Get real, Randolph!

Fri, Jul 02, 2010

Editor: On reading your article it is clear you attempt to defend PM Gonsalves and his ULP administration’s stance on Socialism but you fail so miserably that I conclude you are the one who needs to get real, Randolph.{{more}} You do not even successfully defend the PM’s position as evidenced by his own confessions. Your lame efforts, therefore, make me feel sorry for you, more than anything else.

First, I would have you know that I would rather any day endear the good people of this nation with “My dear people” than to cruelly insult them calling them “empty and backward” and “dunce and disorderly” as PM Gonsalves has done. For you to complain over my loving term in the face of the PM’s contempt for the people shows how twisted and thwarted your senses have become through evident party politics bias. For all my disagreement with anyone in any topic, this Country has never heard me condemning my fellow men as “dunce”, “backward”, not having the “capacity to understand”, and all the other nasty insults that our PM has used against them, yet you call me “intoxicated with an attitude of arrogance, vengeance and bitterness”? You ever heard me with the audacity to compare myself with Jesus Christ or condemning people who chose to vote ‘yes’ to some historical hell because the vote no prevailed in the referendum election?. Ever hear me calling people “wutless dutty dawg” because they disagree with me? You want to hear anything more arrogant, vengeful and bitter than that? YOU need to get real, Randolph, and stop calling good evil and evil good because the Bible pronounces a “woe” unto those who do that.

If you are even concerned to read my writings and consult the book I have cited from Hugh O’Shuagnessy, you would know that I am fully aware of the evils Eric Gairy practiced during his time. However, that was no excuse for Maurice Bishop to take power by unconstitutional means. You claim you are not justifying his actions but since you stand in the PM’s defence, maybe you should. After all, it was PM Gonsalves who in his featured address in Grenada last May 2009, recounting how he felt when he learnt of Bishop’s overthrow of Gairy’s government, said: “I was ecstatic. Weeping had endured for a long night but joy had come that morning.” He made no apology for the means Bishop used, so who are you defending?

Bishop did not do better than Gairy with respect to protection of rights and freedoms. He stifled free press; just ask Alister Hughes and the other journalists (or their families in the case of those who are now deceased) who were imprisoned for publishing the Grenadian Voice and the Torchlight newspapers, and these papers were shut down also. Anti-rights behaviour is wrong, whether it is from Gairy, Bishop or Gonsalves and thank God the socialist revolution in Grenada failed so Grenadians could be free from dictator Maurice Bishop. Thank God also for democratic processes to remove any ruler who becomes disrespectful to the people. And please desist from lying on me by saying that I am “cursing the Prime Minister weekly” because rebuke for wrong doing is not cursing. Cursing is when you call people “wutless dutty dawg” and when you stick up your middle finger to protesters against you.

The people of SVG have already said how they feel about socialism/communism during the referendum election in 2009. And yes, Grenada was an OECS Country in 1979-1983 when its leaders experimented with the Marxist-Leninist communism, so your implied claim that it could never happen in an OECS Country is not even true to recent history. Furthermore, it is the PM and Chavez and the rest of the ALBA company, not me, who said they are advancing on the road to Socialism through the Bicentennial Manifesto of Caracas. So, whether or not they live to accomplish their aims will not stop them from putting things in place to see them come to fruition. Their mouths have spoken it, and YOU, Randolph, need to pay attention. It is YOU who need to get real and stop trying to blind Vincentians’ eyes to our reality with your unsound reasoning, untrue to history assertions and your evident bias towards ‘your beloved’ but contemptuous to the people Prime Minister.

I will never apologise for speaking the truth to the people because Jesus Christ says that the truth is what makes us free. As for you, repent and accept the faith of Jesus Christ so you could keep his commandments in true love for Him and your fellowmen-whom when you learn to love you will want to speak the truth to them for their salvation from sin and from infringement of their human rights by proud and arrogant leaders.

Anesia O. Baptiste