Cow head Protesters gets away with very light punishment

Today's news just piss me off!! Not that I am surprise! This act of stupidity 11 months ago was rumoured to have been instigated by UMNO goons! And as such nobody really expected them to be punish by our Malaysian courts!

What we are sad about is that today, we were proven right!

The Cow Head protesters got away with very light punishment!!!

The 12 protesters involved in the infamous cow-head protest last year were ONLY fined RM1,000 each by the Shah Alam Sessions court today, after pleading guilty to an alternative charge of taking part in an illegal assembly.

Four of them however were granted a discharge not amounting to an acquittal from additional sedition charges by judge Hasbi Hasan, after the prosecution decided not to pursue the case.

The four maintained their innocence and were supposed to go through separate trials to hear their cases related to the desecration of the cow-head - deemed offensive to Hindus.

But deputy public prosecutor Ishak Mohd Yusoff told reporters after today's trial that they decided not to submit further evidence in both cases as two other protesters, Eyzva Ezhar Ramli, 32, and Mohd Azmir Mohd Zain, 36, had already plead guilty to similar charges.

The group looked visibly relieved when Hasbi read out her judgment, though Eyzva and Azmir appeared expressionless, given the additional punishment meted out to them.

The 12 nevertheless proceeded to congratulate one another and their lawyers at the end of the trial, clearly happy that the whole affair had ended.

The group were initially charged under Section 27(5A) of the Police Act 1967, but were offered an alternative charge under Section 143 of the Penal Code which carries a lower penalty of six months' jail or fine.

(The penalty under Section 27 carries a jail sentence of between two and 10 years and a fine of not more than RM10,000.)

The cow-head protest sparked a nationwide outcry against the offensive display, with a total of 98 police reports lodged across the country against the protest.

THIS IS BULLSHIT LAH!

If you demonstrate for Anwar Ibrahim you will be beaten up, shot with tear gas and water hose and lock-up for 2 weeks before you even get your day in court....If you even get to court alive and not thrown into ISA instead.

But demonstrate for UMNO and you will get an audience with the Home Minister Kerishamoodin!!!

This is really BULLSHIT!