UDP Politics as Usual

Victimization…

For the past three weeks PUP soldier and co-host on Vibes Radio’s morning show Vaughan Gill has been targeted by the Belize Police Department. Sources from within tell us that their political bosses have issued strict instructions. Seems like Carlos Perdomo has the crime situation under control, since he can waste valuable resources to do ‘dutty’ work. When the Agent was arrested this past Friday, it was by no less than two members of Special Branch who are usually involved in more lofty Police work than a common street search. Word is also coming out that other PUP soldiers are being targeted and will be under attack by the Police Department in the days ahead, courtesy of orders straight from the top. Hell, it’s not hard for the Police to throw a bullet into somebody’s yard and then miraculously ‘find’ it a little later. That’s an automatic trip to ‘Ramada,’ no bail granted. It’s no far stretch to imagine political victimization by the UDP – they’ve perfected it during this term. But now they’ve taken it to another level, where they’ll use the Police and the system to deliver some sort of bogus ‘justice,’ UDP style. Word to PUP soldiers, yours truly included – keep out of trouble in the days ahead and check all ways before crossing the streets, so to speak. The UDP is nothing nice and will stop at nothing.

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Can’t handle the truth…

The thing is that Dean Barrow et al can’t handle the truth. The Belize Times and Vibes Radio have been dishing out the truth in big, heavy, nasty castor oil-like doses and that doesn’t rest too well with those guys. They haven’t been able to sue because, well, you can’t sue anyone for telling the truth. Things are bad in Belize for everyone but the Barrow family and FoBs (Friends of Barrow). This bunch is scurvy, incompetent, negligent, brazen, arrogant, shady and just plain stupid – but they don’t like being told that. Can’t really blame them, but it’s the truth. The question needs to be asked – how far will they go to gag the mouths of those PUP soldiers who are in the trenches spreading the information day in and day out. They’ve already gone out of their way to use the Police Department to carry out their dirty work. What’s the next step, Mr. Barrow? How far are you prepared to go to silence the voices raised against you?

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Artificial borders…

Foreign Affairs Minister Sedi Elrington is under serious attack for some, shall we say ill thought out comments as regards the Belize/Guatemala situation. According to Mr. Elrington, the border between Belize and Guatemala is ‘artificial’ and basically we’re all just the same people – “Belizeans and Guatemalans are one, with the same aspirations and desires.” Hmmm! And this is the man we have spearheading the campaign to protect our territorial integrity. Seems like we may need to rethink that there strategy! So anyway, after basically stating on the record and in public that we and Guatemala are just one big family (hell, who needs borders, anyway…viva Cerveza Gallo) Saint Sedi says that we’re just not intellectual enough to understand what he meant. Can you believe that s@#t? Anyway, I’m not too sure that the man in charge of international relations has all his screws intact – in fact, I’m sure he doesn’t. Forgive me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this the very same man who told us that we had to act now to resolve this Guatemala thing by going to the International Court of Justice. I seem to remember that very same man saying that it was either that, or we would have to pick up the gun and go to war. So, just how did we get from ‘picking up the gun and going to war’ to ‘we’re all one and the same, same aspirations and dreams, all buddy-buddy.’ Word is that Sedi won’t be around too much longer. You can take that to the bank.

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Gotta be kidding…

The other day Prime Minister Dean Barrow was on television lambasting Mayor Zenaida Moya, saying that all these handouts and sweetheart deals to Z’s family and friends would not be tolerated. Man, I almost gagged at the hypocrisy of the bald-headed devil. I thought it couldn’t get any worse than that. Then I happened to be watching news tonight when I saw the PM’s Christmas Message. It was sick…plain revolting. The Prime Minister sat there in all his pre-rehearsed, tele-prompted glory and said – ‘This is for me the most special time of the year…a time to reach out not only to family and friends but to the needy and the stranger on the street…’ I think hypocrisy should be against the law and the penalty should be public flogging. Dean Barrow would be flogged without mercy. After a year of Dean Barrow’s family and friends gorging and snuffling and sniffling at the public trough, he can talk about reaching out to the needy. After paying his ex-wife millions of taxpayer dollars while poor Belizeans cannot put food on the table; after guaranteeing that his son is placed in a lucrative position at BTL even though he has absolutely no qualifications; after appointing his brother a justice of the Court of Appeal and giving his sister the contract to clean all government departments and giving his daughter the opportunity to be Belize’s youngest millionaire at taxpayer expense – Dean Barrow has the unmitigated gall to talk about ‘not reaching out to family and friends..’ Of course this is the most special time of the year for Dean Barrow, because he can sit in his seafront mansion and reflect on how much his family has benefitted at our expense and because of his largesse. Dean Barrow must be felling very special indeed. Too bad the rest of us are not feeling the same.

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