NON-MALAYS MUST REJECT MUHYIDDIN: In final lap to dislodge Najib, DPM plays 'UNREST' & 'Malays first' card - again!

Deputy Prime Minister (DPM), whichever audience you speak to, remember you are the deputy prime miniser of the country. You cannot remove your DPM hat and enter a hall and address an audience in any other capacity since it still gets reported that the DPM said so – and not Saudara Din, an off-duty DPM.

So what you address has been published in a number of places – maybe that was the design, given how things are done in Malaysia.

And since they have been made public, there are issues you have raised that, unwittingly perhaps, demonstrate the lack of stewardship in this and past governments and in some cases, the outright incompetency or irresponsibility – as the case may be.

1)  Bumiputera asking for their rights is not racist.

Deputy Prime Minister (DPM)

Yes and no. Asking is one thing. Demanding to the exclusion and detriment of others is a different matter. Demanding that others relinquish (even in part) what they already have earned is also not the same.

2) Especially so since the Bumiputera are the country's majority

Well, the Bumiputera in Sabah were the majority. What happened? KL took their oil revenue for a song. Then Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad (however much he denies/forgets/misrepresents; choose whatever), changed the demographics of Sabah with his Project IC.

Did anybody ask the original Sabahans what they didn't want?

Lest many younger readers forget, the gun is still smoking (as far as I am concerned) from the fatal plane crash that took the lives of then Sabah chief minister Datuk Fuad Stephens, respected Kadazandusun leader Peter Mojuntin and others.

3) Where the country's majority group is neglected, the country will not be peaceful or stable

Truth be told, where there is no justice, lack of accountability, avaricious leaders, poor leadership, insincere motives and an unmitigated complexion of nurtured insecurity – any country will not be peaceful or stable.

Just look at many failed societies in Africa and the Middle East and previously, in South and Central America.

There are insignificant numbers of Chinese there – just in case they were the intended veiled reference.By the way, I am a Malaysian, non-Chinese and my religion is my private business.

There are ample schools, universities, colleges, hospitals, sports facilities and so on for Bumiputera (we even rocketed one to space) but "hardware" alone is not the answer and you guys know it. For your own political ends, you keep the "software" programmed solely to suit a devious agenda of servitude.

4) Continued agenda to strengthen the economic situation of the Bumiputera

Well, after almost six decades running the country unfettered, who do you expect to blame for the weaknesses? As a Minister who counts "Education" in his portfolio, I would have expected that the very least a responsible government does is to give the population (especially Bumiputeras) the BEST education in its TRUEST sense, not the maligned, mangled, mediocre mash that we call education.

Compare the level of English proficiency of any director-general of a government department in Brunei with ours. Let's leave aside Singapore even. Have you noticed how mostly senior Malaysian civil servants and ministers are "misquoted"?

5) The bottom 40% of the economically disadvantaged are Bumiputera

Why? Again, who else ran the country all this while? Let's not blame the Chinese for everything.

The leakages, pilferage and other misfeasance going on are significantly involving the Bumiputera Malays AGAINST their own and AT THE EXPENSE of their own.

I still cannot fathom why Felda settlers need Felda Global Ventures for instance. Look at who the fat cats are.

By my own observation, if you want a simple example of how to help your own community, learn from our very own Sikhs in Malaysia. No need "lawat sambil belajar" to Punjab or Southall.

6) Aiming to increase wealth ownership for Bumiputera

While that can remain an objective, the crux of wealth ownership is the EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION of wealth for the Bumiputera.

Some of the people I see are really having it tough, yet their brethren have lavish weddings, holidays, hobbies, clothes and eat in fancy restaurants and hotels. Observe the obesity of the fat cats, it is largely absent from the ones who are having it tough at the end of the rope.

Until and unless there is genuine sincerity and honesty by the government in its planning and implementation, we can go from the 11th Malaysia Plan till the 21st Malaysia plan and nothing of substance will change. By then our people may be for working for bosses from Burma, Nepal, Bangladesh and Indonesia... Truly Asia. – TMI