Yellow

This is the best I could get for changing the colour of the blog.

Nothing to do with royalty as some people may think or assume from previous and other "associations" - its the colour of the movement for free and fair elections in Malaysia. Now called the Bersih 2.0 - clean up the dirt of the current political regime and its stooges in the name of Election Commission and the police. More than 100 people have been arrested, and 6 now under the draconian Emergency Ordinance from the Socialist Party of Malaysia for trying to bring down the government in collaboration with foreign powers. Bullshit. But bringing down the BN - well, yes, because its corrupt, its abusive and it has no respect for human rights and human dignity.

Everyone who is taking up the yellow cause is a peace-loving Malaysian, wanting only the best for the nation. Ignore the propaganda by the government about the violence, no, reject it for it is they who are legitimising violence and abuse.

I cannot join my friends this July 9 but I take my hats off to them - and shoes - all yellow - that they persevere. They have seen the nasty insides of the lock ups and detentions once too often in the name of defending democratic and human rights. Truly the heart aches for the nation.

In 2007, days after the first Bersih march when we submitted a memorandum to Parliament, our DAP friend captured this and said it was the darkest day of Malaysian Parliament. One of the 7 arrested challenged it in court and won. Outside Parliament 29 were arrested. But those arrests don't come close to what has happened in the last week, only showing how much more authoritarian the state has become.