news flash!! anwar free!!

believe it or not, datuk seri anwar ibrahim (DSAI) had been freed by the high court today!

more later.

UPDATED 9/3/2004 0135 AM: damn! i’ll be away for the weekend and i’m going to miss all the excitement of anwar’s release. also, now no time to blog on this hot issue as yesterday returned home late and was busy packing. so what i’m going to do is simply put up some blogger’s link, which i feel are good interesting read.
great day for justice in malaysia by rajan r.
anwar is free! so what? by sinner’s ark.
anwar free: live reports from danny lim of sun-blogs
the anwar renaissance? by najah of annotations
anwar has been released by mei of the ramblings of a scarfer
and of course my favourite blogger:
anwar… what next? jeff ooi!

i feel i can relate most to cstan of sinner’s ark post of ‘anwar is free! so what?’.
like rajan, i have a low regard for anwar. like cs tan, i feel this, what he (or she?) said is my feelings too:

“Come to think of it, what did Anwar do to make him a hero? Did he somehow improve the nation’s economy? Did he make any Malaysian individual’s life better? Or at least create a better education system while he was the minister of education? Not really. Then everyone was like saying how Mahathir controlled the nation with his iron fist for like about 20 years, but throughout these 20 years, things did get better for Malaysians. We all know the sodomy case is a scam, we are not stupid, but between one who mixed up religion and politics, and the other who is corrupted (is he?) but had proven the ability to bring improvements to the country, I would gladly cast my vote for the latter.”

to best sum up my feelings in general, i’ll borrow rajan’s line – anwar as a free man is not good news. justice being served is.