Edmund Bon discusses the ISA and our basic rights over PopTeeVee.
Aug 062010
Aug 012010
Today marks 50 years of the ISA’s existence. That’s fifty dark years.
It’s time for the ISA to go.
In 1960, D R Seenivasagam accurately predicted what would happen when the ISA bill was tabled.
Rising to debate the Internal Security Bill on 22 June 1960, D R Seenivasagam called it “a vicious and repulsive document, a document which is repulsive to all those who believe in democracy”. He found it “difficult to believe any citizen of this country could have drafted this Bill if he has the interests of his fellow citizens at heart”. Continue reading »
Aug 122009
The ISA poll on the KDN website has shown some wildly fluctuating results.
From 90 per cent of some 14,000 respondents who want the ISA abolished on 10 August, it has now plunged to just 49 per cent of over 17,000 respondents today! Amazing…
(P.S. The poll on the KDN website was removed less than 24 hours after this posting.)
So let’s try another poll here to see what we get. (The earlier poll on this blog showed that 91 per cent wanted the ISA repealed.)
What should be done with the ISA?
- Abolish it (95%, 1,758 Votes)
- Review it and let it continue (5%, 87 Votes)
- Not sure (0%, 4 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,847
Aug 072009
Also, check out a poll on the ISA at the news portal of the Home Affairs Ministry, no less.
As at 8.06pm, 91 per cent of over 9,000 respondents want the ISA abolished – an identical result (91 per cent) to what my own blog poll revealed in May.
May 042009
MCA Wanita Chief Chew Mei Fun is trying to spin what the public really feels about the ISA. “Everybody is actually looking forward to a review of the ISA,” she says.
Really? Everybody? Most people I know want the ISA repealed not “reviewed”.
Chew seems to be against detention without trial, which is good. So why can’t she come out and demand the outright abolition of the ISA? Okay, she wants the ISA to be renamed Anti-Terrorism Act. But does she think this will stop abuse of power? Remember 2001, when 10 reformasi activists were detained for suspected terror activities – only to be released much later? Remember the Hindraf Five? Remember all those languishing in Kamunting?
Out with this obnoxious law!
The ISA should be:
- abolished (91%, 1,428 Votes)
- reviewed (7%, 111 Votes)
- left unchanged (2%, 28 Votes)
- not sure (0%, 2 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,568