Tun Dr. M kata I.S.A tak kejam, yang kejam pembangkang

Mantan Perdana Menteri Malaysia

Bekas perdana menteri Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad Isnin menyatakan sokongan beliau terhadap penghapusan Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) seperti yang diumum Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

Beliau berkata langkah itu akan memberi lebih kebebasan kepada rakyat Malaysia.

Namun, Dr Mahathir menegaskan ISA yang diwarisi sejak zaman British sebenarnya tidaklah terlalu kejam kerana rakyat Malaysia masih bebas memberi pandangan dan pendapat mereka.

"Tidak semua mereka yang membuka mulut terus ditahan di bawah ISA, dan tanggapan bahawa Malaysia tidak bebas kerana ISA juga tidak tepat," katanya pada Majlis Ramah Mesra Aidilfitri anjuran KelabChedet.com di sini.

Bernama melaporkan, Dr Mahathir berkata tindakan menghapuskan ISA meletakkan Malaysia "pada tahap moral yang tinggi", malah boleh dianggap setahap lebih baik daripada negara maju seperti Amerika Syarikat dan Britain.

"Selepas penghapusan akta itu, kita boleh mulakan kempen untuk minta mereka lepaskan tahanan tanpa bicara, sebagai contoh, di kem tahanan Teluk Guantanamo.

"Masih ada yang ditahan sejak 10 tahun lepas dan tidak dibicarakan, ditahan hanya kerana mereka orang Islam," kata Dr Mahathir.

Beliau berkata Malaysia kini lebih liberal dengan penghapusan ISA dan berhak membuat tuntutan seumpama itu terhadap negara seperti Amerika dan Britain.

"Dulu mereka menegur Malaysia kononnya zalim, menahan tahanan tanpa perbicaraan, namun itu yang mereka lakukan sekarang ini.

"Mungkin mereka baru sedar dalam situasi tertentu, Malaysia terpaksa menahan orang tanpa perbicaraan, namun apa yang mereka lakukan di Teluk Guantanamo lebih kejam dengan meluluskan undang-undang yang membenarkan penyeksaan tahanan," katanya.

Bagaimanapun, Dr Mahathir khuatir puak pelampau dan perkauman di Malaysia akan mengambil kesempatan untuk membuat kenyataan yang akan merugikan negara apabila ISA dihapuskan.

Sementara itu, bekas perdana menteri itu berkata beliau menggunakan blog sebagai medium untuk berkomunikasi dengan orang ramai.

"Melalui blog saya mampu membuat teguran dan menyampaikan pandangan untuk dikongsi bersama," katanya.

Berpendapat teguran yang dibuat dalam blog beliau sebagai satu keperluan, Dr Mahathir berkata blog harus digunakan untuk menyampaikan sesuatu yang betul.

Selamat Pengantin Baru YB Nolee Ashilin.

GT Puteri ingin mengucapkan Selamat Pengantin Baru dan Tahniah kepada YB Nolee Ashilin Mohd Radzi, Exco Pergerakan Puteri UMNO Malaysia merangkap ADUN Tualang Sekah yang telah melangsungkan perkahwinannya dengan  Ahmad Faris Hassani Hassan, :: Selamat Pengantin Baru, Semoga Bahagia ke Anak Cucu. ::

''Are you are telling me Malaysia is so bad that we are worse than the human traffickers?''

"If Malaysia doesn't do something, we will always be seen as a transit country"

Hishamudddin Hussein

MALAYSIA remains strongly committed to the refugee exchange with Australia, with its Home Affairs Minister criticising the Coalition's alternative of sending asylum seekers to Nauru as highly unlikely to stop human traffickers.

In an exclusive interview with the Herald, Hishammuddin Hussein also vowed that any asylum seekers Australia sent to Malaysia under the plan would not be abused and that Malaysia was working to improve the treatment of refugees and illegal workers in the country.

His comments are the first by the Malaysian government since the High Court rejected the deal under which Australia would send Malaysia 800 asylum seekers in return for accepting 4000 refugees.

They come as the Gillard government appeals to the Coalition to support changes to the Migration Act to overcome the court ruling and allow it to send asylum seekers offshore.

The Herald has also learnt that the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, who will be briefed on the Migration Act changes this afternoon, is likely to demand the government support the reintroduction of temporary protection visas in return for his support.

Labor would be unable to accede, giving the Coalition an excuse to walk away from the deal, which it believes is not needed anyway, and revive its preferred Pacific solution policy.

The visas, which Labor judged cruel and inefficient, were abolished in 2008 and Ms Gillard told Parliament yesterday it was not government policy to reintroduce them.

The government needs Coalition support for the legislation, which would give Australia the discretion to send asylum seekers wherever it wished.

Labor wants to use a swift return to Malaysia as a deterrent to break people-smuggling, and Manus Island as a back-up processing centre. The opposition wants to revive the Pacific solution of processing asylum seekers in Nauru and Manus Island.

Immigration Department officials have warned the Pacific solution would not work again as a deterrent because asylum seekers now knew they would end up in Australia or New Zealand.

Mr Hishammuddin concurred. Nauru was not a transit country for asylum seekers like Malaysia and, as such, it would not deter people smugglers.

''Can you help me that the Nauru solution is the right solution? That people won't see Malaysia as a transit point on the way to the Nauru solution, and then on to Australia and New Zealand?'' he said. ''If Malaysia doesn't do something, we will always be seen as a transit country.''

In his strongest language yet, Mr Abbott said he was unlikely to help the government unless the changes to the Migration Act allowed the Pacific solution and temporary protection visas but not Malaysia.

''If she [Ms Gillard] wants us to support her policy she needs to take the appropriate steps. She'd better get her policy to resemble what we think is in the national interest,'' he said.

The opposition and refugee advocates have slammed Malaysia's human rights record because it is not a signatory to the United Nations refugee convention, has detained illegal immigrants and, in some cases, has caned them.

However, an understanding with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees for the past two years means refugees in Malaysia should live free from detention and caning.

''Are you are telling me Malaysia is so bad that we are worse than the human traffickers?'' asked Mr Hishammuddin.

''There will be a mechanism when we operationalise this. In the world these days, you cannot hide things any more. Any abuse would be displayed for the world to see instantaneously. We will have to be very careful, if we are allowed to carry on, to ensure that everything is done properly.''

Reference : http://www.smh.com.au/national/dont-give-up-on-deal-malaysia-20110915-1kbzv.html#ixzz1YMAZpL14

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Ingatkan hari Ahad ni naklah bersantai-santai menonton perlawanan bola sepak antara Tortenham vs Liverpool. Alih-alih terjeling pulak gambar ni dalam 'Wall Post' salah satu group di Facebook.

PAKATAN HARAM pusing punya pusing, terjerut pula kat leher sendiri. Hahaha.. Alamat pakai pendakap leher lah nampaknya kome. Pinjam aja kat abang Anwar.. dia simpan banyak stock tu..

Apa pun tak boleh.

p/s : Tahniah Tortenham!!! Liverpool dah kenapa???