THE EMERGENCY ORDINANCE, another archaic, inhuman, oppressive and unjust legislation in Malaysia.

A former Emergency Ordinance detainee is suing the superintendent of the Simpang Renggam Prison (Detention and Rehabilitation Centre) and the Malaysian Government for negligence which resulted in the amputation of his right leg.

See The Star on-line news report HERE

The Emergency (Public Order and Crime Prevention) Ordinance (EO) should be repealed and Malaysia should rely soley on criminal laws to prosecute criminals.

The Emergency Ordinance was enacted in 1969 as a temporary measure in response to the 13th May 1969 riots.

But for nearly four decades, the Malaysian government has used this 'temporary emergency' unjust law to detain criminal suspects without trial for lengthy periods, in degrading and inhuman conditions, as a convenient short cut when there is deemed to be insufficient evidence.

See a 2006 report about the EO HERE

Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

Inhumanity is harmful in every age.

DETENTION WITHOUT TRIAL AND TORTURE IN MALAYSIA

THE ISA AND OTHER SUCH DRACONIAN,
INHUMANE, OPPRESSIVE AND UNDEMOCRATIC LAWS
MUST BE ABOLISHED NOW!

"SPY" HELD UNDER ISA FINALLY RELEASED, BUT MANY MORE PEOPLE ARE STILL BEING DETAINED WITHOUT TRIAL IN MALAYSIA.

See the news report from NSTP online HERE

A previously fit and healthy 25-year-old man, detained since 28^th July 2007, on the order of the Minister of Home Affairs, and secretly detained, without trial, under the archaic, cruel and draconian Malaysian Internal Security Act (ISA) on suspicion of being a foreign spy, was released on Tuesday 9^th September 2008.

After his horrific ordeal, and suspected torture, he is left crippled, paralysed and is now wheelchair bound.

Those guilty of this atrocity must be weeded out , charged, tried and punished to the full extent of the law.

Detention without trial, torture and denial of medical treatment are evidently still alive and well in the oppressive third-world nation of Malaysia under the UMNO controlled BN Federal Government.

Dum inter homines sumus, colamus humanitatem

As long as we are among humans, let us be humane

Blogger Bakaq finally ‘freed’

SOME GOOD NEWS

Blogger Bakaq, whose blog is called “Penarik Beca” who was detained by the police, and has been held since 6^th August 2008, for allegedly 'defacing' [on his blog] the Royal Malaysia Police logo by replacing the tiger symbol with a barking dog, (he is also said to have ‘removed or defaced’ the crown bearing the words Allah and Muhammad with the symbol of a star), has finally been released.

CCID Director Commissioner Koh Hong Sun confirmed that Bakaq, whose real name is Abdul Rashid Abu Bakar, was released from the Federal Commercial Crimes Investigation Department at 17:40 on Friday 8^th August 2008.

Bakaq has been instructed to report in person to the Federal Commercial Crimes Investigation Department at 10:30 on 20th August 2008. This sound ominous and threatening!

Four plain-clothed policemen arrested the the blogger at his house in Taman Greenwood in Gombak at about 23:00 last Wednesday night, note the intimidating anti-social timing.

It is understood that police seized a portable computer and a mobile telephone belonging to the Bakaq, and arrested him under Section 4 (1) of the archaic and suppressive Sedition Act.

Say no to a police-state

Power to the People!

Aim for a true democracy, full human rights and freedoms

De integro

- Repeat again from the start

ARE THE ROYAL MALAYSIAN POLICE ABOVE THE LAW; EFFECTIVELY A LAW UNTO THEMSELVES?

Policing the Malaysian Police

Six men remanded by the police were ordered released by two separate courts of law successively but the police re-arrested them, for the third time, under the Emergency Ordinance (EO), which allows for a 60 day detention period.

Makkal Osai (A Tamil language daily newspaper based in Malaysia, it is one of only three Tamil language dailies in the country; 'Makkai Osai' in English means: The People's Voice) reported that Malaysian Human Rights Commission (SUHAKAM) Commissioner N. Sivasubramaniam has asked Inspector-General of Police Musa Hassan to investigate the case mentioned below.

For link to SUHAKAM web site, please click HERE

Family members of two of the men in police custody submitted a memorandum to SUHAKAM on Tuesday, 5^th August 2008 accusing the police of abuse of power and contempt of court.

In a press conference at his office in Kuala Lumpur attended by family members of two men, Fatimah Begum, wife of Al-Amin Zulkernain, and S. Padmini, sister of S. Samuel Raj; Sivasubramaniam said the two men and four others were originally arrested by police on 27^th July 2008 without their respective family’s knowledge.

They were not represented by legal counsel when they were brought to the Petaling Jaya court on 28^th July 2008.

Their families only became aware of their remand from newspaper reports and when the six made their second court appearance on 31^st July 2008, they had legal counsel.

Sivasubramaniam said that the magistrate in Petaling Jaya denied police the remand extension and ordered that all six be released.

However, police rearrested the six after the remand expired and hauled them to a Klang magistrate's court, where again the police were ordered to release them.

Sivasubramaniam said the police immediately rearrested them once again under the Emergency Ordinance.

‘The police action had infringed on the fundamental liberties of the individuals and the IGP must investigate the case’, he said.

