the tengku did said it after all

reference my post ‘the tengku might not have said this’.

now it comes to my notice (thanks to a comment by anonymous at that post), that haris ibrahim had admitted he had made an error accusing malaysiakini of false report of the tengku’s speech. stevan gan from malaysiakini had personally written to him to clarify.

gosh! what a letdown! a future king with the mindset of the umnoputera. die liao. so who was the only brave one to take to task the tengku? none other than penang MP, karpal singh who said the tengku’s statement is on the verge of sedition.

‘on the verge of sedition’? karpal was not too brave enough to say it IS seditious. so i guess being a royalty, nothing can be done to him? didn’t PM badawi once said that nobody is above the law? oh silly me, the very double standard police already dare not touch umnoputera…. what more royalty!

the following is the report from sun2surf:

Royal comment "on the verge of sedition".
TAN YI LIANG

PETALING JAYA (APRIL 15): DAP chairman Karpal Singh has taken to task the Tengku Mahkota of  Kelantan, Tengku Mohammad Faris Petra Sultan Ismail Petra for making political statements that were  "on the verge of sedition".

"The Tengku Mahkota should have known better than to issue statements with a political flavour", said  Karpal.

"Royalty in the country must stay apolitical. Conventionally, royalty is required to do so, " he said, adding  that "the tone of the statements of the Tengku Mahkota is an affront to the other races in the country. "

Speaking at a Maulidur Rasul Malay unity celebration last Saturday, the Tengku Makhota had said the  special rights and privileges of Malays were not to be questioned and that it was inappropriate for other  races to demand equal privileges just because they had gained Malaysian citizenship.

Tengku Mohammad Faris had claimed the special rights and privileges of the Malays as a "quid pro"

(exchange) for providing Malaysian citizenship to 2. 7 million people of other races who joined the Malay  Federation.

Describing the Tengku Mahkota’s comment as "unwarranted", Karpal said citizenship itself grants the  other races the standing to claim equal rights and privileges.

"The other races in the country acquired citizenship after Merdeka, and are, therefore entitled to enjoy  the rights and privileges which flow from that citizenship, " Karpal added.