Hypocrite of the Week

I thought I’d start this week’s column with a very funny joke circulating around town. This one is guaranteed to leave you holding yu belly bottom. Ready for it? Okay, here goes! Patrick Faber wants to be the Prime Minister of Belize. How hilarious is that? And with that bit of comic relief out of the way, we can focus on this week’s premiere hypocrite bar none, the boy who would be a man who would be the prime minister of Belize someday, little Patrick Faber. Faber’s disrespect, disingenuousness, ignorance (in every sense of the word) and arrogance have rendered him not only a near perfect hypocrite, but a fool and one of those persons you just love to hate (just ask the teachers).

On Friday in the House of Representatives, Patrick Faber cried great big crocodile tears as he whimpered and whined about how sad he is because teachers don’t like him. He shook his head in disbelief and anguish, claiming that he was once a teacher too, and is a teacher at heart so he should be accepted into the club just because of that. And in the blink of an eye, he turned ugly and lashed out at those very same teachers he claimed to love so much, using the dirtiest, most insulting and degrading terms to refer to those thousands of teachers who do not think that he is the greatest thing since white bread.

According to Patrick, who has the best interests of the teachers at heart (snicker, snicker), the thousands who protested are either ignorant or politically motivated. See, said Patrick, the teachers are too stupid to know better. If they weren’t so ignorant, simpered the little boy minister, teachers would be prostrating themselves at his feet and singing Glory Hallelujah! And it got much worse than that. Patrick who cares for the teachers so much started bashing those same teachers without mercy, bashing their work ethics and characters. As if that were not enough, Patrick went so far as to accuse some teachers of making students uncomfortable, going to work with their ‘panties’ showing.

The demented little fellow has become versed in the art of double speak like his boss, and that has earned him his righteous place in this column. Just a note to Patrick – the teachers also want to give him an award, but you can bet that it’s not one that he’ll enjoy. And judging from how artfully Patrick dodges the bullet, it’ll be some time before the teachers and his transgressions catch up with him. But catch up with him they will.

Minister of Education Patrick Faber is this issue’s hypocrite of the Week.

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