What with political interference in almost everything, the EO the ISA and the OSA, and other draconian, oppressive, suppressive and archaic laws, Malaysia certainly is bordering on being a dictatorial police state, what do you think?

Etiam capillus unus habet umbram

- Even one hair has a shadow

In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas

- In necessary things unity, in doubtful things liberty, in all things charity

Sedition Act 1948, an old law with too many flaws

Sedition Act 1948, ISA 1960, OSA 1972 (Act 88)

A Fettered Press, & No Freedom of Speech

The Sedition Act 1948, The Internal Security Act 1960 (ISA) and the Official Secrets Act 1972 (Act 88) (OSA) all of which are being used to suppress and oppress, should all be abolished.

The laws listed below, are quite unlike the draconian, intimidating, oppressive, archaic and catch-all Malaysian Sedition Act 1948, which is apparently now being used by the Malaysian Federal [National Front (BN)] coalition (UMNO controlled) government as a political tool, to attempt to stifle legitimate opposition, to silence critics, to intimidate bloggers and to create a general climate of fear, by the abuse of political power.


Here are some odd old British (English) laws, some which still may be legally in force, they are however quite harmless, even amusing.

Strange Old Laws

• Under the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, any person found guilty of "harbouring a Roman Catholic priest" would be tortured or even hanged. Any priest of the Roman Catholic faith that was caught would be hanged, drawn, and quartered.
• With the exception of carrots, most goods can not be sold on a Sunday.
• All English males over the age 14 are to carry out 2 or so hours of longbow practice a week supervised by the local clergy. [Explanation: This law dates from the middle ages when there was no standing army, so in times of war each gentry was required to produce a quota (depending on its size) of knights, archers, infantry, etc. As the church was the only centralised instrument of bureaucracy (the lords were independent for the most part), they were used for such tasks.]
• London Hackney Carriages (taxis/cabs) must carry a bale of hay and a sack of oats.
  
  • [Explanation: The London Hackney Carriage Laws covers hackneys in other towns too and have remained unaltered for over 100 years. Firms have been known to manufacture very small bales of hay to carry in a taxi during disputes during local councils (who license the hackneys everywhere except London). Also the vehicle has to be tethered at a taxi rank, and the council have to supply a water trough at said ranks (that could be fun on a Saturday night!].
    

• The severest Penalties will be suffered by any commoner who doth permit his animal to have carnal knowledge of a pet of the Royal Household (enacted by King George I).
• It is illegal to be drunk on Licensed Premises (in a pub or bar).
• It is illegal for two adult men to have sex in the same house as a third person.
  
• [Explanation: Introduced to outlaw "molly houses" which began to appear in the big cities of England in the late 16th Century. In these bordellos, homosexuals engaged in sex, sadomasochism, transvestitism etc., and they were perceived as a threat to public morality, and so outlawed.]

• Any person found breaking a boiled egg at the sharp end will be sentenced to 24 hours in the village stocks (enacted by King Edward VI).
• It is illegal to stand within one hundred yards of the reigning monarch when not wearing socks (enacted by King Edward VI).
• Chelsea Pensioners may not be impersonated.
  
• [Explanation: Chelsea Pensioners are entitled to enhanced state benefits and subsidized accommodation, so pretending to be one is simply fraud!]

• A bed may not be hung out of a window.
• It is illegal for a lady to eat chocolates on a public conveyance.
• Mince pies can not be eaten on Christmas day.
  
• [Explanation: Ingredients of mince pies and plum puddings were pagan in origin, and their consumption part of ancient fertility rituals. The law dates from the Puritan era, the same time that dancing in church, maypoles, and holly and ivy decorations were outlawed. The laws were never officially repealed because upon the restoration of the monarchy, (in the form of King Charles II) all laws formed under the protectorate were ignored as they were deemed invalid.]

• Any boy under the age of 10 may not see a naked mannequin.
• It is illegal for a Member of Parliament to enter the House of Commons wearing a full suit of armour.
• [Explanation: The law dates from the renegotiation of royal/political power on the accession of King Charles II, designed to stop the MPs storming the house if it makes a decision they disapprove of.]
  
• [The Monarch is not allowed to enter the House of Commons (the legislative house) for similar reasons.]

• Destroying or defacing money is illegal.
• If a steam locomotive is driven on roads, a man must walk in front of the vehicle with a red flag during the day and a red lantern at night to warn passers by.
• All steam locomotives are limited to 4mph on roads.
• Committing suicide is classified as a capital crime.
• Interfering with the mail or sleeping with the consort of the Queen is classed as treason, and as such, carries a maximum penalty of death.
• Placing a postage stamp that bears the Queen (or King) upside down is considered treason.
• One may not "blemish the peace".
• A license is required to keep a lunatic.
• Damaging grass is illegal.
• In Chester, you can only shoot a Welsh person with a bow and arrow inside the city walls and after midnight.
• You may not shoot a Welsh person on Sunday with a longbow in the Cathedral Close in Hereford.
• In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless in public except as a clerk in a tropical fish store.
• In London, companies may vote in local elections.
• In York, excluding on Sundays, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow.
  

Lex malla, lex nulla


- A bad law is no law.