Monday, July 6, 2009
Oh what luck for rulers when citizens don’t speak
The Participant Observer
"Let every man make known what kind of Government will command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it" Henry David Thoreau- Civil Disobedience.
Social and political scientists like Jean Jacques Rousseau teaches us that one must study society through men and men through society, but one does not have to be a social/political scientist, nor a historian to observe men and society.
Those who observe closely need not be a Sigmund Freud or a Rousseau to come to the conclusion that most of us have refrained from reality and analytical thinking and opted to give more credence to eloquence and celebrity, the new ideology of dependency that is now crippling our country today, than we give to reason and truth.
We have been bamboozled and continue to be bamboozled by those in whom we put our trust everyday. Dr. Henry David Thoreau once asked the citizens of America in Civil Dis-obedience “Do we have to always resign our conscience to the legislators?” I ask it again of my people...
Why did God give us a conscience then? Not to be surrendered to the service of unscrupulous men I am sure. The importance of truth and the faithfulness to conscience have become almost obsolete... It is now only what is politically expedient, personally beneficial, and not what is constitutionally or democratically faithful, or moral that matters.
It is impossible for anyone who is paying close attention not to notice or even absorb the profound irony in what is happening in our beloved Dominica currently. What is even more frightening is what lays beneath the irony- The vilification of those who seek the truth and demand it.
That has always worked effectively for those who seek power or those who seek to maintain power. The time has come to deny them the use of this technique.
Those of us who are brave enough to be ruled by the laws of our conscience, to stand for truth and justice, and patriotic enough to dissent and make our voices heard are branded as pariahs, we are accused of being divisive, partisan, and vitriolic.
By asking legitimate questions, that we have every right and responsibility to ask as citizens we are branded as trouble makers, and are condemned as threats to national security? That we threaten the stability and image of our country we all love so dearly?
Oh how they would like us to just go away. It is a colossal mistake to that that those who fight for the cause of truth, justice, democracy, and people’s empowerment will be intimidated or coerced into silence.
In time the vigilante and virtuous shall be victorious, the pariahs will become the prophets, and the truth will set us free. It always ends up that way! There are many examples to show, Mandela in apartheid South Africa, Martin Luther King in racist America , and Gandhi in India , to name just a few.
In quite a sometimes entertaining, sometimes disappointing, and unsettling paradox the majority of us, when we really take stock of the condition of our beloved Dominica, we see those who are so unusually learned, but at the same time so unusually and sadly ignorant, and others with dubious, reckless abandon deliberately trying to instill dependency and hopelessness among our people.
How long can this brainwashing of our people be sustained? The people have been willing accomplices in their own brainwashing because of a pathological desire to belong, to conform, to obey, to follow, and to let others dictate to us what we must think and how we should think it.
Let them be warned “you can fool some of the people some times, all of the people sometimes, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
There are some those despite the obvious they remain willing to do the bidding of the masters, those in power, hoping to someday be rewarded at the expense of the general public.
They are doing a disservice to the public good when we shield and protect the Government from scrutiny, and transparency. We must put the interest of the general public before the interest of the legislators. It is incumbent upon those the public looks up to, trusts, and depend upon not to allow the public to feel betrayed by their actions or in-actions.
Now that we live in a time of serious crisis, nationally, regionally, and internationally, we need men of conscience more than we ever needed them, Men who will opt for the laws of conscience instead of the laws of man; Men who stand for justice, equality, right, and truth.
Where will these men come from? More than a century ago, a man who though dead a long time ago but still commands my utmost respect said. "There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man." Today it more looks like fifty million to one.
These patrons of virtue do all in their power to mislead us, and blind us to the truth. They try their utmost to engineer our minds, to make it impossible for us to think, for us to tap into of laws of conscience and to stand for truth and justice... Speak up, stand up, hold the Government accountable, because after all the Governments works for the people.
The people have every right and responsibility to demand good performance and honesty in the people they employ-elect to conduct their business, and when the Government fails in what is required of them.
