Alvin Tan and Vivian Lee are finding out the hard way what harm words and pictures can do to their community and themselves.
Their Facebook post and online nude pictures of themselves are now haunting them in the remand cell, just as much as inaction against others who bring disharmony haunts some ministers and deputy ministers in Putrajaya.
They believe that firm action against the likes of Datuk Ibrahim Ali for his threat to burn Malay bibles and Datuk Zulkifli Noordin for disparaging the Hindu religion would have been a deterrent for similar action by others.
"Firm action should have been taken before. Instead, we now have people pushing the envelope to see where the limits are," a Barisan Nasional (BN) source told The Malaysian Insider in Kuala Lumpur.
He said some ministers and deputy ministers have been discussing the sex bloggers collectively known as Alvivi and their brazen act of posting their Ramadan "bak kut teh" greeting on Facebook last week.
"This might not have happened if others who provoked and incited along similar lines had been charged in court for sedition," he said, pointedly referring to Ibrahim and Zulkifli.
The authorities have not taken action against both despite public outrage and outcry. Zulkifli even stood in Shah Alam on a BN ticket in the May 5 general elections but lost.
Ibrahim, who heads the right-wing Perkasa group, used to be an Umno member but quit before Election 2008. He won in Pasir Mas on a PAS ticket but lost in Election 2013 although the BN candidate withdrew from the race.
But outrage over a cow-head protest against a Hindu temple in Shah Alam on August 28, 2009 led to 12 protestors being fined RM1,000 each for illegal assembly by the local sessions court in 2010.
Two of the protestors were fined RM3,000 for sedition while one of the two was also ordered to serve a week in jail.
However, none of them were remanded before their case, unlike Alvin and Vivian in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
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