Raja Petra Kamarudin (RPK) or Pete to many of his fans, shares his thoughts through this YouTube. Seen as a fugitive and nowhere to be found, he still connects with his fans, followers and those going for his ounce of blood by using the online media of his previously owned Malaysia Today website.
Wherever he is, we wish him and Marina well and stay safe.
by Lin Wen quan Malaysiakini should not pull the videos out. There were actual events that took place and not something M'siakini made up. The first video merely exposes those perpetrators of hate and religious bigotry. The second shows that their provocative actions, not M'siakini's, found empathy with none other than the Home Minister. It is preposterous to make it look as if M'siakini created the incident in the first place whilst the authorities appear like mollycoddling the real culprits who caused outrage and anger not only to our Hindu brethren, but to all rational and tolerant Malaysians. read more here.
The home minister hishammuddin hussein and the police did not find the on site cow head demonstration offensive, illegal, racist or seditious and in fact the home minister even defended them. Then what is the MCMC business to issue order to independent news portal Malaysiakini to remove two 'provocative' videos, including the footage of the controversial cow-head protest, from its website.
I salute Steven Gan for taking his stand not to remove the videos.
This is the letter issue from MCMC and what Stevan Gan had to say.
The Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has requested independent news portal Malaysiakini to remove two 'provocative' videos, including the footage of the controversial cow-head protest, from its website.
"These videos contain offensive contents with the intent to annoy any person, especially Indians.
"This is an offence under Section 211/233 of the Communication and Multimedia Act 1998," said monitoring and enforcement division senior acting director Abdul Halim Ahmad in a letter dated Sept 3. [letter here]
Under the communication and multimedia law, any individual found guilty of publishing content "which is indecent, obscene, false, menacing, or offensive in character with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any person" is liable to a fine of up to RM50,000 or a jail sentence.
MCMC, a government agency under the Information, Communications and Culture Ministry, is empowered to regulate matters relating to communications and multimedia activities, including private TV and radio stations as well as Internet websites.
According to the commission, it has received "numerous complaints" on several "provocative and offensive videos" that were posted on Malaysiakini and YouTube.
The videos cited were the 'Temple demo: Residents march with cow's head' and 'Hisham: Don't blame cow-head protesters'. The second video is on Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein's meeting two days ago with the residents who staged the protest and his subsequent press conference.
Last Friday, the residents of Section 23 in Shah Alam made international news when they paraded a severed cow's head on the city streets to protest the proposal to relocate a Hindu temple to their neighbourhood.
Some of the protesters were also seen spitting and stepping on the cow's head, while at the same time threatening to "shed blood". The cow is considered sacred by Hindus.
Editor: Our intention was not to offend
The protest drew flak from various quarters, including politicians from both Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat. Several police reports were also lodged against the protesters.
Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak had also expressed regret over the incident, which is being investigated by the police under the Sedition Act.
Commenting on MCMC's request, Malaysiakini editor-in-chief Steven Gan said both the videos are news events which are of public interest.
"Our intent in putting up the videos was not to 'annoy' anyone, but to do our job as journalists to draw attention to the protest and to ensure action is taken so that incidents like this will not happen again in Malaysia."
Gan said that there was no plan for Malaysiakini to take down the videos and the news website was seeking legal advice on the matter.
Najib cannot distance himself from the actions of his ministers. He is the leader of the country and he appointed his ministers thus he must be responsible for their actions, good or bad, right or wrong, stupid or smart, cow head or pig head.
The home minister defending the "Cow Head" mob must be very pleased with himself for getting all the attention and limelight.
These are some interesting notes and comments from the rakyats response of the home minister in defending the indefensible.
They even stomped their feet on the cow head individually as well as a group and shouted, “ Xavier, this cow head is for you!” There is so much evidence to show that it was a pre planned event. There were enough witnesses to help the police if they wanted help. I feel the Minister has proven that his intelligence is very questionable which is probably not better than OTB. There is a saying that “Great people things alike”. In this case “ The dumb people also think alike” Read more.
Hishammuddin Hussein, are you very sure of what you are doing? Do you have what it takes to live with the repercussions of the words you uttered today? You have better realise that you have set a very dangerous precedent today. Read more.
He noted that Hishammuddin had met with “a group who has no respect for other Malaysians and worse still, defends them, forgetting that he is the Minster of Internal Affairs of all Malaysians”.
