Peaceful Assembly Bill?? laffin thru' donkey's arse...

It's a Peaceful Assembly Bill and be warned!!

The Peaceful Assembly Bill ( much awaited, so it seems)  was tabled in Parliament recently.

The bill, allows the police to determine the terms in order to maintain public order, stresses  children cannot be recruited or allowed to attend rallies or any public “illegal” gatherings..

Those who flout these rules will be slapped with a fine not exceeding RM20,000.

It also seems under the Restrictions and Conditions clause, the bill proposes district police chiefs or OCPDs be empowered to impose restrictions and conditions with regard to an assembly.

To preserve security and public order, the Police (OCPD) may determine the date, time, duration and manner of assembly.

The OCPD may also place restrictions based on the concerns and objections of parties with vested interests and on any other matters the police deem fit and necessary.

Among the salient points of the Peaceful Assembly Bill are:

• No streets protests are allowed

• Non-citizens cannot protest

• Organizers must give a 30-day notice before the gathering to the OCPD

• Those below 21 cannot organize an assembly

• An assembly cannot be held in a prohibited place or within 50m of the prohibited place

• Some of the prohibited places are places of worship, petrol stations, train tracks, kindergartens and schools, airports, water treatment plants, ports, docks, canals and marinas

• Organizers unhappy with the restrictions and conditions (Section 15) may appeal to the Home Ministry who would have to reply within six days

• The police may arrest without warrant organizers or participants who do not comply with the restrictions and conditions imposed, those who bring along children, or carry arms to the assembly

• The Home Minister, by publishing in a government Gazette, may amend any of the said sections in the Bill, including adding prohibited places

• The Home Minister is also allowed to make regulations for the better execution of the Bill

Those who fail to adhere to the regulations can be imposed with a fine not exceeding RM10,000.

The Peaceful Assembly Bill is among the slew of reforms announced by Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak on the eve of Malaysia Day a bid to create a freer society.

This is Malaysia for you. The government is old, they lie, spew rubbish and have no idea what Malaysians want.

They claim to run an efficient transparent government.

I say they're rubbish.

Now, they come up with a peaceful bill to curb peaceful gatherings.

I guess you must be as tired as I am reading such nonsense. Am gonna sit back and read what other bloggers have got to say about this bill. And am sure scores of them are gonna take a swipe at this so called “humane” bill.