Dr Musa Mohd Nordin's seem to take umbrage at the truthful letters written by Product Of The System and Artemis Tower . Yes, the truth always hurts and Musa - like many of his counterparts who are products of the system - would be the last to admit it.

If not for government intervention and policies extended to public universities, the civil service, the army, police and every government-controlled institution, people like Musa would not be sitting comfortably in their positions and making unbelievably half-baked statements that they are not products of the system.

Ask all the top bumiputera civil servants, the inspector-general of police, the chief justice and they will deny that they are products of the system. I'll bet my last ringgit that every one of them will say that they are where they are due to merit and not because of bumiputera-ism.

And if we are to believe that this is true then we better start believing that the 40 percent of Malaysia's non-bumiputera citizens are incapable of holding or leading any top government institution.

It is not by accident nor by merit that the top positions in the country are occupied by one ethnic group. It is a clear and irrevocable design by those in the corridors of power. It is people like Musa who choose to deny that they have benefitted from the system and by their own volition often choose to bite the hand that feeds them.

This has at one time prompted the former prime minister to rebuke the bumiputeras for being ungrateful and turning their back on the government despite the government's largesse to them.