Hampir sebulan selepas Raja Petra Kamarudin (RPK) ditahan dibawah ISA, masih belum ada tanda-tanda protes dan sokongan terhadapnya akan berakhir.
Sebentar tadi lebih 300 orang berkumpul dan menyalakan lilin bagi menyatakan sokongan terhadap RPK di Padang Amcorp Mall, Petaling Jaya yang kini sedang menjalani tahanan selama dua tahun di Kem Tahanan Kamunting.
Yang lebih membanggakan, kebanyakkan hadirin yang hadir terdiri daripada muka-muka baru. Rakyat nampaknya semakin berani untuk menyatakan bantahan secara terbuka terhadap ISA.
Ketika semakin ramai rakyat menentang ISA dan berkempen untuk memansuhkan undang-undang yang diwarisi oleh penjajah British itu, Umno berkempen untuk mempertahankannya.
Selain daripada mempertahankan “legasi” penjajah British, UMno perlukan ISA untuk terus berkuasa. Akan tetapi mampukah mereka melawan kebangkitan rakyat?
Jika ISA itu digunakan untuk menutup “mulut” rakyat yang menentang kezaliman dan penyalahgunaan kuasa, ternyata pemerintah gagal. Bantahan berjalan secara berterusan. Semakin hari semakin besar jumlah yang hadir.
Kepada RPK, jangan bimbang. Perjuangan akan diteruskan….
Mansuhkan ISA!!! Bebaskan RPK!!!
[...] other reports on the PJ anti-ISA vigil last night, go HERE , HERE and [...]
Semua kerajaan yang zalim, menindas dan menyalahgunakan kuasa seperti apa yang dilakukan dengan ISA tidak akan kekal.
Sejarah negara-negara yang pada suatu ketika yang dijajah oleh golongan yang korup dan zalim, pada masa kini tidak wujud lagi menunjukkan suara dan tindakan rakyat akan hapuskan golongan tersebut.
Kebebasan yang disekat untuk menutup suara rakyat yang dizalimi hanyalah buat sementara.
Semua kerajaan yang zalim, menindas dan menyalahgunakan kuasa seperti apa yang dilakukan dengan ISA tidak akan kekal.
Sejarah negara-negara yang pada suatu ketika dijajah oleh golongan yang korup dan zalim, pada masa kini tidak wujud lagi menunjukkan suara dan tindakan rakyat akan hapuskan golongan tersebut.
Kebebasan yang disekat untuk menutup suara rakyat yang dizalimi hanyalah buat sementara.
Kenapa mesti nyalakan lilin sedangkan masih banyak cara lain untuk memperingati beliau?…
We Dream with RPK — LET FREEDOM RING
Upcoming: Anti-ISA Candle-light Vigil in PJ on Sunday, 19th October, 8pm
http://iwfrpk.blogspot.com/2008/10/we-dream-with-rpk.html
Venue: Padang in front of Amcorp Mall, next to A&W Restaurant, Petaling Jaya (Map)
Time: 8pm
Date: Sunday, 19th October, 2008
Please bring along your own candles & wear your RPK t-shirts; most importantly bring a friend. Let’s show our support to RPK & family, and all of the ISA detainees. T-shirts will be available for sale on-site subject to stock availability.
Supporters of RPK & Malaysia-Today
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I HAVE A DREAM (excerpts)
Martin Luther King Jr., at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (August 28, 1963)
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force …
… No, no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive …
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together …
This is our hope … With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day …
Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom to ring – when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children – black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics – will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
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BERDOA AGAR ISA AKAN DIHAPUSKAN
[...] awal lagi beberapa orang penulis blog seperti Susan Loone, Kickdefella, Haris Ibrahim, uncle Zorro, Black dan ramai lagi telah menghidu ‘udang disebalik batu’ penubuhan kumpulan ini? Biar [...]
Keroncong Untuk Raja
Engkau dalang
Dalang kemusnahan
Kemusnahan sebuah kepalsuan
Kepalsuan seiras dalang
Cerita mu bagaikan kisah dongeng
Engkau bersayapkan sayap lalat
Terbang bersenjatakan akal
Tapi bukan akal sejengkal
Akalmu seiras akal dalang
Engkau adalah haiwan
Yang kejam dan meletihkan
Tapi bukan pada semua haiwan
Kerana bukan semua haiwan ketawa tidak berakal
Dalang
Rajailah prinsip hidupmu
Walau jasadmu dimamah haiwan
Sesungguhnya namamu Raja Dalang
Salam perjuangan..buat Raja…perjuanganmu amat beerti….
