LET DESi start with a few quotable quotes on the subject, from GREat MEn of HIStory, none From NEgaraKU, minta maaf:~~
“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is
unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order
to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in
reality expressing the highest respect for the law”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine
of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear
smooth--certainly the machine will wear out… but if it is of such a
nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another,
then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop
the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not
lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.”
― Henry David Thoreau,
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FRom the STAr ONLine:~~
Published:
Sunday August 2, 2015 MYT 12:00:00 AM
Updated: Sunday August 2, 2015 MYT 9:18:20 AM
Updated: Sunday August 2, 2015 MYT 9:18:20 AM
29 including six women held over rally
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The detainees, now being held at the Kuala Lumpur police headquarters in Jalan Hang Tuah, face charges under Section 143 of the Penal Code for taking part in an unlawful assembly. It carries a maximum jail sentence of 20 years.
They were also being investigated for allegedly taking part in “activities detrimental to parliamentary democracy”, said police.
KL police chief Comm Datuk Tajuddin Md Isa said police arrested the 23 men and six women, the oldest being 69.
Outside the KL police headquarters, lawyers of the detainees argued with officers, claiming that they were not allowed access to their clients.
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AND another OMINOUS STORM CLOUD from the newly-minted DPM-cum-HOMe MInister:~~~
Published:
Sunday August 2, 2015 MYT 12:23:00 PM
Updated: Sunday August 2, 2015 MYT 1:05:30 PM
Updated: Sunday August 2, 2015 MYT 1:05:30 PM
Ahmad Zahid: Liars must pay ‘hefty price’
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GEORGE TOWN: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has denied that he would shut down social media.
"I have asked the police to investigate the matter. Don't regret. Those who spread such rumours have to pay a 'hefty price'.
"Don't spread the ugly lies. Social networking sites are under the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission.
"Don't smear my name. The intention was to portray that I am not familiar with the law," Dr Ahmad Zahid told a press conference after opening the Bayan Baru Umno division annual general meeting at Hotel Equatorial, Sunday.
Dr Ahmad Zahid said the rumour circulated was an attempt to make social media operators hate him.
"Retract your lies now. Don't play with me.
"If the police managed to investigate the culprit, tiada maaf bagimu (there will be no forgiveness)," Dr Ahmad Zahid added.
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"I have asked the police to investigate the matter. Don't regret. Those who spread such rumours have to pay a 'hefty price'.
"Don't spread the ugly lies. Social networking sites are under the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission.
"Don't smear my name. The intention was to portray that I am not familiar with the law," Dr Ahmad Zahid told a press conference after opening the Bayan Baru Umno division annual general meeting at Hotel Equatorial, Sunday.
"Retract your lies now. Don't play with me.
"If the police managed to investigate the culprit, tiada maaf bagimu (there will be no forgiveness)," Dr Ahmad Zahid added.
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DESIDERATA:
LORD ACTON's dictum cometh to mind:
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I CONtinue to overwhelm thee wit' quotable quotes from goodreads.com; I Don't feel like in labour, so I borrow, cun?!
Quotes About Civil Disobedience
Quotes tagged as "civil-disobedience"
(showing
1-30
of
37)
“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”
― Howard Zinn
― Howard Zinn
“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
― Aristotle, Selected Writings From The Nicomachean Ethics And Politics
― Aristotle, Selected Writings From The Nicomachean Ethics And Politics
“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is
unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order
to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in
reality expressing the highest respect for the law”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine
of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear
smooth--certainly the machine will wear out… but if it is of such a
nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another,
then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop
the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not
lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
“Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone
are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when
soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships
and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that
are strung across the globe. ”
― Arundhati Roy, Public Power in the Age of Empire
― Arundhati Roy, Public Power in the Age of Empire
“I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which
governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and
systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I
believe — "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when
men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they
will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments
are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.”
― Henry David Thoreau
― Henry David Thoreau
“I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its
breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should
be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by
breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and
imprisonment.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Non-violence in Peace and War 1942-49
― Mahatma Gandhi, Non-violence in Peace and War 1942-49
“It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.”
― Tariq Ali, The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad
― Tariq Ali, The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad
“If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own
government, then what the hell is the point of having it?”
