YOURSAY ‘How come saying ‘Umno celaka’ is considered seditious?’

Minister: No discrimination in sedition cases

Quigonbond: Obviously whatever Perkasa and Isma say do not have seditious tendencies. It simply means what ordinary Malaysians and the international community consider as being seditious, Malaysian authorities think otherwise; and vice versa.

If it should come to past that all the opposition leaders are convicted and sentenced and as a result lose all their parliamentary seats (and that will be before the massive redelineation exercise), not only will our former prime ministers be turning in their graves, the drafters of United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights will be turning in their graves as well.

Anonymous: When Universiti Malaya law lecturer Azmi Sharom expressed his views on the coup in Perak, nobody was stirred to cause public unrest then.

When he was charged for sedition, we saw lecturers, students, lawyers and the general public causing ‘public unrest’.

I wonder which act was really seditious. My logic tells me that the person who charged him has done something seditious. What does your logic tells you, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Nancy Shukri?

Kangkung: Nancy, you don't have lie through your teeth. As a minister, what else can you do except to support the Umno government in its relentless effort to silence all opposition leaders and supporters.

Why did even the New York Times publish an editorial about it?

Let me quote the paper: "Prime Minister Najib Razak had promised to repeal the act, but, since the general elections in May last year, his government has made full use of the law to hound his critics."

Lim Chong Leong: How come saying "Umno celaka" is considered seditious? Which law says that "Umno celaka" is seditious?

If minister Nancy cannot point out the particular law, then it’s clear that the sedition charges are all politically motivated and instigated by Umno.

Lukesky: I think the numbers speaks for themselves.

Over 95 percent of the investigations and charges are against members of the opposition and civil society who have expressed disagreement in one form another with BN government policies or merely responding to the racially divisive action of their henchmen.

Even if one or two Perkasa jokers are hauled up, they are let off with a slap on the wrist. Nancy must think the people are really stupid to actually believe they will swallow her explanation, hook, line and sinker.

Dood: No discrimination in sedition cases? Sure, sure. And Umno-BN is God's greatest gift to mankind.

Speaking Sense: What happens when you have to scrap the bottom of the barrel for ministers?

Bung: Use Sedition Act on anti-sedition campaigners

Adsertor: Kinabatangan MP Bung Moktar Radin openly admitted that BN used the Sedition Act as a political tool. It is imperative that the law be abolished because of its abuse by BN and, most importantly, it is unconstitutional.

Yoong John Yen: Next: Debating/questioning any law that is unjust, even if they are just in a draft stage is seditious and the culprits must be nabbed under the Sedition Act because they are promoting ill-will against the authorities and are against the government's efforts to govern.

Future not too far away: It is seditious to demand for elections or vote for anyone other than the approved list of government candidates.

Any candidates that are voted in who are not approved candidates would be arrested for sedition because they went against the government. The whole constituency would be liable as well.

CHKS: They should use the Sedition Act on those who propose to use Sedition Act on anti-sedition campaigners like Bung because he inflames people's feeling. 

NYT: Najib gov't's use of Sedition Act 'deplorable'

Single Malt: Can anyone believe what Najib has been promising all this while? Indeed, what he has said so far is meant for international audience only and not for local consumption.

Fairplayer: Why should Najib repeal the Sedition Act? He is trigger-happy with it right now and having the greatest time of his life. I just hope the Act will backfire on him soon.

Not Convinced: Two weeks too late. The New York Times should have come out with this scathing editorial on the Sedition Act late last month.

That was when Najib and his wife, Rosmah Mansor, were in New York for a seven-day visit. The timing would have been perfect then.