After hearing the comments made my our nation's leaders since Saturday, I feel it is horrendous that they continue to validate their political positions, skew facts and deceive the country and the world at the expense of the rakyat.

Typically, we are well aware that our mainstream media has an obvious partisan bias towards the BN government as most of the newspapers are owned by BN component parties. However, the content that had been published over the past few days are nothing short of blatant lies meant to deceive the public.

With the presence of thousands of cameras, local and foreign press, tourists and eyewitnesses, how can the government reasonably be expected to get away with it all?

The person who got the ball rolling was the inspector-general of police (IGP) Ismail Omar, who fronted the press in a suit (for goodness sake, as the top policeman in this country, wear your uniform), he declared that only 5,000 - 6,000 people attended the rally and alleged that the police were “forced” to use tear gas and chemical-laced water to disperse the crowd.

I personally can bear witness that both statements are simply not true. I saw police fire upon a peaceful crowd without provocation, and thousands of others, including the media caught in the middle can back this up.

Furthermore, the IGP also said that no tear gas was fired at KL Sentral when asked to comment on opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's injuries. He said, “He (Anwar) was not at Pudu. That is the only place that had tear gas (fired). It is not true.” The Malaysiakini live report showed that Anwar was clearly hurt at the same time that the IGP denied it.

As for the tear gas, I had a good lungful of those noxious fumes in that very KL Sentral tunnel, and even after 4pm, anyone going into the station would have walked into a shroud of the tear gas residue. I am inclined to believe my own lungs constricting rather than the IGP's words.

I cannot make a comment on police brutality as I was fortunate to be at the stadium where I did not witness any arrests, but from all the video evidence, it is a disgrace that the IGP, home minister and prime minister can claim that “minimal force” was used, and that there was “no physical contact” between the police and the crowd, despite Channel News Asia and Al Jazeera showing otherwise.

The IGP was the first to bring up the issue of Tung Shin Hospital, and the controversy behind it. The sad part is that everyone else jumped onto the bandwagon, including the prime minister, Home Minister Hishamuddin Huseein, our Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai and then MCA president Chua Soi Lek.

Max Koh of The Edge Financial Daily and Marina Mahathir both were very clear that tear gas and chemical laced water were shot into the compound of Tung Shin Hospital, amongst hundreds of witnesses, hospital staff, Bar Council observers and the media.

The sheer recalcitrance our health minister showed to the press by refusing to entertain anything but his own version of events has effectively signed his own death warrant on his political career. Similarly for Chua Soi Lek, who is joining his deputy's descent into the political abyss.

Barisan Nasional has disgraced our press integrity, disgraced their own parties, disgraced the rakyat, and have made our country a laughing stock amongst all Asean countries. By standing and trying to crush the call to change, Malaysians have shown solidarity. The domino effect shall take place, when those who marched for freedom and fairness return to their kampungs to report what they saw.

Unrepentant, unashamed and unwavering in their stubborness, BN shall have to answer to God first, and then to the rakyat come the next general election. Truth shall prevail!