BN's iron fist and boomerang laws
The opposition coalition Pakatan Rakyat which consist of PKR, DAP and PAS are all beginning to flex its muscles into many of BN's traditional strongholds and firmly gripped states. How did they do that? They made full use of the most available space in the internet, via online news portals, blogs, facebook, twitter or any other networking channels where they could get in order to reach the people.
With the cyberspace at large, Pakatan Rakyat is gaining the advantage as more and more people are now turning to the internet for more real and reasonable news and report on our nation's current political situation. Why? It is because they don't trust the mainstream medias anymore. Whatever the BN government says no longer demonstrate the real scenarios, the actual political feedback and of course most of the time look pretty awkward with news and reports against the opposition.
As Pakatan Rakyat is able to venture into the cyberspace with no limits, BN too follow suit but it is already too late by now as most people would no longer interested to even look at their news nor reports be it via internet or mainstream medias because the people knew those reports are either false, inaccurate or has been censored.
Desperate of being completely shut down by the people and looking at the increasing popularity of the opposition party leaders, BN has no other choice, but to strengthen its position by introducing and amending new and existing laws in order to curb the online dissents.
What has the BN done? They amended the Evidence Act in order to put whoever posted anything which are deemed to be offensive online be as guilty as possible until he or she could proof that he or she is not guilty or whatsoever. Besides, the BN government has also announce its intention to revamp the Multimedia Act in order to include a special clause which regards to censorship, enforcement and punishment.
The worst thing are these laws were effectively boomeranged into the parliament at such a high speed without giving any sufficient opportunities to the opposition bench to review these laws in detail and to debate the details in the parliament's sitting session. We supposed the Multimedia Act is going to be brought into the parliament in such way too.
With this, the BN believed that they would be able put all conditions of the cyberspace under its direct control and censorship prior to the coming 13th general elections. The major problem here is, can BN really achieve that? It is away too late in fact. BN is typically outdated in such effort. Everyone knew it right from the beginning.
And this put the BN leaders into a more desperate mode. They are going all out to instill fear among the people, sending out motorcycle gangs or carrying out other sorts of violent bullying to disrupt the peace and to the homes of opposition leaders to threaten their families and children. When the victims came forward to complain on the harassment leveled against them and their families, the authorities use the existing laws against them instead of all those culprits.
Looks like most of these laws were created to serve the interests of these BN leaders rather than to effectively protect the people, peace and public order. When the people's dissent do increase, BN leaders are quick to jump into the wagon for a quick fire fighting, describing the oppositions are the real terrorists, troublemakers or law breakers. Yeah, they did all these onslaught in the traditional mainstream medias.
Other laws which we saw some possibilities of getting amended from bad to worst are the Official Secrets Act, Sedition Act, Societies Act, Multimedia Act, Printing, Publications and Publishing Act and what else? Did you want to guess? It will come with a surprise and by the time it reaches your doorsteps, it is already being boomeranged into the parliament, approved and sealed.
What else we could do? Wait for the 13th general elections then!
With the cyberspace at large, Pakatan Rakyat is gaining the advantage as more and more people are now turning to the internet for more real and reasonable news and report on our nation's current political situation. Why? It is because they don't trust the mainstream medias anymore. Whatever the BN government says no longer demonstrate the real scenarios, the actual political feedback and of course most of the time look pretty awkward with news and reports against the opposition.
As Pakatan Rakyat is able to venture into the cyberspace with no limits, BN too follow suit but it is already too late by now as most people would no longer interested to even look at their news nor reports be it via internet or mainstream medias because the people knew those reports are either false, inaccurate or has been censored.
Desperate of being completely shut down by the people and looking at the increasing popularity of the opposition party leaders, BN has no other choice, but to strengthen its position by introducing and amending new and existing laws in order to curb the online dissents.
What has the BN done? They amended the Evidence Act in order to put whoever posted anything which are deemed to be offensive online be as guilty as possible until he or she could proof that he or she is not guilty or whatsoever. Besides, the BN government has also announce its intention to revamp the Multimedia Act in order to include a special clause which regards to censorship, enforcement and punishment.
The worst thing are these laws were effectively boomeranged into the parliament at such a high speed without giving any sufficient opportunities to the opposition bench to review these laws in detail and to debate the details in the parliament's sitting session. We supposed the Multimedia Act is going to be brought into the parliament in such way too.
With this, the BN believed that they would be able put all conditions of the cyberspace under its direct control and censorship prior to the coming 13th general elections. The major problem here is, can BN really achieve that? It is away too late in fact. BN is typically outdated in such effort. Everyone knew it right from the beginning.
And this put the BN leaders into a more desperate mode. They are going all out to instill fear among the people, sending out motorcycle gangs or carrying out other sorts of violent bullying to disrupt the peace and to the homes of opposition leaders to threaten their families and children. When the victims came forward to complain on the harassment leveled against them and their families, the authorities use the existing laws against them instead of all those culprits.
Looks like most of these laws were created to serve the interests of these BN leaders rather than to effectively protect the people, peace and public order. When the people's dissent do increase, BN leaders are quick to jump into the wagon for a quick fire fighting, describing the oppositions are the real terrorists, troublemakers or law breakers. Yeah, they did all these onslaught in the traditional mainstream medias.
Other laws which we saw some possibilities of getting amended from bad to worst are the Official Secrets Act, Sedition Act, Societies Act, Multimedia Act, Printing, Publications and Publishing Act and what else? Did you want to guess? It will come with a surprise and by the time it reaches your doorsteps, it is already being boomeranged into the parliament, approved and sealed.
What else we could do? Wait for the 13th general elections then!
