Most Read
Most Commented
Read more like this
mk-logo
News
Night interrogation: Higher courts to 'rescue' MACC?
Published:  Nov 20, 2009 7:28 AM
Updated: 11:32 PM

vox populi small thumbnail 'This is where the Court of Appeal will come in. A judgment to overturn the High Court's decision is certainly under way. In mere hours, the MACC announced their plan to appeal. Just wait and see.'

High Court: MACC's night interrogation illegal

Md Imraz Muhammed Ikhbal: This is where the Court of Appeal will come in. A judgment to overturn the High Court's decision is certainly under way. In mere hours, the MACC announced their plan to appeal. Just wait and see.

Dr Jacob George: The High Court's decision is right on cue. It's embarrassing when officials are not guided by legal statutes. The empowerment of the people is dependent on the rule of law, not on the 'rule of the jungle' or that of 'political expediency' - take note.

Naziman: Syabas, Justice Mohd Ariff Md Yusof. You have kept true to your name with this fair and impartial judgment. Too bad we had to wait until after the death of an innocent man before seeing this ruling.

Will the Registrar of Society send MACC a show-cause letter for conducting illegal interrogations? Or is it written in the constitution that whoever is in power is immune from prosecution?

RR: It is high time the senior officers of the MACC, the Election Commission and other government agencies are sent for a refresher course in English (and BM as well) so they are able to interpret the laws/rules properly. There are too many misinterpretations of the law these days.

Petrol bomb 'warning' for lawyer at PI Bala's interview

Boleh Land : Manjeet Singh Dhillion, you may want to employ the police force to protect your home and office. And when these ruffians come with their Molotov cocktails, the police will shoot them and this will truly be in self-defence. Based on statistics, we know they are very accurate.

Kris: It looks as though some people are terrified of the revelations in private investigator P Balasubramaniam's first statutory declaration as well as the ongoing revelations. So they are resorting to these types of threats to warn Bala and his lawyers to not reveal any more information.

It does not require a genius to figure out who is behind these dastardly acts. By intimidating and threatening a lawyer, who is just carrying out his work as a counsel, they are confirming that they are extremely upset with what Bala has revealed because there is a lot of truth in it.

If what Bala says is not true, then the people adversely affected by his statements would have sued Bala for a large sum of money to clear their names, which is the normal civilised way of correcting an injustice.

Secular or Islamic: What is really at stake?

Paul Warren: Okay, Abdul Aziz Bari, let's say that I now accept that Malaysia is an Islamic state. What next? An Islamic state with a casino, weekly lottery draws, and Sports Toto somehow does not gel.

Now, to bring it into line with what you're saying, you will have to start contending with these issues so as not to undermine the Islamic state. Is that what is called for?

Would it not be better for Islam if this country is referred to as a secular state where Islam is practiced freely and with certain privileges and advantages over other religions because a majority of its citizens are Muslim?

Voon Yuen Woh: But in the end, Abdul Aziz said, what is more pressing now are issues of human rights, rule of law, freedom of speech, accountability and greater democracy in the system. Most importantly, the constitution does not say a word about (these issues),' he added.

Dear sir, are you really a constitutional law expert? The constitution guarantees freedom of speech, professing a religion of one's choice, the practice of one's religion freely (subject to public morality). Aren't these constitutionally-guaranteed rights the same as human rights?

How can you say the constitution doesn't say a word about them? Have you read about the Reid Commission and its draft on which our federal constitution was based?

What about Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah's statement that during the preliminary discussions, our sultans and the Alliance government had the choice to make Malaysia an Islamic state but chose not to do so and decided to keep it secular? Secular is not anti-Islam or anti-religion.

ADS