| 2002-09-11 | The Perils of the ISA Over the years, the ISA has become a potent weapon in the
government's hands to rein in its critics and political
opponents. It was used on the just dismissed deputy prime
minister, Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim, and misused when the then
Inspector-General of Police assaulted him. But the government
would not admit it, and it took a Royal Commission of Enquiry to
find the IGP culpable. In other jurisidictions, the Home
Minister would have been dismissed. But not in Malaysia. The
Federal Court decision should have caused the Deputy Prime
Minister and Home Minister, Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, to
resign. He would not, indeed has no such intention. How could
the Prime Minister-in-waiting ever resign?
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