WHEN YOU ARE A BUFFALO, WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO BUT FOLLOW?

     When you are a ‘BUFFALO’🐃, what else can you do but FOLLOW ?

There is a saying – ‘A Politician thinks of the next election; a Statesman of the next generation. 

A Politician looks for the success of his Party; a Statesman for that of his Country. 

The Statesman wishes to steer, while the Politician is satisfied to drift.’

On that saying alone, my fellow Sarawakians – we should seriously reflect on what we want really want for ourselves, our families, our children and future generations.

Elections after elections, we had, and still have been ‘advised’ to ‘vote wisely’ for our ‘future generations’ with progress and development which ‘only the BN Government can deliver’. 

The ‘DACING’ became the ‘iconic logo’ which many Sarawakians, especially our rural voters, stuck with and TRUSTED for decades in the hope of a better future built on the BN’s promises of ‘progress and development’.

       "Promises made, repeated and broken, time and again."

Timber tracks taken as ‘roads’, ‘de-lighted’ taken as ‘delighted’, divide and rule taken as ‘unity in diversity’, selective development taken as creative development, water and housing shortcomings taken as ‘more are coming’.

The bluffs and excuses continued until the unthinkable and unimaginable happened – when BN lost control of Putrajaya in .

This same group of Sarawak BN Leaders had no hesitation to ‘jump ship’ and ‘rebrand’ themselves under ‘GPS’ aka ‘Gabungan Parti Sarawak’ - ‘a new political entity’ not aligned to any ‘Malayan-based’ coalition or Party.

Whatever happened to the adage that ‘a good and dutiful Captain will stay with his ship un till the last passenger and crew are in safe hands’ ?

Instead, this group of politicians CHOSE to jump first  – for their own political survival and relevance than to ‘save the country or the people’ as GPS aka ex-BN had been all along been proudly exhorting.

Who can forget the famous ‘we will swim or sink with BN’  statement by Dr. James Masing ? 

Or the ‘chorus’ by SUPP that ‘I’m IN !’ ? 

Or rather, ‘We’re IN !’ ?

Do we still want to continue believing that this same group of leaders are, and will be FIGHTING for our rights and interests under MA63 ?

Do we still want to believe in the fox which keeps volunteering to guard and protect the chickens when the chickens are still wondering why they are getting less and less ?

Or are we the very same chickens who keep voting for ‘KFC’ and the Fox ?

If so, then we are also part of the problem, aren’t we ?

The realisation of a problem is the beginning of a solution.

We cannot aspire to be the solution when we unwittingly become ‘part of the problem’ – by electing the same leadership which had all along been ‘Umno’s proxy’ for decades ( say ‘no’ to Umno – really ?)

and eroding our rights, among others - ownership of our Oil & Gas resources, (being paid SST isn’t the same as regaining OWNERSHIP), boundaries of our Territorial Sea Waters and ‘Borneonisation’ of our Civil Service. (not ‘Malayanisation’, please)

This begs the question – why do most of our State Leaders appear so subservient to Putrajaya or the Prime Minister or ‘Malayan’ Leaders on matters so pertinent to Sarawak ?

It’s YES to PN, the backdoor government.

It’s YES to PAS, the Party which openly propagates religious politics

It's YES to UMNO, the Party which openly propagates race politics

It's YES to surrendering and eroding our State's rights and status

It's YES to 'Malaya First, Sarawak Second'

It's YESterday once more - be GPS or ex-BN

Why are they so muffled when there are opportunities to voice out or say their piece ? 

Why are they roaring like lions on home turf and turning into lambs at Putrajaya ?

Why ?

Worse, why are they so conspicuously silent when Malayan leaders and even Ministers encroached on ‘MA63 territory’ which ‘equal partners’ should have an equal, or vocal say ?

Like Race, Religion and Autonomy which were agreed to and enshrined in MA63 as ‘conditions precedent’ for Sarawak, Sabah and Singapore to come together with Malaya to ‘join in the formation’ of ‘Malaysia’.

If that isn’t our right, what else is ?

Why the deafening silence ? 

Have they been muted by ‘forces’ beyond their control ?

Silence isn’t an option, more so the ‘sound of silence’.

Moral of the story…….or rather, to cut a long story short…..after 57 years……

Will we or should we continue to elect ‘buffalos’ ?

Obviously NOT !

What say you ?

SARAWAK BARU – it starts with me and you.

NO MORE PARROTS, please.

No more buffalos, please.

Only SARAWAK HEROES and Patriots - really and badly.