{"id":103218,"date":"2013-09-12T09:26:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T13:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=103218"},"modified":"2013-12-29T13:18:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T17:18:02","slug":"just-dennis-red-clinic-mentality-legacies-stings-like-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/commentary\/just-dennis-red-clinic-mentality-legacies-stings-like-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST DENNIS: Of the Red Clinic mentality, legacies and he stings like a bee"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dennis
Dennis Joseph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you think like a slave you will behave like a slave.\u00a0\u00a0 A slave is whipped to the ground over and over and will still continue to work without protest with a \u201cYes Massa\u201d cowering attitude.\u00a0 If you are made to think like a poor person you will always act like a poor person and that is why I have a problem with the so called Red Clinic social program policy of this government.<\/p>\n

This program urges poor people to attend a money distribution clinic one day each week to beg for a bit of that money and receive a little something directly from the hands of Prime Minister Skerrit.\u00a0 The mostly choice-less cabinet of ministers agree to the program and approve the taxpayers funds to sustain it and in so doing have sidelined the established Social Welfare office.\u00a0 Any person whether truly needed or not can avoid the investigative processes of the Welfare Division and make up any story to get a little money.<\/p>\n

I keep wondering why is it that the Labour Party boasts of how well they are doing for the people of Waitukubuli \/Dominica yet every election cycle they rush overseas putting out mllions of dollars to secure votes in order to stay in power.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It appears that they need those who live somewhere else to drop in on Election Day and make up the numbers that will put them over the top.\u00a0 It also means that the local voters are unimpressed with their doings and one of these is the manner in which social programs are made to seem more vote catching traps than compassionate giving.<\/p>\n

I evaluate our national leaders not by their sounds of thunder, fury, pompous boasts, promises and \u201cbef\u201d but by the lasting legacy of their stewardship. I think of things that have made an impact on our lives making us think and live differently. Edward Leblanc was busy changing the social class structure of Dominicans in the sixties to make the poor think differently, Patrick John gave us our political independence and\u00a0 our system of governance written in a new Constitution to give us an international identity, Edison James brought us the World Creole Music\u00a0 Festival\u00a0 which has been a source of national pride and termed by all our people\u00a0 as the biggest and most significant cultural and tourism event ever and so now we await what Skerrit\u2019s legacy will be.<\/p>\n

What lasting social program or policy has he put in place that will compliment his large talk of being deeply interested mainly in social programs?\u00a0 A legacy of just being skillful at winning elections and bringing in voters from overseas to do that is not good enough. Skerrit\u2019s term has been mired in scandals and court cases and the voters are becoming restless as they face another election cycle with a feeling that it will be more of the same and the same old\u00a0\u00a0 talk of a love affair with China and Venezuela.\u00a0\u00a0 Meantime the opposition United Workers Party\u2019s (UWP) confidence level has erupted with\u00a0\u00a0 an exhilarating feeling of being born again.<\/p>\n

This feeling is centered around the phenomenal\u00a0 rise of the new leader\u00a0 Lennox Linton from a political unknown just a few short years ago to become the popular undoubted\u00a0 choice to replace the big footprint of Edison Chenfil\u00a0 James who kept the party afloat but is now retiring.\u00a0\u00a0 The UWP political base is so powered up by this newness that they have already proclaimed Linton a Prime Minister in waiting.\u00a0\u00a0 His masterly inaugural address from Castle Bruce was worthy of a Prime Minister in the making and was like a shining star in the east uplifting the politics to a new height of sober and analytic presentation which may prove a difficult act to follow.
\nCertainly PM Skerrit will have a hard time trying to match that level of oratorical skill and perhaps he should not even try.<\/p>\n

When according to Nasio Fontaine the people start to think that \u201cwe\u2019ve been travelling much too long from Genesis to Revelation\u201d and that the revelations are disturbing then understandably the ruler\u2019s anxiety level increases.\u00a0\u00a0 That is why Linton\u2019s revelations of misdeeds in governance have caused a feeding frenzy for his blood, and ongoing attempts to tear down his gate and frighten his radio listeners away. The governing side has regarded him as an unholy intrusion on their sacred ground and has gone totally nuclear ballistic biting off their nails and spitting them out into fire \u2018well vex\u2019 and calling for their \u2018mamie.\u2019<\/p>\n

Skerrit himself with backward thinking, inappropriately launched a public verbal salvo against Q95 radio which broadcasts Linton\u2019s \u2018Between You and Me\u2019 show seeking to have business houses boycott the station in order to fatally cripple its advertising revenue intake thereby forcing the station off the air.\u00a0\u00a0 Embarrassingly for the PM that back-fired big time since not even his own government offices and people heeded his call.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As often happens, when there is\u00a0\u00a0 overreaching criticism, the DLP agents only succeeded in enhancing the curiosity effect and turned Lennox Linton into a local radio superstar and a national personality.<\/p>\n

However the\u00a0\u00a0 coming of Lennox Linton who has advocated change may be the chance to bring in real change in our politicking.\u00a0 We hope that the advancing election season is not just another round of inane, abusive cruel \u2018mepwi\u2019, cussing and crass politics but a show of respect to we the people as we will be allowed to listen to intelligent debates on the staggering issues facing our land.\u00a0 One of the serious issues is poverty alleviation and jobs, jobs and more jobs.\u00a0 This Red Clinic suppresses talent and makes our people think like poor people without hope.\u00a0 If we want our people to rise we must change the beggar thinking which the Red Clinic encourages and indeed nurtures.<\/p>\n

Many times in life we must be careful for what we ask.\u00a0 The present early election mood of the people is caused by the PM who whenever he feels under some pressure tries to change the conversation by threatening another general election.\u00a0 Recently he did it again but this time it may backfire.\u00a0 The agents and officials of the DLP invited Lennox Linton to enter the political boxing ring so now the glove is in their corner.<\/p>\n

This time around we will find out if Roosevelt Skerrit who has won two elections as prime minister truly enters the real political ring or will he stay far away on a political platform posing and cooing to his admirers.\u00a0\u00a0 We look forward to intense analysis of the issues facing us by way of debates between those who claim they have a plan to fix the problems.\u00a0 If Skerrit again insists upon moving sideways we must conclude that as usual he has chosen to opt out of accounting for what he has been doing and the promises he makes.<\/p>\n

It would therefore be obvious that even now Mr. Skerrit is still an infant in the business of country management and fears a one-on-one with Linton who he may think like in the words of the great famous boxer Mohamed Ali \u201cflits like a butterfly and stings like a bee.\u201d<\/p>\n

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