Dustyhawk :: Broken Mirror

As we all know about the ISA and how they have oppressed the citizens with their abuse of power by placing some known and unknown individuals in detention. For Serge’s counterparts not from Malaysia, the ISA (Internal Security Act) is a law that allows arrest of any person without the need for trial in certain defined circumstances. Circumstances that according to the law books is when someone threatens the security of the country.

Some of you guys out there must be having a heart attack, those who works for human rights movement and those who practice law. “Arrest of any person without the need for trial“, scary isn’t it. But this how it is here in this country over here. What can be said, is that out of the hundreds of people that was arrested and placed under indefinite detention; only 1% did threaten the security of the country. The rest of them, well it is all about politics.

Politics of regaining power and staying in power. Elections has passed, yet we see that the political party UMNO is trying their best in both legal and illegal manner to reclaim what they call their rightful throne. Some uses dialogue and some uses fear tactics to gain a lost throne and from what we have experienced in the last 5 days, has proven that the shadow players love fear above all else.

It is hilarious and disheartening on how they use the ISA to try to regain power. History has proven without a shadow of doubt, that it will repeat itself and repeat every 20 years. Pause any thoughts you might have at the moment and let’s get some facts of this 20 year phenomenon.

In 1968, Umno fanned racial sentiments in a bid to ‘unite’ the Malays under its banner. Umno realised that the Malays were abandoning it in droves and it needed an issue to reunite the Malays. Further to that, the Prime Minister was being blamed for what Umno perceived as a loss of Malay support and the Young Turks in Umno wanted to also use this issue to pressure the Prime Minister into resigning.

Twenty years later, in 1988, Umno again went into turmoil with the emergence of Team A and Team B, which eventually split into Umno Baru and Semangat 46. Again, just like twenty years before that, the Malays had become disillusioned with the Umno leadership and there was a danger that Umno would suffer the same fate it did in 1969 if the general election was called.

In 2008, UMNO takes the country to the brink of a race riot in its effort to ‘unite’ the Malays and to ensure that it does not lose Malay support. And the 8 March 2008 general election, as well as the recent Permatang Pauh by-election, is proof that Umno has lost Malay support.
–Raja Petra

Sad to say this but we the people who are bred in Malaysia is going to be in deep shit soon. Too damn deep that the smell from the foul faecal matter cannot be washed away. From a certain source , the recent ISA arrest can be seen as UMNO’s way to regain power and this will not be the last of it. The source has stated that the true fight will come somewhere in December, as that is when the real battle starts. As December is when UMNO will have their general meeting. Heads will roll, people will be imprisoned.

And people who might not even be threatening the the security of the country, but was just doing her work as a reporter. Tan Hoon Cheng was recently freed from detention and holds the record for being detained for 20 hours, a record really.

Why was she arrested in the first place and place under detention ? The answer is simple but it comes at a price of losing logic and your mind by the answer that holds it. Tan Hoon Cheng was merely doing her job as a reporter, to report, to write and to tell to her country what is going on and what has been said.

Apparently, press freedom is something that has screwed over. She (Hoon Cheng) reported what was stated by Datuk Ahmad Ismail’s reckless description about the Malaysian Chinese as beings who are just squatters in this country. Oh woe it is for freedom of speech that was supposed to be guaranteed here.

Her release in less than 24 hours occured and they the people who instigated her arrest stated it was done as method to save her life. Albar claimed that Tan was detained for her safety as the police believed her life was “under threat”. Serge feels sick from all of this hoo-ha and hopes that the other two (Teresa Kok and Raja Petra) will be released soon.

Of course Raja Petra will be released soon enough due to the fact that he is the nephew of the late Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, the eleventh Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia and the seventh Sultan of Selangor. On the part of Teresa Kok, well we have really no idea when she’ll be release.

Dark clouds loom and the tempest that it brings will certainly wash many countrymen to pack their bags and get the fuck out of here as soon as they can. All that Serge can say is,” It is going to be a long December“. God save us.