How to make MCA back to 'normal' mode?

I agree totally to some bloggers that MCA must change now or face extinction.

We must first stop infighting and unite all factions in the party - a prime and foremost responsibility of the headman.

The President must work out a strategy with all the stalwarts in the Central Committee, and an immediate action plan on how to turn round the party, especially on matter on regaining confidence of the public, primarily the Chinese voters.

Be bold and firm with its political partners, especially UMNO, on all matters concerning component partners. UMNO-led BN must hold regular meetings in each States in order to iron out problems, and issues, in order to enhance the potential of BN.

UMNO must also change by learning to respect the existence of its partners via its 1Malaysia concept, People First, and Performance Now! If these were done immediately, significant result will be seen in the shortest future.

I recommend that BN in Semenanjung not to rush in overthrowing the ‘opposition’, especially in the 5 states that now under the Pakatan Rakyat (PR). The more desperate BN moves on the ‘overthrowing’ trail, the more difficult it is to achieve miracle at this stage of the event. PR has hardly made any wrong doings in a mere 14 month’s period; therefore it’s too soon to bring them to police or MAAC at this juncture. It’s not wrong to give PR a chance to prove itself. People want to see a fair attitude and example from BN; which is one of the most important elements they are looking for with the new BN, now!

BN must comply with the people by listening to their woes, and for god sake, never ever lecturing them as they are mature enough to know their needs.

CCTV State

"Prevention is better than cure", as they said. When it comes to crime prevention, nothing is better than the state-of-the-art Closed-circuit television (CCTV), apart from good policing.

You can say the developed countries in Europe and America are becoming paranoids to terrorist attacks since the historical 911 in New York. The London bombing on 7 July 2005 saw the terrorists successfully captured and sentenced with all the evidences, thanks to the CCTV. In a country like United kingdom (U.K.) where it’s the land of laws & orders, the deployment of CCTV has shown to be the most appropriate tool and aligning well with the policy of combating terrorism at its nib.

CCTVs are installed everywhere, public or private, day or night, watching and recording the activities of the residents in the U. K. The coverage is not on fixed properties only; the moving assets like buses, trains, tubes, and even taxis are installed and monitored on-line via wireless linkages. Taxi drivers in Sabah may welcome this as it could protect them from robbers.

The authority is so serious and confident about the technology that they have had deployed the gadgets almost any possible areas in the public; criminals and would-be offenders are virtually not having any chance to get away from crimes or offends without apprehended and prosecuted.

What a way to make the residents behaved, and reducing damages to public properties which I think will especially suitable in Malaysia where peoples are not seen or recorded when deliberately causing damages, and therefore not being nabbed and made to pay for their actions.

We have many crime cases not solved for years and quite often there were no traces and clues at the crime scenes or related scenes; and with the CCTV widely installed, clues and traces of information could have been left at the incidence. It’s therefore not difficult to pin down the culprits in the shortest time before all the evidences are lost.

The London Bombing is a typical success story of the application of CCTV system. DBKK, district Councils, or Government should aggressively invest in the application of CCTV as a means to protect not only lives, but public assets on a long term basis as well. The saving on less infrastructure damages may recover easily the investment costs within the first year or so.

Security is not a luxury; it’s a necessity. By the way, do we have the political will strong enough to do it?