I refer to the recent media report headlined ‘PM: Everyone can succeed in Malaysia’ which said ‘If the old strategy was focused on the equal distribution of wealth, the new strategy is to distribute quality opportunities to all races in this country’.

Everyone can succeed in Malaysia? What does that mean? Why are so many Malaysians disgruntled then if such an opportunity exists for all? Who is the PM trying to fool with such an assertion?

Strategy? What old strategy and what new strategy?

Equal distribution of wealth? What kind of strategy is that and did it ever happen or were the BN politicians more equal than other Malaysians? Were the West Malayans more equal than Sarawakians and Sabahans?

Weren't the petroleum resources of Sarawak and Sabah siphoned off with the connivance, or at least tacit approval, of their own BN leaders to finance the over-development of Malaya and its extravagance, mismanagement and misgovernance at the expense of these two states?

What new strategy of distribution of quality opportunities to all races?

Will it be so easy for Umno to get rid of its ‘ Ketuanan Melayu ’ mentality? Will the Malayan Malays really care about the fate of Sarawakians and Sabahans? Have they ever cared at all or did they just want to get their hands on the wealth of these states for their own selfish agendas?

Will they ever change?

What do they really know of Sarawak and Sabah, and, in fact, do they really want to know Sarawak and Sabah?

Everyone can succeed in Malaysia, indeed! Please tell that to the Penans and every other native of Sarawak who have been chased off their land in the name of Taib Mahmud's ‘politics of development’ and the BN's ‘New Economic Policy’.