{"id":124694,"date":"2014-10-03T11:46:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T15:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=124694"},"modified":"2014-10-03T11:47:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T15:47:01","slug":"just-dennis-surprise-surprise-forgot-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/commentary\/just-dennis-surprise-surprise-forgot-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST DENNIS: Surprise, surprise we forgot the cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_69216\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69216\" style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69216\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dennis-TDN.jpg\" alt=\"Dennis Joseph\" width=\"193\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dennis-TDN.jpg 193w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dennis-TDN-99x150.jpg 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dennis Joseph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The only way any government in a democracy would try to introduce a new tax a few weeks before a General Election is if the economy is in a very, very bad state.\u00a0 The introduction of a near secret $27.00 port entry tax on our people and visitors to our island tells the sad tale of an economy in serious crisis.\u00a0 Party supporters must be wondering why is their party in power making so many missteps lately and seems to be forever playing defence?\u00a0 Many people will shout that the obvious solution\u00a0 is to change the managers and that would be easy in a private corporation but is it easy in Waitukubuli politics?<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Once more to the breach dear friends\u2019 according to the bard in the Shakespeare play Henry V, as we face\u00a0 General Elections where all anyone has to do is show up, give a name, and be handed a ballot paper to vote.\u00a0 They may not be of the constituency and the name may not be their own but it does not matter as long as the name is on the voters list it seems OK.\u00a0 The real name holder may show up an hour later only to be told that according to the record he or she has already\u00a0 voted.\u00a0 We have complained about that scenario for years and believe it or not we are complaining still right on the eve of another election campaign.\u00a0 The thing is this titanic size loophole has been the way in recent times for political parties to skew up elections and win yet it continues and no amount of talk has changed or solved the problem and it seems to deal with this we must like St Paul said in the Scriptures, \u201cPut on the full armour of God.\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>After the elections there is always grumbling and quarrelling on talk shows, a ton of pawol about how this should never happen again but it does happen over and over again and this time it appears that it will be business as usual.\u00a0 I therefore ask what is the purpose of the Electoral Commission?\u00a0 Under Election Offences\u00a0 there are a whole lot of offences that are punishable by fines and imprisonment which should be \u00a0respected by all and I recall the days when political parties rushed to remove banners and posters close to polling stations \u00a0the night before the polling day so as not to break the law but not so today.\u00a0 So why have an Electoral Commission supposed to monitor these things just being paid to sleepwalk through the process?<\/p>\n<p>It was always in the cards that there would be no identification cards for the 2014\/15 elections.\u00a0 The government which obviously by holding the purse now controls the Commission made sure that it would not happen. The Finance Minister refused to give the money to secure voter ID cards \u00a0and played the game with talk of a national ID card instead.\u00a0 With distraction tactics he got the conversation mired into long talk comparing the two fully knowing that for\u00a0 him having none at all was best.<\/p>\n<p>There are existing rules which deal with the period of residency \u00a0in order to vote.\u00a0 There is provision for ID cards as well but the laws seem meaningless in our lovely Waitukubuli. The most important function in our democratic system, that of selecting our own government freely and fairly by secret ballot \u00a0is as corrupt as an overused pit latrine. \u00a0There is still no policy on use of the national radio station by political parties instead the government just uses it at its convenience.\u00a0 The cowardly Boards of Directors leaves the staff open to abuse while making no significant decision to advance the democratic process.\u00a0 Those who hold power know the voters very well. There is not a strong word of protest about this from anybody including those in opposition quite happy it seems with the \u201cI have one private station, you have the other\u201d foolishness thus placing themselves at the mercy of the station owners who could \u201cbackfire\u201d at any time. I know that In the matter of running election campaigns there should be no avenue left unprotected or it could come back to haunt you.\u00a0 Political parties should insist on some sort of ID for the next elections just like the banks do and a set policy as to how the national station operates during the campaign.\u00a0 With all these lawyers in politics someone should really sit down \u00a0\u00a0\u201cPapa Bon Dieu\u201d according to Monelle Williams and just read and challenge the bleeping thing.<\/p>\n<p>As we approach another anniversary of\u00a0 Independence Day it is good to be reminded that about 37 years ago in 1977 Patrick John, Dame Eugenia Charles and others travelled to London for the Constitutional Conference.\u00a0 Lennox Honychurch, Vic Riviere and Leo Austin attended and I was in that conference room as a radio person to report back to Waitukubulians at home on the proceedings\u00a0 In their discussions they never foresaw a day when the election date would be toyed around like a child\u2019s \u00a0phantom saucer and used to keep the entire nation in a constant state of division and tension, or envision a time when the electoral processes would be manipulated by local and outside forces so as to keep the money machine delivering personal wealth to those in power and to protect their own countries\u2019 interest.\u00a0 The delegates therefore saw no need to include strict laws in our Constitution to protect against wayward rulers. They expected just like the British delegation to the conference that we the people would not tolerate \u00a0games and would ensure that the provisions of this noble document be the cornerstone of our free development.<\/p>\n<p>However today we face a situation where \u00a0the document is banded about only for convenience and it is all about seeking ways and means to get around it. Clearly the rulers do not take us seriously.\u00a0 For example they think that they can introduce a new tax just before elections, then delay it for now and later impose the 27.00 entry tax after the elections if they win again. They know our number and they expect a \u2018tou cho-tou flam\u2019 \u00a0response and \u00a0\u201cpoof,\u201d we forget. \u00a0The Chinese, Venezuelans and others have studied us and apparently believe that as a people we do not have the moral fiber to stand for the right which means that they can get away with anything they like and still we call them sweet names like was done with, \u201cPapa Daddy Chavez.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are those who with high moral indignation will rush to make blistering comment that they are much better than those nations think, and, \u201cHow I can say dat\u201d but are those outsiders wrong?\u00a0 If they are wrong how come when we wake up on election day \u00a0we will just act as usual like we forgot we have a problem and appear to be so surprised that yet again we do not have either National ID or election Voter ID cards?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The only way any government in a democracy would try to introduce a new tax a few weeks before a General Election is if the economy is in a very, very bad state.\u00a0 The introduction of a near secret $27.00&#8230;","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":69216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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