Why must there be a review of the ISA just because of the demands of such a small and irrelevant group of individuals and organisations?

I am confident the ISA is still relevant. It may be a throwback to the days of British colonialism but so, too, is the English language. Don't those who oppose the ISA also not want to get rid of this language together with the 'old piece of British legacy'?

For matters relating to the ISA, let the government of the day not be unduly pressured into accepting the views of those who had lost in the general elections.

The Barisan Nasional government will lose its credibility and respect in the eyes of those who had voted for them if they continue to kowtow to those whom they had vanquished in the general elections last year.

The opposition leaders in Pakatan Rakyat should know better in that one of the major reasons why they had not managed to garner more support from the voters in the last general elections was because they had demanded for the repeal of the ISA in their sloganeering.

If they had not done that, they could have got even more support from the more conservative members of the voting population of this country.

Now they are demanding that the Barisan federal government repeal the ISA, which will in the end erode further the support they have amongst the voters and the general population.

The ISA has done wonders for the country by contributing towards its stability. Countries that do not have such a legislation have shown how chaotic they can become. Look at Thailand, the Philippines, Pakistan and Bangladesh as well as some other countries.

These countries are lucky in the sense that they have populations which can be described as homogeneous. If they were not, surely racial clashes could have erupted.

It is therefore not wise for the government to dance to the tune of the pseudo-liberals and pseudo-democrats in the country who mostly have s narrow interpretation of things. They are too self-centered to know what is good for them and this may not be good for the majority.

Laws are passed for the good of the majority although they may be detrimental to the good of some individuals who seem to be constantly on the lookout for trouble.

So today they have the ISA to criticize and tomorrow, if this legislation is done over with, they will definitely have something else to criticise just to keep themselves in the limelight and look busy.

The political and social activists in the country are mostly those who have second-hand ideas; they mostly take their cue from their counterparts or masters elsewhere, particularly those in America who are in a different ball game altogether.

America is a White majority country where the minorities are not at equal par economically as in Malaysia.

The irony is that most of the activists in America are now jaded, having got tired of activism.

However, their counterparts in Malaysia and in the other countries are now taking up where they had left off long ago, with the massive demonstrations that were held in America in the 1960s, being repeated in Malaysia - today!

So our activists can be said to be four decades too late compared to those in America.

Even the slogans that they write in their placards sound and look similar as those that were carried in many major cities in America a long time ago.