Worse, the world may consider the local peopleas followers of cults like followers of People’s temple in Jonestown FrenchGuinea, Branch Davidians, Waco, Texas, USA,Shoko Asahara, Japan , CharlesManson Family in Long Angeles, Children of God in Huntington Beach, Califonia and others, who were prepared to sacrificetheir own lives for their belief in their leaders.
Malaysians in Sarawak,with 80% rate of literacy, can differentiate between virtues and vices. Their values are further enhanced by theirfaiths in their religions be they Muslims, Christians, Buddhists and others. Even their customs and traditions abhor liesand falsehood being spread by words of mouths or through the media, the socialmedia in particular.
But, after reading all the lies and falsehoodbeing spread by Clare Rewcastle Brown through her blog, the conscience of the people are beingpricked to look at her from our own perspective. First, she is not a Sarawakianbut a Mat Salleh, a white Caucasian, from Britain. Obviously, she is very arrogant and believingthat she does not owe us to tell the truth. She has been using derogatory wordsand foulest languages in her attempts to malign Sarawak,the leadership in particular.
She is not an angel nor is she a woman of virtuein indulging in activities to smear the good name of Sarawak.If she is an upright person, why doesn’t she write about controversial paymentsof bonus of 1.5 pounds to the General Manager of Royal Bank of Scotland andgenerous payments of bonuses to other executives of the bank, which only twoyears ago had to be rescued by the Government using the tax payers’ money? Whydidn’t she write about the fund scandals involving several MPs of Labor andConservatives parties during the dying days of Labor government led by GordonBrown?
Besides, why had she been silent on the phonetapping scandals that involved News of the World, the newspaper with a verywide circulation in Englandowned by Rupert Murdoch, Labor MPs, senior Police Officers and some higher upsin her society? Remember the case of theDeputy Prime Minister having affairs with his personal assistant, while theHome Affairs Minister short circuited the approval of visa for the maid of hisgirlfriend and hosts of other corrupt practices being exposed by BBC but not byClare.
Remember, Clare claims herself to be aninvestigative journalist with some years of experience with BBC. Why has she not written about the corruptpractices and abuses of power happening right under her nose? At this point in time she is the classicexample of the old adage she can “see dirt in other person’s eye but cannot seemole on her own nose”
Obviously, she is a mercenary writer, not ajournalist, who believes that Sarawak, withher limited knowledge of the State, is an easy pick for her work. She claims tobe fighting for a cause to stop corrupt practices in Sarawak but what about theabuses of power and corrupt practices, as exposed by the mainstream mediaincluding BBC happening in Britainand the decadence of her society as highlighted in the London riots.
Clare writes in her blog from the points of viewof the Opposition, who cannot claim to be the mainstream movement in Sarawak. Her sidekick Peter Jaban, father of apes, is ajunior high school dropout and a drunkard, only serves as a facade to convincethe world that her information are reliable. That is his business but it is thebusiness of the people Sarawak that he workswith foreigners to smear the good name of the State and undermine the unity andsolidarity of the people comprising of various ethnic and religious groups.
Obviously, he also serves as conduit forinformation, mainly half truths and lies being spread by the opposition forClare in her evil work to put Sarawak in avery bad light in the eyes of the world. Hence, he commits treachery and a traitor to his own people,State and the country.
Ofcourse, Clare is envious of the fact that Sarawak, after only 49 years of Independence, has beenable to achieve progress and development by leaps and bounds as compared to 100years of rules by the British. Sarawak hasbeen experiencing uninterrupted development for the last many years, the momentit overcame the security threat being posed by Communist Terrorists’Organization in the 70s.
NowSarawak has been doing quite well in spite of the fact that it is almost as bigas Peninsular Malaysia in term of land surface and a small population of about2.6 million people, who are scattered over 5,000 settlements throughout thenooks and corners of Sarawak. All the settlementsare very small and 60% of them have less than 50 families each. The demographic pattern imposes a bigchallenge, which the British colonial government could not overcome before, inthe development of the State.
