Do you deserve the government you now have?

I got an alert early yesterday morning that there would be arrests before May 7th.

And then a little after 8pm last night, I heard of Chin Huat’s arrest.

Sedition?

For what?

The press release by BERSIH yesterday that’s been reproduced in the last post in this blog?

I think my colleagues on the BERSIH steering committee overstated the call to wear black on 070509 by categorising it as ‘civil disobedience’.

What disobedience?

What law is being broken when people choose to wear black in this country?

Since when was it unlawful to urge your fellow citizens to wear a certain colour on a certain day to send out a strong message of disapproval for acts done by those who purport to act on our behalf in administering this country?

It is now unlawful for the ‘political master’ voters to castigate the derelict elected servants?

Is that what our Malaysia has become?

And if Chin Huat has indeed been arrested for no other reason than that he has irked some in authority for having the audacity to urge his fellow Malaysians to be unafraid to make their disgust for what Najib has done in Perak plainly known by means which, on the face of it, is lawful, do you now crawl back into the safety of your comfort zone and look the other way, as so many of us did when Ops Lallang was inflicted upon over 100 people more than 20 years ago?

Or does Chin Huat’s arrest give you one more reason to ride the tsunami unleashed on 8th March, 2008, and give Najib BLACK1MALAYSIA tomorrow?

Do you deserve the government you now have, or do you deserve better?