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Federal constitution guarantees freedom of speech, however it has its limits, deputy IGP says

KOTA KINABALU: The Deputy Inspector-General of PoliceDatuk Seri Noor Rashid Ibrahim has stressed that the police will not compromiseon acting decisively against anyone who tries to incite the public on seditiousissues.

Noor Rashid said decisive action must be taken by the police to ensurethat the people and country remained prosperous and secure.

If we refer to the definition of Section 2 in the Sedition Act, (it is)called seditious tendency.

Anyone who disputes the position of the (Malay) rulers, anyone who disputesthe integrity of the courts that exist in our country, anyone who incites racialtension, we define (these acts) under Section 2 of the Sedition Act (1948), hesaid.

Noor Rashid said this to reporters after closing the Police Station HeadsIntegrity Seminar (Sabah contingent) here today. Noor Rashid was commenting on police investigations against Doris Jones, who is associated with the SabahSarawak Keluar Malaysia (SSKM) movement.

According to Noor Rashid anyone who disputed articles under Section 2 ofthe Sedition Act would be subject to police investigations and appropriateaction would be taken against them including being charged in court.

Noor Rashid said that although the Federal Constitution guarantees freedomof speech in the country, the freedom does, however, have its limits.It means if we want to talk, we need to know the limits. If you cross thelimits, then as police officers, with a view to maintain peace and order in thecountry, we will take action accordingly, he said.

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By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press

IRVINE, Calif. (AP) - When student government representatives at the University of California, Irvine voted to ban all flags - including the American one - from their tiny office, they thought they had found a solution to a battle over freedom of speech that began when someone first tacked a U.S. flag to the wall in January. The flag had been at the center of an increasingly bitter game of cat-and-mouse, with some students taking it down repeatedly and others replacing it in the dark of night.

Last week, six student legislative council members passed a resolution banning all flags from their office space, saying the U.S. flag could be viewed as hate speech because some consider it a symbol of colonialism and imperialism. The executive cabinet of the Associated Students organization vetoed the legislation two days later - but it was too late.

The vote prompted a furor: Taxpayers protested on the campus plaza, the school was bombarded with angry comments on its social media sites, and one state lawmaker proposed a constitutional amendment that would prohibit state-funded colleges and universities from banning the U.S. flag on campus. On Thursday, student government meetings were canceled for the second day in a row because of an unspecified threat.

The debate resonated on the ethnically and religiously diverse suburban campus south of Los Angeles, where tensions over freedom of speech have taken the national stage several times before. For years, Jewish students and members of the Muslim Student Union have sparred in a dispute that came to a head in 2011, when 10 Muslim students were arrested and prosecuted for disrupting a speech by Israeli ambassador Michael Oren. In 2007, federal civil rights investigators looked into complaints of anti-Semitic speeches given at the university by invited Muslim speakers, but they found the comments were directed as Israeli policies, not Jewish students.

"It's the nature of young minds questioning and activism at a young age. I think people notice it at UCI more because they think, 'Oh, that's the quiet conservative campus in the middle of Orange County.' But the reality is the students are from all over the place, and they're testing out their ideas just like they are at any other campus," said Cathy Lawhon, a university spokeswoman. About 14 percent of the university's nearly 30,000 students are from other countries.

The tension between Muslim and Jewish undergraduates has calmed recently, and President Barack Obama gave the university commencement speech last spring. So current students said they were dismayed to be in the national spotlight again on freedom of speech issues. Some students and professors reacted to the national criticism by defending the six students in an online petition that said, in part, that the "resolution's perspective has been completely borne out by recent events."

Daniel Kellogg, a fourth-year cognitive sciences major, wore a muscle shirt emblazoned with the American flag as he walked across campus to drop off a term paper. The attention was unsettling, he said, particularly because UC Irvine was being portrayed nationally as a hotbed of anti-American fervor because of the actions of six students.

"We have a lot of international students, and I could see how somebody could possibly be uncomfortable by a gigantic flag in the middle of the common area. But at the same time, this is the United States, and they should just get used to that," Kellogg said.

Meeting minutes show legislative council members grappled with whose rights were more important as they voted: those offended by the flag or those who were offended by its removal. One council member noted that an anonymous letter that criticized the flag was free speech but taking it down was impinging on the free speech of others who wanted it left up.

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