“Can we now accept that anyone who is disrespectful of other Malaysians and is still under investigation, will be heard by the Minister himself,” the PKR man asked. Read more.
The demonstration with cow’s head after Muslims’ Friday prayers, which took place in Shah Alam on the 28 August, disturbed many people. As a Muslim I’m flabbergasted. In the eyes of non-Muslims surely there are million kinds of Muslims, while I continue to insist there is only one Islam. Read more.
If Barisan Nasional would like to know why a growing number of people are pessimistic and cycnical about the coalition, go no further than Umno’s Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein.
The Home Minister, who had said his grandfather Datuk Jaafar Onn’s dream of a united Malaysia is also his, needs to have his dreams checked. It could just turn out to be a Malaysian nightmare.
Today, he defended and justified last Friday’s cow-head protest after meeting with Malay-Muslim representatives of Shah Alam’s Section 23, saying the residents there felt victimised but did not want to stir racial emotions. Read more.
By P. Waythamoorthy, HINDRAF Chairman
HINDRAF is not surprised that the Home Minister is in full support of the group that paraded in public carrying a severed cow’s head and issuing seditious statements to incite and inflame racial discord.
The Home minister condones the residents’ action and rather plays politics by passing the buck to the Selangor government for their inability to resolve this matter.
Quote “If we don't give them room to voice their opinions, they have no choice but to protest” he says.
HINDRAF has been voicing and sending thousands of memorandums to the UMNO led BN government for resolutions, yet when we conduct peaceful rallies carrying posters, flowers and candles, our supporters are assaulted, charged and even detained under ISA.
Such a double standard and fascist attitude by the Home Minister only ascertains the fact that UMNO will never change its ways or even attempt to change for the betterment of the public but is rather more interested in maintaining its hegemony for those elite UMNO leaders and their “mandores” in their alliance against the public’s interests.
The continuous fascist attitude taken by the UMNO leaders as seen by the Home Minister’s endorsement of the inflammatory protest that took place on August 28, 2009 will only further aggravate and alienate the public further.
This kind of fascist act will clearly lead to an authoritarian government leaning towards a totalitarian state as opposed to the false democracy that is supposedly practiced in Malaysia.
HINDRAF urges MPs, their parties, NGO movements and the general public to come together and act in unity in ensuring that such provocative and inciting actions should not go undeterred for the fascist stand that the UMNO government had taken in this incident.
There is really something very wrong with Najib's 1Malaysia, "People First, Performance Now".
Watch this You Tube one more time, very carefully and listen to what these goons shout about. Is there no law applicable to warrant any punishment for such a seditious and racist demonstration that calls for BLOODSHED to be spilled?
Now read this report from The Malaysian Insider, how this cow head home minister defended such action.
PUTRAJAYA, Sept 2 – The Home Minister today defended and justified last Friday's cow-head demonstration after meeting with Malay-Muslim representatives of Shah Alam's Section 23 at his office here today.
Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein pointed out that the residents felt victimized and had no intention to stir racial emotion. Full story here.
When this country is call Malaysia, even though the ruling government is corrupt, arrogant and unprofessional in running the country, the rakyat were still tolerant. When a newly unelected (by the general voters) PM took over the reign and rename the country to 1Malaysia, all hell breaks loose.
Without explaining exactly what 1Malaysia means, he let his actions speak by itself.
He let loose his party controlled media to sing racist songs.
He let loose his controlled institutions to run wild on the oppositions.
He let loose his party members to create religious discord among the different races.
He let loose his real intention to take back control of the opposition rule States.
He let loose the laws to be applied only to those who dares to go against him.
He let loose the judiciary to provide judgement that favors his party.
He let loose the EC to manipulate election decisions to his favor.
He let loose his intention to see that the country is divided by race and religion.
He practically let loose everything that can help him and his party to stay in power.
This is his 1Malaysia, What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)
The latest actions of his 1Malaysia:
This kind of action is tolerated, where by calling for BLOODSHED see no action from the police or the home minister and even worst, the home ministry is planning to meet with them.
Pakatan reps arrested, state secretariat blocked Three Perak Pakatan reps and four others were arrested for trying to enter the state secretariat to convene an assembly meeting. Courtesy Malaysiakini
Here everything the opposition does, legally or not are met with brute force from the police.
