'Why have the police not called up Ibrahim Ali and Khairy Jamaluddin for investigations? Why is it so transparently one-sided?'

Police probes Bersih, six leaders summoned

WangMalaysia: "The six are Bersih 2.0 chief Ambiga Sreenevasan, steering committee member Maria Chin Abdullah, Selangor senior exco Teresa Kok, social activist Hishamuddin Rais, Lawyers for Liberty cordinator Fadiah Nadwa Fikri and Party Socialist Malaysia secretary-general S Arutchelvan."

That statement gives us Malaysians great hope for the future. They are all Malaysians First.

Malaysian Born: This is a very special moment in our history - one of major significance but with a difference. Every event will be mercilessly covered and transparently recorded by the new and alternative media - every step, every speech and every compromise by all those involved.

It will be impossible to cover anything up, and no amount of spin and propaganda from organisations and governments will work. To re-write history, leaving out inconvenient truths is not really possible anymore.

Governments that did not learn how to deal and operate under this new reality have fallen and leaders who once ruled like pharaohs are sitting powerless or in the dock, or both.

There will no longer be broad strokes to news coverage, the depth and detail will be available for all to see. The leaders and authorities of today will be remembered for all their actions, and following orders will not be an acceptable excuse.

Can you imagine trying to extricate yourself from under the weight of extensive digital recordings?

Soap Opra: Bersih leaders are summoned by the police for trying to organise a peaceful rally. Whereas, Perkasa chief Ibrahim Ali is also planning a similar rally and making remarks implying possible violence and even asking the Chinese to stay at home, and yet he is not being questioned.

Ben Hor: The police summoned Bersih leaders to probably interrogate them, find out their plans, and maybe even intimidate them to call off the rally.

They will then summon Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin and Ibrahim Ali not to interrogate them, but to probably discuss plans on how to best disrupt the Bersih rally from the information they have gathered from the Bersih interrogation.

Solaris: I wish Bersih 2.0 would give birth to Ops Bersih 1.0 to clean up the PDRM (Royal Malaysian Police).

Bersih crackdown: 59 PSM members arrested

Jefferson76: They just don't get it. The same hardline approach they took the last time in 2007 was what cost them votes.

The more they bully, the more they intimidate, the more they will rile up people and the more people will participate. And this time they can't count on the fact that only one race will be alienated. The only way BN can score any points is to let the rally happen peaceably.

Kee Thuan Chye: Why is it a crime or even an offence to distribute leaflets about the Bersih rally? Unless that is established to be so, the police cannot simply arrest people for it.

4EverMalaysian: I presume they will start arresting hundreds and later thousands of people until the jails are full of Bersih supporters. Let's face it, today is their day, tomorrow could be ours.

Bender: While the police busy themselves arresting people who are merely exercising their constitutional rights, the rapists, robbers, thieves, BN politicians and scums of all species are having a field day going about their business plundering the nation.

Louis: Why summon those from the opposition only? The real troublemakers are Perkasa and Ibrahim Ali. So is Khairy. If the police is fair, it can always advise Perkasa to march on July 10 and Umno Youth a day later.

It is obvious Umno Youth and Perkasa are out to create trouble, but they are being let off the hook by the police.

Kit P: Under what power or legal statute are the police arresting the PSM members? For riding on a bus? Communist conspiracy? The police can only exercise power that is conferred by law.

We are not a dictatorship. Not yet. All the more reason why Bersih 2.0 must go on.

Police intensify clampdown on pre-rally roadshow

Anonymous_417c: Yesterday, Saturday, June 25, part of Jalan Sultan Ismail in Kuala Lumpur's Golden Triangle, was cordoned off for a legalised street party with musicians screaming their heads off and hitting their instruments to the maximum decibels.

All this in the open street, oblivious of the implications of noise and disruption to the people who pay rent and taxes to do their businesses.

The traffic jams were intense from morning till the time I left, which was about 3pm. Businesses in Sungai Wang, BB Plaza and Lot 10 suffered tremendously as people made U-turns to escape the jams created by the closure.

If the police can allow this, why can't they allow the Bersih march to proceed peacefully? Is the government perverse to logic?

Ridhwan Malek: The police seem to be the ones disrupting businesses by cordoning off the whole area.

No BN please: July 9 will be a field day for any criminals as the entire PDRM will be too busy chasing people wearing yellow T-shirts. What a bunch of pathetic idiots and a not-too-smart home minister.

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