I refer to the malaysiakini report PM: No Internet crackdown.

I am terribly saddened by the fact that Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi would claim that the police actions taken against me could be considered the 'normal process of law' and 'standard procedure'.

What he seems to be saying is that standard procedure includes:

1. Sloppy investigative work
   
   No individual or institution with even the slightest understanding regarding the workings of the Internet and blogs would suspect me of being the author of the accusations against Johari Baharum.
   
   
2. Kidnapping
   
   I was arrested by a group of five or six policemen in a darkened basement carpark with no one else around at 5pm. The police did not inform a single person as to my whereabouts until continued demands by my friends and family finally forced the police to reveal my location just before 11pm.
   
   
3. Denying me access to legal counsel
   
   My lawyers were not informed of the time and place of my remand hearing. My repeated requests to have someone call my lawyers were all ignored. It is only by luck that human rights lawyer P Uthayakumar happened to be present at the Magistrate's Court for another hearing that my lawyers were notified of the hearing. Furthermore, after my lawyers arrived, the police were relentless in their astoundingly unsophisticated attempts to deprive me of my constitutional right to consult with my legal counsel in confidence.

If these are indeed 'normal processes' and 'standard procedures', then incidents like that which occurred in Pantai Batu Buruk in Terengganu merely confirm the fact that Abdullah and his government are turning Malaysia into a police state where intimidation and brutality are the order of the day.