The people must hold them accountable. This Government MUST be held accountable.. NOW!! And I ask these unscrupulous people in positions of authority to Let my people go. I ask those who the people look up to for guidance to speak about the ills that now our nation now or forever hold your peace!
"Let every man make known what kind of Government will command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it" Henry David Thoreau- Civil Disobedience.
 The participant observer. |
Social and political scientists like Jean Jacques Rousseau teaches us that one must study society through men and men through society, but one does not have to be a social/political scientist, nor a historian to observe men and society.
Those who observe closely need not be a Sigmund Freud or a Rousseau to come to the conclusion that most of us have refrained from reality and analytical thinking and opted to give more credence to eloquence and celebrity, the new ideology of dependency that is now crippling our country today, than we give to reason and truth.
We have been bamboozled and continue to be bamboozled by those in whom we put our trust everyday. Dr. Henry David Thoreau once asked the citizens of America in Civil Dis-obedience “Do we have to always resign our conscience to the legislators?” I ask it again of my people...
Why did God give us a conscience then? Not to be surrendered to the service of unscrupulous men I am sure. The importance of truth and the faithfulness to conscience have become almost obsolete... It is now only what is politically expedient, personally beneficial, and not what is constitutionally or democratically faithful, or moral that matters.
It is impossible for anyone who is paying close attention not to notice or even absorb the profound irony in what is happening in our beloved Dominica currently. What is even more frightening is what lays beneath the irony- The vilification of those who seek the truth and demand it.
That has always worked effectively for those who seek power or those who seek to maintain power. The time has come to deny them the use of this technique.
Those of us who are brave enough to be ruled by the laws of our conscience, to stand for truth and justice, and patriotic enough to dissent and make our voices heard are branded as pariahs, we are accused of being divisive, partisan, and vitriolic.
By asking legitimate questions, that we have every right and responsibility to ask as citizens we are branded as trouble makers, and are condemned as threats to national security? That we threaten the stability and image of our country we all love so dearly?
Oh how they would like us to just go away. It is a colossal mistake to that that those who fight for the cause of truth, justice, democracy, and people’s empowerment will be intimidated or coerced into silence.
In time the vigilante and virtuous shall be victorious, the pariahs will become the prophets, and the truth will set us free. It always ends up that way! There are many examples to show, Mandela in apartheid South Africa, Martin Luther King in racist America , and Gandhi in India , to name just a few.
In quite a sometimes entertaining, sometimes disappointing, and unsettling paradox the majority of us, when we really take stock of the condition of our beloved Dominica, we see those who are so unusually learned, but at the same time so unusually and sadly ignorant, and others with dubious, reckless abandon deliberately trying to instill dependency and hopelessness among our people.
How long can this brainwashing of our people be sustained? The people have been willing accomplices in their own brainwashing because of a pathological desire to belong, to conform, to obey, to follow, and to let others dictate to us what we must think and how we should think it.
Let them be warned “you can fool some of the people some times, all of the people sometimes, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
There are some those despite the obvious they remain willing to do the bidding of the masters, those in power, hoping to someday be rewarded at the expense of the general public.
They are doing a disservice to the public good when we shield and protect the Government from scrutiny, and transparency. We must put the interest of the general public before the interest of the legislators. It is incumbent upon those the public looks up to, trusts, and depend upon not to allow the public to feel betrayed by their actions or in-actions.
Now that we live in a time of serious crisis, nationally, regionally, and internationally, we need men of conscience more than we ever needed them, Men who will opt for the laws of conscience instead of the laws of man; Men who stand for justice, equality, right, and truth.
Where will these men come from? More than a century ago, a man who though dead a long time ago but still commands my utmost respect said. "There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man." Today it more looks like fifty million to one.
These patrons of virtue do all in their power to mislead us, and blind us to the truth. They try their utmost to engineer our minds, to make it impossible for us to think, for us to tap into of laws of conscience and to stand for truth and justice... Speak up, stand up, hold the Government accountable, because after all the Governments works for the people.
The people have every right and responsibility to demand good performance and honesty in the people they employ-elect to conduct their business, and when the Government fails in what is required of them.
