{"id":104294,"date":"2013-09-30T12:25:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T16:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=104294"},"modified":"2013-12-29T13:17:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T17:17:48","slug":"just-dennis-labour-behold-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/commentary\/just-dennis-labour-behold-president\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST DENNIS: Labour behold your president"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dennis
Dennis Joseph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The lady was really freaking out as she blurted out \u201cEnough foolishness now, enough, enough.\u00a0 So what I should call him President Compere Lapen, or President Ayatollah or President Coul Woche Brigade because I will not call him President Savarin?\u201d\u00a0 Then she went on after a moment, \u201cI think Skerrit doing foolishness now.\u201d Then in another moment she said with passion, \u201cGod be praised for Q95.\u201d<\/p>\n

My attempt to cool her down included a short history of Q95.\u00a0\u00a0 I told her that it was Edison James the people should thank as God\u2019s instrument for the existence of Q95 because when a week or so before the 2000 elections\u00a0 as the one who conceived\u00a0 the station\u00a0 I urged then PM James who I met at the GIS studio doing a recording to give us the broadcast license before election day and to that\u00a0 he asked me curiously, \u201cAre you afraid we will lose?\u00a0 Fear no more.\u201d\u00a0 He went ahead and granted the licence anyway.<\/p>\n

We would never have gotten a licence from the DLP\/Freedom coalition which included Charles Savarin and there would have been no Q95. I had conceived the station as a music station so James could not know then how this station would serve the people as an effective talk radio thanks to Lennox, Matt and Angelo, especially those in opposition to the policies of the rulers without which they would have no voice at all.\u00a0 Viva Edison!\u00a0 But all my lecture did was to bring out an even somewhat sexy rebuff from the lady, \u201cI telling you about Savarin you telling me Edison.\u00a0 So who you rolling with den?\u201d\u00a0 Does that statement make sense?\u00a0 She just could not stand Savarin.<\/p>\n

It is not just that Savarin\u2019s controversial image is the total opposite to the declaration regarding the decorum of our president as written up on the government\u2019s own website which stresses that the president should be non-partisan and a great unifier for I know that means nothing to this \u2018no law not even the Constitution can stop me\u201d prime minister.<\/p>\n

It is not only that Savarin is a serial boycotter calling for the boycott of Brizee Mart which is now closed down and while General Secretary of the CSA calling for the boycott of HHV Whitchurch in a CSA newsletter, while\u00a0 leader of the opposition calling for the boycott of then President Vernon Shaw and there is more.\u00a0 While after the death of Pierre Charles Bosso and the others of the Freedom Party executive sat in a meeting with him to plan their negotiations with the Labour Party which with ten seats was one short of the 11 needed he then slipped out of the meeting and went to make his personal deal with newly appointed PM Skerrit.\u00a0 No one can convince me that was not pre-arranged otherwise why would then President Liverpool go ahead and swear in Skerrit as PM if he only had ten seats at the time?<\/p>\n

But what really\u00a0 itches my bleeper today is that Charles Savarin is elevated to the presidency by the government of the Dominica Labour Party-yes the DLP which he openly wanted to wipe off the face of the earth.\u00a0 Do you hear laughter labourites?<\/p>\n

I was just listening perhaps for the hundredth time to one of my favourite songs from the gospel band Hillsong titled \u2018Let the weak say I am strong\u2019 based on Joel 3:10 in the Scriptures and that always takes my mind back to the time when the Labour Party meant something besides just shouting \u201cLabour Power\u201d in lockstep with nothing more than winning an election.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a time of the fifties when the futures of many children of the poor were limited by low expectations, poverty and lack of opportunities for social and intellectual development.<\/p>\n

A time of seriously low wages like less than a dollar a day, a time when the little people were condemned to be \u2018carriers of water and hewers of wood.\u2019\u00a0 A time of strict class division of upper and very much lower classes and of \u201cgwo boug\u201d and \u201cpeti garcon\u201d and \u201cneg bod la mer,\u201d of misery and hopelessness and near slavery type servitude and then came hope like a shining star of light in the name of\u00a0\u00a0 Dominica Labour Party emerging out of the poor people\u2019s trade unions. The clear goal of the DLP then was \u201cLet the weak say I am strong.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 It was Dominica\u2019s first political party created by the people for the people and I was in my teens a zealous follower of the giants who strode across the fields of oppression crushing the obnoxious heads of the snakes of repression wherever they found them.<\/p>\n

That was the Labour Party I rolled with and joined in the struggle for the liberation of the common people as we were called.\u00a0 Those of us who were upfront came under serious fire from the upper classes furious over this movement which was an exodus out of poverty.\u00a0 And that is the essential difference with the Labour Party of today for it is no more a movement but just a party loading up with all the wheelers and dealers until it has become mainly an expedient name to cover a collection of persons with personal interests which have nothing to do with the uplifting of the poor.<\/p>\n

One of the persons used in the 70\u2019s by the uppers to get at the labourites with an aim to kill the Labour Party was General Secretary of the Civil Service Association Charles Savarin and he did his work well locking down the island with strikes as often as he breathed air using the civil servants who fell for his charm.\u00a0 His tactics were brilliant as he was able to force the DLP to enact laws to control the outrageous strikes situation damaging down the economy\u00a0 and those laws were made to seem oppressive antagonizing the masses. The DLP was eventually overthrown by force in 1979, surrendering when ministers and labour supporters were under siege in their own homes as gangs surrounded their houses raining stones and other things on their dwellings and looting the shops of Labourites and others.\u00a0 President DeGazon fled the island and was replaced by Sir Cools Lartigue whose home was promptly and seriously stoned and the cake shop (Frans) of the family looted and their car burned in broad daylight.\u00a0 President Cools Lartigue resigned in terror.<\/p>\n

Even deadly bullets were used to pepper the home of George Karam and his family seeking to kill them.\u00a0\u00a0 Who was the main conductor of that orchestra?\u00a0 You guessed it-Charles Savarin. When the dust settled the Freedom Party then ruled the roost and\u00a0 it was again a politically\u00a0 blood thirsty Savarin who proclaimed a \u201cwe eh finish with them\u00a0 yet\u201d demolition job on us labourites urging his followers to seek us out \u201cin every nook and cranny.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Those were the days and nights of terror as the Ayattolah as he was named strutted his stuff and preened and spoke in special tongues about the mobilisa-shon and agita-shon of the popula-shon against the DLP.<\/p>\n

It was just fifteen years later that the Freedom Party went into meltdown and to save their withering tails the party then morphed into – yes – the Labour Party, an unthinkable\u00a0 case of politics making strange bedfellows.<\/p>\n

Former Freedomite Skerrit became the leader of the Labour Party and moved in his Freedom party friends right under the noses of the Labourites.\u00a0 It seems that the party\u2019s main plank\u00a0 embraced in the words of the song, \u201cLet the weak say I am strong, Let the blind say I can see, What the Lord has done in me,” is now set aside.<\/p>\n

Now there are bands of assault weapon equipped special police outside our House of Assembly to ensure Savarin is appointed President against the people\u2019s wishes.\u00a0 Skerrit has crash landed Savarin on the people of the Labour Party and\u00a0 Charles Savarin is laughing out loud\u00a0 as he enters the new 27 million dollar all too white and much too huge Presidential palace, expects to draw $10,000 this month end and reflects with amusement on who placed him there and just cannot believe it is-yes- you\u00a0 rewarding him for stoning you.<\/p>\n

“Labourites behold your President, your gift to Dominica.\u201d<\/p>\n

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