A rally for Anti-ISA was held 2 days ago (1st of August 2009) in Kuala Lumpur. The government took some early precautions such as having roadblocks at main city entrance and trying to catch as many participants of this Anti-ISA rally as possible. However, it really is a sad thing to see as tear gas and water cannon had to be used to control the citizens. With the recently launched 1 Malaysia campaign, I don’t see how that is going to be effective especially when a rally like this is done which will only disrupt our productivity and it might even harm other citizens. Of course, there are also stories behind this rally being sparked and I will not comment more on this. The video above briefly shows what happened during the rally which had almost 20,000 people participated. As Malaysians, I’m sure many of us would not want similar event to occur again or else we might just end up like other countries having protests and rallies every now and then. Prevention is better than cure, not needing any prevention is much better than anything else.