Illegal Gatings In PJ Draw Fire

This is an email I received from a complainant who live in SS2, complaining about the setting-up of illegal gated and guarded community in SS2.

Dear DAP leaders,

The illegal gating has come too close to home.

Now the illegal gaters is going to block up a road I used daily to and fro work and other places. SS2/74. And on the board it says from 11pm to 6am.

When is Selangor State Govt going to make a stand?

Enough said, I have state publicly that I will make police reports if nothing is done.

Yours sincerely,

XXX

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2 public comments I made earlier for your reference :

03 Nov 2009

My position statements:

1. We should NOT support setting up of ILLEGAL gated community who are blocking PUBLIC roads.

2. The root of the problem is Police failed. The govt failed.

Arguments :

1. This illegal gated community is set up on PUBLIC ROADS. The roads and parks and road shoulders are all managed by the town council. If the community wants gated community. The town council should DE-GAZETTE the roads and area as public road and area. And hand over the management/maintenance of the area to the community just like condos. And make the whole area PRIVATE AREA.

2. Illegal gated communities are opened to abuses. This companies setting up illegal gated communities are equivalent to collecting PROTECTION MONEY! And they might very well be working with the crooks. Or they are the crooks themselves. Why bother breaking into house when you can collect money "legally" from them?

3. Police force fails, can I build my own private police force?

4. Politicians should not look for easy way out by encouraging ILLEGAL gated community just like the police.

Compromise :

1. While the police have failed, the state govt should make it clear that all this illegal gated communities on PUBLIC ROADS should be removed and not allowed to set up anymore after the crime rate goes down.

2. The state govt should make it clear that building pondoks on the road shoulder and setting up illegal road blocks on public roads is ILLEGAL.

If the above is not the position of the state govt. What is there to stop me from building my house on an empty land and call it my gated community?

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05 Nov 2009

This is a follow up on the illegal gated community. In-fact it is actually not gated community. It is just guarded.

This questions I ask specific to the MBPJ councillors and Selangor State Govt.

Refer to the map.

There's a Dewan Serbaguna at the intersection of SS21/12 and SS21/5 and also a field there. Obviously this Dewan Serbaguna is a public entity under MBPJ.

Now, the Dewan Serbaguna happens to be smack in the middle of a illegal gated area. Which is gated 24/7, and the pak guards stop ppl at the entrance.

Question to the MBPJ and Selangor State Govt, have the Dewan Serbaguna being privatise? Why should public face harassment from illegal pak guards from going to a public place? Why is it being "gated up" by a third party?