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Monday, 29 June 2009 14:33

When the law is utterly unjust, reducing the period of detention from 60 days to 28 days does not remove the evilness of such a law. ISA is not opposed because it detains a person for 60 days or 28 days.

Mohamed Hanipa Maidin, The Malaysian Insider

The government is looking into a proposal to reduce the detention period under the Internal Security Act from 60 to 28 days, said Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein. The home minister said this was among the suggestions made to review the controversial Act, which is up for review in the next Parliament meeting.

However, he cautioned that the revision of the ISA could not be rushed as there were many things that needed to be sorted out, such as getting feedback from related government agencies, such as the Immigration Department, prison authorities, police and non-governmental organisations.

He further said that "the opposition is afraid because once we amend these laws, they will be out of bullets to accuse the BN of not being serious in helping the people. They only want to politicise the issue."

He added that the opposition was welcome to submit proposals on the matter but that the government would not engage them in discussion.

PAS has never agreed with the ISA since this “satanic” legislation was born. Thus the question of agreeing to the proposed amendments of this draconian law does not arise at all. For us there is only one solution to the ISA — that is by abolishing it. Period. PAS believes that the ISA is a wicked law and only needed by a wicked government in order to protect and hide its wicked acts.

National security mantra has been used again and again to justify the existence and continuity of this law. When BN claims that this law is necessary for national security it is in fact driving home various implicit points inter alia it is all right to detain a person without trial. In other words a trial is not important at all to ISA detainees.

It is also all right not to give a person a right to be presumed innocence until proven guilty for the ISA presumes him or her to be guilty forever.

It is also all right to incarcerate a man in a solitary confinement and subject him to interrogation for very long hours (some are even denied sleep) by several policemen.

All these inhumane and degrading treatments are acceptable and tolerable in the interest of “national” security. Human dignity is irrelevant and immaterial when it collides with national security. Islam says God has dignified the sons of Adam. The  ISA on the other hand says get lost with human dignity. National security is everything.

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written by wongnoball, June 29, 2009 14:39:35
Pleeze ..not only PAS, DAP, PKR and many millions of malaysian......

Yet how is it that we have not dented the regim ganas UMNO-Bn for 51 years and counting. I am sick of their use of their Revolutionary Guards of SB, PDRM and ARMY to. It is becoming OBVIOUS all our Law abiding effort have come to ZERO. We must start thinking OFFENCE.....Don't let this Global Financial Crisis pass without Tectonic change in malaysia Politics....Obliterate and FINISH Regim UMNO forever!!
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written by Trueandfair, June 29, 2009 15:02:55
ISA is the ultimate perfect political weapon - of course, BN will not get rid of it, neither will any despotic Govt. Please give us a pledge please Pakatan - I don't expect such thing from BN, so don't bother asking them
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written by Admiral Tojo, June 29, 2009 15:28:38
The ISA, The Sedition Act, The police act, bring back trail by jury, revamp the police n the judiciary, and the list go on..... This is what we get for being hoodwinked and asleep for years. Fortunately, my children and their subsequent generation, will not be asleep anymore.

Shalom.
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written by kayjaman, June 29, 2009 20:14:12
Umno has claimed it is the championing Islamic causes, but on the other hand, just a simple question ,all umno members who are supposed to be Muslims or followers of the Islamic faith , Does ISA conforms to the Islamic faith? It is definitely against Islam, so those who use, condone the use, support that piece of legislation goes against their own faith , That alone is enough to conclude that they dont believe in Islamic teachings, and why bother to have unity talks ?

To earn a living by corrupt means is against Islamic teaching, what do we classify or call building wealth for ones own self by corrupt means .
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written by No nonsense, June 29, 2009 23:01:29
ISA should be abolished cause it has become a curse to all right thinking malaysians. It has become a beast in disguise used by Bn against the innocents. If it is really that good that can keep the peace in the country why are so many people want it abolished? Think carefully and you will know why. Still think the rakyat are stupid? We are in an era of change and the younger generations know what is going on everywhere . You can bluff some of the people some of the time but not all the people all the time.
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