COMMENT The Peaceful Assembly Bill ("the Bill") which was recently tabled in Parliament has attracted much criticism. More so, this was due to the fact that the Bill was, and still is, supposed to be a fulfilment of one of the many promises made by the Honourable Prime Minister on the eve of Malaysia Day 2011.
Critics, most notably the Bar Council, however, have accused the Honourable Prime Minister of not living up to his promises, and claim that he has broken his promises made on Malaysia Day 2011 (for instance, here). But is this really the case?
Due to my background as a member of MCA, I will be deemed to be far from neutral when I attempt to voice my views on this.