{"id":136205,"date":"2015-03-22T16:30:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T20:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=136205"},"modified":"2015-03-22T16:30:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T20:30:39","slug":"political-miscreants-of-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/commentary\/political-miscreants-of-the-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Miscreants of the Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-39536\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/commentary2.jpg\" alt=\"Commentary\" width=\"286\" height=\"206\" \/>With two recent general elections in the OECS (Dominica and St. Kitts), boldly put it, political miscreants are those who behave criminally or viciously in state office. These are people who do wrong, know they do wrong and enjoy doing wrong. These are the political miscreants in authority and with their devious aides and powers openly behave in a deliberate, dishonest, malicious or otherwise contemptible way and will continue doing so in 2015.\u00a0 In the days of past these people were referred to as infidels in that they openly spread their wrath on the poor people, cripple the nation and these so called \u201cGood Citizens\u201d, \u201cuse the riches of the poor to enrich themselves, make a mockery of the law and pray to God to protect them at the same time\u201d (Mighty Sparrow).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have never before seen a Prime minister in the news everyday receive a barrage of allegations of wrong doing\u2026.\u201d and in every way aided by unscrupulous legal minds, protect the indefensible and in the most artful way get away with it while Dominica`s poor youth are sent to prison for long sentences for stealing potatoes, shop lifting and other related petty street crimes. Of course wrong doing should be punished and at all levels.<\/p>\n<p>These miscreants are like stalactites, a conical (cone-shaped like) hanging pillar of individuals creeping the walls of the Financial Centre and other structures of government that has gradually built up as political cesspits from the dirty political waste water seeping through these political corridors seeking prominence and recognition for their selfish ends. It\u2019s the plantocracy in operation and bought for $1.00 and involving a chain of cause and effect or action and reaction in which things will get progressively worse.<\/p>\n<p>We just observed how State crimes, specifically to Election Code, and St. Kitts` recently held elections has become an art well protected by so called \u201chonourable good citizens\u201d, senior counsels and blessed and protected in churches by those who profess to be the guardians of God`s poor and vulnerable people who continue to beg and honour the power of these miscreants for bread, money, toilets, clothing, housing materials as the poor continue to live in squalor and these good citizens enjoy their political power continue to live in villa style bungalows on top of the hills as public servants await their long overdue pay rise are now insulted with offered crumbs of 3% -5% pay increase in fear just because Team Dominica`s UWP`s leader Lennox Linton pronounced a guarantee of same. These political miscreants openly accumulate their wealth from the restricted and limited duty-free resources of the state through heavy perks, claim hefty travel allowances and are unable to account to the people of Dominica and the Caribbean the benefits and returns of these travels.<\/p>\n<p>This cacophonous gang of politicians, businessmen, historians, religious and legal minds operate a well designed and protected plutocracy and demonstrate unpleasant noise, insult and injustice of the political system and profession they suppose to uphold and respect but continue to use their mucous secretion for support of innocent loyal citizens who do not know better. They stifle the growth and development of our citizens and country while over 50% of our youth are incarcerated and their poor, vulnerable and deprived parents and elderly people reduced to vagrancy continue to walk and parade the streets of Roseau everyday with begging hands and seen as a nuisance by the office of the Mayor while prayers are being said every Sunday by professed blessed men in gowns of deceitfulness and blindness for the protection and upkeep of these good citizens. Prof. Beckles said in his paper \u201cRole of intellectuals\u201d \u2013 \u201cIt is also not rare to encounter intellectuals who in private do not believe what they proclaim with great fanfare in public\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Our Morne Diablotin and Morne Au diable are the not the devils of the country. These mountains have towered in peace for centuries, blown tranquil cool and soothing breeze, dropped heavenly holy water and blessed the land with holy showers from above and with some arrogance and the demonstrated historical ignorance of one evangelist and friends operate behind the church door in the dark of night. These diables \u2013 just like that penned the name change of two of Dominica\u2019s most famous and historical land marks. What ignorance &#8211; what sin. In return they get the limited goodies from the state and a supremo to repair THEIR CHURCHES and then turn a blind eye on God`s poor, deprived people. And We remember GON Emanuel and his wife!<\/p>\n<p>My dear people, corrupt political leaders have created failed states and at some point God&#8217;s people will rise up. Rather than elevating the working class people of Dominica and the Caribbean to the level of nobility and democratic awareness, these so called political leaders, good citizens and elites representing the plantocracy, have systematically perverted their thinking and judgment and reduced vulnerable Kittitians and Dominicans to mediocrity, begging, handouts and false allegiance, come what may.<\/p>\n<p>The Electoral and Integrity in Public Office Commissions need to be reviewed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With two recent general elections in the OECS (Dominica and St. Kitts), boldly put it, political miscreants are those who behave criminally or viciously in state office. 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