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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – A Malaysian court ordered the editor of an anti-government news Web site [It's called Malaysia Today: http://mt.m2day.org/2008/ ] released from detention Friday, ruling that his arrest under a law allowing indefinite incarceration was unlawful [more on what I wrote againts ISA h e r e], a lawyer said.
Shah Alam High Court Justice Syed [...]

Kentucky: McCain: 8 electoral votes, Vermont: Obama 3 electoral votes.
Good luckbama
Good stuff, good stuff: obama 199, McCain 78. 270 needed to win presidency.
wokay, obama 333, mccain=irrelevant. obama won. wohooohoho

Here is a very interesting website on how we, university debaters, use our rules, procedures and knowledge to evaluate the US Presidential debates between Obama and McCain recently. I personally know a few of the judges and have been judged (interestingly enough) by all of them in few Worlds tournament. They are all fantastic judges [...]

News: In Boumediene v. Bush the Supreme Court will decide the fate of habeas corpus petitions, and the fate of a group of alleged Al Qaeda members who have been imprisoned at Gitmo for six years.
By Marc Perelman
December 4, 2007
On a wintry evening in January 2002, a crowd of more than 150 people gathered outside [...]

When the Malaysian Government used the ISA to (unlawfully) detain several members of the public a few weeks back, it sent an uproar of disbelief and anger among the Malaysian public. The BBC sarcastically reported the news mentioning things like ‘the government can detain these individuals without the need to see a day in court [...]

American women: don’t be stupid!!!!
Courtesy of Ezanee Gires at http://ezaneegires.blogspot.com

I watched this show with great intent. I highly recommend readers to view this show as it gives a somewhat deep analyses on the draconian Act of Internal Security - a law that can detain any individual without any charges and any trial in court.

National Union of Journalist President, Norila Daud has this to say regarding the arrests:
“This is a gravely serious matter. For the first time in 21 years, a journalist has been detained under the ISA. A reporter has been detained under ISA for doing her job, for reporting. The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, [...]

Compelling me to write this post would be the ‘not-so-shocking’ witch hunt the Malaysian Government is acting upon. At press time, three figures (including an MP) have been arrested by the police over claims that they incite ‘racial disharmony’, induce ‘racial tension’ as well as exhibit a clear defiant cause of slander and defamation actions. [...]

Report from MalaysiaKini and TheStar:
DAP leader Teresa Kok (picture-right) has also been detained under the Internal Security Act - the third person to be detained without trial today.
It is learnt that the Selangor senior executive councillor and Seputeh parliamentarian was stopped by the police at about 11.18pm on her way back from a function in [...]