The people must hold them accountable. This Government MUST be held accountable.. NOW!! And I ask these unscrupulous people in positions of authority to Let my people go. I ask those who the people look up to for guidance to speak about the ills that now our nation now or forever hold your peace!
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This is an excellent article indeed,
using sayings of the past even those with biblical undertones "be sure your sins will find you out" and never disgrace the high office you now take for you may be assured it will never disgrace you" are issued from the mouths and pens of learned men throughout history.
And history records that this "finding out" is actually the case, to abuse, and bring shame and disgrace to the office you hold is the measure of the man who does just that, in this day of technological supremacy it is impossible to hide the wrongs done
The educational standards set in our schools serve to ensure that the children of today and who are the future are learned and erudite they are no fools, they know what is happening, When a Prime Minister, who knowingly re appoints a minister he has fired for serious missbehavior a person who has had that distinction twice in his political career is worrying.
let us study just this one point the missing dollars, the arrested students, the 419 scam the Puerto Rico affair where he was only freed by the FBI due to his diplomatic priviledge, whilst his partners in crime served prison terms in the USA.
Does the Prime Minister beleive that we are not smart enough or that we do not have a memory or are incapable of recall, this choice is not politically sound, it is a personal thing born out by the roumers that flew arround that Ambrose would not go alone if he was fired, and now we find him not just back but to an elevated position, this is not the sound sensible judgement one would expect from a Prime Minister.
when one considers the bobol scandal along with fertilzer are we as reasonable people expected to accept the very silly cover up story, the blatant lies about Dopwell having nothing to do with Collin McIntyre " both in writing and verbally" be sure your sins will find you out,
bank records by law have to be kept for seven years the filed indefinately the Governor of Pennsylvania and the Attorney General as is the Susquehana Patriot Bank High and Hanover Street are fully aware of the entire matter and it is passed on to investigation, be sure your sins will find you out.
This is common sence it is not nuclear phisics or rocket science, and it is these acts of political suicide that our Prime Minister is using, he must conclude that "well we are all peasants" uneduacted and accepting because it my truth as Prime Minister and that makes it ok, truth is truth and fact is fact, and the truth for those who abuse it can be likened to a heavy rainfall just when you have half barbecued your steaks you all run into the house for shelter but your meal is ruined.
over confidence and taking for granted the electorate as whole as a bunch of uneducated peasants serves only to demonstrate that our Prime Minister is insane. the peole who attend the red clinics I am sorry to say only add to the Prime Ministers view that we are stupid and peasant like and stand begging
And will accept his truths as gospel because he gives us handouts, Mr Prime Minister the Dominican People are proud and strong, poor yes down trodden no, nor are we entirely stupid either. we have had our serfdom many years ago, today we are free, and we will fight tooth and nail to maintain that.
No ammount of money thrown, no ammount of uneduacted political spin, will change or alter what you have done so you keep your truth's to yourself we dont want them, for we know what the real truth actually is. yes you came from small beginings we all know that I will conclude with this " put a beggar on horseback and he will ride himself to hell" cause that is what you are doing.
using sayings of the past even those with biblical undertones "be sure your sins will find you out" and never disgrace the high office you now take for you may be assured it will never disgrace you" are issued from the mouths and pens of learned men throughout history.
And history records that this "finding out" is actually the case, to abuse, and bring shame and disgrace to the office you hold is the measure of the man who does just that, in this day of technological supremacy it is impossible to hide the wrongs done
The educational standards set in our schools serve to ensure that the children of today and who are the future are learned and erudite they are no fools, they know what is happening, When a Prime Minister, who knowingly re appoints a minister he has fired for serious missbehavior a person who has had that distinction twice in his political career is worrying.
let us study just this one point the missing dollars, the arrested students, the 419 scam the Puerto Rico affair where he was only freed by the FBI due to his diplomatic priviledge, whilst his partners in crime served prison terms in the USA.
