TT has its own home-grown war

THE EDITOR: Are we indeed a bunch of mimic men? As we sit idly by in a bullet riddled society, it comes to no surprise that Trinidadians would find time to write letters in the daily newspapers and even protest in front of the American Embassy on its war against a merciless Iraqi dictator.

But what about our war! The war against the good-for-nothing thieves that viciously attack, torture, kidnap our loved ones and rob us of our belongings. The monsters that rape our women and children and slaughter our people. Where’s the protest, where is the outrage! If the people of this country refuse to take action and exorcise itself from the evil doers in society, then dying by natural causes will be a thing of the past. Is it the government’s plan to intentionally fail to eradicate violent crimes as a means to gain international recognition by making the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago the first people, in the history of the world, to be placed on the United Nations list of endangered species? My people are we cowards or are we too passive in our thinking. Do you not believe that together we can regain our freedom and live free of fear? My friends bullets see neither creed nor race, it’s time to make a stand, for the survival of once a great nation lies in the hands and actions of its people.

ANIL DHANPAUL
Port-of-Spain