What a bizzare order:
According to a state PKR leader, the police have imposed several conditions on PKR when issuing permits for the ceramah.
Among the main restrictions are:
* No instigating the crowd by questioning the Perak sultan’s decision
* No mention of the Altantuya issue must be made
* No racial and religious issues can be raised
Firstly, on Altantuya. What business do the police have in issuing such a directive?
Sub-judice? Then how come, for instance, there is no directive ordering BN not to mention Saiful Bukhari? Or perhaps make any references to belakang this, and belakang that, as Umno goons are wont to do.
If you want to say that it is not fair to call Najib a murderer, I can sympathise (although, suspending a MP for a whole year for such a thing is the stupidest thing I have ever heard of), but for our police - who are supposed to be neutral, a fact so easily forgotten in Malaysia - to arbitrarily consider the murder case out of bounds?
What nonsense.
The fact that Altantuya masks came out in full force, and the matter become such a scandal is because there are still too many unanswered questions on this issue.
If Najib was truly innocent and wanted to put the issue to rest, he needs to come clean and testify as to his involvement or lack thereof in court. Musa Safri (who I think heads Najib’s security detail?) also needs to testify to the same.
Najib should probably also attempt to sue the pants of the amazing multitude of foreign papers who have implicated him in the murder.
Since none of these have happened, of course the issue will still be live, contentious, and vigorously discussed.
As to not questioning the decisions of the palace, I think the police have once again overstepped their bounds.
If anyone were to openly call for the dissolution of the monarchy, or threaten any harm to the Sultan, then the police might have a right to act.
But to discuss decisions made by the palace? If the British Queen or any European monarch decreed tomorrow that all cats had to wear hats, do you think the public would discuss it? Do you think people would be arrested for discussing the decision?
Monarchs are traditional institutions that deserve our every respect. It would be sacrilegious however, to think of them as deities whose decisions and actions are infallible.
This bias on the part of the police is becoming intolerable. The ballot box is our only avenue to express our discontent - BS, BG and BA, you carry the flame for the rest of us!
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