― Michel Templet
― Michel Templet
“Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the
problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social
stability, that it led to anarchy. The greatest danger, I argued, was
civil obedience, the submission of individual conscience to governmental
authority. Such obedience led to the horrors we saw in totalitarian
states, and in liberal states it led to the public's acceptance of war
whenever the so-called democratic government decided on it...
In such a world, the rule of law maintains things as they are. Therefore, to begin the process of change, to stop a war, to establish justice, it may be necessary to break the law, to commit acts of civil disobedience, as Southern black did, as antiwar protesters did.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
In such a world, the rule of law maintains things as they are. Therefore, to begin the process of change, to stop a war, to establish justice, it may be necessary to break the law, to commit acts of civil disobedience, as Southern black did, as antiwar protesters did.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
“One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just
laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust
laws.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Lett
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BUT VOICES of DISSENT ARE rising from within UMNO AND outside of the most extremist, divisive party in the country, viz:~~~
From themalaysianinsider.com, my fave read online as aweways:)~~~
The ‘1MDB cabinet’, says Sanusi on new line-up
Published: 3 August 2015 8:28 AM
Tan Sri Sanusi Junid says the new Cabinet is
filled with those who are out to defend 1MDB and critical of Tun Dr Mahathir
Mohamad. – The Malaysian Insider filepic, August 3, 2015.Former Kedah menteri
besar Tan Sri Sanusi Junid has described the new Cabinet line-up as the
"1MDB cabinet", saying it is filled with those who are out to defend
troubled state investment vehicle 1Malaysia Development Berhad .
In comments posted on YouTube, Sanusi said the new Cabinet also seemed to
be made up of those critical of former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
"What is clear is that those who are appointed to the new Cabinet are
those who are vocal in criticising Dr Mahathir.
"As though the Cabinet is a 1MDB cabinet. A cabinet
to defend 1MDB. A cabinet to reduce or cover any efforts to expose 1MDB.
"Its problems are not resolved yet. The interest from its bank loans
still continue. Unprofitable investments still continue. What has
happened to the country?" said Sanusi, who was the Umno secretary-general
and vice-president under Dr Mahathir's rule.
Last week, Datuk Seri Najib Razak dropped his deputy Tan Sri Muhyiddin
Yassin in a Cabinet reshuffle which also saw several members of the Public
Accounts Committee (PAC), the parliamentary body investigating 1MDB, being
promoted to ministerial posts.
Muhyiddin has been critical of 1MDB, which has accumulated RM42 billion in
debts in just six years of operation.
Sanusi, who was the seventh Kedah menteri besar from 1996 to 1999, felt
Muhyiddin's sacking was not due to his criticism against 1MDB at the Umno
Cheras division meeting on July 26.
"I do not think he was sacked because of the speech. I think the
speech was the last reason because it takes time to complete the line-up to
appoint a new Cabinet," he said, adding that what Muhyiddin said at the
division meeting was just normal concerns which people had been talking about.
A former federal minister in the 1980s who had served under Dr Mahathir,
Sanusi also gave his views on the appointment of four PAC members as ministers
and deputy ministers, saying that this had effectively "crippled" the
bipartisan panel.
He said said the ongoing PAC proceedings, which include an inquiry into
1MDB, are more important than a deputy minister's work.
"The four most active members in PAC have been elevated to be deputy
ministers... PAC is crippled," he said.
He also spoke about the special task force currently investigating 1MDB,
saying he was surprised that "someone" was "sacked" due to
health reasons.
It is understood he was referring to former attorney-general, Tan Sri
Abdul Gani Patail.
"Normally a sick person will ask to be left out but this is not it.
The person who is said to be sick for a long time did not ask to be terminated
at all.
“He has performed his duties and suddenly he is sacked. This raises
questions.
"We see from the results of the ongoing probe there are already
arrests... and there are some who are wanted, who have run away.
“The people and the world are asking, my friends from overseas who are
following the developments are surprised, why those who have been taken action
by the task force to arrest this person... suddenly there is sacking."
He defended his former boss Dr Mahathir, who had been slammed by some Umno
ministers for raising 1MDB issue.
Sanusi said unlike the opposition who raised this matter just to defeat
Barisan Nasional during elections, Dr Mahathir raised it because he could see
it that it can be an issue that would cause the coalition's defeat.
