Malaysia has gone through a string of criticisms from both local and foreign, print as well as the electronic media recently. These dangerous acts of media usurpers are intended to destroy our nation's solidarity and influence the people's sentiments against our political leaders, and should be monitored and eradicated in order to ensure political and economic stability.

Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad's administration should adopt a more pragmatic and firm approach to legislate our internal administration and policies, in order to effectively curb such dangerous acts of sabotage and treason that may affect our nation and continued co-existence among the various races and communities that Malaysia had built since independence.

I believe that a number of such undesirable elements had infiltrated into certain areas of our administrative fronts, both within the government and corporate entities, including the judiciary, education and defence as well as a number of political parties, particularly in Sabah and Sarawak.

We should also be concerned about the renewed international terrorism in Asean as well as Europe, the Americas and the Middle Eastern countries.

In view of the current political and social developments, the strict imposition of the rules under our Internal Security Act (ISA) should be maintained in line with our sovereignty and constitutional rights; without any foreign interference.

All offenders, irrespective of their origins and nationalities, who are deemed to have threatened our national security should be charged under the ISA. Any repeals to the enforcement of the ISA should only be debated and legislated through acts of Parliament and not even through the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) which I believe has not been given any form of judicial mandate or absolute authority.

The government should not compromise on the rules of law by ISA as nobody should be above the law, including politicians, civil servants, undesirable citizens as well as foreigners.

As a point of personal reference, I am concerned with the recent interference from the former US ambassador to Malaysia, John R Malott who had openly criticised

our government leaders by name, particularly Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

Malott has indeed embarrassed himself for having interfered in our political affairs, in questioning the integrity, competency and capability of Abdullah as the next prime minister when Mahathir relinquishes his post in October 2003.

I believe that Malott's criticism has directly embarrassed the Bush administration, in particular Colin Powell's position as the secretary of state responsible for US foreign policy and international relations. Malaysia has great respect for the former Secretary of State Sir Henry Kissinger as well as a number of other US senior officials and former ambassadors to Malaysia, who had continued to respect the sovereignty of our nation even after their departure from the US administration.

To Malott whom I had the privilege of having met in KL and Washington DC, I sincerely urge you to keep silent and refrain from giving your uncalled-for remarks and criticism on Malaysian political affairs. Please stop picking on sensitive political leaders like Mahathir and Abdullah as it may affect the current progressive bilateral relations between our two countries.

Malaysia is not a banana republic and as a democratic government, we have the constitutional right to manage our own affairs without any foreign interference in accordance with the United Nations charter.

Malott should realise the serious implications of his dangerous political game. He is neither qualified nor welcome to assume the role of a 'foreign relations advisor' with the objective of interfering in the internal affairs of Malaysia, Indonesia, China or even Hongkong, in pursuit of his own agenda to support certain disposed political leaders who are against the democratic principles of the elected government of the day.

As far as Malaysia is concerned, we demand an open public apology from ambassador John Malott to Abdullah in the interest of enhancing our US-Malaysia bilateral relations.