctors of the MADHATTER DICTATORSHIP/AUTOCRACY that we accepted the PAK BLAH MEDIOCRACY. All that has happened when BOLEHLAND changed leaders is that we’ve exchanged one DE FACTO DICTATOR and his cronies for another and his bunch of nespots and cronies. The fun will start when the MADHATTER kicks the bucket and Mr I’m-in-politics-to-avenge-my-suicided-dad KJ will start the witchhunt on the MADHATTER cronies and progeny with the help of the KeADILan “ANWAR-REVENGE” PARTY. ANWAR is his almost-father-in-law.
Here are some philosophical musings by Antares on kings and the divine mandate to rule:
"One blogger's report on the YELLOW WAVE that swept through KL on 10 November 2007 - and there are HUNDREDS of bloggers celebrating the triumph of justice and human values over the BN's arrogance and criminal misuse of police power:
To my friends in the mainstream media: the line has been drawn across the sand! Enough of playing spin-doctor for Dr Ummmm...NO! The Earth supports INTEGRITY as she ascends.
http://melvin-mah.blogspot.com
"According to Confucianism, the King is symbolized as an avatar of God
on earth. And the signs of thunder above serves the warning against the
police. Mencius, who lived B.C. 372-289, and devoted himself to the task
of spreading and consolidating the Confucian teachings, made no attempt
to lead back the Chinese people towards their early beliefs in a
personal God and in a spiritual world beyond the ken of mortals. He
observes in a general way that "those who obey God are saved, while
those who rebel against Him perish. Those came are loyal to the country
and the king, and in that Mencius context means they can be saved, while
whoever attempts to kill or torture can be punished (perished). Coincidence?
"Mencius said, "He who uses force as a pretense of Humaneness is the
de-facto strongman among the princes. But such a strongman must have
a large state in order to be effective. The man who uses his virtue
to practice Humaneness is the true king. To be a real king you don't
need an especially large territory. T'ang did it with only seventy
li and King Wen did it with only one hundred li. When you use your
power to force people into submission, they will never submit with
their hearts; it is only because they don't have enough strength to
resist. When people submit to virtue, they are happy from the bottom
of their hearts, and they submit sincerely, the way the seventy
disciples submitted to Confucius." (2A3, tr. Muller)"
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