luckily I was in Langkawi when it happened, not tat I care much but one of my fren was stucked in KL’s traffic jam for 2 hours n still not reaching PJ, called me 2 chit chat, poor thing.

We’re in ur country demolishing ur apathy

“only the ruling coalition can get its messages out”

only the papers run by the opposition can deliver true messages and give revelation most of the time…

These cases happened in KL ? luckily I was in Penang last few days
actually forming a big group to protest also useless

O___O!!

America has demonstrations all the time. I never take this right for granted.

don’t entirely believe what the online news tell you. i think alot of it was exaggerated. but then there are truths within the exaggeration.

i am glad this happened. it is great to see us rising above the apathy that we have been clouding ourselves in for decades

Jason…..Remember the NGO I told you I was working for? Well I helped set BERSIH up and it’s great to see that BERSIH has done so well to organise this….40,000 people woo hoo!

I hope something good will come out of this. Otherwise it’s just another laughing stock for the world community (given the fact that it had been widely publicized in the international media, including CNN and Al-Jazeera w00t!). And can you believe that there are urbanites who were unaware of this gathering? It’s time to wake everyone up…

The ruling government event resort to dumb tactics of closing down all lanes in federal highway and do a one by one spot checks on car to deter people from going there. How dumb and desperate can they be?

They must be thinking, “Oh since, we cannot wit by justice, or wits, i guess we have resort to good old brute force aye…”..” Someone call Musa ask him to roadblock!!!”

These politicians must think everyone is as stupid as they are.

ouch! They even took out water canons and tear gas?
Must be fun being in there.

They’ve learnt well from the Batu Buruk incident. The guys in red apparently were assigned the task of keeping it peaceful etc. I’d say 30-40,000 people is a lot, considering how many Malaysians don’t give a damn / think it’s futile. When people think nothing can be done, that’s when the road for more extreme actions by the government will be paved.

nothing peaceful in malaysia before… whose fault????

[amy]
The police were preventing people from joining the demonstrations. That is the reason behind the road blocks, and cancelled LRT trains.

[leyon]
apathy is a known malaysian trait …

[mic.tham]
exactly !! Especially when most of the mainstream media in Malaysia is state-owned. I will blog about this in the future.

[Merdurian]
This demonstrations have been gaining momentum and the numbers are increasing.

Soon you will see the difference.

[Eri]
O_o”

[noel]
Unforunately, I couldn’t attend the demonstration …

[ee]
I agree with online news, but CNN ?

[weave]
Good work ! You must be proud ! I hope this is a positive step in the right direction for Malaysians.

[narrowband]
I know, the ignorance is stunning!

[kslye]
That is what you get , when a political party is insecure about it’s own status.

[3point8]
Only at Masjid Jamek … But yeah , I would have loved to be there

[leyon]
Would you have attended if you were in Msia ? I know I would.

[zewt]
I don’t really know what he means by saying that. Does he mean demonstrations get violent ?

Or there were never any demonstrations at all ?

All in all an ignorant statement.

I would definitely be getting my face full of chemical water if I was there. Fairly certain the administration is just falling back on their time-honoured tactics of media blackout/downplaying and throwaway insults (’destabilizing peace’,'illegal riots’, misc. bullshit). Too bad the Internet makes things a bit harder to censor.

Freedom of speech over here??? Urmm…urmm… Nahhhhh.dun think it will happen for the forseeable future. :p