Comments on: Malaysia: Vigil for jailed Raja Petra this evening http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/05/08/malaysia-vigil-for-jailed-raja-petra-this-evening/ Defending Free Speech Online Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:38:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Index on Censorship » Malaysia: changing the climate of fear http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/05/08/malaysia-vigil-for-jailed-raja-petra-this-evening/#comment-12861 Index on Censorship » Malaysia: changing the climate of fear Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:46:11 +0000 http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/?p=297#comment-12861 [...] of the country and insulted the sanctity of Islam. RPK’s troubles do not end there; he also is facing sedition charges as well as defamation law [...] [...] of the country and insulted the sanctity of Islam. RPK’s troubles do not end there; he also is facing sedition charges as well as defamation law [...]

]]> By: Global Voices Advocacy » Plans for action against Malaysian bloggers http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/05/08/malaysia-vigil-for-jailed-raja-petra-this-evening/#comment-11113 Global Voices Advocacy » Plans for action against Malaysian bloggers Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:43:35 +0000 http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/?p=297#comment-11113 [...] year has seen the government dealing with blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin (or RPK) for sedition, while there are ongoing investigations against blogger Sheih, also for [...] [...] year has seen the government dealing with blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin (or RPK) for sedition, while there are ongoing investigations against blogger Sheih, also for [...]

]]> By: GERALD HENG/BOSTON/MA/USA http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/05/08/malaysia-vigil-for-jailed-raja-petra-this-evening/#comment-10247 GERALD HENG/BOSTON/MA/USA Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:50:44 +0000 http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/?p=297#comment-10247 Its salutory to note that Raja Petra is out on Bail in freedom till the Trial ! Its an national and international disgrace for Malaysia to arrest,falsely imprisoned and charged a noble Raayat of the country for the Civil Rights of Humanity to assemble freely and speak or publish freely the thoughts that are on his mind.Indeed the Sedition Charge is totally out of order because its the British who used the ISA against Communists and fellow travellers of Communism! Chin Peng the Mlaysian Communist Party leader has already surrendered and recanted his past misguided ideological Communism raison e tre for malaysia,so what is the ISA doing now in the 50 years since Merdeka ? The ISA should have been finally thrown out into the dustbin of colonial history ! Raja Petra is one tough,honest,brave and intellectually proper man in seeking Free Speech Free Assembly,and Media for Malaysia which is the foremost abiding Bill of Rights in Modern Democracies like the UK USA Canada and Australia !In the USA the late Chief Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes of Harvard Law and a Boston Brahmin insisted in a series of US Supreme Court decisions that " Freedom of the Press,Speech and media is rather like permitting a Free Market Place of ideas " where even Chairman Mao in one of his finest moments said " Let a hundred flowers bloom and thousands of thoughts contend ! "Sometimes the Market get to be bazaar so be it how else would consumers know how good or bad ideas are without the Free Forum for such thoughts in speech contend ? Raja Petra as his name suggests is Saint Peter the Rock from which the cathedral of freedom of expression can be built so that the Malaysian People may assemble to sing many hosannas to Freedom, Liberty and brotherhood of the Malaysian People from three great Asian Civilizations!The Raja is noble in the sense what President Jack Kennedy used to say " For those to whom much is given ,much is required ! "The Measure of the Man is his Life in the pursuit of Freedoms we all hold dear as civilised thinking human beings!May the Sedition be dropped as improperly defined and lack proper evidence of a turn coat coward,Raja Petra is no coward he is Patriotic Hero to champion his Press Freedom ! Vive La Joie De Vivre Libre Monsier Raja Petra Kamaruddin The Rudder of the Party Pakatan Raayat Malaysia Jaya !If Pah Lah our Premier has any common-sense and wisdom he should forthwith recruit the Raja Petra into his Cabinet as Chief Counsellor protempore till a cabinet position be found for his unique talents! Let's put persoanl vendettas and politics of persoanl destruction aside !The man obviously has love and grace for the free process of Democracy ! Gerald Heng Boston/Framingham/MA/USA present at the Merdeak Celebrations of August 31st 1957 and the 1963 Merger of Malaysia with Singapore! Its salutory to note that Raja Petra is out on Bail in freedom till the Trial ! Its an national and international disgrace for Malaysia to arrest,falsely imprisoned and charged a noble Raayat of the country for the Civil Rights of Humanity to assemble freely and speak or publish freely the thoughts that are on his mind.Indeed the Sedition Charge is totally out of order because its the British who used the ISA against Communists and fellow travellers of Communism! Chin Peng the Mlaysian Communist Party leader has already surrendered and recanted his past misguided ideological Communism raison e tre for malaysia,so what is the ISA doing now in the 50 years since Merdeka ? The ISA should have been finally thrown out into the dustbin of colonial history !

