YOURSAY | ‘Liow, there is nothing wrong with rallies such as Bersih 4.’

Liow slams red shirt rally, wants all rallies banned

FellowMalaysian: Short of calling PM Najib Razak a liar, MCA chief Liow Tiong Lai has openly denied and refuted the Umno leader's claim that the Sept 16 rally was peaceful and the participants were well-behaved.

The rally's objectives was aimed at glorifying one race over all others. Why then is Liow and MCA still tagging along with BN when Najib has shown his support for the red shirt rally?

By disagreeing with Najib, does Liow believe that this will fool the Chinese community and win them over and at the same time, keep MCA's government posts?

Kalvin Rekhraj: Any form of peaceful gathering is enshrined in the Malaysian constitution and legally allowed. As a minister, he should be aware of this.

Yet he points to the stomping of the images of two leaders at Bersih 4. He however has conveniently forgotten that it does not take a public rally to degrade a leader.

Much worse have been done in Penang and Kelantan.

CQ Muar: Liow, it's people like you leading your MCA party that's "tearing the fabric of our nation apart" with your cowardly and hypocritical support of the nation's "father of corruption", Najib Abdul Razak.

By avoiding and specifying his name, you audaciously issued a general stand "MCA disagrees with statements that the September 16 rally was peaceful" knowing jolly well it was Najib who made it.

By the way, just who are you to demand all mass rallies must be stopped?

Be reminded, all those thousands who gathered under the scorching sun at the Bersih 4 rally consisted of diverse races (the majority being Chinese), but definitely not MCA members, who were sneakily watching the actions in the comfort of their home.

Appum: Liow, there is nothing wrong with rallies such as Bersih 4.

The picture stomping act is made a mountain out of a mole hill so that small-minded racists can go pick a fight with the minority Chinese.

You are surely not hoping to run Malaysia like China is being run today. Even communist China allows its territory, Hong Kong, to hold rallies. The police there exercise restrain

Nobody is proud of being a member of MCA today seeing its impotent status in a supposedly equal coalition.

But MCA still does not see, just like its East Malaysian partners, that Umno’s modus operandi is to dictate over its partners within the coalition.

They are intoxicated with the ‘ketuanan’ mindset all these years. The red shirt rally is a manifestation of that kind mindset.

Ferdtan: After former MCA president Chua Soi Lek slammed his successor Liow for being a weak leader, who has been avoiding to response to major issues, the party chief now comes out ‘bravely’ to disagree with Najib that the Sept 16 rally was anything but peaceful.

Really Liow? Proverbially Chua has apparently led a horse, the reluctant party president - and unlike the wise saying that you can’t make it drink - he took the bait and drank the water.

That shows how clueless, spineless and lack of leadership the present MCA president is.

True: Once a lap dog, forever a lap dog. Liow condemned the red shirts in order to look good, but then at the same time, he equated them with those at the Bersih 4 rally.

For the small change he got from his master, he can't differentiate that one rally was violent and racist, the other was peaceful and multiracial.

Voice: Liow should have call for democracy to be banned so that nobody can say and do anything and the corrupt and oppressive Umno-BN can continue to ruin the country.

As for the problem that the Chinese becoming easy targets, it has existed for decades and MCA - the second largest party in BN - should be ashamed for failing to stop this unfortunate incidents.

So, if the Petaling Street rally was banned, will Liow able to thump his chest and guarantee that such incidents where Chinese were made easy targets will never happened again.

Clever Voter: MCA must become multiethnic. Either it survives on its own or calls it a day.

The party has been overly dependent on Umno for its existence. Years of negligence make MCA is irrelevant today, its membership is no different from Umno - a passport to economic opportunities and power to corrupt.

MCA role in education, to be fair, has been commendable but its resources are only a fraction of what others receive.

Should MCA choose to remain the same, then it has taken a route to a slow death. The world today can live without MCA.

Justine Gow: For a short while, I thought that Liow had suddenly found his voice to say belatedly what he should have said one week ago.

But the moment he mentioned Bersih 4, I knew that I had been fooled.

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