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Bersih in sync with Saf Anti Fitnah to clear Anwar of his sexual trysts

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 03:51 PM PDT

Before that, Bersih had a list of 17 demands when they held discussion with Election Commission's Chairman, Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof on November 9th, 2011. There was supposed to be another meeting after the streak of by-elections and Sarawak state election ended but they suddenly said no go.

The interesting part was that the list of 17 demands had been pared down to 4 demands. Bersih included 4 new demands which include to seek stop dirty politics.

Before going any further, let's ask: Who is empowered to stop dirty politics? Actually certain act can be addressed by police, EC, court lawsuit, etc, but the honest answer is: No one. It is thus ridiculous on Bersih to seek on the Seri Paduka Baginda Yang Di Pertuan Agong or EC or any other authorities to stop Barisan Nasional, or Pakatan Rakyat or Independent and Konsensus Bebas from playing dirty politics except the politicians themselves.

Ah .. we forgot. Bersih is not partisan politics. Hehehe ...Why did Bersih drag the people to take it to the street on that last-minute-included demand? Reason is known but forgotten by many, thus allowing them to mislead and divert the mass attention.

Before going any further, let's not try to bullshit about Bersih being bipartisan or independent, just like Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement (MCLM) is not pro-Pakatan Rakyat. It is a vehicle of Anwar Ibrahim and Pakatan Rakyat working in concert with funders and enablers from the west. There is no argument to say otherwise.

Let's recall that on March 21st, 2011, the local media was alerted to invitation by the trio Dato T - led by Dato Eskay Shazaly Abdullah, with Tan Sri Rahim Tamby Chik and Dato Shuib Lazim - to a private screening at Carcosa Seri Negara of a video of Anwar Ibrahim allegedy in a sexual romp with a China Doll prostitue.

That brought Anwar into a frantic denial. He was seen in a rage when asked by reporters on two occasion when asked about an Omega watch believed to be a specially custom made gift from a Middle East ruler.

It was followed by a political drama of denial, police reports, allegations and diversion. The diversions were an attempt to kill him or his wife by mending with his car brakes and death threat on daughter Nurul Izzah.

Apart from the usual ceramah circuit around the country, to include the Sarawak state election, Anwar seeked help from PAS to hold a massive solat hajat event at Melawati Stadium.

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The political impact of Bersih 2.0

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 02:50 PM PDT

Bersih started out in 2006 as a movement of civil society forces and political parties calling for clean and fair elections. Its demands for cleaning up the electoral rolls, reviewing postal votes, including allowing for voting from abroad, fair access to the media, the elimination of corrupt practices are nothing radical or revolutionary and yet the government's resistance to it has allowed the opposition parties and those not in support of the present government to easily latch on to a ready-made platform for galvanising support.

Bersih's first political rally on Nov 10, 2007 saw some 40,000 Malaysian streaming into the heart of Kuala Lumpur, setting a benchmark for peaceful political protest in Malaysia.

On July 9, 2011 almost the same number of demonstrators were out in the streets of Kuala Lumpur, as estimated by the independent "politweet", despite a ban on the rally and police roadblocks at every point of entry into KL. If the political impact of Bersih 1.0 on the general election of March 2008 is now axiomatic, would Bersih 2.0 have a similar impact on the next general election?

It is important to first understand the character of the rally itself. The outpouring of material on the social media and through social networking websites reached proportions which, in my view, have been unprecedented and have not stopped. At the point of writing, over 200,000 facebookers have called on premier Najib Tun Razak to resign. The webpage has picked up 20,000 votes or more in one day.

The people who showed up at Bersih 2.0 came from a cross-section of Malaysia's multicultural society, with Malays and youth as the dominant groups. This spoke well for the continuation of the trajectory of Malaysia's non-racialised "new politics". The involvement of national literary laureate A Samad Said who wrote a touching poem about Malaysia's "wounded democracy" was highly inspiring to the would-be Bersih rallyers.

Various attempts made to delegitimise Bersih by Umno-related groups had a counter-productive effect. Thus it was alleged that it would be "unIslamic" for Muslims to participate in an illegal rally. The bogey of May 13 was also invoked and the Chinese were asked to stock up on food and stay at home. Such racialisation of the event by Perkasa and the Malay paper Utusan Malaysia helped to further augment multiracial supporters on the other side. The lame counter march of a couple of hundreds of Umno Youth "patriots" proved to be the proverbial drop in the bucket in terms of its impact.

The event received a crucial boost when Suhakam chairman Hasmy Agam weighed in to opine that it was legitimate. Najib had called for the rally to be held at a stadium and the organisers obliged after meeting with the King but the police were adamant about not giving a permit for use of the Merdeka Stadium.

The heavy-handed action on the part of the police – some 1,700 arrests, heavy use of tear gas, water cannons, and some argue, responsibility for one death – has put the government in a no-win situation vis-à-vis the common Malaysian citizen.

BN in damage control mode

In public imagination, Bersih 2.0 would stand out even more than Bersih 1. Already folklore about Bersih has gone "viral" on the Internet. A few examples should suffice. "The Lady of Liberty", an elderly woman well into her 60s, who braved the water cannons, holding a branch with two daisies has been reproduced ad infinitum in multiple incarnations and web designs.

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Rabu, 20 Julai 2011

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