Zaid Ibrahim - The Brave One
 
Zaid sticks to ‘quit’ decision, open to joining PKR
Barely six months after being appointed as a minister, a disappointed Zaid Ibrahim has reached the point of no return. Even the prime minister has failed to dissuade him from reconsidering his decision to resign.
And the straw which broke the camel’s back was last Friday’s Internal Security Act arrest of three individuals, which Zaid, the de facto law minister, had condemned.
At a press conference in his office at the Prime Minister’s Department attended by scores of journalists this morning, the outgoing minister said he will not reconsider his decision to quit and conceded that he has failed in his task to convince the government to initiate legal reforms.
“I am not tired. I am just disappointed. My decision to quit remains. I will resign,” he said in a tone which barely hid his disenchantment.
“I think I have failed to convince those in authority to effect changes on how the government should move forward,” added the 58-year-old politician who left a successful legal practice to serve in the Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s government.
Courtesy of Malaysiakini
The ISA was designed and intended to curb the communist problems in the British days. Since the Malaysian government had years ago declared that ALL communists in Malaysia had either put down their weapons, surrendered or returned to society, maintaining the ISA today is a silent admission by the government that they have not done a good job in getting rid of the communists in Malaysia.
Or does the government contends that those opposing its ideas are COMMUNISTS as to invoke the use of the ISA against them? So does that mean Teresa Kok and Tan Hoon Cheng were communists?
Perhaps the BN government is forgetting that the Earth is round and what goes around comes around. What if it is really toppled by PR and if PR decides to use the ISA on them, it would be tasting its own medicine!