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In Malaysia, if you don't watch television or read newspapers, you are uninformed; but if you do, you are misinformed!

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience - Mark Twain

Why we should be against censorship in a court of law: Publicity is the very soul of justice … it keeps the judge himself, while trying, under trial. - Jeremy Bentham

"Our government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no
responsibility at the other. " - Ronald Reagan

Government fed by the people

Government fed by the people

Career options

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I suggest government... because nobody has ever been caught.

Corruption so prevalent it affects English language?

Corruption so prevalent it affects English language?
Corruption is so prevalent it affects English language?

When there's too much dirt...

When there's too much dirt...
We need better tools... to cover up mega corruptions.

Prevent bullying now!

Prevent bullying now!
If you're not going to speak up, how is the world supposed to know you exist? “Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tidak menulis, ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah.” - Ananta Prameodya Toer (Your intellect may soar to the sky but if you do not write, you will be lost from society and to history.)

Thursday, July 07, 2011

Are you listed among the select 91? (updated)

Out of the 91 persons who will be prevented by court order from taking part in the illegal rally by the outlawed Bersih this Saturday, July 9, 66 are listed under Bersih, 11 under Umno Youth and 14 under Perkasa.

Most of us are not interested in those listed under Umno Youth and Perkasa because they got involved as opportunists out to score brownie points by threatening trouble to prevent a peaceful demonstration.

All the talk about communists and non-Malays in Bersih can easily be dispelled when we check the list of 66 below:

Bersih
1 Datuk Ambiga
2 Mohd Sabu
3 Hishamuddin Rais
4 Khairul Anwar Ahmad Zainuddin
5 Maria Chin Abdullah
6 Tian Chua
7 Kamarulzaman Mohamad
8 Dr Mohd Hatta
9 Syed Shahir
10 Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh
11 Teresa Kok
12 Badrul Hisham
13 Shamsul Iskandar
14 Arutchelvam
15 Wong Chin Huat
16 Ong Boon Keong
17 Enalini
18 Haris Fathilah Ibrahim
19 Dato Khalid Yunus (former Deputy Minister?)
20 Dato Zulkifli Noordin (MP for Kulim-Bandar Baharu?)
21 Dr Zubir Harun (double-counted? Perkasa Vice President?)
22 Dato Seri Mohd Hilmi Ismail (Gagasan Melayu Perak President?)
23 Dato Seri Hadi Awang
24 Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim
25 Lim Kit Siang
26 Nik Aziz Nik Mat
27 Nurul Izzah Anwar
28 Kohila
29 Zaid Kamaruddin
30 Khoo Teng Swee (Bernard Khoo aka Zorro Unmasked?)
31 Fadiah Nadwa
32 Yap Swee Seng
33 Salahuddin Ayub
34 Dato Mahfuz Omar
35 Nasarudin Hassan
36 Mazlan Aliman
37 Dr Syed Azman Syed Nawawi
38 Dr Dzukifli Ahmad
39 Dr Mujahid Yusof
40 Khalid Abd Samad
41 Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin
42 Azman Shapawi
43 Suhaizan Kaiat
44 Nor Azli Musa
45 Mohd Firdaus Jaafar
46 Loke Siew Fook
47 Lau Weng San
48 Mohd Azman Ali
49 Mat Shuhaimi Shafie
50 Satipul Bahari Mamat
51 Wan Hassan Mohd Ramli
52 Mohd Izzuddin Hilmi Mohd Zaini
53 Mohd Shazni Munir
54 Muhammad Hilman
55 Mohd Shukri
56 Mohd Syukri
57 Ahmad Syazwan
58 Choo Chon Kai
59 Sarasvathy
60 Soh Sook Hwa
61 Nurul Izham Nurul Anuar
62 Abd Rahim Osman
63 Mohd Sibri (Perkasa, Kelantan?)
64 Mohd Lukman (Perkasa, Terengganu?)
65 Datuk Prof. Kamaruddin Kachar (National Scout Commissioner?)
66 Dato Hj Mohd Noor Nordin (Perkasa, Negeri Sembilan?)

All the top leaders of Pakatan Rakyat are included: PKR: Anwar Ibrahim, Azmin Ali, Tian Chua, Nurul Izzah, Syed Shahir; PAS: Nik Aziz, Hadi Awang, Mohd Sabu, Salahuddin Ayub, Mahfuz Omar, Nizar; DAP: Lim Kit Siang, Teresa Kok, Loke Siew Fook, Lau Weng San; to name some known ones. Leaders of NGOs included Maria Chin Abdullah, Wong Chin Huat, Yap Swee Seng and Ong Boon Keong.

The list of 66 is copied from Malaysiakini, with names shortened and NRIC left out.

However, like Transformers, there's more than meet the eyes... according to Din Merican:

"However, it was evident that although 66 people were listed as BERSIH 2.0 supporters, some of them were clearly either UMNO members or anti-BERSIH.

Among those on the BERSIH 2.0 list are former deputy minister Khalid Yunus, Kulim-Bandar Baharu MP Zulkifli Noordin, Gagasan Melayu Perak president Mohd Hilmi Ismail and national scout chief commissioner Kamaruddin Kachar.

Even PERKASA leaders were listed under BERSIH 2.0 supporters such as Negeri Sembilan, Kelantan and Terengganu commissioners Mohd Noor Nordin Abdullah, Sibri Ismail and Mohd Lukman Muda respectively.

The list has also includes at least one mistake. PERKASA vice-president Zubir Harun was listed twice – in the PERKASA and BERSIH 2.0 list."


Was the inclusion of people who are not Bersih-connected but obviously anti-Bersih due to human error or deliberately meant to misrepresent or create confusion? Not that it is important to us nor surprising any more.
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