Reminder: Candlelight vigil at 9.30pm this Friday in front of Dewan Sri Pinang organised by Abolish ISA Movement (GMI). Bring your own candles/torchlights. The organisers are also getting those present to send Raya cards to ISA detainees and to sign a petition for the abolition of the ISA.
Sin Chew has published an interview with Teresa Kok about her experience under ISA detention.
This bit is cute:
(Teresa later said she even told the investigating officer that she was sleeping and eating well, and would take care of herself properly. She said if Pakatan Rakyat successfully seizes power, she would then become their boss! She said the officers were dumbfounded after hearing this.)
Here, she adds a bit of spiritual reflection in trying to find some meaning in her detention:
I was also thinking of the judgement Jesus had to go through. Even though He was crucified on the cross, He has been remembered by people through the ages. I felt that my detention had been arranged in such a way that Jesus was trying to use my innocence to educate the public on politics.
I believe she has a point. Many ordinary people – not just the activist types or those already politically aware – woke up when she was arrested. Even people who were not interested in politics or social issues were talking about the ISA. If even an innocent person like Teresa could be arrested, surely the ISA had to be a bad and unjust law, they must have felt.
Today, more and more Malaysians want this law abolished. (The poll of about 1,000 respondents on this blog indicates that 85 per cent of you want the ISA abolished.)
Read the full interview here.
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umno might as well change the name of malaysia to malaysia incoporated. with badawi as the ceo and the ministars as board of directors the citizens becomes the servants
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when there is a change of Government ,RPK should sue Syed Hamid for wrongful detention and perhaps get him to replace his place in Kamunting before eventually abolish the law.
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damn. in penang again. any event in KL?
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Yes don’t let them off, Teresa. If Pakatan Rakyat takes over the government by hook or by crook I will remind you, make sure those idiot will only be forgiven after they have tasted their own medicine. BUT IF ONLY THOSE ENTRUSTED TO ENFORCE THE LAW ARE PROFESSIONAL, LESS BODEKING AND A TRUE BELIEVER, I AM SURE ALL THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN. So to avoid all this, ISA must be abolished-too many people enjoy abusing their power and there’s nothing people can do.
Hopefully the home minister will not justify his sending of RPK to Kemunting is a “task that is from GOD”
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If Malaysia is Malaysia Inc, I am a very hapy man ‘cos there will be an AGM every year. Imagine goodies every year from either BN or Pakatan. Malaysia will truly be heaven on earth or perhaps hell on earth.
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Anonymous said…
We call upon all the Rakyats of Malaysia to sign a Petition to be sent to the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong to release RPK from his detention under ISA …
THE NEW DAWN OF MALAYSIA HAS COME & THE FIRST THING IS TO ALLOW APPEALS & THEN RELEASE ALL ISA DETAINEES, ABOLISH ISA, OSA, SEDITION OR WHATEVER ACTS THAT COULD BE EXPLOITED AND MADE PREJUDICIAL AND OPPRESSIVE TO THE VOICE OF DISSENT FROM ALL THE RAKYATS….
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anil, you may look to it as cute but there are people who (for better of nothing to do) take it seriously and hurl accusation at teresa saying she was arrogant or she shouldn’t have said that blah blah blah… just to pick trouble i guess.
well in a way, teresa should be careful with what she said these days as it seems that her ‘enemies’ are waiting for any opportunity to pounce on her with what she uttered. even the dog food issue, we had people accusing her of this and that.
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Specially for those GMI guys parading smartly on high moral horses:
Whatever amount of suggestion,proposal, argument, debate, media expose going on on the ISA now, is definitely NOT at same level as during when Tan and Kok was inside.(..Kok even got to talk about the food)
The fact is showing up that; level of commitment to help brother or sister Malaysian differs according to the color of your Malaysian skin and if you speak Mandarin or not. (Dont mean to be Racial)
see earlier comment:
Mankok Says:
September 22, 2008 at 10:14 pm
While on this ISA subject,I mean to provoke some deeper thinking-hopefully).
It sort of began when those Hindraf guys got it, there was a build-up of protest.*URGENCY was NOT there.
Then when Kok,Tan and RPK got took in too..ANY petition was a BIG yes.**URGENCY was BIG TIME HOOHAA!!.
After that, when Kok and Tan gets out,petition comes under debates, bickering begins-some tries to sound like lawyers,some say it’s not enough.***URGENCY went OUT the door (even Sloone’s tellin’ why she’s wont sign).
See the list and hope you smell it.
Now go figure out.