Does the Prime Minister beleive that we are not smart enough or that we do not have a memory or are incapable of recall, this choice is not politically sound, it is a personal thing born out by the roumers that flew arround that Ambrose would not go alone if he was fired, and now we find him not just back but to an elevated position, this is not the sound sensible judgement one would expect from a Prime Minister.
when one considers the bobol scandal along with fertilzer are we as reasonable people expected to accept the very silly cover up story, the blatant lies about Dopwell having nothing to do with Collin McIntyre " both in writing and verbally" be sure your sins will find you out,
bank records by law have to be kept for seven years the filed indefinately the Governor of Pennsylvania and the Attorney General as is the Susquehana Patriot Bank High and Hanover Street are fully aware of the entire matter and it is passed on to investigation, be sure your sins will find you out.
This is common sence it is not nuclear phisics or rocket science, and it is these acts of political suicide that our Prime Minister is using, he must conclude that "well we are all peasants" uneduacted and accepting because it my truth as Prime Minister and that makes it ok, truth is truth and fact is fact, and the truth for those who abuse it can be likened to a heavy rainfall just when you have half barbecued your steaks you all run into the house for shelter but your meal is ruined.
over confidence and taking for granted the electorate as whole as a bunch of uneducated peasants serves only to demonstrate that our Prime Minister is insane. the peole who attend the red clinics I am sorry to say only add to the Prime Ministers view that we are stupid and peasant like and stand begging
And will accept his truths as gospel because he gives us handouts, Mr Prime Minister the Dominican People are proud and strong, poor yes down trodden no, nor are we entirely stupid either. we have had our serfdom many years ago, today we are free, and we will fight tooth and nail to maintain that.
No ammount of money thrown, no ammount of uneduacted political spin, will change or alter what you have done so you keep your truth's to yourself we dont want them, for we know what the real truth actually is. yes you came from small beginings we all know that I will conclude with this " put a beggar on horseback and he will ride himself to hell" cause that is what you are doing.
# posted by 
: July 6, 2009 6:04 PM
: July 6, 2009 6:04 PM
yes it is true for when a man has beleif in his own lies there is a problem in the character make up of the individual.
to actually state on the radio that Dopwell had never been in contact with his half brother, which he then went on to say that he had spoken with Collin McIntyre and also that McIntyre had confirmed in writing that he had no part in the matter. is insulting to the itelligence of every Dominican especially to our young.
For if it is ok for Skerit to lie then we can too, if Skerrit was honourable and respected us he would never need to lie ever, the worry is that he lied so stupidly like a four year old child would, yet when he is caught out he does not even say sorry, he just throws his gifts arround thinking that will make it go away.
it beggars belief it really does, what does Tony Astephan really think about this? I mean privately? he is an officer of the court yet he supports these falsehoods knowing they are so inately stupid that in truth he must feel very embarrased to say the least,
I do not want a confirmed liar in power over me not ever, for with a liar you never know where you stand, and we Dominicans aint fools I cant speak for everyone but I have had enough, more than enough
we need good governance, we need integrity, above all we need honesty and right now wether you support Skerrit or not this is something that we do not have, we have eyes to see and ears to hear, and change has to happen or we will continue to be the laughing stock of the world, which right now is exactly what we are.
to actually state on the radio that Dopwell had never been in contact with his half brother, which he then went on to say that he had spoken with Collin McIntyre and also that McIntyre had confirmed in writing that he had no part in the matter. is insulting to the itelligence of every Dominican especially to our young.
For if it is ok for Skerit to lie then we can too, if Skerrit was honourable and respected us he would never need to lie ever, the worry is that he lied so stupidly like a four year old child would, yet when he is caught out he does not even say sorry, he just throws his gifts arround thinking that will make it go away.
it beggars belief it really does, what does Tony Astephan really think about this? I mean privately? he is an officer of the court yet he supports these falsehoods knowing they are so inately stupid that in truth he must feel very embarrased to say the least,
I do not want a confirmed liar in power over me not ever, for with a liar you never know where you stand, and we Dominicans aint fools I cant speak for everyone but I have had enough, more than enough
we need good governance, we need integrity, above all we need honesty and right now wether you support Skerrit or not this is something that we do not have, we have eyes to see and ears to hear, and change has to happen or we will continue to be the laughing stock of the world, which right now is exactly what we are.
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