PNM Govt a radical and abysmal failure

He has given them a mark of 10 out of 100. They truly deserve even less.

They are an abysmal and radical failure. And clearly they owe their dismal performance to none but themselves since for the most part they have been their own best counsel and at the same time, their worst enemy.

What advice they have received from people outside a small inner cabal of PNM “high-rankers” and private-sector corporate and banking financiers has come from foreigners — aliens to our culture — principally the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

The IMF, like the PNM, is concerned only with itself and its agenda. It cares not a hoot about us and our Third World issues.

Like the PNM, the IMF is an anti-human and inhumane collection of automatons so steeped in divisiveness and dishonesty that it cannot see further than its nose.

Like the PNM, the IMF so bask in its lies that it is incapable of unravelling fact from pernicious fiction. Both groups receive continuing support from an established local media — all birds of a feather flocking together.

PNM apologists, whether overt or clandestine, highly educated or semi-literate, selfish and rich or mentally enslaved and dirt poor, many of them ethnically challenged myopic cultists and the media puppets who day after day spin yarn upon yarn of lies into laughable Anansi stories, let them know that the discerning among us dismiss their tall tales and propaganda with derision.

To all of these, the PNM you have chosen to bat for is a loser. It is an abject failure.

It has thrown itself into a bottomless pit of its making. To paraphrase the Psalmist: “For 60 years we have been wearied by these people; they know their hearts are astray, and they refuse to change their wicked ways; never will they see their way.” The PNM people banded together with the media and nefarious elements within key segments of public and private institutions to gain a political upper hand to the detriment of the people of this country. Theirs is a pact that cannot be undone. To undo it would inevitably expose a rotten core. To continue to live the illusion condemns everyone to hopelessness.

The latest human rights report compiled by the US State Department on this country states: “Corruption in the police and immigration services continued to be a problem, with senior officials acknowledging that officers participated in corrupt and illegal activities. There were allegations that some police officers had close relationships with gang leaders and that police, Customs, and immigration officers often accepted bribes to facilitate drug, weapons, and human trafficking.

There were also allegations that police officers participated directly in the trafficking of persons and commonly frequented illegal brothels.

“To help combat corruption in the Prison Service, prison guards are required to pass through screening devices to prevent smuggling contraband. There is no internal affairs unit responsible for investigating incidents of professional misconduct attributed to law enforcement officials.” The PNM through decades of political corruption has brought us to this sorry day. It is impossible for the PNM to rid us of the scourge of their making. Sadly, only those with ears will hear.

Steve Smith via email