Red Shirts leader boasts he can muster 300,000 against next Bersih rally

KUALA LUMPUR: "Red Shirts" leader Datuk Jamal Yunos has challenged the Bersih movement (the coalition for clean and fair elections) to announce the dates for the Bersih 5.0 rally, adding that some 300,000 people from the "Red Shirt" movement will also turn up to challenge them when they do.
"We want to warn Bersih that if another rally is planned and it does not follow the latter of the law, we will also take the law into our own hands and show up at their rally," said Jamal while speaking to the media during an assembly of some 200 people from Malay, Indian and Chinese NGO's under the red shirt banner at PWTC today.
Jamal was speaking in response to the "Tangkap" rally which was organised on Saturday by a coalition of students and youth groups, who are calling for the arrest of the "Malaysian Official 1" named in the United States' Department of Justice (DoJ) recent civil suits seeking the seizure of assets linked to 1Malaysia Development Berhad.
He said that he and 300,000 "Red Shirts" will throw caution to the wind and confront the Bersih rally if it goes ahead.
"We won't hesitate to collide with the Bersih rally. We don't worry about safety as that is the Police problem, if Bersih can mock the government and the PM and be unlawful, then we have to retaliate likewise too," he said.
He added that if there is to be a rally by the "Red Shirts" some 40% of them will be Chinese and Indians.
"We want to expel the notion that red shirts are only for Malays, it's for everyone who wants to ensure that there is peace in the country," he said adding that they will have 600 NGO's and 200 of which will be Indian and Chinese NGO's.
He also labelled the Bersih movement supporters as those who have "no direction in life".
"We see that the Bersih movement attracts the LGBT's, people with no religion and no direction in life, these are their supporters," he said.