VOXPOP ‘The cops are cowboys of Umno. They think they can crack their whip, ride roughshod over the people and herd them into cattle pens.’

KL police: Bar Council's 'Walk for Freedom' illegal

Hang Babeuf: When we were young we used to joke that "everything that I like is illegal, immoral or fattening".

Here now in police-managed Bolehland, in the eyes of the police everything that is not government-promoted is by definition illegal.

The attempt to declare such activities illegal is, of course, itself immoral. As for fattening, that is now happening on the National Feedlot Corporation scandal. And it's not the cattle who are being nicely fattened up there.

Cannon: Umno goons hold demonstrations in front of foreign embassies, disrupt traffic in Kuala Lumpur and burn effigies - that's legal.

NONE Perkasa hold rallies, commits sedition, and threatens violence against minority groups - that's legal.

Umno's goons march from the Masjid Negeri to downtown Komtar in Penang, demonstrate in the middle of the Penang Bridge and create traffic chaos - that's legal.

Umno thugs hold demonstration in front of PKR headquarters at Tropicana, PJ, and threaten to torch the building - that's legal.

The cops are cowboys of Umno. They think they can crack their whip, ride roughshod over the people and herd them into cattle pens.

By playing politics when it should be enforcing the law impartially and professionally, the police is fast becoming irrelevant - like the rest of the Umno-infested and corroded institutions.

Darth Vader:

I hope that the police would charge the lawbreakers (the lawyers who marched yesterday). If convicted, they should be removed from the roll and stopped from practising. See whether the police will uphold the law.

This is a lowly bunch who claims to uphold the law, but breaks it at their own convenience and agenda.

'BN MPs real heroes for pushing for Bill changes'

Dood: Who wants to take credit for that kind of law? Can you believe these Umno-BN leaders? They anticipated that Pakatan MPs would try to claim credit for the amendments to the hated bill when in fact Pakatan doesn't even want to have anything to do with it.

Umno-BN can claim credit for it all they want - they are just proving how stupid and how out-of-touch they are with the people's aspirations. You're not the people's representatives; you're Umno-BN's representatives. Out you go in the next election.

NONE James1067: Members of parliament, if everything is done properly, according to the right principles, with honesty, above board and transparent, and with the people in mind, there will be no reason even to have these laws as there will be no reason for public to protest.

Blind Freddo:

In supporting the Bill, Kota Belud MP Abdul Rahman Dahlan said that the ban on street demonstrations is justified as research show that mob mentality can lead to dangerous situations.

Is he talking about the mob mentality of BN politicians?

MatrixLYN: It's obvious this Bill is to suppress the voice of the rakyat and gives even more power to the police to punish the rakyat by leaving the decisions to the police (which means opposition will never get the go-ahead) and a ridiculous RM10,000 fine to deter the poor rakyat from protesting.

Anak Bangsa Malaysia:

We do not want changes to the Peaceful Assembly Bill. It has to be repealed altogether. If the Burmese junta can allow the peaceful assemblies, Malaysia by right should be better.

'Windfall' for Penang trishaw riders

Sarawakian_3ff9: This is a very good move indeed and a win-win for all. It's a very taxing being a trishaw rider especially when one is unfortunate to pick up overweight foreign tourists. But it's one of the attractions for tourists visiting Penang apart from the locals using them.

Most of the riders are quite friendly. However, I would suggest that Penang government also give them annual clothing allowance for them to buy and wear batik shirts and footwear so that they look more presentable.

Another suggestion is to give them some form of training on local history and local interests so that tourists can get better value from them.

Anon123: Penang CM Lim Guan Eng, stop pretending that you care for the environment. All that we see you do is implement populist policy, especially towards hawkers, illegal traders etc.

If you care for the environment, why do you ‘legalise’ illegal traders and hawkers to set up stalls along Penang beaches? Where does their waste end up? Also, why are mamak stalls and coffee shops ‘allowed’ illegal structural extensions into public areas?

During the previous BN administration, all these structures would have been torn down. Yes, the majority of us voted BN out because we do not tolerate its nonsense any longer.

But if you continue with your nonsense, I believe the rakyat will give you the same treatment that Koh Tsu Koon received.

StevenForMalaysia:

I'm old enough and experience enough to say LGE has done the right thing. There should be incentive to work; unlike the rent-seeking habit cultured by Umnoputras. Surely the rakyat money is well spent, and help is going to the right people.

Joseph Yong

: The trishaw riders need to be well-dressed up with standard uniforms supplied by the state and the trishaws need to be clean and presentable in order to be granted this allowance.

Now what will Utusan Malaysia and TV3 think off next to spin their story to undermine this move by Penang?

Geronimo: I just can't wait to have another trishaw ride again. Good job, Guan Eng. Like the song says, "Little things mean a lot".

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