As the world now knows, 1,400 Malaysians have been arrested.

Arrested for having a voice (and balls/guts might I add) to participate in a rally held in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, 9th of July 2011, advocating for clean and fair elections. Bersih means clean in Bahasa Malaysia which is also the name of the whole campaign.

If Malaysia is a democratic country, why is it that people can’t protest peacefully? For further emphasis, please see the videos below with further explanation:

This one features the Information Minister, telling us that “we are allowing protest… but the protesters didn’t want to disperse… police compromised… police succeeded in handling them gently.. THIS PROTEST IS ILLEGAL”. What the %&#* is he trying to get across by saying it’s legal, THEN illegal?!

What more, telling the journalist interviewing him that they are wrongfully reporting what was really going on and that the people in the video she was watching were “all actors”. Does a melee of hundreds of people; running around to avoid being sprayed by CHEMICAL WATER, look like actors to you? I’m sure the footage was Al-Jazeera’s!

Who paid them to be there voluntarily and have chemicals sprayed on them?

To add insult to injury; that is no doubt already fizzing from salt, the interviewer said that ” our correspondence officer came back to the office, sir, with chemicals in his eyes”.

HOW CAN ANYONE IGNORE THAT STATEMENT AND CONTINUE RANTING ABOUT FALSE ACCUSATIONS BY AL-JAZEERA, MAKING COMPARISONS BETWEEN MALAYSIA AND PAKISTAN/BURMA/MYANMAR? 

I am truly disgusted. If anyone who’s not Malaysian heard him say the word “bayar”, it just means pay. How did he get the position of Information Minister when he can’t think of an easy three-letter-word in English (the second language we learn in school year in year out too!)?

And by saying that the protest is illegal (at the end of the video) because there’s elections every five years?!

What a numbskull - PEOPLE ARE PROTESTING BECAUSE THEY WANT CLEAN AND FAIR ELECTIONS!!! Which part of the briefing did he space out on? All of it I reckon.

Oh, and not to mention the many accounts of spraying chemical water into hospital compounds and using force to subdue people…? All denounced when the Prime Minister said the below:

Really? Was there no actual force used?! What about this?

Will you allow someone who would lie internationally, lead YOUR country? What does that say about him, or you for that matter?

I believe that by settling problems/issues with violence is a sure sign of weakness. By contradicting yourself is another sure sign that you’re afraid, uninformed, and have no grounds to represent the people  much less the country. There is no cause to stop people from protesting as the protest was done peacefully.

The only reason why there were casualties was because the FRU (riot squad) and police started throwing teargas and chemical water at people.

I went as far as to un-friend someone on facebook who commented that “after all the casualties, it was still pointless”. I bet you he wasn’t there. I’m not saying I was there, but I just plain don’t like people who rattle away about issues that their miniscule, mentally-incapacitated minds can never in a million years comprehend. Why should I associate myself with someone like that?

I know – opinions are like assholes, everyone has one. But no; not when I can help it, I shouldn’t have to listen/read someone’s dumb opinion.

If you can’t prove something, then keep it to yourself. Who’s to say what’s pointless when you obviously don’t share the same ideas that the greater good does?