YOURSAY 'The PCA is a reversal of human rights, so do not try to sugarcoat it. A stink by any other smell stinks the same.'

Ambiga: Mr Low, thanks but no thanks

your sayReal Truth: Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Paul Low, you have lots of work to do after the Auditor-General' s Report.

The first thing your department must do is to make police reports against all those who were implicated by the auditor-general and have the arrested under the newly-amended Prevention of Crime Act (PCA), to prove that this Act is genuinely for criminals both violent and white collar, then we will give due credit to you as a man of principles.

Louis: Paul Low is very smart. Bersih co-chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan is known the world over for her integrity and honesty. If he can get Ambiga on board, this will be his biggest feat.

With Ambiga as one of the members of the panel, the negative perception of the public on the government will instantly change to positive.

Mr KJ John: Bro, some of us are not for sale-lah. Good try though; if you were serious you should have made an offer to national laureate A Samad Said (Pak Samad) and you would have got a more serious and colourful response in good prose and poetry!

The Act is a reversal of human rights, with detention without trial, so do not try to sugarcoat it. A stink by any other smell stinks the same.

Relevancy: For Paul Low to say that anyone can be corrupt proves that the PCA is fallible to corrupt practices, whereby checks and balances do not exist.

Drngsc: Dear Ambiga, please ask naive Paul to clean up after the Auditor-General's Report 2012 first. That will take him one year or more, then the Auditor-General's Report 2013 will arrive. It will be more of the same.

Sauron: "I just want to see the criminals arrested," Low told Astro Awani in an interview yesterday." There lies your problem.

He does not understand that a person, even when arrested, is NOT a criminal, not yet at least. Not until the state has proved its charge beyond a reasonable doubt after a judicial trial by a court of competent jurisdiction, having first satisfied itself after judiciously considering all evidence properly and legally obtained and adduced with all rules of natural justice being adhered and seen to be adhered to.

This is the kind of leader we have who think they ought to be the government. Perhaps it is time they all learnt that executive convenience is no substitute for the law judiciously applied.

Know that when the devil turns on you it may be the law that protects you from him. So do NOT be so hasty to compromise legal principles for your convenience for the devil will in the nature of things turn on you one day.

Anonymous #31685940: Mr Minister, if you are even not sure about the integrity of the panel with your 'anyone can be corrupt' comment, how sure are you that this panel, who will play god, will not make a wrong decision on an innocent man arrested under the PCA?

If the panel makes a wrong decision then what is the recourse for the innocent man? There is a law against slander and wrongful accusation. Can this law be applied against the panel?

Anyway, why do we need any other criminal law, as the PCA seems to encompass everything? We will be saving lots of money by not having trials. By the way, who decides whether the case goes under PCA or some other criminal law?

Sinner: Paul Low wants to see the "criminals" arrested. So do we. Let's start with Altantuya Shaariibuu's murderers. Furthermore, the PCA seeks to detain people, not criminals, without trial. How can you call anyone a criminal if he has not been convicted of an offence?

As for me, I believe half, if not more than half of Umno politicians are corrupt and abuse power to enrich themselves. Will Paul Low see that these people are arrested under the PCA and not be tried?

Samurai: Low is a paid federal minister in charge of transparency and good governance. How can locking up a suspect for two years without trial or legal representation be either transparent or good practice?

What does it say about our existing laws, that they have been and are useless against crime? It's a sham lah, any fool can see it. For someone who used to proclaim to stand up for transparency, how pathetically 'low' you have fallen. As for Ambiga, she  could cut you down in a second.

Ace: Well done and well-said Ambiga. Don't join the ranks of these pathetic apologists.

Aceventura: The invite is an insult, it's an invite to hell. It's not a place where angels tread and Paul Low true to character is stooping real low.

Freethinker: In the United States, Abraham Lincoln said government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. In Malaysia, government of Umno, by the Umno, for the Umnoputras, shall not perish from Malaysia.

AntiRacial: The PCA is required to cover-up the incompetence of police and attorney-general? Incompetent in investigating and charging a criminal? If not, why do we need the PCA?

Doc: Low is trying to get Ambiga on the Amended Prevention of Crime Act panel in the hope of trying to legitimise a illegitimate proposal.

Joe Lee: "The circumstances are different, now there is a supervisory board. But people still argue with me, 'what if the panel is corrupt?' But I say to them: anyone can be corrupt". So this is Low's thinking.

Let's see - Low was not born yesterday. He damn well knows there's no way Umno is going to change from its corrupt ways- doesn't matter what happens. The question is, if he knew this, why did he still joined the government as an appointed apologist?

He is getting his 'gaji buta', enjoying the trappings of office, but knowing he wouldn't achieve anything! Now would you call this a kind of corrupt behaviour, bereft of any morality to make any difference?

Anybody can be corrupt, in any number of ways. Low is guilty of moral corruption. Taking his gaji buta knowing he will only be an apologist for the thieves and robbers of Umno. Low deserves two strokes of the rotan for being a shameless apologist. Whack, whack!

For A Better Malaysia: Ambiga as a personality that people trust. The government actually is more aware than their actions shows. There is still hope.

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