We still have a long way to go!
Have any of you see any news report of demonstration at KLCC for the last few Fridays in our major press. For me, I never see. Why? Why such few major events was not covered, not even in one of the major newspapers?
I had received some pictures taken during the event. I was surprised that the demonstration was a peaceful one, and yet the police was heavily armed and with the water canon mahine. The crowd was not so big, why was there such an extreme reaction from the police?
I was not against the police or supporting riot kind of activities. In fact, I don't see this kind of gathering was categorized as riot. It was just a peaceful demonstration by the normal rakyat from across all the races, women and men without any weapons, empty handed! - no petrol bomb, no stones, no sticks. Didn't our PM said that he would like to listen to the true story from the rakyat? The rakyat here were just simply showing their unhappiness towards the petrol price hike, they are not destructing our roads or buildings, or putting fires on vehicles.
So from the above story, we learned or rather found out that our society, politics are still not as democractic as what we and other people think. Just see the ways how the police treat our people, the way the media was controlled, we still have a long way to go.
It was normal people on the street, man and woman, Malay, Chinese and Indian, all with the same heart!
The only thing the people do here seems to be holding ballons and cardboards with writings.