COMMENT Let me get straight to the point: the National Security Bill 2015 tabled in Parliament on Tuesday and approved yesterday is nothing less than a prelude to dictatorship, the final step in the ‘Zimbabweisation’ of Malaysia.

The bill, rushed through Parliament with unholy haste, is so patently and blatantly undemocratic in its intent that it staggers the imagination that any government in this day and age would even contemplate it.

It is a new low from a government that has consistently and increasingly disregarded the spirit of our constitution and trampled upon the rights of the people with callousness and impunity in order to cling to power.