Something To Think About

The fact that the Commons Foreign Affairs Comittee (FAC), has recommended a comission of enquiry is only the first step in the long process of restoring civil order within the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI). For a long time we have taken for granted the civil liberties that have afforded us a cavalier approach to life and government within TCI until we have begun to experience the oppression of the current administration.

It is factual that a significant number of us lived in fear of reprisals from Mike and his cohorts. The feeling of their oppression has cast a dark shadow over the souls and spirits of people living in the TCI. Simple liberties as expressing ones political views could mean serious political retaliation from high level government officials. In some cases it may not even be the direct expression of political critism but the mere fact that if any objection is made to the things the PNP party has done or allowed to transpire, it is seen as an attack on their party. This is meet with fierce resistance from the PNP leader, Mike, against the backdrop that people are bitter that the PDM lost and are attempting to smear his PNP party.

In reality Mike, most people really do not even care much about the PDM's lost as they care about the way you administered our country's affairs. To begin with, you associated yourself with people who had zero geo-political currency. Your sincere todler-like fascination with the American comics you aligned yourself with caused Washingnton's pundits to view you as idiotic. They did not even find endearing conversation with you useful as they personally invited the leader of the Opposition, Floyd Seymour, to Washington for the annual prayer breakfast and basically ignored you. By that time, your name had been called many times, but in unfavorable fashion, on Capitol Hill. You never sealed your fate as a geo-political minded individual, not only because you showed no interest, but also because you were not aware of the geo-politics that surrounded you--a kid groping in a man's world. To add to that, you were never respectfully recognized as an impressionable political leader by anything greater than your comical world affiliates. You failed to win the eye-sight of American-Caribbean interests.

You not only failed there Mike, you went a step further and caused them to reneg somewhat against us. You may think that by being hush hush about the allegations of rape made against you will spare you from indignation in America, but you are wrong. Sorry to tell you that the American media is not controlled like the Gazette, RTC and WIV and your name is marked in history as the man from TCI who "they say," raped a tourist. If it infuriates you hearing about it, then imagine how it makes us feel? At some point in time there has to be a solid reality check about the blood cost this country has incurred because of your personal waywardness. Currently, our potential friendship with America is psuedo-suspended because of the dangerous openings you have creatively extended to Columbians, Russians, and Cubans just to name a few--opening us up to terrorists--while you fashionably brag with your religious lacky about being a visionary. The American support for our economy--and our tourism--could collapse because of the immigration policies you instituted. We have failed to become better friends with America but we have embraced many rogue type states who are journalled as enemies to America. Way to go Mike! I can't even be mad at you because I realize that you just do not get the idea of geo-politics. This may come back to haunt you!

Even if you examine things on the macro-regional scale, how many political entities can you call on from the Bahamas to come to your aid? Perhaps you are unaware that the Bahamians do not respect you either nor will any serious Bahamian political entity endorse or honor you. In essence you have fallen before your appointed time. And, now you have fulfilled a legacy that the people before you have--at this point in our history--instituted. Therefore you have duly performed your rite of passage and taken us back to the sensational historic barrage of events that your successors have graced us with, Bops, Nornam, and now you. TCI will need time heal and recover but we must ensure that legislation is reinforced to block people like you and the other losers from accessing anything that even has a government stamp on it.

Your time is up Mike and many of us welcome your fall eagerly! Your legacy is that of Mugabe, a brute and an opressive tyrant. You hold no honor in the journals of political greats. Make haste and rid yourself of our presence!