Abolish ISA Forum

I attended the Abolish ISA Forum last nite held at the KL Assembly Chinese Assembly Hall.

Speakers are:
* Teresa Kok, Selangor State Exco
* Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan, Bar Council President
* Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh, Chairman of Gerakan Mansuhkan ISA (GMI)
* Lim Guan Eng, Penang Chief Minister
* Khalid Samad, MP Shah Alam
* Nurul Izzah Anwar, MP Lembah Pantai
* A. Sivanesan, ADUN Sungkai

RPK wife, Marina and wife of another ISA detainee was there and they also spoke. I am really moved when I listen to them speaks for they are really brave to be able to face such adversity on their own. We can only provide moral support - but daily they have to endure the heartbreak of not being able to be with their loved one.

Datuk Ambiga quoted an article where Pak Lah has stated that two Malaysians currently detained at Guantanamo must be given a Fair Trial while in another report on the website Badawi also say that and I quote "What's important is that we want the Malaysians to get justice" .... well, from all this posturing from the PM it seems like Fair Trial and Justice is applicable anywhere in the world BUT Malaysia.

Was our ISA detainees given a Fair Trial? Do they get Justice?

All the learned panelist have pointed out the Malaysia has enough law to safeguard our nation, our people - so do we still need to live in the past by employing DRACONIAN law that serve only the ruling few????

Datuk Ambiga said that based on the feedback from Teresa that she was held in a badly ventilated six-by-eight-feet cell and RPK claims that he was interrogated every hour it can be technically categorise as Torture which is in-human to say the least... and our PM is advocating about Justice and Fair Trial to other countries in the international arena - how come no one ask him to look into his own backyard? what a bloody hyprocite.

Anyway, that reminds me of another forum I attended at the same vicinity where Tony Pua show some pictures of a man with bruises all over his face supposedly given by the cops who is interrogating and forcing the poor man to confess that he is a robber. I wonder what happens to that case since it was highligthed in some local papers.

The most interesting talk of the evening is YB Lim - he thundered - the State government has rights over land and the Perak government should mull over the possibility of reclaiming the land at Kamunting and built low cost houses there calling it Taman Bahagia of Kamunting! Bravo! i hope the plan materialize - if the law actually permits. No more torture center in the Pakatan States!

but if it materialize I hope YB would not actually use Tmn Bahagia as we already have a Hospital Bahagia in Ipoh - and that hospital caters only to people with mental problem...

Khalid from PAS gave a real tight slap to that racist bigot in seberang prai...oh... how i admire him (Khalid) as a Malaysian, despite our different religious leaning. Khalid came across as a real Malaysian with a heart for the disadvantage and a sincerity in fairness and compared him to some of the taliban like religious zealots UMNO wanabes who cant look beyond their big fat oily nose he is like an enlightened religious being.

Nurul is good and is able to articulate her point well but sometimes she sound quite condescending ... like a teacher talking to a student...

not much comment on the rest of the panelist except that some actually shouted into the mike which blurred their words... and btw, most forums or ceramahs i attended have a tendency to use sub quality sound system.. sometimes the base is so high you just hear sound hitting your ears and sometimes it is so shrill the sound is piercing thru... wonder why...

anyway, ISA / Emergency Ordinance Act = cruel. barbaric. must repeal. abolish.