"Dr Mahathir sees this can cause us to lose, unless we ourselves take
it up to resolve it," he added. – August 3, 2015.
- See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/the-1mdb-cabinet-says-sanusi-on-new-line-up#sthash.48O89qL7.dpuf
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TO BE CONTINUED>>>JUST a word of APOLOGY TO my ESteemed READErs; in recent posts, I had often promised thee "TO be continued..." but did not live up to my pledge. "Jest blame it to the flesh being weak (Disobedient) while the spirit was strong but not strong enough (NOT ENOUGH VITamin M-le! "
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DESI KEEPS HIS WORD>>> continuing the POST but consider as a COMPANION PIECE TO THE above in a new post titled "MEDIA and 1MDB: the sun daily and malaysianinsider.com LEAD THE MARCH for THE TRUTH" as I ZERO IN ON THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA BOTH old and new, as the SPIRIT OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE can be powerfully promoted through THE WRITTEN WORD. ~~ YL,DESI@3.45PM
The ‘1MDB cabinet’, says Sanusi on new line-up
Tan
Sri Sanusi Junid says the new Cabinet is filled with those who are out
to defend 1MDB and critical of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. – The Malaysian
Insider filepic, August 3, 2015.Former Kedah menteri besar
Tan Sri Sanusi Junid has described the new Cabinet line-up as the "1MDB
cabinet", saying it is filled with those who are out to defend troubled
state investment vehicle 1Malaysia Development Berhad .In comments posted on YouTube, Sanusi said the new Cabinet also seemed to be made up of those critical of former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
"What is clear is that those who are appointed to the new Cabinet are those who are vocal in criticising Dr Mahathir.
"As though the Cabinet is a 1MDB cabinet. A cabinet to defend 1MDB. A cabinet to reduce or cover any efforts to expose 1MDB. "Its problems are not resolved yet. The interest from its bank loans still continue. Unprofitable investments still continue. What has happened to the country?" said Sanusi, who was the Umno secretary-general and vice-president under Dr Mahathir's rule.
Last week, Datuk Seri Najib Razak dropped his deputy Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin in a Cabinet reshuffle which also saw several members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), the parliamentary body investigating 1MDB, being promoted to ministerial posts.
Muhyiddin has been critical of 1MDB, which has accumulated RM42 billion in debts in just six years of operation.
Sanusi, who was the seventh Kedah menteri besar from 1996 to 1999, felt Muhyiddin's sacking was not due to his criticism against 1MDB at the Umno Cheras division meeting on July 26.
"I do not think he was sacked because of the speech. I think the speech was the last reason because it takes time to complete the line-up to appoint a new Cabinet," he said, adding that what Muhyiddin said at the division meeting was just normal concerns which people had been talking about.
A former federal minister in the 1980s who had served under Dr Mahathir, Sanusi also gave his views on the appointment of four PAC members as ministers and deputy ministers, saying that this had effectively "crippled" the bipartisan panel.
He said said the ongoing PAC proceedings, which include an inquiry into 1MDB, are more important than a deputy minister's work.
"The four most active members in PAC have been elevated to be deputy ministers... PAC is crippled," he said.
He also spoke about the special task force currently investigating 1MDB, saying he was surprised that "someone" was "sacked" due to health reasons.
It is understood he was referring to former attorney-general, Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail.
"Normally a sick person will ask to be left out but this is not it. The person who is said to be sick for a long time did not ask to be terminated at all.
“He has performed his duties and suddenly he is sacked. This raises questions.
"We see from the results of the ongoing probe there are already arrests... and there are some who are wanted, who have run away.
“The people and the world are asking, my friends from overseas who are following the developments are surprised, why those who have been taken action by the task force to arrest this person... suddenly there is sacking."
He defended his former boss Dr Mahathir, who had been slammed by some Umno ministers for raising 1MDB issue.
Sanusi said unlike the opposition who raised this matter just to defeat Barisan Nasional during elections, Dr Mahathir raised it because he could see it that it can be an issue that would cause the coalition's defeat.
"Dr Mahathir sees this can cause us to lose, unless we ourselves take it up to resolve it," he added. – August 3, 2015.
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