KUALA LUMPUR: Award-wining actress Lee Sin Jie (pic) urged voters to respect the choice of other people as Malaysia is a democratic country, major Chinese newspapers reported.

“Every person has the right to vote. We should respect this. Malaysia is a democratic country. I hope our country will stay peaceful,” said the actress who hails from Alor Setar, Kedah.

Lee, who shot to fame in the horror film The Eye, was asked to comment on cyber bullies attacking artistes who showed their support for certain political parties.

“No matter who you support, this is the voters' right. No matter who will rule the country, I hope the people will not be too emotional.

“I do not hope to see trouble in the country,” she said at a function here on Tuesday.

International artiste Datuk Seri Michelle Yeoh had been attacked by cyber bullies for her open support for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

However, Yeoh has defended her decision, saying everyone was free to give their views in Malaysia, which is a democracy.

She had openly expressed support for the Prime Minister at a gathering organised by the Federation of Chinese Descendants of Selangor on Saturday.

“We have a leader here who has done so many good things and will do more.

“I hope from the bottom of my heart that he will remain as the Prime Minister and I ask all of you to give him a strong mandate,” she told the crowd at the mammoth gathering organised to show support for Najib.

Another Malaysian artiste being attacked by cyber bullies was composer-singer Eric Moo, who performed at the 1Malaysia Penang International Charity Drive concert at the Han Chiang High School in Penang on Saturday.

Moo, from Perak, defended his action, saying that everyone had the freedom of choice.

Moo posted on Weibo yesterday that he was “not affected by threats and not afraid to be scolded” after his decision to perform at the charity concert drew criticism from cyber bullies.

Local artistes who attended functions organised by Barisan Nasional had been attacked by cyber bullies while those who showed support or performed at Pakatan Rakyat functions were not.

On Saturday, a group of local singers including Yu Heng, Danny One and Jiahui Wu had performed outside the Pakatan Rakyat operations room in Kluang, Johor.

Several Pakatan candidates, including Kluang DAP candidate Liew Chin Tong, gave speeches at the concert.

Some local performers had openly supported Pakatan including Malaysian singer Wilson Tin, who had performed at a DAP cerama

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=...3801&sec=nation

I also respect Lee Sin Jie.
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This post has been edited by leetan33: Apr 25 2013, 12:31 PM

Artists shouldn't support any political party openly... after all, they may incur wrath from fans instead.

Follow what Psy did... he performed as per contract and left without hanging around with BN leaders. Now, that's non-partisan.

Some even do character assassination just because he/she differs in political view.

i strongly agree with her, its ppl's right to support which party
she's also human
its democracy.

If she support PR she will also let BN ban? will these shit ever end? grow some brain pls.
vote what u want, let ppl vote what they want.

good la...
the young cikus are not stupig anymore.

support of cos must extremist, support habis-habisan
who got support half half one...

she have her right to support which party, and we have our right to condemn her

LOL

she ask you to respect michele yeoh
so you support la...

but bear in mind that the people/fans who critised michele also have their rights in citisizing anyone they like.
please also respect the fans decision to boycott her.

orang buat atrak boleh, sendiri buat tarak apa.
aparah...

you summarized in one sentence what this is all about.

I wouldn't say all the young chinese....

Only the lalabengs are like that....very very very very very very very noisy in Facebook.

And it wouldn't be a surprise that these lalabengs were former voters of MCA or their own parents are the one who supported MCA.

Now, these lalabengs who have never supported DAP before in the past suddenly got so excited and started making noises and asked everyone to support DAP.

Those who have been supporting DAP already all these past years wouldn't go to such extreme to criticise others who have a different view.

I dont understand this prfags. They kept saying politik samseng budaya bnfags. Tapi in cyber world, they become samseng. Keyboard warrior. Hentam sane. Hentam sini. Memalukan betul.

i tot bn fags edi biasa with this kind of attitude.
they samseng all the time is orite, other samseng cannot?

Worse is they said they are neutral...

sudah boikot, so no need respect

If our youngsters keep doing this, I'm worried for our country's future.

We need to learn how to "agree to disagree"

if everybody have rights then nobody should enjoice bora-bora

biasa letew...
baru jumpa internet?

what kind of skewed logic is this?

"rights" as opposed to "against the law"

macam pandai letew

i tak buat apa pun...

its just that i dun see any respect in ppl rights, but resorting to cyber bullying is extremist attitude,
makes no difference.

young ppl with hot blood kot...