RENTAL DEAL!

save political expediency?
Under any other less distorted
mindset, would Rowley
not have been charged
for fraudulent misrepresentation,
when he could not
support the authenticity of
those faux, incriminating
e-mails? Assuming the existence
of a DPP with the
testicular fortitude to have
indicted either Manning or
Rowley to answer for their
obvious indiscretions, in, or
out of power, which court
of “justice” in T&T would
have dared to convict either
of them?
Which other flawed mindset,
afflicting both sides of
the ethnopolitical divide,
has insulated Faris Alwari
from facing questions upon
his wife’s connection to the
ongoing scandal surrounding
the exorbitantly expensive,
ongoing lease on a
never occupied 1 Alexandra
Place or PM Rowley’s roles
in both Landate and Las
Alturas, or his more recent
assumption of the roles of
judge and jury in the Malcolm
Jones/Petrotrin affair,
the serious and expensive
“indiscretions” of Marlene
McDonald and at least one
other of his PNM Ministers?
Further, did Rowley
not originally vacillate in
sync with ex-Mayor Timkee
and why does Mayor Paul,
after his public comments
on this issue still wearing a
Mayoral chain of office?
Finally, if the specific
mindset which has rendered
all the above “untouch-
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THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
tion that Warner, unlike an so long as that malign Williams’
legacy is permitted to
CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY expatriate Calder Hart, ever
with T G. MENDES
profited from public office? remain, “the elephant in the
After declining all but $1.00 room”!
Was Port of Spain side of the ethnopolitical divide
reacted with less than vice rendered to T&T, even could refuse to open a fully
per month for yeoman ser-
Which another mindset
PNM ex-Mayor
Timkee’s initial contempt for popular resentment?
Timkee has thus answer must be obvious. pital in Couva in favour of
to his severest critics, that equipped children’s hos-
announcement of resignation,
in response to 1,000 established a precedent. The explanation for that throwing another scarce
angry demands for same The resignation of a PNM glaring distortion of fact is, $90m at Manning’s already
a threat or a vague promise?
public indignation! ency.
incomplete “Tsunami shel-
office holder in response to of course, political expedi-
hideously over budget and
Whatever it was, his What other than that same What other mindset ensured
the ongoing bloody ley not thus faithfully folter”
at Tarouba? Is Row-
obvious, unseemly and politically expedient mindset,
the foundation upon murder of thousands since lowing in the footsteps of
vacillating delay between
announcement and fact which Williams built the ‘02 when an illegitimate Manning’s refusal to open
has done his public image
no favours. Which of Calder Hart to laugh with crime”, elevated by a flawed built school in Biche? What
PNM, is today permitting PM, Hart’s “partner in a much-needed opposition-
those who have criticised derision at the dupes he and President in ‘01, an obscenity
justified by that same priorities, therefore, is the
in light of those warped
as “same old, same old” a rejected PNM PM bilked
my unflinching focus upon of the millions now held flawed mindset, accepted objective of that warped
Former POS Mayor RAYMOND TIM KEE
that flawed mindset which in foreign accounts? What with enthusiasm by beneficiaries
of “business as usual
able”, regardless of their via that Williams mindset,
Williams/PNM mindset
is the Williams legacy - by else has precluded official
which a discredited ex- requests for Calder Hart’s, and public apathy, sought a
“indiscretions” or which not today, by the process
Mayor, and many in similar rather than Jack Warner’s, legitimate mandate by legitimising
criminal dons and
in power, is not another as the only individual still
political dispensation is of elimination, identify him
circumstances before him extradition to answer
have been similarly encouraged
to temporize - would “home drums” supposed to their political support in the
continues to serve its inguided
nation out of harm’s
charges in court? Are not unrepentant terrorists for
Williams’ affliction which capable of leading a mis-
now care to dispute the real beat loudest for homeboys? General Elections of Oct
tended purpose admirably, way? Provided of course
explanation and “justification”
for that Mayoral vac-
here, Warner from Long-
them handsomely at taxpaymarkable
“good fortune”?. disgusted by the treatment
Which is the “home boy” ‘02 and ‘07 compensated
then what explains their re-
that he have not been too
illation? When, since ‘56 denville, or Hart from Canada?
Aside from which, has he not assured of immunity
Warner, against whom no to accept that awesome reer
expense thereafter? Were
Why then has Jack Austin received to still be inclined
has an elected PNM office
holder or a politician on any there ever been any allega-
from prosecution via the
breath of scandal might be sponsibility on behalf of a
widespread value distortion
credibly levelled against deluded, judgmental and
of that PNM mindset,
would Manning have so
confidently bankrupted the
economy? Indeed, after his
defeat on 24/5/10, which
other mindset enabled him
to welcome the charity of
his now reviled successors
in power to cope with his
subsequent medical problems?
Why did not PNM
colleagues who fattened on
the public purse not save an
ailing Manning that indignity?
Further, in the absence of
that now all-encompassing
either his political or personal
performances in T&T,
not to date enjoyed similar
“good fortune” against the
demands of a foreign imperialist
power for his extradition
to answer trumped up
charges? Unless of course
he is mutually regarded
upon both sides of that ethnopolitical,
divide in his native
land as a potential political
threat to both!
In that plausible scenario,
does not the socio-political
future of the nation demand,
depend upon the ongoing
ungrateful society! Pray,
Williams/PNM political
focus, exposure and prompt
mindset, would PM Rowley
have dared to present to
Parliament those obviously
spurious e-mails in his attempt
to falsely discredit
the then ruling PPG? Under
which another mindset
could the PPG have suffered
the addition of insult to injury
when they have adjudged
the villains for bringing
their subsequent vote of “no
confidence” against Rowley
for his fraudulent mischief?
No significant improvement
in political conduct might
be reasonably anticipated
and total exorcism of that
ongoing, all-embracing,
and malign legacy of the
late putative “Father of the
Nation”?
In the ongoing neglect of
that national responsibility,
to what can T&T look
forward except escalated
violence, death, and destruction?
Given his demonstrated
performance and
personal generosity does
Jack Warner’s deliberate
official denial of national
protection from extradition
by “the powers that be”
therefore, if only for subsequent
generations, that his
oft-demonstrated patriotism
precludes any such reaction
- however justified!
Alternatively, T&T can
always continue denigrating
and rejecting Warner on
spurious and unsubstantiated
allegations of corruption
outside of T&T.
Having so done and in
the unlikely event that the
society has not violently
imploded before the next
General Election as a result
of political corruption, arrogance,
and mismanagement,
a misguided society
might as well continue voting
PNM, since as Sparrow
will have accurately sung -
“We like it so” until as they
boast in Laventille, vote
“PNM until we (are all prematurely)
dead”.
At which point in time
that durable and malign
Williams’ legacy will have
fulfilled its specific purpose!
Then and not unless
removed before, will it
cease to be “the elephant in
the room.”