{"id":237671,"date":"2019-10-26T22:50:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T02:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=237671"},"modified":"2019-10-26T22:50:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T02:50:58","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-hypocrisy-and-dishonesty-are-very-strange-maladies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/letter-to-the-editor-hypocrisy-and-dishonesty-are-very-strange-maladies\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hypocrisy and dishonesty are very strange maladies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"642\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Letters-to-editor-3200x1680-642x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-237679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Letters-to-editor-3200x1680-642x337.jpg 642w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Letters-to-editor-3200x1680-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Letters-to-editor-3200x1680-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Letters-to-editor-3200x1680-640x336.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The same persons like Parry Bellot who see clearly that the conduct of Donald Trump in the US is undemocratic, are the same ones who will employ every kind of excuse, explanation and lie (EELS) to defend Skerrit and the DLP&#8217;s undemocratic\u00a0behaviour in\u00a0Dominica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This type of behaviour includes selling passports to international crooks, harbouring international crooks, employing English crooks to try to frame leader of the opposition allegedly with police accomplices,\u00a0paying airfares to voters from overseas and rejection of OAS\/CARICOM\/Commonwealth recommendations for electoral reform, and providing monetary and physical assets to supporters. The Prime Minister is also engaged in shutting-off the opposition from national media, claiming that since he is put there by the Lord, any criticism of Skerrit\u00a0is criticism of the Lord, victimizing\/discriminating against any persons including professionals that are critical of the regime, bringing bogus charges against opposition groups in kangaroo courts, tear-gasing citizens during demonstrations, shady management of the country&#8217;s finances, giving\u00a0 ground to public servants to participate in open partisan public commentary in support of DLP positions\u00a0 e.g Cleville Mills with complicity of police chief Carbon, etc etc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Clayton Shillingford <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The same persons like Parry Bellot who see clearly that the conduct of Donald Trump in the US is undemocratic, are the same ones who will employ every kind of excuse, explanation and lie (EELS) to defend Skerrit and the&#8230;","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":237679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[235,15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-carousel","category-letters-to-the-editor","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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