Constitutional Crisis in Malaysia – The Forum

This post is a bit special as I only described my 'experience' at the forum.

Yes! I attended the forum but was quite disappointed because Datuk Seri Nizar was not personally present. The participants could only hear him through a pre-recorded video and towards the end, online audio Q&A. Below are my encounters.

Before entered into Tropical Inn, I noticed there were 3 policemen guarding outside the building but they were not arounf when I left the place at around 11pm.

The forum hall was jam packed. When I first arrived there, I walked straight to the front row seats because it was quite "empty" and no signboard to inform the public that that row was not for the ordinary people. After I seated for about 5 min, 2 familiar faces walked towards where I seated and took their seat, they were Dato' Zaid Ibrahim and Mr Yeo Yang Poh, just beside me. Ha ha, I have never had such a 'close proximity' with a high profile politician (I mean Dato' Zaid). For Mr Yeo Yang Poh, I know who he is but I wasn't sure what was his involvements in politics. To me, he is a 'big' lawyer (for the fact that he is the ex-BAR council chairman) and an intellectual of course. All of them proceeded to sit on the the stage a while later.

As usual, the forum did not start on time and a few glitches here and there which delayed the forum. No big problem though. Datuk Nizar's pre-recorded video, which was the first speech was quite lengthy, he explained in detail what happened in Perak.

Although there were four panelists, most of the time we heard Dato Ziad & Mr Yeo spoke. The gist of the speeches are,

"It is almost lawless in this country. BN can do whatever they want to achieve their purpose. They can ignore the constitution, influence the judges, influence the palace, influence SPR, influence the police, practice corruption and etc. All Malaysians who have concience should reject BN and send them a clear message through votes that corrupt practices are no longer be tolerated"

Dato' Zaid look a bit tired and he explained that he was just flew back from Sibu. He needed to drive back to KL afterthe forum. In fact, he excused himself to leave at around 1030pm. Though, he answered a few questions during the Q&A.

Overall, the forum is of no "wow" element to me. What the panelists said were the same appeals that they made to the public though the online media.

P.s. The organiser promised to post the edited video clip on Youtube. But I tried searching for the past 24 hours but to no avail. You may try your luck later:)