Extract from themalaysiainsider:

//Hisham stands by Youth members involved in scuffle
By Shannon Teoh

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 — Umno Youth chief Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein says he will back the Umno Youth members who created a fracas in Parliament yesterday.

Saying that he would not apologise for their actions, he criticised DAP chairman Karpal Singh for being irresponsible and said that he would stand by his subordinates whether it was before a Parliamentary Privileges Committee or a court of law.

The Education Minister told reporters that those who had confronted Karpal yesterday said they would take full responsibility for their actions.

“If they are brought before the privileges committee, I will attend. Even if it is in court, I will be with them.

“We will defend our honour and our good name,” he said.

“Karpal is an MP who is irresponsible in playing with fire,” Hishammuddin said, calling the Bukit Gelugor MP’s assertions in Parliament that “Pemuda Umno Celaka (Damn Umno Youth)” had sent him live bullets a “wild accusation.”

Hishammuddin, who is also Barisan Nasional Youth chief, said that those statements and Karpal’s “insults to the Malay rulers,” a reference to Karpal’s insistence that he could bring the Perak sultan to court over the change in government in the state, made “not just the youth angry, but citizens at large and myself.”//

Well…what can we say about UMNO Youth’s stand on the fracas in parliament house? The chief to defend their action?? Mind boggling! Defending a mob group who created trouble and threatening an old man in wheel chair? Where is malaysia headed?

“We will defend our honour and our good name,” he (Hishammudin) said.

What honour and good name?? They have proven themselves to be thugs and idiots. Never heard of thugs and idiots having a good name!

“Pemuda UMNO Celaka” – they admitted they are celaka because they respond to Karpal’s allegations. If they are not celaka, then they should not have responded in the first place. Nobody forced them to admit that they are “pemuda umno celaka”, anyway.

Hisham’s saying that Karpal’s insistence that he could take the sultan of Perak to court is tantamount to “insulting the Malay rulers” does not hold water at all as the constitution does not bar anyone from taking a ruler to a court of law if there is a valid case, as the many learned professors of law had stated in numerous writings.

Even the respected lawyer had weighed in (ca. 10 Feb 2009) :

“No one exercising his constitutional right of access to the courts should be branded as being disloyal to the Rulers or threatened with preventive detention under the ISA. Was it not the BN government that sought to justify the removal of the personal immunity of the Malay Rulers in 1993 on the grounds that no one was above the law? Leave it to the court to decide if the Pakatan Rakyat has a case or not.”

Whose take shall we consider to have more weight: Hisham’s or Raja Aziz Addruse?

Hisham also said that Karpal’s action had made “not just the youth angry, but citizens at large and myself.”

Please do not simply include all youths and everyone at large Hisham, many people are not with you, if you care to know or admit!

In another themalaysianinsider’s article :

Raja Nazrin calls for rule of law to be upheld
By Shannon Teoh

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 — Raja Muda of Perak Raja Nazrin Shah today called for regard for the law and respect for lawful institutions.

Well, raja nazrin should have provided an answer to the situation in Perak, where Perakians (74%) of them are asking for a fresh state election. Did he hear that too? Why is he silent on that issue?

On Raja Nazrin Shah calls for the rule of law to be upheld (extracted from the malaysian insider, Feb 27 2009):

///He proposed that the public respect “institutions established through and in accordance with law” as the law is a fundamental building block of any nation.

Under the Federal Constitution, Malaysia is a constitutional monarchy that gives certain discretionary powers to the Malay rulers, which include the appointments of the prime minister and chief ministers, the chief executives of the country and individual states respectively.

“In Malaysia, primacy of law is upheld as one of pillars of the Rukunegara.

“A lawless system breeds a lawless culture, which in turn suggests lawless governance and lawless government,” ///

Nazrin hit the nail on the head when he said that lawlessness breeds lawless culture.

This reminds the wantonness and utmost disregard for the law by a group of UMNO youths who mobbed and harassed an elderly and wheelchair-bound lawmaker in the precint of parliament house yesterday, causing a pandemonium and scuffle to break out. What a shameful and disgusting act!

This same youth wing of UMNO had in recent past organised protests and demonstrations according to their whims and fancies, disregarding law and order or without the required police permits, whenever they disagree with any parties or felt intimidated or outsmarted by others whom they perceived as their enemies.

Such brazen lawless culture typifies their character and behaviour, made bolder by an equally or more cocky, self-centred and self-serving higher leadership.

And going by raja nazrin’s extension, it reflects the lawless governance and lawless government of the day in Malaysia.

Though the constitution is said to be adhered to, it is more often that not interpreted in their own favour and advantage, so much so that selective discrimination and unfair policies are dished out according to their whim and fancy, again. If this is not lawless governance, what is?

With such a political opponent who could muster the entire government machinery and apparatus, which includes the police force, the intelligence, and what have you, it would be formidable to counter their onslaught.

Hence the people need to be stronger mentally, smarter, and united so that they would not be bullied by those who think of themselves as above the law ( read: the lawless ) and even untouchable.

The Perak Political Impasse.

If raja nazrin is true to his moral standing and principles, why is it that the Perak state government is allowed to slide into such a chaotic and unconstitutional mess?

Why was law and order not allowed to take their natural courses?
When the rakyat cried for the law to be restored ( to have a lawful state wide re-election ), they were denied that without a forthcoming response from the keeper of the law. The rakyat did not see justice done and felt robbed of their inalienable rights and liberties to the extent that they felt a sense of lawlessness prevailing.

The people are cultured enough not to allow the situation from getting out of hand in the face of provocations and challenges confronting them.

The power that be must see to it that the rakyat’s demand for fairness and law and order, in the form of a state wide re-election to determine the government of their choice, be allowed.

Else, what exists in Perak at the moment is a state of lawless governance and a lawless government.

Which brings us full circle to the need to uphold the rule of law.
Period.

I have many malay friends. I can say that many of them with whom I talk about anything and everything under the sun, agree with karpal’s outburst against the insolent umno youth and deserve to be labeled as celaka.

They knew karpal did not aim his disgust at the malays at large. In fact I find my malay friends to be likeable, modest, understanding and very open minded indeed.

Their demeanour does not in any manner resemble those projected by the bunch of arrogant umno bigots/ umno youths.

So one can deduce that the malays in general are good natured and friendly people, unlike that bunch of self-serving, arrogant, opportunistic, spineless, cunning, treacherous, conniving, selfish, dishonest umno/umno youths.

Like karpal said, we should not have time for those juvenile politicians. Perhaps he sould have added ‘delinquent’ to juvenile.