Big Brother is still at it

"In Indonesia, even in Melbourne, Australia, letters will go out to Malaysian students warning them that if they showed up at the speech, their grants and scholarships would be canceled.
What could be more symbolic of Malaysia’s fundamental lack of democracy?

Embassy retracted threat

In Michigan, US, it had also happened at one of his own speeches, Anwar told us. The Malaysian Embassy had sent out the same series of threatening letters to students. However, freedom is keenly guarded in such places. A strongly-worded letter from the university dean, reminding the embassy their action was illegal, produced a hasty retraction. The students were told they could attend, after all, and for the first time Anwar found hundreds of young Malaysians attending his lecture!

There were also plenty of Malaysians in the audience at University College, but by now this writer was beginning to wonder how many of them were students and how many of them embassy staff, taking down names! Anwar addressed the latter by saying they were welcome to be there, but if they behaved in an intimidating fashion, there would have to be further recourse to the British “bobbies”.

He explained that earlier in the day, police had been called to his hotel to move on Malaysian “goons”, who had been parked for several hours outside."

More where that came from:

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/2011/10/31/anwars-passionate-plea-for-change/

Mariam Mokhtar's take in Mkini:
http://www.malaysiakini.com/columns/180029
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