Attack on the PP Government will intensify
Dear Editor:
As we enter into the election year, the attack on the PP Government will intensify. In fact in my lifetime coming through from 1966 onwards, I have never witnessed a government under as intense scrutiny as the Kamla Persad Bissessar administration. Mind you, there is nothing wrong with calling a government to account. However, it does appear to the impartial observer that the objective of the scrutiny is geared towards the shaming and removal of the government at any cost, such appears to be the hate of some sections of the media towards Kamla Persad Bissessar and the UNC in particular. The same scrutiny is not being directed at the PNM and Rowley despite the confirmed evidence of the poor management of the resources of the country during their tenure. This is blatantly unfair since the very media prides itself on objectivity, which in reality does not exist. The media will be far more credible if it were to declare its “support” hand one way or the other.
For example, the media will do well to examine how Camille Robinson Regis got the E mail of Dr Rudy Moonilal and what this implies for ordinary citizens. Does the PNM approve of hacking and /or of using ulterior means to obtain private correspondence of citizens. This leads me to question the accusation that spying equipment bought under the PNM from Israel had gone missing just before SUATT was dismantled. The country must be told whether all equipment has been accounted for after SUATT was dismantled. Now the population will better understand why the PP Government moved to deal with SUATT. The PNM and Rowley and Regis must declare that they do not have access to any allegedly missing spying equipment. Until then citizens in opposition to the PNM cannot feel safe.
In the meantime, the apparent bias of the Police against the Government is being spoken of by the people. The speed with which the Police have moved to investigate the placards bearing hate and animosity against Indian leadership in the politics compares very unfavorably with the complete lack of any action in the Tobago Calcutta Ship statement, which not even Rowley condemned. Does Rowley and the PNM therefore condone race as a tool for winning political office if even it means indirectly declaring that persons of East Indian descent do not deserve to be part of the governance structure of our country. Has the era of the “recalcitrant minority” ever disappeared in the hearts and minds of the PNM? The culture of the PNM is clearly one based on open discrimination even to the point of using language to denigrate an entire group in a nation which they have helped to build. Under the PNM the marginalization of those who are anti-PNM will be assured. The tokenism of a few East Indian Senators will never erase the deep disregard which the PNM has held for the East Indians.
The Tobago experience is real. Rowley never condemned the Calcutta ship statement. For him and the PNM it was fair comment. On the surface, the PNM leadership speaks diplomatically, but look well they do not condemn their supporters whose words and actions are carefully constructed to divide.
Supporters of the PP Government and particularly the UNC should take note!
Sincerely
Shaffick Mohammed-Ali
Via email
Let’s use the billboards and counter the express guardian abd tv 6 everyday. This pattern of sanitising the pnm when they are in power and demonising and peddling hate daily against unc has to stop. Kamla and co are afraid to take on th e press. What do we have to lose let us do a daily dissection of the pnm press and have the massageboards flashing with our propaganda. There is a lot of traffic jams at peak times let’s use that audience esp the ew corridor
Shaffick Mohammed-Ali, welcome to the real world of politics. The majority of the voting population did not vote for the PP and as such they should not be expected to rubber stamp the actions of the govt, Nor should they be expected to turn a blind eye to what has been the failures and missteps of the govt.
The reality is that the population has a duty to call on the gov’t to account for their actions or failures to act on many issues, and there are many.
This country is fast becoming like Mexico and Columbia where citizens are eliminated or have to flee the country as a result of the threat to their lives for making a stance against corruption within the ranks of the gov’t.
Seems like you are part of the problem.