PNM followers blind to their wrongdoing

THE EDITOR: I looked at the Baptists celebrating Shouter’s Day at  Balisier House and it becomes easy to understand why the African community remains at the bottom of the social ladder here in TT. All those hypocrites that flocked to Balisier House to celebrate their holiday, choose to forget the insults that Manning and the PNM heaped  on them when they asked for that same holiday, telling them to accept a public festival and not a public holiday.

I am in no way suggesting that they should have packed Rienzi Complex, because I have already placed myself on record as calling for the removal of some of those nonsensical public holidays including Indian Arrival and Shouter’s Day. But that sort of readiness to accept insults from the PNM is a key source of strenght to the party to continue insulting the citizenry, and in particular the people that traditionally support them.

Many of those that flocked to celebrate at Balisier House have husbands and sons and other relatives on the picket line seeking betterment that they themselves will benefit from, so it is clear where their solidarity should have been . . . but while their husbands and sons are being insulted by the same Manning, they are giving him (Manning) strength by their choice of place to conduct their celebrations . . . making good their slogan that they rather suffer under the PNM than benefit some others.

And who did Manning increase by 1000 the police service to deal with, their children, because Manning knew very well that they have nothing to  get, and their anger must be contained, after all Manning was a beneficiary of the Black Power uprising so he knows who angry Black people can react . . . face reality, when his Syrian friends break the law, Prof Deosaran got it right, they go to Parliament and make amendments so that the illegal becomes legal, so that while they can easily break down squatters, they fix the law for squatters like Grand Bazaar.

Idolatry is a sin, and that is one of the biggest sins of Trinidadians, they idolise the PNM to the extent that they refuse something like nest egg which will have gone a long way to ensure that their children would have the chance they did not have . . . and it can still be demanded from the government, but you must be prepared to put yourself and your children first . . . Manning then says to forgive and forget Crown Plaza and he can rightly say that knowing that he had insulted them worse than that and was forgiven . . . I will really like tosee an end to that sort of hypocrisy if only for the children’s sake.

URSUS DANIEL
Arima