Generally,things are looking up for Sarawak, which is migrating from over dependenton agriculture and agriculture basedactivities to heavy industries and tohi-tech industries at Bintulu, Tanjung Manis, Kuching, which has a lot ofhi-tech industries. Generally, thedevelopment looks quite good because Sarawakfor the last 30 over years has averagely been spending more than RM3 billionfor development. Now Sarawakis being served with continuous network of roads both in the coastal andinterior areas from hardly 100 KM being constructed by the British colonialgovernment.
Obviously, Clare gets all her input from theOpposition, who sees everything being done by the government from a verynegative point of view. Of course, theperson to be attacked must be the leader, as much as Tony Blair and GordonBrown were vile by the British media and the public in the waning years of theLabor Government. Obviously, Clare is not civil and prepared to go very low inher attempts to malign Sarawak, the localleaders in particular.
The State Assemblyman for Belawai, Datu Haji Len LatifHaji Salleh, in his speech during June 2011 sitting of the State LegislativeAssembly accused Claire Rewcastle of trying to reclaim the Britain’s lost empire of Sarawak.The setting up of on-line radio, initially clandestinely, actually reflectedher evil intention of not wanting to see the people of Sarawakto be free. Her sidekick, Peter John Jaban @ Papa Orang Utan, believed to havemore than 20 wives, should not be lost in the brick jungle of Londonbut in the jungles of Sarawak.
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DatuHaji Len, now the newly appointed Assistant Minister of the development ofTechnology and Environment, calls on all concernedSarawakians to step up efforts to refute all the baseless allegationsbeing spread by Clare through her blog and clandestine radio. They must bedenied of the pleasure of seeing Sarawak andSarawakians remaining backward andprimitive.
Heregrets that certain groups and individualsincluding those who did not even stand in the election are bad losers. They found it hard to accept thefact that the State Barisan Nasional had won with two-thirds majority and giventhe mandate to govern the Stateagain. The State Election, held once every fiveyears, is fundamental to our democracy which is based on the traditions and conventions of the Westminster system.
He chides a pressstatement by Lim Guan Eng, the Secretary General of DAP who says the victory of Barisan Nasional, which won only 55% popular votes but could garner more than 77% ofthe total seats, as a mockery of democracy in complete defiance of theprinciple of one man one-vote.
He describes the commentas naïve and idiotic and suggests that LimGuan Eng should study the practices of other democracies in other parts of theworld, especially in Commonwealth Countries and USA. To start with, he can draw lessons from theresults of the recently concluded Singapore elections where the ruling party garnered 60% of the votesand got 80% of the seats.
Datu Len, who spent more than 32 years ofhis life as a civil servant, says theForest and Forest industry have contributedimmensely to Sarawak's development to what itis today. The industry is a key contributor to socio-economicdevelopment and a major revenue earner for the State's GDP. All the Stateassemblymen, those from the opposition shouldbrowse through the literature on the timberindustry and be acquainted with the facts and figures that underscored the growth and contributions of theindustry.
Heregrets, in spite of Sarawak's SustainableForest Management Policy, which is acknowledgedby ITTO and a host of credible and reputable international organizations and NGO's as a model worthy of emulation by tropicaltimber producers, some foreign NGOs still try to malign the local timberindustry abroad.
He thetimber industry has been able to produce many successful operators, who are bringing back theirinvestments to help develop the future of Sarawak.They have made money and reinvestedthem in tree plantation and oil palm, which is a major contributor to the development of the state’s economy,properties, infrastructure, education, social facilities and publicamenities. They are playing their role as partners of progress in facilitatingthe socio-economic growth and developmentin Sarawak.
He recalls his days as a teenager working inmangrove and peat swamp forests, sawmills and woodchip and plywood mills duringhis school holidays. He rose to become the controller of Sarawak Forest Corporation (SFC) and dealt with Forestsand Forest industry in the State before hisretirement from the service.
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