{"id":108865,"date":"2013-12-14T14:41:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T18:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=108865"},"modified":"2013-12-29T13:17:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T17:17:00","slug":"just-dennis-people-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/commentary\/just-dennis-people-money\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST DENNIS: It&#8217;s The People Not Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67106\" style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67106\" alt=\"Dennis Joseph\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dennis-joseph.jpg\" width=\"193\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dennis-joseph.jpg 193w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dennis-joseph-99x150.jpg 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dennis Joseph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>First and even separately I wish to congratulate this most exciting Pope Francis on being named TIME magazine Person of the Year. Pope Francis could easily use the slogan \u201cChange is coming\u201d on his MITRE or headdress as he is bent on changing things in the Catholic Church to stop it from withering away into irrelevance and remake it into the real image of Jesus the Christ- love for all, compassion for the unfortunate \u00a0and humility of its priests and other captains of the church. \u00a0, Enough of this bishop\u2019s palace mentality\u2019 he seems to be saying leave that to those who enjoy spending 27 million dollars in a poor island just to build one.\u00a0 \u00a0This Vicar of Christ as he is called by his Church is truly the people\u2019s Pope.<\/p>\n<p>Now one of the most \u00a0anthem-like \u00a0classy songs over the years \u00a0in calypso in Waitikubuli which I rate more by its content than delivery \u00a0is one sung by Soul Puss titled Respect of the People with the commanding\u00a0 sting\u00a0 line,\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s the people not your money that makes a great leader great.\u201d\u00a0 The Easterners say, \u201cWhen the people are ready the leader appears,\u201d and triumphs whether he has money or not because it\u2019s the will of the people. \u00a0The immediate question is, \u201cAre the people ready for change in Waitikubuli?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PM Skerrit and his DLP are \u00a0taking an annoying \u00a0disdainful attitude of, \u201cCan anything good come out of Nazareth\u201d, toward the individual candidates of the United Workers Party\u00a0 in similar \u00a0style as the uppers did toward Jesus who they dismissed as the carpenter\u2019s son in his time on earth.\u00a0 Well surprise, surprise, Mr. PM, some of the most successful people in the world were born in a manger or something similar.\u00a0 Rev Doctor Phillip Potter who rose to become General Secretary of the World Council of churches was born in a small wooden house on Upper Lane, Roseau.\u00a0 \u00a0Should PAHO have said of Dr Clarissa Etienne, \u201cCan anything good come out of little Dominica?\u201d and of course there is Peter the rock on which the Jesus movement \u00a0and Christianity was built who was a simple uneducated struggling fisherman.\u00a0\u00a0 Not everyone can simply make a few phone calls to party executive members and be made a Prime Minister as Skerrit was able to do after the death of PM Pierre Charles so come on. \u00a0\u00a0In any case the PM sounds real strange when he tells we the people that\u00a0 those\u00a0 we should diss down \u00a0are people who did well in their personal lives.\u00a0 If the other side has a more powerful team it is because his fanatics who are lawyers and doctors prefer to duck in the media chorus line and the\u00a0 cheerleaders section of the DLP regime.<\/p>\n<p>The coming \u00a0elections \u00a0seems to have the Prime Minister speaking in silly tongues and \u00a0in an apparent \u00a0panic hustling \u00a0to impress as in 2005\u00a0 with another 300 million dollar MOU of Chinese origin, this time in US dollars, from which the Chinese government through its local ambassador has distanced itself.\u00a0\u00a0 He obviously hopes this will astonish enough to seize the attention and momentum from the UWP Lennox Linton juggernaut. \u00a0It seems the PM is rushing to do things dancing hip-hop lurching from nothing to something to nothing and back again seeking to upstage his political opponents because as the saying goes, \u201cSkerrit cannot afford to lose with perhaps his whole future riding on another elections win.