If you visited Kamunting today, do share your citizen journalist eye-witness accounts in the comments below:
Blog reader Rakyat@Work comments:
Way to go folks. Keep it up. Thank you all you great people. God bless all of you. Tell RPK that many more ‘reserve’ supporters (those like me who cannot make it for the trip) are still around. Don’t worry, we will continue to support and uphold him and family in prayer as well. Have fun. Cheers. Wish I was there.
1142: The crowd is singing ‘Negaraku‘ now before dispersing. They have lots of lots of flowers and cards outside the camp, but these are unlikely to reach the detainees.
Another contact at the scene reports that the crowd earlier had sung two numbers, ‘We are Malaysians‘ (sung to the tune of ‘We are the world‘) and a ‘Selamat Hari Raya‘ song. “Everyone is so cheerful and glad to be here,” says my contact, adding that Marina was touched by the show of support. The turnout today is estimated to be in the region of 200 to 300.
1133: Some 200 people are now gathered outside the Kamunting Detention Camp, many of them clad in black T-shirts. Among them are Raja Petra’s wife Marina Lee and blogger Amiruddin, the Wartawan Rasmi Laman Reformasi. Amirudin says people in the crowd have been leaving cards and flowers for the detainees.
0955: A couple of other cars with Raya well-wishers from KL are reaching the Taiping Utara toll booth now and they will probably have breakfast in Taiping. A few other cars are expected to arrive from Ipoh as well. They are all expected to meet up in Kamunting at around 11.00am.
0950: Two vans full of people along with a convoy of about seven to eight cars from Penang have left for Kamunting to convey their Raya wishes to the ISA detainees. My contact in the convoy says others are expected to drive directly to Kamunting from Penang, Ipoh, KL and elsewhere.
This morning, some concerned Malaysians are heading to the Kamunting Detention Centre to convey their Raya greetings to Raja Petra and the other ISA detainees there.
it’s a pity i can’t go for the kamunting trip today because i have another important appointment – to attend our college general (major seminary) bicentennial celebration. anyway glad to know that there were so many people there.
to penangites, don’t forget the anti ISA vigil tomorrow at dewan sri pinang. also it seems that a group of people are joining the hindraf group to go to badawi’s open house on saturday morning. the intention is to tell badawi to release the ISA detainees. meeting point: bertam toll gate 10.00am, sat oct 4th. wear orange if you can or other anti-ISA shirt.
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Dear Malaysian readers,
Due to the sudden demise of our opposition icon and hero, Mr J.B. Jeyaretnam, we have not been blogging about Malaysian current affairs lately. We will publish a series of commentaries on Malaysian politics next week after the funeral of Mr Jeyaretnam this Saturday.
The first in line will be Roundtable discussion on a speech given by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew which was published in The Straits Times Review on 29 September 2008.
In the article titled “The centre must hold“, Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew told an international audience comprising 200 diplomats and academics at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London that Singapore was able to have a stable, peaceful society largely because of his policy of treating every race equally.
He next cite the example of Malaysia as having a divided society now because of a race-based education system catering to the needs of individual races instead of a unified system in Singapore where all Singaporeans attend national schools together from the primary to tertiary level irregardless of race and religion.
This is what MM Lee said:
“We also got everybody mixed up in the (housing estates), no longer in enclaves. Every constituency has its quota of the less successful. Everybody has the same chances in education and we choose a neutral language – English.
Malaysia threw out English and went with Malay. The Chinese and the Indians decided to have their own schools. Now they have got a divided society.”
We have invited 3 Singaporeans and a Malaysian to share with us what they think of MM Lee’s remarks.
We hope to seek the opinions from our brothers across the causeway on the following two questions:
1. Do you agree with MM Lee that Malaysia society is divided now as a result of its education system ?
2. What will Malaysians think of MM Lee’s rather sharp critcism of their country ?
This discussion will be published on our blog next Monday on the 6 October 2008.
Please email your opinion, name and blog link to: wayangparty@hotmail.com
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From “The Good, The Bad & The Ugly”:
Clint Eastwood to Lee Van Cleef on how to wreck the bad guys:
“Me from the inside, and you from the outside, right?”
Hey! RPK & some 60 more from the inside, you guys know how many are from the outside? …… more & more of the rakyat ….. still counting, sure as the sun will rise from the East every morn!
So, hang in there …… said van Cleef to Eastwood, and you know how the story will end.
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I was there on 1st Oct… Though, there was only me and my boyfriend, we were glad that we actually made it up to the gate. Asked the policeman for permission to pass greeting card to RPK, and he pointed us to the left of the guard house where 2 other police officers were sitting underneath a pondok. I quickly wrote up my card and passed it along with a motivational poster (not written with “No to ISA” though) to the police officers. They were polite and friendly, and promised to hand it to RPK. I hope they did keep to their words.
I will continue to send cards to RPK. Anyone who happen to pass by Taiping please drop by Kamunting and bring RPK some motivation. It’s only 15 min from the Taiping toll and very easy to find.
FREE RPK!!! ABOLISH ISA!!!
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