Big Mistake, Kiddo!

The march for fair and clean elections has received a severe setback as according to Malaysiakini and Bernama the police with advisement from the Internal Security Ministry has rejected a permit to hold this Saturday's rally and retaliated with the threat to arrest whoever is at the square participating in this illegal assembly.

It seems that the rejection is definitely part of the pressure by some senior politicians to block the move, fearing that it will cause panic and concern to the ruling government. So, it seems that Bedol Napoleon and his cronies are panic over the fact that it can undo their intentions of a Zero Opposition target. And this do imply that the police are their cannon fodder and number two, there is guilt in them that they wish to hide by preventing such assembly. Another thing is that I find that is unfair for them to hold an assembly whenever they wish but not to the others who do want to hold a non-violent assembly.

However, the organizers have received news that the King is interested in attending to this matter, and unless His Majesty steps in personally to instruct the police to give them time to do so, there will be likely a huge number of arrests and perhaps a repeat of the Batu Burok incident instigated by Special Branch.

A very bad mistake made by government and the police. This is indeed the lesser of the two evils as the greater evil lies in letting the corrupt and the hypocrite rig the elections and do the same thing that plunges Malaysia into an irredeemable abyss.

On a side note, since this side note fits the title, you will need to learn to hate the surveillance cameras installed around the city and perhaps in municipal cities later on, as these cameras can be used to put you into trouble over top driving offenses. IMHO, I have no objection to the latter four, but not on speeding. Because the constraints and exceptions are not mentioned definitely. For instance, does this apply to those who have to go to work everyday in the morning? I'm sure that it is manually observed and control, right? Secondly, there is a Chinese saying: Speed defines the winner. If you are fast enough provided you're able to control your vehicle well, you can save time, and can concentrate on doing other things. It will be more appropriate if the speed limit in every stretch of the road is increased by another 10 km/h. This was suggested many times but was ignored many times.

This week marks the 90th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, which at the same time is the start of the UMNO General Assembly. On the 10th, it's the BERSIH march for fair elections.

If the might of people surpasses the number of government hypocrites and the police, this means that the people had won the battle in the quest to clean the judiciary crisis and the call for clean and fair elections. The police might not be able to contain or even detain despite the warning of illegal participation the expected turnover of 100000 this Saturday.

Anyone who had seen this Warren Beatty Russian Revolution epic Reds can notice in this scene, the march bearing a similar resemblance and outcome of what could be expected
this Saturday.

You See, I Have A Problem...

Before writing this post, I was split on deciding what would be the interesting title to be used for this post. At first I thought of using "Bad People Deserve A Bad End", which was the tagline used in The Punisher: Barracuda. Then again, I thought of one of the lines by Clarence Boddicker -the infamous cop killer who executed Murphy at the opening act of Robocop. During that execution, he said, "You see, I have a problem. The cops don't like me and I don't like them." I just thought, hey that's a some sort of a connector to the next part of the post.

Today I saw a very interesting article in the front page of News Straits Times. There is somewhat of a make-up poster of this:

This happened to be the poster of the two special dogs that the Domestic and Consumer Affairs Ministry used, with courtesy from the MPAA - The Motion Picture Association of America in an experiment to see whether it is feasible to set up a canine unit specially trained to sniff out polycarbonate - a vital ingredient used to manufacture the blank CDs that we carry around. Two days ago, the dogs helped the Ministry's enforcers to raid an apartment in Johor Bahru (the last town before Singapore) and seized about 10 million ringgit worth of pirated stuff. Apparently, because of the incident, the syndicate kings in the south decided to put up an undisclosed bounty on whoever can take out the dogs or bitches to them.

Seems like both parties are trying to cross over the actual lines drawn, and maybe try to take each other out. However, neither one of them know their own lines. Was it because of pressure from outsiders? Is it going to be the end of them as like the loan sharks (as announced in today's The Star)? I have no idea though. There are many endings to this situation, but I am no Kaileena, who said in The Two Thrones, "Of all the possibilities that I've seen, this held the promising of all." After, isn't she the Empress of Time, who knows the possibilities of the future?

A friend told me that the criminal rate in Johor is far much higher than the rate in Kuala Lumpur or in Penang. But I think the three are the same. However, in terms of notoriety, as according to him, criminals there, particularly snatch thieves are much more aggressive than ever. But I agreed in one point though - the number of snatch cases is far more than those two places. He claimed though of something, saying that those criminals there claim to have special blood in their veins - I won't go more just to avoid provocation - and there are far more illegal Indonesians there compared to K.L. Because of this though, he said that J.B has the most number of lifeforms worse than animals in Malaysia. I have no opinion though as I don't have a statistic to back his claim.

This would be the third day in the role that there's heavy rainfall in Klang Valley. And I really had to finish testing the JIRA bug tracker tool by tomorrow evening. I had to do a series of tests, including validation tests. The worst was that a field that I've set to put in the Resolve screen never showed up despite my firm believe that it was definitely in place! How could that be? But after that, the program crashed. Out of memory problems. I think that my machine does not have enough RAM to support handling of massive issues that might come. So suppose if the company decides to buy the software, it needs to be installed in either two workstations that has high memory.

The plan of visiting Ipoh on the 6th is back on schedule as the Sports Club Run was moved to the 14th. And with my friend calling me in the afternoon to see what time I could come down to town to meet him, I think it's going to be a great weekend for the three of us. But then I might have to post Saturday and Sunday's entries for this week on succession, say Monday.