The legitimate MB should have an audience with the Sultan of Perak and dissolve the state sssembly immediately.

On Court rules Nizar as legitimate MB

(Formerly) confused:

I am confused no more! The constitution is valid! I pray that all is done right by the people this time ... To the box!!!

Perak Citizen:

Congratulation to Nizar and his Pakatan team, and thanks to lawyer Sulaiman Abdullah and team. The court has finally declared Nizar as the legitimate Menteri Besar of Perak. The legitimate Menteri Besar should have an audience with the Sultan of Perak and dissolve the State Assembly immediately.

Baiyuensheng: I have a question now Nizar has been declared the legitimate MB. Let's say if the present MB losses confidence of the majority of the assembly but manage to cling on to power since he is able to cohort with the Speaker who can reject motion of a vote of confidence, what is the alternate recourse? I think there is a similarity with the Terengganu state government. Anyway, thank goodness the constitution is upheld.

Now that the court has ruled. Can the people take Zambry, the police, state secretariat and the rest that have violated the constitution for treason? Or, they have committed no crime?

CK: If the speaker refuses to accept a motion of no-confidence, I suppose the opposition can invite the Sultan to the State Assembly Hall to table the motion. We are all glad that the judiciary seems to be no longer under the shadow of the 1988 judiciary crisis and it proves that the judge can make his judgment without fear or favour. Let's hope that the government's appeal to the upper courts will be rejected.

Selvadurai: With this ruling it should establish that the meeting under the tree legitimate. This then means that all the resolutions passed are also legitimate. Way to go Nizar Jamaluddin and company. Please make sure all the civil servants who went out of the way to thaw your rule are transferred to positions where they can not disrupt the election process before the assembly is dissolved.

On Sivakumar dragged out, BN speaker takes over

LKS: Let all of us call it "The Perak Coup".

Once the manipulative ISA release news have cooled down, let us drop all other descriptions: The Perak constitutional crisis, the twin-speaker crisis, the twin-MB impasse, the Perak fiasco, etc.

Let us call a spade a spade, and let all of us always refer to it as: "The Coup in Perak."

Because that's what it is: Federal government, federal police, state bureaucracy, judicary, all conspiring, by force, removing the legitimate Perak government by extra-constitutional means.

Milton: Pakatan Aduns should boycott the rest of the term of the current assembly. To continue to participate in the proceeding is to give legitimacy to the actions of all concerned, the BN who planned the barbaric acts, the royalty who sanctioned them and the machinery of State (judiciary, the police, the civil service), who support them.

These are barbaric acts of the BN coalition, denying the people of Perak the right to natural democratic process. A boycott is also a show protest to all those who planned and contributed to these barbaric actions--the royalty, the judiciary, the civil service and the police.

This boycott will continue to sent this message to the people not to forget the acts of the BN and its coalition until the next general election in 2013.

The Dark Knight: This wearing black campaign is rhetorically foolish. Why not wear white instead of black or any other colour for that matter? Do you all want to continue to live in darkness? Maybe this is the irony of it all.

My justification for such rhetoric foolishness is because it is obvious that the judiciary is partial to the ruling government. Separation of powers does not exist in Malaysia. Have not all the countless recent incidents told us enough about the political nature in Malaysia? Come on people, time to wake up!

On 'They threw me out of Kamunting'

Anonymous: Good for Uthayakumar - a strong and cunning hero for all of us to look up to.

It looks like other ISA detainees might have signed the conditional release statements. This would be the last trick the prison authority played on them, even though the government would have been forced to release them -- having publicly announced the releases.

The public knows that any conditional release agreement would have been signed under duress, and would not stand up in the court of public opinion or the court of law.

The best way to deal with these conditional release statement signed during the confusion would be to very publicly talk about having signed them, then publicly state that they refuse to honour them. Leave no shadowy corners for the Special Branch to operate on.

On Only Perak sultan can provide the cure

Anonymous: Somehow the Perak crisis - or more appropriately the Perak coup - reminds me of the Arthurian lore of the Fisher King. He was wounded mysteriously and his land gradually laid to waste, waiting for the knights to save them. In the end, it was an innocent fool who completed the quest.

I suspect the holy grail is liberty for the people. The concept is probably copied in The Lord of The Rings by Tolkien.

Sometimes the legends involve two generations of kings. There is a thin trail back to the psychologically wounded Oedipus in Greek tragedy.

Somehow this mythical tragedy is so universal that it has had a deep hold on the Western psyche and inspired opera (Wagner), poems (TS Elion), novels, and movies.

Elijah: As a Perakian, I wish to ask why the Sultan of Perak is still quiet despite BN recognizing the fact now that they had done a blunder in Perak? Are they waiting to make a decision based on the court verdict this afternoon? If that could be the case, they should have waited even before allowing the May 7 Perak state assembly sitting. That would have made everyone see that the Sultan is above politics.

I just feel if they could make a decision now to dissolve the state assembly immediately before the judge declare who is the legal MB of Perak, the move will restore respect to the royalty again. Perak Assembly should be dissolved by all means if everyone is sincere including the royalty, BN and Pakatan for the sake of the ‘rakyat'. No shortcuts, please.

On Plot to oust deputy minister Murugiah from PPP?

Anak BN: It's interesting to note Kayveas's comments that:

"I could have easily asked for a ministerial post for myself from Datuk Seri Najib (Abdul Razak). Instead I recommended that Murugiah should get back his deputy minister's post."

How on earth could Kayveas recommend himself to have a ministerial post? Is he an MP? No, He lost badly in Taiping. He could, of course, be appointed Senator and then be appointed Minister.

But, how many terms can a person be appointed Senator? Two terms of three years per term? And Kayveas had expired the entire six years. Was Kayveas talking honestly?

Perhaps, the sentence should be, more correctly, "I could have easily asked Najib for a ministerial post, or an Ambassadress for my wife."