Zaid Ibrahim was dropped from the list of BN candidates although he did well in Kota Bahru parliamentary seat in 2004 GE. He was one of the out spoken back benchers in House of Representatives on human rights issues. Even he was one of the active speakers for the BAR council programmes. He speaks his mind during the "Article 11" seminar all around in peninsular. His out-spokeness create the uneasiness among the autocratic malay's in umno. They feel threaten with his thought's. Finally he was dropped from the umno list but then "GOD" is great, now he is the de-facto law minister.
His first statement as a law minister was "an-open apology" by present government to ex-CJ, 5 judges and their family members who was victimised during the Judiciary-Executive conflict in 1998. TDM and his aide's feel this is threatning signal to silence him but for others they feel this is a good move. For me, public apology is not going to help anyway after 20 years. More need to be done. My expectations as follows:
i. Separations of power between Executive, Legislative, Judiciary. Zaid has to bring in changes to put independency in Judiciary system. Apointment of judges must come from the judiciary community on merit basis not on a political appointment from executive.
ii. Replace ISA with Anti-Terrorism Act. NO political detention and reduced of power for Executive to detain any individual under this new act. Court should be given a full judiciary power to check the validity of detention. Detention should be purely on the terrorism activities only.
iii. Put ACA and EC under parliament responsibility and Executive should not interfere in their daily work.
iv. Review the role of SUHAKAM. Give them the teeth to be a tiger in defending the human rights. The members appointment list must come from Parliament not from Executive.
v. Review the separation of power between the Civil court and Syariah Court. In any situation if it's involves the non-muslims then the Civil court is the right platform to seek for justice. As a citizens of this country "no remedy" is really disgusting.
vi. Anti-Racism Act to stop the discrimination and racism from being practiced by either the political party, government of the day, the private sectors etc. No one should be dicriminated irespective of race or religion.
Mr.Zaid Ibrahim, if you can bring in this reform in next one year, then you will receive my full support otherwise I have to add you in NATO team; no action talk only.
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