I refer to Malaysiakini report Sack Hisham and IGP, Bersih tells Najib .

The clarion call for the Home Minister Hishamuddin Hussein and the IGP to resign from office seems to be getting louder by the day. Initially it was the Bar Council which wanted the prime minister to sack them both and now Bersih has made a similar demand.

But it will be an exercise in futility asking the prime minister to sack them as their services are needed to maintain the peace and harmony in this country (read: to stop streets demonstrations and arrest opposition leaders and supporters if the needs arises and to blindly follow what their political masters ask them to do).

Our police force, which should remain impartial, has shown its true colours as they seem to be biased towards the ruling parties in using their authority to arrest people for wearing black T- shirts in Ipoh, Perak during the May 7 sitting of the Perak legislative assembly.

The police force has lost its credibility to act impartially and graft and abuse of power by police personnel have eroded the respect for them among the common people.

The last straw must have been when several plainclothes police officers had pulled the speaker of the Perak assembly by the scruff of his neck from his chair to be replaced by one nominated by BN assembly persons.

The barbaric act was uncalled for as it will only tarnish the image of our country among foreigners.

Never in the history of other democratic countries had you seen such a shameful incident happening in the august house. The sanctity of the august house has been grossly violated as the sitting speaker was removed illegally by brute force.

The IGP said that he does not want our country to go the way of Thailand where scores of demonstrations caused the country to come to a standstill, driving away foreign tourists and investments.

But our country is not Thailand. Streets demonstrations here are done here sparingly and only when the voices of the common people are not being heard by the ruling elite. Even then the FRU with their water cannons and Special Branch officers have been known to break up demonstrations and scores of people have been charged in court for their participation in such street demonstrations.

How can candlelight vigils by concerned citizens be considered a threat to society is something the people cannot accept. The civil rights of society are slowly eroding as our men in blue seem to be more interested in breaking up demonstrations rather than using their resources to curb crime in the country which is going from bad to worse.

Our citizens have woken up from their slumber and are not afraid to fight for their rights unlike before. Using brute force to break up demonstrations and stifle dissenting voices from being heard will not stop the people from going to the streets to voice out their opinions.

The IGP and the powerful home minister should not think that the people can be cowed by using the ISA or by arresting them. The people would wants to highlight their grievances as they know their rights in this country.

The political scene in this country does not warrant our political elite to use government machinery to quell dissenting voices from being heard. With the advent of the Internet and foreign media, any excess force used to break up demonstrations will only tarnish the government's image among foreign nations

Unless our country wants to step backwards to be like Zimbabwe or Burma where civil liberties are heavily curbed and despots rule without hindrance, the government of the day needs to loosen up and accept that demonstrations on the streets are part and parcel of a robust democracy as what is being practiced in the West.

Coming back to the IGP and the Home Minister, come the next general elections, whether they like it or not, their tenure will be terminated when the opposition fronts takes over.

After all, Umno and their BN partners are suffering from stage four cancer which is incurable. After more than a year of office and with a new premier, the public still thinks that the present weak government cannot reform themselves. They won't change their bad habit of abusing their power for personal gain.

Hopefully, if a new government is sworn in after the next general elections, they will learn the lessons of the past and rule justly with law and order being judiciously managed and civil liberties being upheld fairly. The common people can only hope for the best.