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Couple holding hands arrested in Malaysia

BEEN HOLDING HANDS IN mALAYSIA FOR THE PAST 2 WEEKS AN NUTTIN HAPPENED

"John Galt" a écrit dans le message de
om...
Yes, they gov't thugs in Kuala Lumpur actually arrested a man and
woman for holding hands and charged them with indecency.

Please boycott the evil country of Malaysia. Yes, some Malaysians may
seem nice, but they allow their gov't to do such evil. Malaysia is a
joke.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9356713^29677,00.html

Couple holding hands arrested in Malaysia

I think they only arrest locals. Foreigners are allowed to do as they
please, including riding a bicycle downtown Penang shirtless. I saw this
white guy, just a few days ago, riding carefully, but shirtless, along
Campbell Street.

"John Galt" wrote in message
om...
Yes, they gov't thugs in Kuala Lumpur actually arrested a man and
woman for holding hands and charged them with indecency.

Please boycott the evil country of Malaysia. Yes, some Malaysians may
seem nice, but they allow their gov't to do such evil. Malaysia is a
joke.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9356713^29677,00.html

Couple holding hands arrested in Malaysia

such behaviour in sunny singapore, they will be whipped.......

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 11:35:56 +0800, "adchin"
wrote:

I think they only arrest locals. Foreigners are allowed to do as they
please, including riding a bicycle downtown Penang shirtless. I saw this
white guy, just a few days ago, riding carefully, but shirtless, along
Campbell Street.

"John Galt" wrote in message
. com...
Yes, they gov't thugs in Kuala Lumpur actually arrested a man and
woman for holding hands and charged them with indecency.

Please boycott the evil country of Malaysia. Yes, some Malaysians may
seem nice, but they allow their gov't to do such evil. Malaysia is a
joke.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9356713^29677,00.html

Couple holding hands arrested in Malaysia

Yes, they gov't thugs in Kuala Lumpur actually arrested a man and
woman for holding hands and charged them with indecency.

Please boycott the evil country of Malaysia. Yes, some Malaysians may
seem nice, but they allow their gov't to do such evil. Malaysia is a
joke.

Well in Malaysia unlike Australia, we don't oppress the natural
inhabitants of the land. We don't have racist police beating up
teenage boys just because they're the wrong colored skin. We don't
have a pro-war gung-ho Prime Minister who basically is butler (oops i
mean sherrif) to good ol George W. , and we certainly don't send our
troops into other people lands to conquer them under a false pretence
of liberation. We don't openly deny asylum seekers nor keep them lock
up for decades only to arrest the truly caring Australians who fight
for their freedom. All of this and you call us evil???

Facts:
1) The guy who was arrested claims that he was merely holding hands
with his girlfriend. He claims he was fined just because he didn't pay
a bribe to the officers.

2) The officers claim that he and his girlfriend were doing more thna
holding hands, acts that were considered inappropriate. UNlike western
countries, we have a sense of what ia acceptable in a public place.

3) The officers claim trial and pleaded NOT guilty to corruption and
their trial is preceeding.

4) The LAW must be held, if a accused was not acquited or his charges
dropped, he must either pay the fine or have his day in court. Where
if he is innoncent he will be acquited. The Malaysian Government has
done the right thing.

Couple holding hands arrested in Malaysia

adchin wrote:
I think they only arrest locals. Foreigners are allowed to do as they
please, including riding a bicycle downtown Penang shirtless. I saw this
white guy, just a few days ago, riding carefully, but shirtless, along
Campbell Street.
Is it an offence to ride without a shirt? this is news to me..

"John Galt" wrote in message
om...

Yes, they gov't thugs in Kuala Lumpur actually arrested a man and
woman for holding hands and charged them with indecency.

Please boycott the evil country of Malaysia. Yes, some Malaysians may
seem nice, but they allow their gov't to do such evil. Malaysia is a
joke.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9356713^29677,00.html

Couple holding hands arrested in Malaysia

fairplay wrote:
I think they only arrest locals. Foreigners are allowed to do as they
please, including riding a bicycle downtown Penang shirtless. I saw this
white guy, just a few days ago, riding carefully, but shirtless, along
Campbell Street.
Is it an offence to ride without a shirt? this is news to me..