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 But it is not just Skerrit; it is also the Boom- flies who do not see themselves having \u00a0a salary without him, the lawyers who feed of him, his Chinese personalities who he calls friends and brothers who see Waitikubuli as their milking cow, the ministers of religion in particular the evangelicals who think \u201cGod is good all the time\u201d just so \u00a0long as \u00a0he allows him to be the PM and the fall of Skerrit would be a backhander from God which zoomed in under their guard knocking the power out of their prayers. \u00a0\u00a0Space does not allow for a longer list, but the hangers on sprout like mushrooms in the \u201cme too and what about me\u201d greedy section. \u00a0\u00a0Yet government cannot solve problems if the people think\u00a0 the government is the problem and this mad rush\u00a0 and quick fix formula will not forgive nearly 14 years of having no real economic policy to solve the multitude of economic difficulties.\u00a0 This government has embarked for years on a policy of just leaving it all to China or Venezuela and with Chavez gone their options have significantly dwindled.<\/p>\n<p>I have always remembered my late father\u2019s remarks about Edward Leblanc, \u201cSomeone like him comes once every fifty years.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 In 1961 Leblanc, a 5\u2019 4\u201d former motor cycle riding banana inspector of mixed Black and Kalinago descent led the Labour Party to victory.\u00a0 He was soon nicknamed \u201cLittle Rebel\u201d for his no nonsense style toward changing things and indeed he changed the social and cultural order and \u00a0class structure to the benefit of us all to this day.\u00a0\u00a0 But in 1961 change was not just a Leblanc thing; it was already there in the hearts of the poor people yearning to break free. It was set in the poor people\u2019s hearts by the trade union giants of that day most notably a lightly educated Christopher Loblack.\u00a0 \u00a0A moderately educated Leblanc was the leader who appeared when the people were ready to act. They both showed that high education was not the real qualification for achieving the people\u2019s goals but a certificate in honesty, integrity and a passion so focused and concentrated with a fearless spirit is the lever\u00a0 that moves mountains. \u00a0His main opponent was the Freedom Party\u00a0 an offspring of the Dominica United Peoples Party(DUPP)\u00a0 seen as representing the privileged class.\u00a0\u00a0 Now fifty years later it appears that the Freedom Party has infiltrated the ranks of the DLP and in effect may be the real opponents to change.\u00a0 Why should they want change?\u00a0 The wealth of this island has again been skewed in the direction of the few, the middle class mainly civil servants cannot understand how their salaries cannot make ends meet and yet their unions accept sloth-like increases in their pay at every round of negotiations while the poor are relegated to the ranks of constantly waiting on handouts.<\/p>\n<p>The question is whether now fifty years since Leblanc change is again in the hearts of we the people or is it just an academic exercise?\u00a0 We view change as a giant vacuum cleaner that will suck up everything including our way of life and it is that fear the DLP hopes will help them through in the next elections.\u00a0\u00a0 Yet something has to change in Waitikubuli.\u00a0 Unemployment and underemployment is destroying our youth and all our industries are in stages of decline or just barely making it.\u00a0 \u00a0Today the lowest rating is given to the office of the PM because of salty and distressing remarks which he never ceases to make as if like an infant he cannot stop putting his toe in his mouth.<\/p>\n<p>There is talk that this DLP is hell-bent on buying up media houses and one day might even buy up Q95 radio in order to shut down the opposing voices expecting we the people to grumble but do nothing.\u00a0 The Chinese writer Lin Yutang in his Vigil of a Nation writes, \u2018The people who do not know how to talk against their government do not deserve democracy.\u2019\u00a0 \u00a0Clearly Skerrit fears being made as in his own words an \u2018unemployed loiterer\u201d after the next elections but he should know that whether the wants it or not change is a rule of nature and either things change or the people will change him for in the case of politics it is the people not money, clever antics or tricks that will eventually decide any leader\u2019s fate and legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First and even separately I wish to congratulate this most exciting Pope Francis on being named TIME magazine Person of the Year. 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