Category Archives: Politics

Official Report for the 11th of May Meeting.

We met, we dis­cussed, and two of us had some­thing to drink. The out­come of the equi­val­ent of a First Con­tact situ­ation between a group of people from the closest thing to a Malay­sian athe­ist soci­ety with a politi­cian was extraordin­ary in its pro­duct­ive­ness. Read our report at the fol­low­ing link. Kok Sen Wai has

Mainstream Media Coverage of BERSIH 3.0

The cov­er­age of BERSIH 3.0 on the main­stream media has been as expec­ted, ludicrously one-sided. Every 10 minutes of the local news chan­nels will be devoted to a “BERSIH SUCKS!” seg­ment trans­ition­ing into “LOSS OF BUSINESS FOR ONE DAY DISASTROUS SO DISASTROUS” before seguing into “BN IS THE BEST” news with the occa­sional “GUY COMMITS

Kedah’s Attempt at Theocracy

A cross-post from the Malay­sian Athe­ists Organ­isa­tion. On the 17th of April 2012, the fol­low­ing art­icle appeared in The Star: ALOR SETAR: Future fatwa issued by the Kedah mufti or Fatwa Com­mit­tee can­not be chal­lenged in court under an amend­ment to the Mufti and Fatwa (Kedah Darul Aman) Enact­ment 2008 passed by the Kedah State Assembly

BERSIH 3.0 Penang in Pictures

Yes­ter­day was the first time I par­ti­cip­ated in a sim­ul­tan­eously legal and illegal assembly of people sup­port­ing a com­mon cause which is elect­oral reform. Illegal because the fed­eral gov­ern­ment had already issued a ban on the gath­er­ing via all media out­lets under their con­trol, and legal because the Pen­ang state gov­ern­ment had given its approval

BERSIH Police Car Incident

Early videos from Dataran Mer­deka, presen­ted without con­text. I am work­ing on my own report for BERSIH 3.0 in Pen­ang. It will be up when I fin­ish choos­ing the pho­tos. UPDATE: Addi­tional related video, presen­ted without con­text. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ara569Nh_U0 UPDATE 2: Another video of the incid­ent. Looks to be the most com­plete so far.

Security Offenses Bill Offends Civil Liberties.

Malik Imtiaz has an art­icle on his blog regard­ing the law inten­ded to replace the Internal Secur­ity Act, bet­ter known loc­ally as the ISA. I am no fan of the ISA, and say­ing those three let­ters out loud con­jures up a sen­sa­tion of shit churn­ing about in my digest­ive tracts. Throw in Salam Satu Malay­sia

To Not Watch Movies.

One of the biggest news within the geek com­munity for the past few months has been the seizure of assets and the com­plete destruc­tion of Megaup­load and other sub­si­di­ar­ies of Kim Dot­com. Not too long ago, it was revealed by a US dis­trict court judge Liam O’Grady that charges against Kim Dot­com may not even