2 Out Of ISA, How About The Rest?
September 19, 2008
Teresa Kok has finally been released from ISA detention (thanks for the headsup, LEM). According to the breaking news from both TheStar Online as well as Malaysiakini, she is now at the Jalan Travers police station handling some release documentation. She will also be having a news conference at 3.30pm today at the DAP headquarters in PJ.
Will she be charged with a crime? Probably not, because there surely isn’t enough evidence to charge her with something. So, in summary, her one week arrest just means that the police has wasted taxpayers’ money again by detaining an innocent person by a week.
Now that she is out, we can focus on the release of Raja Petra, and the Hindraf 5 who have been in there a few months shy of a year. And there are other detainees in there as well that have been in there since 2001 (if I am not mistaken). Is it human to deprive a person of their freedom without any chance for a fair hearing? Isn’t this what tyrannies are built on? There are enough laws in this land of ours to charge them, so why not use these laws?
One of the reasons I refuse to recognize BN as a good government is due to their rabid insistence on maintaining this law, without any reform or repeal, which clearly goes against public sentiment. A government that puts itself beyond the reach of its people and ignores them is never a good government. A government that thinks they have all the answers and thinks that they are the only ones capable of leading the country is never a good government.
How I yearn for a government that truly listens. Will my wishes be answered, or will it be just blind hope?
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3 Responses to “2 Out Of ISA, How About The Rest?”
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klaw,
you can watch ISA watch on Aliran. then, you’ll know who are the detainees. you can also get info from the victims i.e. the families. example - merah hitam. there’s also an ISA detainee’s family who is in need for this coming raya. spread it out! hope it’ll help them… tq
suealeen’s last blog post…ISA, Merah Hitam & Puan Halimah
September 20, 2008 at 9:02 am
here is a link for you to sign the petition to release the ISA detainees. ONLINE PETITION
suealeen’s last blog post…ISA, Merah Hitam & Puan Halimah
September 20, 2008 at 9:04 am
hi suealeen,
Thanks for the links.
As for the Online Petition, I have already signed it, but I am trying to get my signature out of the petition. This is due to not reading the petition properly, whereby I had agreed to the terms:
We agree with his view that “there [are] ample punitive laws to act against lawbreakers without having to invoke the ISA. [The law] should only be used on armed terrorists or those out to topple the government by force,”
I do not agree with the use of ISA on any individual. I reiterate my stand that there are enough laws in this country, or we should enact laws in this country to deal with armed terrorists.
Holding a person under ISA, without a chance for a trial is wrong.
September 20, 2008 at 10:42 am