This month Sarawak will go to the polls to elect a new State government. For the fist time since Merdeka the people of the State have been given concrete proof that the party they obediently vote for time after time, BN, is led by a mega thief Najib supported by local mega thieves. Almost anywhere that would lead to such public revulsion that BN woud be swept from political existence. But in Sarawak?
Look back over the years since Sarawak obtained the right to elect its own government and manage its own affairs and ask yourselves what has happened? Sarawak was a rich country. It had oil. It had vast reserves of valuable forests. It had a hard working native population. It should have become a shining success.
What happened? It allowed itself to become subservient to a Malay/Melanau minority led by some of the most notorious crooks in the world. And for what? A handful of ringgit at election time and nothing else.
What happened to native customary land? You all know the answer to that. Stolen by BN and its cronies to plant oil palm; worked by wage slave imported labour. What happened to the oil? Handed over to Kuala Lumpur by BN in return for permission to rape Sarawak’s forests. And the timber itself? Stolen by Taib and his chinese cronies.
BN will not trouble itself to deny these truths. It will simply come round at polling time with bags of bribe money and invite you to sell your votes. As you did last time. And the time before that and before that. Will you really let yourselves be bought once more? And for the same trifling sum?
In which long house will you see an Assemblyman dressed up in songkok and tutup, clutching his thrice increased salary slip? To see tht you have to go to Kuching and discover how BN has, once again, bought your elected epresentatives. And its not just free uniforms and allowances! Timber licences and similar bribes have allowed BN to continue its hold over you and its theft of your heritage
Will you really let them do it all again? Steal what is left of your heritage and leave you to another miserable five years with nothing more than the tiny bribe they gave for your vote? Or will you at last prove yourselves worthy of your heritage by kickng them out of office and then putting them in jail?