Thursday, August 28, 2008

Comment from a resident

Dear All,

It goes to show that Criminal are roaming at will. The police are too few to help.We want to help ourselves by gating the community. With arm guards in gold shop and banks, robbery is still happening. It just do not happen in our housing area, it happens every way.

In urban society - not many people care for each other. We want to live a good life, we like to enjoy it alone. We do not need to our neighbour as friends.

In the villages, they all do things together. There was gated community. They recognise every member of the community. They chat with each other and make room in the life for their neighbour. When they see a stranger, they approach them and ask them what the stranger are looking for or could they be of of assistance to the stranger.

When they see bad act, they do not write down the car number and report it to police. They take direct responsibility to stop it, even at the risk of their life. Do we so call"affluent people" wanted to risk our life?. We think that we are all too important and that our money can buy everything.

The answer is NO. No bad strangers will dare to break into cars in kampong - because any kampong folk who become aware of such attempt will not call the police. he will call his good neighbour and confront the culprit and even give out mob justice to them.

Criminal flourish in community that is physical weak - not working as a cohesive physical unit. Criminal prowl on the "rich" because they do not really mind - they fear for their life more. A little knife will scare them to death - they can always buy a new BMW, with insurance etc.

The intention of this mail is to bring to our community the need to do things together and actually live together. Live together means looking out for one another and take risk as a unit.Not counting money and live in different class. We live as one community.

We should form a committee not to address security issue as an isolated case. We should form a community to develop program so we live as a community. Taking responsibility for one another.

Best regards.
John Brian Anthony

1 comment:

RottieBoy said...

the Government has failed to provide it citizens with the most basic right. security & peace of mind

thus citizens have to take matters into our own hands

in reality- we should not need to pay for private security, services, gated community etc but in reality due to the overall incompetence & corruption of our police force couple with the reactionary stance of our Government who is more interested in their own survival than moving the country forward we are forced to take matter into our own hands

its about time we setup a Vigilante Squad with 1 or 2 cars as bait... once the robbers break we can beat them within an inch of their live so they never do it again..

This story should then be publish this in the Star/NST/Malay mail & hopefully other communities will follow suit.

Only when would be robbers realize that they can & will be severely punished will they stop.

actually setting up "bait" is a standard police tactic to catch criminals & counter crime but somehow our Malaysian Police are too busy looking for kickbacks to bother and are happy to give lip service as talking is much easier.