Mat Rempit menace linked to drugs
THE Mat Rempit menace is here to stay unless serious and concerted efforts are made to stop them.
From being mere nuisance , they have progressed to be blatant, violent and dangerous criminals. It would be a matter of time when they resort to even murder.
In the fight against this scourge, no politician or person of important position should ever try to champion their activities by giving frivolous reasons because it could be mistakenly construed as approval for their activities in their simple minds. Their violent criminal behaviour progression could be traced to the time when someone proposed that Mat Rempit should be rehabilitated.
It has been found that some of the Mat Rempit involved in violent criminal activities are addicted to a drug known as ‘ice’ which cost RM50 to RM60 per take. How do they sustain their addiction? They resort to crime.
Such drug makes the addict artificially brave and violent.
Hence, one of the areas to tackle this problem is to test everyone of them during every police operation. At the same time, efforts should be made to eradicate the drug pushers among them.
Kudos to the police for making effort to seize their motorcycles but whether it will have any long-term effect is yet to be seen.
However, it is known that they are very scared of being incarcerated and caned in prisons.
If the present generation of Mat Rempit is not stopped or punished and made to repend, they will be the next generation of hardcore criminals.
KAS,
Shah Alam, Selangor.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/4/30/focus/3798309&sec=focus
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