- pak yatim,kg. baru,121008-
pakyatim@gmail.com
ISA KAN ISA
Reporter Sin Chew kata hanya 100 orang hadir pada Padang Amcorp Mall pada malam itu.
Apa lah…
Reporter Sin Chew tu tak tau kira-kira?
Keroncong Untuk Anak Raja Petra , tak ada ka????
seperti kera (altantuya) dihutan disusukan , anak sendiri (raja azman) mati kelaparan ……
SHAH ALAM: Malaysia Today portal editor Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin’s son pleaded guilty to four separate counts of theft, receiving stolen property and criminal trespass.
Raja Azman Raja Petra, 32, dressed casually in a pair of blue jeans and a T-shirt with the word “Russia” emblazoned on it, appeared before magistrate Norkamilah Aziz here yesterday at about 11.30am.
He was accused of stealing a Nokia mobile phone; a Seiko watch and a bunch of motorcycle keys — all worth about RM3,850 — belonging to student Saipul Adli Mohamad Yunus, 21, at No. 16, Jalan Sastera, U2/1K, Section U2, Shah Alam, at about 10am on April 24.
Facing the music: Raja Azman being escorted to the Shah Alam magistrate’s court to be charged with stealing motorbikes and breaking into a house.
He was also accused of stealing a Yamaha 135LC motorcycle worth about RM6,000 from student Ahmad Firdaus Jalaludin, 23, at the same location and time.
He admitted to an alternate charge of possessing a Yamaha 135LC motorcycle worth about RM6,000 with the knowledge, or with cause to believe, that the motorcycle was a stolen property.
Raja Azman also pleaded guilty to another count of motorcycle theft, a black Yamaha RXZ worth about RM8,000 at 9.30am on March 20, at No. 65, Jalan Batas 2, 19/6B, Section 19, Shah Alam. The machine belonged to operator Mohd Syaiful Setapa, 24.
Lastly, he was also charged for breaking into house No. 65, Jalan Batas 2, and stealing Mohd Syaiful’s wallet containing his identification card, RM20, road tax, Maybank and BSN ATM cards and his driver’s licence.
If convicted, he can face a jail term of up to 10 years, with a fine.
How did Raja Petra leave country?
PETALING JAYA: Police are investigating how Malaysia Today news portal editor Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin, believed to be in Brisbane, Australia, left the country without a trace.
“We have sought assistance from our counterparts in Australia, to check if Raja Petra is still in Brisbane,’’ said Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan.
He was commenting on a report in a Malay daily quoting Immigration director-general Datuk Abdul Rahman Othman as saying that there were no recent records at all the designated checkpoints in the country of Raja Petra having left the country.
Abdul Rahman had said that if reports that Raja Petra had gone overseas were true, he must have used “underground” routes to leave the country.
A sessions court had on Tuesday slapped Raja Petra with a second warrant of arrest when he failed to show up for his criminal defamation trial.
The court also issued a show-cause notice to Raja Petra’s wife and bailor Marina Lee Abdullah for not being in court to explain his absence.
The earlier arrest warrant against Raja Petra was issued by a Sessions Court on April 23 when he failed to turn up for his trial involving a seditious article published in his news portal.
Raja Petra had also claimed trial on July 17 last year to three counts of criminal defamation over his statutory declaration on the murder of Mongolian translator Altantuya Shaaribu.
Raja Petra had allegedly defamed Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, Lt-Kol Norhayati Hassan and her husband Lt-Kol Abdul Aziz Buyong.
On another matter, Musa stressed that Parti Komunis Malaya (PKM) was banned in the country.
“Therefore, we will monitor all movements and parties that support PKM leader Chin Peng’s plea to return to the country,’’ he said. “We will immediately take action if an offence is committed.”
The Federal Court had on April 30 refused Chin Peng’s motion for leave to appeal against two lower courts’ decisions compelling him to produce his identification documents before he could enter the country.
Musa also warned Perak DAP chief Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham against making false remarks pertaining to the arrest of five event management firm workers.
The five workers were arrested for participating in an illegal rally on Tuesday, said Musa.
Ngeh had claimed that the five were arrested because the police found the words “Daulat Tuanku” used on a sticker to be seditious.