DAP has slammed the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) and the police for giving “tacit support” to anti-Bersih protests outside Bersih chief S Ambiga’s home recently.

NONE “DBKL and the deputy IGP Khalid Abu Bakar ( right ) has shamed Malaysia throughout the world by not acting against those who harassed Bersih co-chair S Ambiga with a ‘butt dance’ and an illegal burger stall protest outside her home.

“Pro-BN supporters always have a big bully mentality and act above the law when they know they possess the tacit support not only of DBKL to set up illegal burger stalls, but also Khalid’s shocking statement that legally there is nothing wrong with people demonstrating in front of private homes,” said DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng.

The Bagan MP in a statement today said the acts of the protestors against Ambiga “questions the moral legitimacy of the government they support to rule”.

NONE “Ambiga has not committed any criminal offence. She has not injured anyone nor harmed anyone with C4 plastic explosives.

“Neither has she stolen any public funds to buy condos instead of rearing cows,” said Lim.

He said the Bersih leader’s “only crime” was to be involved in mobilising the “largest peaceful gathering in Malaysian history pressing for clean, free and fair elections”.

BN, he claimed, was “now seeking revenge with a tit-for-tat demonstration at her home”, acts that he said were “condoned by both DBKL and the police”.

Hitting below the belt

On Tuesday, army veterans staged a protest against the rally for clean and fair elections by doing ‘ butt exercises ’ in front of Ambiga’s house.

NONE This follows a highly criticised ' burger protest ' last week by a KL hawkers’ group Ikhlas, which claimed that the mammoth rally had affected their business.

Yesterday Gerakan president and Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Koh Tsu Koon slammed the two anti-Bersih protests as “crude and insensitive”, the first BN leader to break the silence over the matter.

Lim meanwhile quoted Martin Luther King to press home his point:

“We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was ‘legal’ and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was ‘illegal’.

“The willingness to accept the penalty for breaking the unjust law is what makes civil disobedience a moral act and not merely an act of lawbreaking.”