Whether or not it is referred to as the ISA legislation permitting the indefinite detention of individuals suspected of engaging in seditious activities, attempts at inciting rebellion with a view to overthrowing the monarch or the state, being members of an outlawed or secret society with the sole purpose of causing public distrubance, inciting riots, civil strife or overthrowing the state will always be lawfully detained with or without trial in any civilizeed country.
All Western and Eastern Europeans have that power implied in their constitutions. It is express if not explicit in the UK and in the US and all Latin American states.
Let us assume there is a radical Islamic movement called Islamic State that has taken root in Malaysia with the object of evicting non Muslims from the state by deporting them or forcibly converrting them against their will or worse still killing them as infidels. Would this honourable professor object to them being detained indefinately till their members are rounded up and detained till the threat has been eradicated?
Once more Ramasamy acts like a Ramasamy. An academic orientation for credentials but not the education that goes with it.
Malaysia suffered this problem in the 1950's till Dr. Mahathir's government resolved the problem with mainland China, the prrinciple backer of that problem the MCP. Of course there are those apologists and revisionists like Tommy Thomas and others like Professor Ramasamy who see it through a revisionists glasses which is sad.
Whether or not it is referred to as the ISA legislation permitting the indefinite detention of individuals suspected of engaging in seditious activities, attempts at inciting rebellion with a view to overthrowing the monarch or the state, being members of an outlawed or secret society with the sole purpose of causing public distrubance, inciting riots, civil strife or overthrowing the state will always be lawfully detained with or without trial in any civilizeed country.
All Western and Eastern Europeans have that power implied in their constitutions. It is express if not explicit in the UK and in the US and all Latin American states.
Let us assume there is a radical Islamic movement called Islamic State that has taken root in Malaysia with the object of evicting non Muslims from the state by deporting them or forcibly converrting them against their will or worse still killing them as infidels. Would this honourable professor object to them being detained indefinately till their members are rounded up and detained till the threat has been eradicated?
Once more Ramasamy acts like a Ramasamy. An academic orientation for credentials but not the education that goes with it.
Malaysia suffered this problem in the 1950's till Dr. Mahathir's government resolved the problem with mainland China, the prrinciple backer of that problem the MCP. Of course there are those apologists and revisionists like Tommy Thomas and others like Professor Ramasamy who see it through a revisionists glasses which is sad.