Sham, you can stick your reforms way up where the sun don’t shine. Along with your damn keris

By The People's Parliament

Article 10(1)(b) of the Federal Constitution guarantees to each of us the right to assemble peaceably and without arms.

Right to assemble peaceably anywhere.

Not just in stadiums, or such nooks and crannies that might be approved of by you or your colleagues in Putrajaya.

Sure that right is always subject, as spelt out in clause (2), to Parliament’s power to legislate and restrict that right when it is deemed “necessary or expedient in the interest of the security of the Federation or any part thereof, friendly relations with other countries, public order or morality and restrictions designed to protect the privileges of Parliament or of any Legislative Assembly or to provide against contempt of court, defamation, or incitement to any offence”.

This, however, presumes an intelligent, honest Parliament that has only the interest of the rakyat at heart, and not one filled with a majority of ‘Yes’ men who abide by every bidding of a dishonest Executive.

You and your colleagues wish to toss us crumbs from the table by dangling a more lenient ISA?

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