Yahoo! Singapore News, 19 Aug 2011
Presidential candidates Dr Tony Tan and Tan Jee Say clashed over the issue of the Internal Security Act (ISA) in a heated exchange during a dialogue forum held on Thursday at the Fort Canning Centre.
Responding to a question by a participant over the arrest of 22 people under the ISA in 1987, investment advisor Tan Jee Say said, "I believe the ISA has outlived its usefulness."
"I don't even know whether it was justified in the first place because the ISA has been used on political opponents and those who (are) on the other political side of the law," he said, adding that "the history is such that it's been used for political purposes". Full story
