PUP or UDP...UDP or PUP...oh then there is the VIP!!!!!!!!
Four years ago in the midst of pre-election rhetoric then candidate now Prime Minister of Belize quoted to the effect.....the people of Belize have no choice other than vote for the UDP and that obviously they will not vote for the PUP. After two terms the PUP, vis-a-vis it's leaders, had shot themselves on the foot...cut off their own noses to spite their faces...etc. In February of 2008 the people of Belize castigated the PUP where it hurts in the most decisive way...the General election polls. I have gone on record to state how that irks my soul.
This style of results brandishes our the electorates collective ire versus a party and not the individuals running. Ah...so so sad. It also exposes the very weakness of democracy. The majority is not always right. Nevertheless we all have the greatest of human rights--that of the right to be wrong.
What is probably not pardonable is the wanton abuse of our electorate by politicians who DO know better.
The giving of a little 'blue-buay' for a vote: Insults the value of a voter's right to decide using their own free will...Not to mention its being illegal.
The giving of a little 'blue-buay' for a vote: Shows that the politician is corrupt even before he has been elected. This throws corrupts absolutely out the window. ;)
The giving of a little 'blue-buay' for a vote: Tempts the voter to be dishonest also...and many accede into this dishonesty.
The giving of a little 'blue-buay' for a vote: The dishonesty stretches into "I will take their money and STILL vote them out. Yes that is dishonest...since you to lie to a fellow human.
Today there is another display of unfair play with the registration list that is being padded with newly nationalized Belizeans. That these people went through the correct process to become Belizeans is one main issue. In my opinion, if someone wants to become a Belizean that is something that makes me proud. Wow....
Another SAD issue is that this patriotic act of nationalization is then desecrated by holding it to ransom.
'Since I helped you to become a Belizean you should then vote for me.' DAMN.....the nerve. No one has that power...no one. People become a Belizean because of their qualifying via due process after their collective will and fate brought them to that decision.
'This is nothing new, the PUP did it before'........STUPID remark. Whilst telling us to Imagine the Possibilities the UDP stood on a rostrum of 'we will not be like the PUP.' Hey.....UDPers...the PUP lost big time after they, according to you, 'did the same thing.' Just maybe it was a part of their undoing. Why would you want to repeat strategy that was folly? Again this shows me the lack of intellect and desire to do the right thing.
Lastly...Said Musa was touted as being a liad person...that untruths were his order of the day. Can we say that Dean Barrow has been any different? At least Said said that 'I have to lie sometimes'...and that is true of us all.
Step forth if you have never lied. Go ahead. I know ONE person who would like to step forward. Do you need hints?
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Thursday, October 20, 2011
9th to the house.......My final opinion
Democracy is an oft debated term that is just as often paraded up and about just alongside 'freedom.' Let us not get into a long drawn out discussion on these since it will be affectingly monotonous...go figure.
Let me attempt to hit this proverbial head........Any possible attack to the freedom that I am used to as a citizen of Belize cannot be good and a definite invasion of privacy, political harassment and in no uncertain terms malicious.
Who asked him? At election time this was not tabled. And I agree, governments don't have to carry out only tabled issues/promises. But when it is something that will affect us dearly and have the possibility of being misused, then YES...........You did NOT ask the Belizean electorate.
The few people that went to the 'consultations' make not even make the majority of our body politic.
Belizeans this is my little 'one' cent..... This ninth ammendment to our Belizean constitution sows more possible harm than it does promise fruits. My conscience cannot endorse it.
Let me attempt to hit this proverbial head........Any possible attack to the freedom that I am used to as a citizen of Belize cannot be good and a definite invasion of privacy, political harassment and in no uncertain terms malicious.
Who asked him? At election time this was not tabled. And I agree, governments don't have to carry out only tabled issues/promises. But when it is something that will affect us dearly and have the possibility of being misused, then YES...........You did NOT ask the Belizean electorate.
The few people that went to the 'consultations' make not even make the majority of our body politic.
Belizeans this is my little 'one' cent..... This ninth ammendment to our Belizean constitution sows more possible harm than it does promise fruits. My conscience cannot endorse it.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Recrudescence
After the majestic sending off of the Father of the Nation, our country has been mellowed into a feeling of 'what now?' Was the country really united at the state funeral? Were the parties really united? I would like a transcript of what was discussed at Cabinet or the halls of UDP 'powerdom' as to their decision to go big with Mr. Price's funeral. Was there anyone who voiced a negative?
It would be interesting to get the answer to that question. Hopefully history will answer it. It will definitely complete the story of the state funeral and make it even more precise than the ceremonies actually were.
For me it is not cynicism... it is desire to know.....curiosity to know my country.
It is rather easy self-convincing that the government determined that NOT lionizing George Price was too great a political price to pay. I will give them their due congratulations in doing that. Belize deserved no less; Belize deserved George Price and his legacy. Mr. Price is the 'avatar' to Belize like George Washington is for the USA.
It therefore cannot be lost that there was a subtle political aura to all of this. The PM's speech was all him. It was as great a speech as he has made before. Too bad it flew over the heads of many.
That the PUP would not have another leader like George Price was like a 'durrr' statement. But shrewdly he rebounded from that lame statement to that 'Belize would not have another Prime Minister like George Price'. All these were political jabs.
The leader of the opposition had a drum roll type of speech. There was not too much of a bang but it was timely. His most partisan political jab was 'our constitution is under attack.'
The time has come for the parties to enter the middle of the rounds of this match. This is where the 'blood' starts to ooze as the uppercuts and hooks come into play.
The period of recrudescence probably was never here but.......if it was...... the campaigning time is here want it or not. Don't say it is "JUST" the town board. This is it! Who wins in 2012..........MOST LIKELY wins in 2013 and rules/governs until 2018.
May God be with our leaders.
It would be interesting to get the answer to that question. Hopefully history will answer it. It will definitely complete the story of the state funeral and make it even more precise than the ceremonies actually were.
For me it is not cynicism... it is desire to know.....curiosity to know my country.
It is rather easy self-convincing that the government determined that NOT lionizing George Price was too great a political price to pay. I will give them their due congratulations in doing that. Belize deserved no less; Belize deserved George Price and his legacy. Mr. Price is the 'avatar' to Belize like George Washington is for the USA.
It therefore cannot be lost that there was a subtle political aura to all of this. The PM's speech was all him. It was as great a speech as he has made before. Too bad it flew over the heads of many.
That the PUP would not have another leader like George Price was like a 'durrr' statement. But shrewdly he rebounded from that lame statement to that 'Belize would not have another Prime Minister like George Price'. All these were political jabs.
The leader of the opposition had a drum roll type of speech. There was not too much of a bang but it was timely. His most partisan political jab was 'our constitution is under attack.'
The time has come for the parties to enter the middle of the rounds of this match. This is where the 'blood' starts to ooze as the uppercuts and hooks come into play.
The period of recrudescence probably was never here but.......if it was...... the campaigning time is here want it or not. Don't say it is "JUST" the town board. This is it! Who wins in 2012..........MOST LIKELY wins in 2013 and rules/governs until 2018.
May God be with our leaders.
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