Malaysians Consider It 'Nincompoops'

 

Not everyone is impressed with Alyaah Hani Anuar, the prominent student leader, or the three "worse-than-Rempit" youth activists she defended so vehemently as if they represented all youths which, of course, they didn't.

 

Alyaah condemned the police and the Prime Minister for the arrest of three last week for disrupting a forum where MACC chief commissioner Azam Baki was addressing.

 

She described the arrest as "government betrayal against youths fighting corruption".

 

JepryJaws's tiktok is currently trending on Alyaah's. Unfortunately, the comments poured mostly scorn on the three youths and their defender Alyaah.

 

"That's not the way. Try the ballot box," one netizen tells Alyaah off.

 

Many are offended by the uncouth manner in which the three activists had "jumped" the forum on corruption that featured Azam Baki as the keynote speaker.

 

"Unethical," says on netizen.

 

"Totally against the way of our Prophet. The ends does not justify the means, young lady."

 

Another reminds Alyaah and the trio that there is decorum in any democracy. 

"You guys are lucky. Under (former PM) Mahathir (Mohamad) you all would have been detained under ISA. Two years minimum".

 

"Stupid."

These 'anai-anai' (my phrase, not the netizens') sure are a group of nincompoops. They were detained for less than a day (drunk drivers stay longer in detention cells) and it is the cops' job to arrest you for being public nuisance.

 

These kids probably don't even know what the Internal Security Act was and how Tun Dr Mahathir had used it against his own Deputy PM Anwar Ibrahim then for trying to act on corruption in the government back then.

 

These 'budak-budak' never had to suffer the ordeal of being held without a trial. I suggest they read a bit of our own political history.

 

Mandiri, the group credited for the action of the trio, better not be too smug, either. A lot of my buddies (we are proud Gen Z, take note) perceive these Mandiri folks as "Worse than Rempit."