TT in crime, horror flick

THE EDITOR: Sometimes I feel I am an “extra,” one of a cast of thousands, on the set of a horror movie, but it’s just another day in TnT — a couple of murders, a random corpse, freak accidents, etc — we all know the daily menu. This movie would get awards for acting, make-up, special effects (the spectacular car wrecks). But those victims are not actors, they are dead human beings, fellow citizens. We are looking at real blood and tears and grief.

We can’t rewrite the script for what has been done. But I wish the director and producer (whoever they are) could make a family movie instead. Then we wouldn’t need our citizens who play the part of the perpetrators to get high on drugs, alcohol, hate, the occult — and little boys and old men won’t have to take “performance enhancing medication.” I met a wise lady in Tobago recently, a philosopher in a humble job (attendant in a ladies’ room). She reminded me that even a small sin is a sin.

So it is with all that is destroying this country — a little corruption, cronyism, racial and religious bias, political fanaticism on both sides of the divide, — we are all familiar with this menu also. Even a little of any of them is too much. They are not mentioned in the Ten Commandments, “Thou shalt not commit nepotism or cronyism”, but they are crimes against citizens, and sins against God. It’s getting late, many are aware of that. If things don’t change sooner than soon, we may wake up to the wasteland that is on the edge of our nightmares. Or, horrible thought, a whole nation might not wake up at all.

LORNA VERNON
Maraval