The Acting Police Chief should not restrict the freedom of speech!

Tun Dr. Mahathir,

I believe the economic situation of Malaysia will continue to deteriorate further if we allow such a power-hungry Acting Police Chief as Tan Sri Ismail Omar to keep asking people to keep their mouth shut and not talk about the problem of financial turmoil. Like the then IGP, Tan Sri Rahim Noor, who had been proven wrong during 1998 in his invocation of the ISA arrest, the present deputy IGP, Tan Sri Ismail Omar, may not be the good candidate to intervene in the process of implementing the parliamentary democracy and restrict the freedom of speech on the discussion about how the possible political power changeover will affect the economic performance or stock market performance. Economic policy or individual investment decision may not be the specialization field of the Police and therefore the Police should not stop people from discussing further and speculating on whether they should come in or get out of the stock market at this critical juncture of market turmoil!

Very often, the Malaysian economy is being destroyed by the top police officer who wishfully thinks that he is the genius who can help to recover from the plunge in the stock market by threatening to invoke the Section 73 of the Internal Security Act (ISA) to arrest those people who make speculation. I sincerely believe that the Malaysian economy will perform much better if there is no further inappropriate intervention from the Police.

Section 73 of the ISA must be abolished in order to further prevent the misuse or abuse of the draconian law by the tyrannic Police Officer.

Onlooker

Extract news from malaysiakini.com:
"Polis: Jangan buat spekulasi ambil alih kuasa Sep 18, 08 4:45pm Timbalan Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Ismail Omar hari ini memberi amaran keras kepada mereka yang membuat spekulasi dan menyebarkan khabar angin mengenai peralihan kuasa dalam kerajaan.

Beliau berkata, spekulasi tersebut telah mengakibatkan ketidakstabilan dalam negara.
Ismail memberi amaran tersebut ketika bercakap kepada wartawan dalam satu sidang akhbar di Bukit Aman petang ini.

Kini. usaha Pakatan Rakyat pimpinan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim untuk mengambil alih kuasa menjadi perbualan hangat di negara ini."