The reasons ISA was used against Sin Chew reporters.

Home minister "botak" Hamid Albar told a news conference that ISA was used against the reporter Tan Hoon Cheng is for her own good. By putting her into ISA, she will be protected from "dangerous" elements. And by releasing her 20 hours later, has the police "eliminates" the danger?? I cant stop myself laughing at the phatetic excuse given by our Home minister. How can jou justified an action where you were scooped away for 20 hours, deprived of sleep and meal and away from you family, and all these are suppose to be for your own good health and safety!!!

The police should charged Ahmad Ismail with ISA instead, beacuse he is the real "menace" to our civil society.

Our home minister also mentioned that the police acted on their own, not because of orders by him or the government. If this is true, Malaysia is indeed a very dangerous country, personnel with guns and authority acted independently without following the orders of the government in power.

IMHO, the whole ISA was carried out with malicious intention, with Ahmad Ismail playing a main role in it. Remember that the few hours before Pak lah went into the Umno Supreme council meeting which meted out the punishment to Ahmad, both of them had a "meeting" before hand? i bet my last Ringgit that some sort of compromised has been agreed upon. After Ahmad Ismail was suspended, ISA was used against the reporter.

What does this scum want to achieved by arresting the reporter? Ahmad Ismail, being a racist in him, he try to incite hatred and anger of the local Chinese community at large in Penang, hopefully the anger will be stong enough to start a riot on the streets. If that happens, he and his gang of hooligans will have enough excuse to retaliate, creating chaos. Penang, being a chinese majority state with a close knitted community structure, news travel fast and he try to use this to his advantage.

Luckily, We Penang kia has grown up, we much more high class than this scum. Penang kia knows the trap that were set to trap them, and this scum failed misereably!

Penangite, I am very proud of you all! long live Penang! Hell to Ahmad Ismail!