The Fumbling Responses to 709 Bersih 2.0 rally

If you think the way the authority handling of the Bersih rally is bad, wait until you see their responses to the rally after it had happened.

Bad is an insufficient word to describe their reactions to the rally that has taken place and the subsequent allegations of police brutality against the peaceful assembly.

It's obvious that the many statements released by the CPO of Selangor, the IGP, the Home Minister and the Health Minister are in direct contradiction to the mounting video and photographic evidence spreading like wild fire on the internet via youtube and social networking sites. By their statements, they have betrayed themselves as liars releasing false information with the intention of covering-up, twisting the truth and spinning stories. They are shooting at their own foot on live TV.

It has even starting to become comical as to how these ministers and senior civil servants, when confronted with the mounting evidence, is somehow able to stick to their stories with a straight face.

Many are feeling appalled at the denial syndrome displayed. It is as if they still live in the 80s before the days of Youtube, Facebook, and Malaysiakini. The ruling regime and the authority has not learned their lesson. They have no caught on with the Facebook generation.

Malaysians have largely awaken politically, and the main stream media no longer hold the monopoly of truth or news reporting. The Facebook generation have many more channels to access the latest news. Also, many of these information are accessed and captured not via a PC, a laptop, or a camera. But via smart phones and other mobile devices like say the Ipad.

Thanks to these mobile internet technology, we no longer live in an era where the government officials could get away with issuing false statement to save face and get away with it.

The people have moved into the 21st century, our government, correction the ruling regime, it seems, has not.

ps: It is funny, as I have just discovered an 8TV news video clip on Facebook clearly showing the water cannon truck of the FRU shooting water into the compound of the Tung Shin Hospital. It is also ironic that the scene was played out while the news anchor was quoting Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai statement of Police did not barged into the Hospital to arrest people but was merely sending injured demonstrators into the Hospital seeking treatment.