A reader lauded the three BN Youth wings in ticking off the police for threatening to allow crime to rise over their opposition to IPCMC.

Idealist: Frankly, I welcome the statement made by these three BN Youth components. But without the participation from Umno Youth, I doubt if the police would take it seriously. Worst still, these three BN Youth wings may soon realise they are too outspoken and idealistic, and eventually will have to retract their statement.

Ahmad Fuad: One has to read Saari Sungib's article on the employment of "intimidation and trauma" by the PDRM (especially the Special Branch), to understand the kind of response malaysiakini's team get from those working in KLCC. In short, it has all the characteristics of a police state!

K Narayanasamy: It is very disturbing that the support for IPCMC and the opposition to it have a distinctive racial bias. The ruling coalition's racial partners show it very glaringly. As it may be considered very sensitive to discuss this further, you can make your own interpretations.

Thai Eng: Ashamed to be Malaysian? I am certainly not. But if I am the PM, or the internal security minister, or the IGP, I would have plenty to be ashamed of. Imagine five fully-geared "thugs" armed with batons and shield beating a fallen fellow human being armed only with a book!

Are they trying to prove that the book is more dangerous than five long batons? Are they trying to prove that a small booklet can be a mighty dangerous weapon of mass destruction, so much so that they have to beat and kick the one holding it, in such large numbers? Shame on them.

If Vision 2020 is going to be filled with such "thugs" and be filled with Vision Bloody Sundays, let me have Vision 1960 instead.

HL Too: Impotent rage is the most appropriate term to describe what most Malaysians feel when looking at the pictures of police brutality. Impotent because of the sense of helplessness. What can we do? Appeal to our prime minister? What can he do?

In fact, what has he done to all those that continually challenge his authority. Make another speech? Is there any evidence at all that the police actually heed what the PM says? Come to think of it, does anyone?

Fear Fear Fear: We should all have a balance view of the KLCC incident in which the police manhandled the demonstrators. It is the police's duty to safeguard public interest and ensure peace so that we can enjoy living in Malaysia without fear of violence. So the if the peace and safety of the public was being threatened, then the police have the right to act. To this, there is no compromise.

We all know the police top brass know that the peace and safety of the public on Bloody Sunday was not threatened. But the police became violent and acted against the law. So what do we do? Do you honestly expect the police to admit that they are wrong? Do you expect the top brass (and all the little Napoleons) to say that they erred? Come on, go on dreaming, you rakyat.

The only thing that we hope is that this will not happen again in future. We do not expect you to be on your knees and ask for forgiveness, but we do expect you to set a good example. Please pity us. On one hand, we fear the snatch thieves, fear the car hijackers, fear the break-ins, fear our future in view of the high prices; please don't add another fear to this list - the fear of the police. Help us respect you as guardians of the law.

The following is a comment from a reader in respond to We are committed to Vision 2020: Pak Lah

UrbanVoter: In the age of knowledge, you cannot think out of the box if you are always in the box. I like to ask the prime minister whether he has the "best creative" ministers in his cabinet line-up? The answers from the ordinary-man-in-the street are obviously "no". We are doubtful not because we "think" the prime minister cannot, but rather that he has proven to us that he is incapable of doing so. He has yet to achieve many of the electoral promises he has made since the 2004 general election.

We are also questioning his capacity because we doubt he can maintain his leadership for the next 15 years. Singing the same "lyrics" is beginning to sound awfully bad, much like a broken record. If the previous development plans had failed to achieve their targets, what makes the prime minister think he can now achieve them? I think this mindset of wanting to be the world's first developed Muslim nation is pure "political vanity" at its best. Enough is enough.