Not a crime, but certainly bad taste in a SE Asian country. You have to
respect local sensibilities.

--

Alfred Molon

http://www.molon.de/Galleries.htm - Photos from Myanmar, Brunei,
Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Nepal, Egypt, Austria, Budapest and
Portugal

Couple holding hands arrested in Malaysia

"Kito" wrote in message
om...
Yes, they gov't thugs in Kuala Lumpur actually arrested a man and
woman for holding hands and charged them with indecency.

Please boycott the evil country of Malaysia. Yes, some Malaysians may
seem nice, but they allow their gov't to do such evil. Malaysia is a
joke.

Well in Malaysia unlike Australia, we don't oppress the natural
inhabitants of the land.

No, you have discrimanatory laws which do not allow ethnic Chinese and
Indians the same rights as ethnic Malays. All Australians have equal rights
under law, and this is actually followed.

We don't have racist police beating up
teenage boys just because they're the wrong colored skin.

No idea what you are talking about.

We don't
have a pro-war gung-ho Prime Minister who basically is butler (oops i
mean sherrif) to good ol George W. , and we certainly don't send our
troops into other people lands to conquer them under a false pretence
of liberation.

Well, you don't actually have much of an army, navy or air-force, and do not
have the military capability to deploy troops to the other side of the
world. You would be basically just "targets".

Hell, you can't even defend yourselves. In WW2 and the communist insurgency
of 1954 you had Australian troops defending your country. Didn't hear you
bleeting on about "sending troops to other people's lands then".

We don't openly deny asylum seekers

No asylum seekers want to stay in your country. Your GDP per capita is less
than 1/10th that of Australia - its a very poor country. It is also
technologically backward, had racism codified into a set of laws, and your
prime minister feels he can lock up political opponents on trumped up sodomy
charges. The police force is corrupt, and the culture backwards. You are a
big, important country in the minds of all people who live between between
Thailand and Singapore, but let me assure you the rest of the world finds
the sight of such a ****ty little country strutting about the world stage as
if anybody gave a **** about you amusing at best. They don't even bother
showing the video footage of Mahatir getting stuck into the English on
English TV, because to explain the joke you would have to explain wher
Malaysia actually is ...

nor keep them lock
up for decades only to arrest the truly caring Australians who fight
for their freedom. All of this and you call us evil???

Again, no idea what you are talking about.

Facts:
1) The guy who was arrested claims that he was merely holding hands
with his girlfriend. He claims he was fined just because he didn't pay
a bribe to the officers.

2) The officers claim that he and his girlfriend were doing more thna
holding hands, acts that were considered inappropriate. UNlike western
countries, we have a sense of what ia acceptable in a public place.

3) The officers claim trial and pleaded NOT guilty to corruption and
their trial is preceeding.

4) The LAW must be held, if a accused was not acquited or his charges
dropped, he must either pay the fine or have his day in court. Where
if he is innoncent he will be acquited. The Malaysian Government has
done the right thing.

So the FACTS are that the guy claims he was just holding hands and was
arrested for not paying a bribe, and there is no evidence that anything else
has occurred, and your defence is that "Unlike western countries, we have a
sense of what is acceptable in a public place". Presumably that doesn't
include holding hands. Look, don't get too worried about this. This is just
another one of those "look how stupid and backward the Malaysians are"
stories you see all the time. You surely must be used to them by now.

Couple holding hands arrested in Malaysia

Kito wrote:
UNlike western countries, we have a sense of what ia acceptable in a public place.

do you have any idea how utterly STUPID this comment is? some wingnut
from australia, probabaly a racist jerk, makes a typically stupid
comment and you start on about "western" countries? do you have even the
slightest idea what you're talking about? or do you belong to some
"whitey is weak and degenerate" branch of some fundie group?

whereas i wouldn't be surprised to hear that australians engaged in
group dog molestation in public parks, we here in canada are loath even
to peck our wives on the cheek ON THE FRONT DOORSTEP!!! so get a grip
about "western countries", OK? we are not all the same!

michael