Kit Siang ticks off Pak Lah for veiled threat

Thursday September 18 2008
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Kit Siang ticks off Pak Lah for veiled threat

IPOH, Sept 18 — Veteran DAP leader Lim Kit Siang today took the Prime Minister to task for describing opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as a threat to national security and the economy, saying the PM should not abuse the use of the ISA to deal with the opposition.

Lim said Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's statement has given rise to speculation that an Operation Lalang 2 crackdown and Anwar's arrest under the ISA were in the offing.

Lim, who was detained twice under the ISA, in 1969 and 1987, said he too was accused on both occasions of being a "threat to national security!"

Denying that the opposition was a threat, he stressed that they were only threats to the political security of Barisan Nasional leaders.

 

Comments:-

 

DAP Leader Lim Kit Siang is really good to point out the misinterpretation of "national security" by PM Datuk Seri Ahmad Badawi. It is the effort of PM to interpret national security in his own way to safeguard his personal interest to remain in power. So by using ISA on civilians, PM is anti- democracy when the democratic process is used to ovethrow the weak government. Yet PM alleged that DSAI is a threat to national economy and security!!! There is no uproar against DSAI, no riot, no civil commotion from the Rakyat because of DSAI speeches. So how could he be a threat to national security which is in fact a threat to political security of weak BN govt with no two-third majority!!!

 

PM Datuk Seri Ahmad Badawi is playing the political games just like his predecessors who abused the ISA for personal interest and not for the interest of national security. PM must stop blaming other people like DSAI and have to accept full responsibility for abusing the ISA and detaining the MP Teresa Kok and Blogger Raja Petra. He must be asked to explain as why ISA is used to detain Sin Chew Reporter Ms. Tan for 18-hour, whose report was true and without malice? Yet the racist Ahamd Ismail is left free and not detained under ISA for a single hour!. The suspension of his UMNO post for 3 years is based on party leaders' decision and a party discipline against him. Why ISA is not used against him if the BN govt is truly fair to all races? Why apply the ISA impartially on an innocent civilians without threat to national security since they are not armed with military weapons nor terrorists in the country???

 

Vote out the PM by vote of no confidence in the next Parliamentary sitting. Let's all MPs do it together!!!