Truth be Told
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
Free the 5! Campaign 
To all Malaysians
You who still have Freedom of Speech and Rights as Malaysian Citizens
When Nathaniel Tan was locked up by ISA, blogs by Malays, Chinese, Indians and others posted up his picture for the Free Nathaniel campaign. There were candle light vigils, and pressure from all kinds of human rights activists.
To all Malaysians You who still have Freedom of Speech and Rights as Malaysian Citizens
When Nathaniel Tan was locked up by ISA, blogs by Malays, Chinese, Indians and others posted up his picture for the Free Nathaniel campaign. There were candle light vigils, and pressure from all kinds of human rights activists.
See link at - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Tan
Now why is the Hindraf 5 so different?
They were there when the poor were being trodden upon (estate workers).
They were there when the basic right to have a place of worship was being demolished (temples).
And they were there when the marginalized were being chopped up (Kg. Medan).
Just because they were fighting for the rights of Indians doesn't mean that they deserve any less empathy...which Malay or Chinese leader was brave enough to stand for the rights of the marginalized Indians? Heck, which other Indian leader had such a bold and fearless stand against those who oppress.
Don't complain when the downtrodden had enough and tried to present their plight to the nation through a rally. And if these guys had not been here, the rally would have happened anyway, perhaps in a more aggressive manner, maybe next year, or 5 years from now.
The Indian community is an explosive keg of dynamite, brewing for decades. Indians need a unifying factor that will keep them in check, which I believe these guys genuinely are.
They need a voice to channel their woes, which the government had effectively silenced and gagged. Their voices are loudest when silenced and will ring to eternity to the very throne of grace.
Let the Hindraf leadership "fight the good fight" for the marginalized with posters of Gandhi and bouquets of roses, all in a clear and clean social conscience.
The Hindraf leaders are not terrorists. They are HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS. Recognize them as they are, and not as the boogeymen of the government. So get off your lethargic slump and do something. The least you can do is to put up a word for them in your blogs in rememberance; remember them in your every meal, in your sunrise and every sunset. Remember them as a voice in the wilderness. Your continuing freedom is their bondage. Upon themselves have they born our stripes and have allowed themselves to be taken to set us free from yokes of tyrants.
Give freedom back to those who inspired the cries of Makkal Sakthi, stand for truth - People Power - regardless of race or religion.
The British indentured at least 2 million Indians between 1845 and 1941 as noted in http://tutorials.web.wesleyan.edu/diaspora/diaspora3.html
COOLIES :How Britain Reinvented Slavery
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968)
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