MCA NGO Liaison Bureau lauds AG’s decision to charge Shah Alam protestors:
Slams mob antics by aggressive minority as political blackmail against political will of silent majority.
MCA NGO Liaison Bureau would like to congratulate the police and the Attorney General's decision to charge the Shah Alam demonstrators under Section 4(1) of the Sedition Act and Penal Code for sedition and Section 27(5) of the Police Act 1967 for illegal demonstration. Their act of carrying a decapitated cow’s head to the Selangor state Secretariat besides making racial/religious provocative statements are blatant disregards of our law and order.
Of late we have seen Malaysians developing a tendency to resort to mob antics and violence to express themselves. The street demonstrations and mob behaviours are alien to our Malaysian political culture until recent years and they are in direct contrast with the civil society that we are cultivating and expecting.
Taking to the streets over issues like teaching Maths and Science in English etc is a form of political blackmail by an aggressive minority against the political will and desire of the silent majority.
The recent ugly incident of some 50 over demonstrators in Shah Alam against the proposed relocation of the Sri Maha Mariaman Hindu temple with a cow head as well as hurling abuses and inciting racial/religious sentiment goes against the grain of our culture of racial/religious sensitivity and tolerance since independence.
This ugly manifestation of dissent has gone against the Malaysian political culture of consensus building in a legal and peaceful manner.
We hope that the decision to charge these illegal demonstrators and those who had spewed and inflamed religious racial sentiments will be consistent and without regard of their political support or affiliations in order that the Rule of Law prevails.
Malaysians are getting uglier by day and the public must be satisfied that there is no selective persecution in discharging duties to uphold and enforce the rule of law. Justice must be done and be seen to be done.
The tendency to display violence, force, might or brutish behavioral patterns must be immediately nipped at the bud.
MCA further calls upon the Police and the Attorney General to charge the residents who had committed criminal assault and battery against the Menteri Besar of Selangor Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim and Shah Alam Member of Parliament Khalid Samad in a recent dialogue with the residents. Both the Menteri Besar and Member of Parliament are honorably elected representatives of the people. The uncouth mob behaviour displayed by several residents such as carrying a chair in a display of violence to an elected official or any member of the public must not be allowed or encouraged. This trend of violence in whatever name must be stopped and there should be no justification given. An offence is still an offence. A wrong is still a wrong.
The people must be taught that the arms of the laws will ultimately catch up with them. They must be made to realize that it does not pay to break the law and we are all equals before the law irrespective of whether you are PKR,PAS,DAP or UMNO/BN.
Datuk Ti Lian Ker
Chairman
MCA NGO Liaison Bureau
