I thought that the infamous Negarakuku incident is closed-case after Namewee decided to apologize for his action… seems like the cabinet is not ready to forgive the young man yet.
I first read about the decision from Merdekareview, quoting from Nazri Aziz that the cabinet has decided to take action against Namewee (real name Wee Meng Chee) under Sedition Act 1948.
(Nazri also warned that action will be taken against bloggers that published the video)
Malaysiakini and Thestar have confirmed that the cabinet has not accepted Namewee’s apology and will continue to investigate the case.
Nobody is against the law. Even if the law is stupid, it is still a law… that is what constitution is about. If it is an unlawful act to alter Negarakuku, go ahead and sue him; Namewee is not a child and naive-ness is not an excuse to break the law.
However, using sedition act in this matter is a shame. It sounds like the cabinet is so desperate to penalize Namewee… so desperate that they are willing to spend more time doing so then to fight against the real criminals.
Besides, can most of the cabinet members understand exactly what Namewee was singing? How are these people going to judge what Namewee was trying to tell in his song when they couldn’t understand most part of the video?
If the cabinet is so keen on using the sedition act, shouldn’t they look into the few papers that make it a nationwide racist issue when it was merely a stupid act? Aren’t what the papers did more seditious then what Namewee did?