MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

In the name of peace and stability, the UMNO led government launched a blitzkrieg on her subjects. Like a true villain hiding behind the noble façade of maintaining law and order, social activist Raja Petra, Seputeh MP Teresa Kok and Sin Chew Daily News reporter Ms Tan Hoon Cheng were detained under the draconian ISA.

Claiming that these characters were guilty of inciting civil unrests, the blur Home Minister ordered their arrest under a law, which grants them zero recourse! The ISA is detention without trial. There are other existing laws under which these three could be charged, where the onus will be on the government to prove them guilty. However, this government has chosen to deny them a fair trial by invoking this horrendous law!

I am a simpleton and I swallow the blurred Minister’s explanation wholesale! So it seems the far-sighted but blurred Minister has effectively nipped the problem in the bud. Good for you, sir!

On the other hand, supporters of the aggrieved parties have also come out to calm the general public with the constant reminder of not taking to the streets. Now it’s getting to be mind boggling, apparently nobody wants any untoward incidents to occur, so how on earth are we caught in this ridiculous quagmire? Isn’t this much ado about nothing?

Or is someone trying to engineer something?

At time of writing, it has been reported that the Sin Chew Daily News reporter has been released. She was sent home at 4.15 p.m.