Yazid Sufaat, Suhaimi Mokhtar, Dr Abdullah Daud, Shamsuddin Sulaiman, Mat Shah Mohd Satray, Abdul Murad Sudin, Zaini Zakaria, Zainun Rashid, Wan Amin Wan Hamat, Sulaiman Suramin, Sufian Salih, Mohd Khaider Kadran, Hasim Talib, Zakaria Samad, Ahmad Zakaria, Terhamid Dahalan, Abdul Rahman Ahmad, Mahfudi Saifudin, Mulyadi, Arifin, Mat Tarmizi Zakaria, Artas Burhanudin, Francis Indanan, Mohd Nazri Dollah, Mohd Arsad Patangari, Adzmi Pindatun, Idris Lanama, Aboud Ghafar Shahril, Jeknal Adil, Binsali Omar, Husin Alih, Yussof Mohd Salam, Ahmad Jamal Azahari, Pakana Selama, Kasem Dayama, Shaykinar Guat, Argadi Andoyok, Ng How Chuang, Ng Keat Seng, Mohd Azuan Aniffa, Mohd Faizol Shamsuddin, Zulfikli Abu Bakar, Zulfikli Marzuki, Amir Hussain, Mohd Nasir Ismail, Ahmad Kamil Hanafiah, Muh Amir Hanafiah, Tan Choon Chin, Mavalavan, Lian Kok Heng, Sundaraj Vijay, San Khaing, Shadul Islam, Abdul Sattar Sarjoon, Faycal Mamdouh, Mohamad Nakhrakhel, Muhammad Shuaib Hazral Bilal, Muhammad Zahid Zahir Shah, T Vasanthakumar, P Uthayakumar, R Kenghadharan, V Ganabatirau, M Manoharan,RAJA PETRA KAMARUDIN!
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The ISA is fast becoming a double edged sword. As a politician, it gives you instant fame, as a blogger, it increases your readership.
It’s evolving into a political fashion statement, and gives the victim instant street cred. Needless to say, the price doesn’t have universal appeal.
Cat food and mozzies to bitch with you all night are not the sort of experience to look forward to in life.
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One can lock up the physical body
But never succeed with the spirit
For even without Malaysia’s toddy
There’s still left the fighting spirit
(C) Samuel Goh Kim Eng – 240908
http://MotivationInMotion.blogspot.com
Wed. 24th Sept. 2008.
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I AM the only one to oppose total bannng of ISA
I prefer it to be totally amended to arrest only those who are A THREAT TO HUMAN RIGHTS….
meaning those who arrested people without crime should be sent for a re-education camp to teach them the values of International Human Rights charter. Let them memorise every line of the charter before they can be freed.
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Face the Malaysian ISA facts.
It’s a No No if detainee is kind of light colored.
It’s makes a lot of noise uf you’re kind of darker.
It’s not seen, not heard (not even bothered),if you’re islam-more so a brown islam,assumed and confirmed as “terrorist”-seen the list?read their stories?
All the high and mughty human right c***-talk…my foot
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Oh! God! I am truly amazed by the level of commonsense of these people from UMNO. I couldn’t help but just shake my head in disbelief this morning when I read the Sinar this morning Sept 25th. Mohd Ali Rustam wants Theresa to be kicked out from PKR just because she said the food served in the ISA detention centre is “of slightly higher quality than dog food” and that this comment has jeopardised the ‘good name’ of the country. Then you also have the UMNO Youth division of Seputeh also making a police report over the same issue. Not to be outdone and also on the same page the Puteri UMNO head Datuk Noraini also gave her 2cents worth. How much lower can you go when you see the level of thinking of these individuals joining the fray over such a petty issue. These are so called leaders running the country and yet they have nothing better to do than to pick on this issue, when the economic situation is in dire need of intelligent input to get us out of this hard times.
You do not need to be a rocket scientist to figure out if Theresa’s statement is true or false just by being told what was the daily budget allocated to these detainees. Is it Rm 8.50 or is it Rm 4.50 per day for 3 meals. Possible for a decent meal? Go figure. Would it not be better if these people actually investigate to find the truth rather than make a police report etc. What would they expect to achieve by making the police report? Redemption of our country’s good name? Don’t they realise that she is a member of the Selangor state government and that she has the right and also responsibility to highlight any shortcomings arising from her detention at a government facility? Goodness gracious, there’s so much things wrong in this country and this comment is definitely not one on the priority list to be able to attract such attention from these people.
Is not Malaysia getting a bad name from this ISA detention of Theresa and Miss Tan of Sin Chew? Isn’t Rustam concerned enough to ask Hamid to quit the Government? Is Noriani not concerned too and the same goes to UMNO youth Seputeh? Or is it that they actually believe that the ISA detentions actually enhances the good name of our country? Go figure.
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She did admit to raising the issue of 10% of the budget for construction of mosques, should be channeled elsewhere. I don’t think that is her business. I am sure there is a definitive budget allocation for everything and every business for every purpose by the cabinet. …
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She also did once before, without waiting for a thorough investigation alleged that a Chinese woman of China’s nationality was stripped naked in prison, which later turn out to be a Malay Malaysian and not a China-Chinese national. That did much demage between Sino-Malaysian ties and infact muddied Malaysia’s international image.If Teresa does not thread cautiously enough, she might just wish should have when the storms arrive.
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