If everyone decide NOT to tolerate what's bad around us and stand up to stop the abuse, we will not be in this situation will we?
Everyone have their threshold.
What's sad is most have very high threshold and can only be tipped over past the point of no return.
So folks like these have nothing but regrets to share with their children.
The least some of us can say is.....we tried...
Wish them luck when they have to explain if they have left this earth a better place to their grand children.
Democracy-lah, I respect their right to be less than smart.

What's more important is... what do you do with the realisation you have often shared here?

As to yr lament of apeks not knowing better. Watch this short clip below.
Worst things happen to our bros in East M'sia and see how folks (illiterate but better informed than apeks) do.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4gqci_penusah-tana

The movie follows former dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry's quest to document the dolphin hunting operations in Taiji, Wakayama, Japan. In the 1960s, O'Barry captured and trained the five wild dolphins who would play the role of "Flipper" in the hit television series of the same name. This pop-culture phenomenon fueled widespread public adoration of dolphins. It was when one of the dolphins committed a form of suicide in his arms, closing her blowhole voluntarily in order to suffocate, that O'Barry came to see it as a curse not a blessing. Days later, he found himself being arrested off the island of Bimini, attempting to cut a hole in the sea pen in order to set free a captured dolphin.[10] Since then O'Barry has worked tirelessly as an advocate on behalf of dolphins around the world
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I think this is the info hackwire needed. 

I believe we have previously touched on the point of Perhilitan's authority on search, seizure and arrest with and w/o warrant.
Their authority is quite similar to our PDRM in both new and old Act.

But with the new Act they are similar to PDRM. (if passed, they are now armed)
see the clause below in the Wild Life Conservation Bill 2010
Carrying and use of arms
8. Subject to the administrative orders of the Director General,
an officer may carry and use arms in the exercise of the powers
and duties under this Act.

Ensure you dun hire anyone with the name Aminulrasyid.

Good question and suggestion........... as far as I was told is that before the office is in KL and since  the Executive Secretary is from Kedah and he has 2 of his staffs attending to the swiftlets matter for the Association, it is best in the interest of the Association to move there. If more answers are needed, it's best that you get them from the Executive Secretary or Mr. President himself, I presume i.e from the horse's mouth. The above reason is what I get from the AGM held recently. I wonder if any of the Committee members of the Fed is with us for at least, he can answer all the question pertaining the Association and swiftlets matter here and then, everyone can have a good night sleep. 

Hackwire, Why till now you haven't got a BH and if you have done so, you will surely and truly be one of us, a Swiftlets Sanctuary Protector and you will be  like Cergau cos until you are one of us and truly feel like us, I really don't know where you are standing...........pardon me for being frank.

Do go, buy or build one and you will understand our true feelings, sentiments and love for the lovable swiftlets....otherwise, I really don't believe you truly understand what we are all about........if only we, human being can be like the swiftlets, giving without asking for any return, then the world will surely and really be a better place to live in and only paradise can only be a comparison.

No reason to ban swiftlet farming
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I REFER to the letter “Ban all swiftlet farming activities” (The Star May 5).

The writer’s concern for the welfare of the birds and his call to allow them to live in their natural habitat are laudable. However, I do not think swiftlet farming is cruel to the birds.

It is true that swiftlet farmers set up houses to lure the swiftlets to nest inside. But it must be remembered that if the house does not meet the swiftlet’s “taste”, it will not stay. That’s why the success rate of swiftlet farming is low at only about 30%.

Now, if the swiftlet stays, it means as far as that swiftlet is concerned, it is its natural habitat. We must not forget that the swiftlets migrated here from Indonesia because their natural habitat was affected by open burning.

A farmer cannot compel the swiftlet to come, neither can he compel the swiftlet to stay. All he does is to get ready a place and hope the swiftlets like it. The swiftlets come and go as they like; they leave in the morning to hunt for food, and come back in the evening – if they want to.

Personally, I think swiftlet farming is more humane than chicken farming. The chicken layers are kept in cages with the sole purpose of laying eggs for human consumption, without once seeing any of the eggs hatch. And when their job is done, they are sent to the factories to be processed for meat!

As far as harvesting of nests is concerned, the farmer knows that his long-term profit depends on the multiplication of the birds. It is suicidal to harvest the nests before the fledglings are mature. Of course, there are some dumb ones but they are the exception rather than the rule.

As for the noise from the speakers, I would rather listen to the chirping of the birds than the deafening music from some shops and the roaring traffic.

What about hygiene? A knowledgeable writer to this column had earlier explained that these birds have very clean habits – they only do their “business” inside the house. So one does not need to worry that they will drop anything on one’s head. Also, they do not hang around food outlets, unlike crows.

I am not a swiftlet farmer. But I know of a small town where, for generations, many of the town people made a living by operating small provision shops. Then the town was invaded by supermarkets which sold items below the cost price of the small traders. Within a short time, some of them were reduced to poverty level. Swiftlet farming threw them a life line.

It is for this reason that I think the call to ban all swiftlet farming activities is inconsiderate. Most of the nests are exported, earning the nation valuable foreign exchange. Swiftlet farming helps both the farmers and the nation. I appeal to the Government to do all it can to help the farmers.

HUMANE,
Klang.

Did called up the Fed. Swiftlet Boss yesterday and I think he doesn't know about the Wildlife Act bill being tabled @ Parliament except what he has read in the newspaper. All the while he was taking are about GP at the AGM.

Thanks for the infos here and I did email him the websiteas requested by him  and will check up with him later and if any news will be posted for all concerned.