Raja Petra is one tough,honest,brave and intellectually proper man in seeking Free Speech Free Assembly,and Media for Malaysia which is the foremost abiding Bill of Rights in Modern Democracies like the UK USA Canada and Australia !In the USA the late Chief Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes of Harvard Law and a Boston Brahmin insisted in a series of US Supreme Court decisions that ” Freedom of the Press,Speech and media is rather like permitting a Free Market Place of ideas ” where even Chairman Mao in one of his finest moments said ” Let a hundred flowers bloom and thousands of thoughts contend ! “Sometimes the Market get to be bazaar so be it how else would consumers know how good or bad ideas are without the Free Forum for such thoughts in speech contend ?
Raja Petra as his name suggests is Saint Peter the
Rock from which the cathedral of freedom of expression can be built so that the Malaysian People may assemble to sing many hosannas to Freedom, Liberty and brotherhood of the Malaysian People from three great Asian Civilizations!The Raja is noble in the sense what President Jack Kennedy used to say ” For those to whom much is given ,much is required ! “The Measure of the Man is his Life in the pursuit of Freedoms we all hold dear as civilised thinking human beings!May the Sedition be dropped as improperly defined and lack proper evidence of a turn coat coward,Raja Petra is no coward he is Patriotic Hero to champion his Press Freedom ! Vive La Joie De Vivre Libre Monsier Raja Petra Kamaruddin The Rudder of the Party Pakatan Raayat Malaysia Jaya !If Pah Lah our Premier has any common-sense and wisdom he should forthwith recruit the Raja Petra into his Cabinet as Chief Counsellor protempore till a cabinet position be found for his unique talents! Let’s put persoanl vendettas and politics of persoanl destruction aside !The man obviously has love and grace for the free process of Democracy !

Gerald Heng
Boston/Framingham/MA/USA
present at the Merdeak Celebrations of August 31st 1957 and the 1963 Merger of Malaysia with Singapore!

]]> By: Malaysia: Vigil for jailed Raja Petra-Global Voices « FACT - Freedom Against Censorship Thailand http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/05/08/malaysia-vigil-for-jailed-raja-petra-this-evening/#comment-9521 Malaysia: Vigil for jailed Raja Petra-Global Voices « FACT - Freedom Against Censorship Thailand Wed, 14 May 2008 15:12:39 +0000 http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/?p=297#comment-9521 [...] Malaysia: Vigil for jailed Raja Petra John Kennedy, Global Voices: May 08, [...] [...] Malaysia: Vigil for jailed Raja Petra John Kennedy, Global Voices: May 08, [...]

]]> By: Sean http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/05/08/malaysia-vigil-for-jailed-raja-petra-this-evening/#comment-9448 Sean Sat, 10 May 2008 08:15:20 +0000 http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/?p=297#comment-9448 Interesting people talk of an Internet War - nobody goes to war at election time. If there's an election, you have a democratic process. The bloggers won the last election not by being superior bloggers, but by providing an alternative to the mainstream media - which is pure UMNO propaganda. Blogging didn't win the Opposition seats, the mainstream media lost the BN ones. If you only feed your people rubbish, they're going to look for somewhere else to eat. Odd that online articles say he was charged with libel for alleging the involvement of government ministers in a murder. That's libel at worst, isn't it? That last paragraph of his article directly incites revolution. That was plain silly. Interesting people talk of an Internet War – nobody goes to war at election time. If there’s an election, you have a democratic process. The bloggers won the last election not by being superior bloggers, but by providing an alternative to the mainstream media – which is pure UMNO propaganda. Blogging didn’t win the Opposition seats, the mainstream media lost the BN ones. If you only feed your people rubbish, they’re going to look for somewhere else to eat.

Odd that online articles say he was charged with libel for alleging the involvement of government ministers in a murder. That’s libel at worst, isn’t it? That last paragraph of his article directly incites revolution. That was plain silly.

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