KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 16 — The Bar Council has prepared a 100-strong lawyer team to defend its MyConstitution campaign against claims made last week by a youth group that its public awareness booklets were seditious.
Lawyer Edmund Bon, who heads the campaign, told reporters today that the council was ever ready to face the accusations, should the police come knocking.
“But no one has called on us so far. We are prepared to meet with the police and we are getting 100 lawyers to defend our MyConstitution campaign.
“There is nothing seditious about it,” he said.
The council launched its sixth booklet on the role of the judiciary at Cava Restaurant in Bangsar without a hitch today and will continue with the next phase of its campaign in Sabah on Saturday.
“Our next one will be on the 18th, in two days' time, in Kinarut, Sabah, and it will be launched by (Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister) Tan Sri Bernard Dompok.
“Sabah and Sarawak are very important to us and we value them a lot so we have a special booklet just for the two states,” he said.
Bon was responding to the police report launched last week by the 1 Malaysia Youth Graduands club in Serdang, calling on the authorities to take immediate action against the campaigners for allegedly advocating the changing of provisions in the Federal Constitution, especially those touching on the special position of Malays and Islam.
He has also defended the contents of the booklets, claiming that they were written in a simplified form but were accurate guides to the provisions of the highest law of the land and denied that the campaign was aimed at changing the Constitution.
Some 90,000 booklets have been distributed nationwide to date since the campaign was launched last year, with the support of the Federal Government and in partnership with several state governments including Sarawak, Selangor and Kedah.
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