DAP will send a protest note to the Prime Minister's Department if there is no "satisfactory response" from the premier over seditious comments posted in his official website.

"We will bring the matter up to Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's department if there is no action taken," said DAP central executive committee member Ronnie Liu when contacted today.

Yesterday, Liu filed a police report at Damansara Utama police station over seditious comments posted on the Prime Minister's official website.

The posting, titled ' Bersatulah Kaum Cina ' (The Chinese race must unite), claimed that the Chinese were conspiring to weaken the Malays politically and economically.

The posting also claimed that the 1969 racial riots was a plot by the Chinese to take over the country and that the Chinese are currently conspiring the secession of Penang.

The posting, in Bahasa Malaysia, was written under the pseudonym Dr Ng Seng. It was removed yesterday.

"The Prime Minister had told everyone that they should be watching their own blogs. He had issued such a strong warning against bloggers. He told bloggers that even if you didn't write it, it's still your responsibility."

"Now that someone has put something funny in his own blog (website), we want to hear what he has to say," said Liu.

On Sunday, Abdullah told the country's bloggers that they are as liable for defamation as publishers of printed materials. He said bloggers were "wrong" to "go overboard" in posting slanderous articles.

"This is not something one can take lightly," he was quoted as saying by the Star .

Candlelight vigil for PM?

Malaysiakini chief analyst James Wong said the article posted on the website was circulated in early 2006.

"I'm actually not the first to point out that article. A few months ago, I heard it was on some government website, so I took note," said Wong.

"When ( Malaysia Today webmaster) Raja Petra (Kamarudin) was arrested, I did a Google search on Dr Ng Seng and I found it was on the Prime Minister's website," he added.

Last week Umno information chief Muhammad Muhamad Taib filed a police report against Raja Petra, for publishing remarks that were insulting to the King and Islam. Following this, Raja Petra was questioned by the police for eight hours.

Yesterday, Malaysia Today published an article urging "blogging community to turn up in full force" at the Damansara police station tomorrow should Abdullah be called in for questioning.

"We are very sure that many would turn up for a candlelight vigil if the Prime Minister is brought in," said Raja Petra's wife, Marina Lee Abdullah when contacted today.

"It is only fair that we show solidarity and sympathise with the plight of a fellow blogger who has been unjustly accused of sedition," she added.