Dear Editor,
What a past week we have had in the Jamaican politricks!
From the minister of health in Parliament trying to justify the deaths of at least 19 Jamaican babies in our hospitals due to a deadly bacteria and suggesting that prematurely born babies are "not babies in the real sense" to the petty squabbles in the Senate arising out of their so-called debate over the Caribbean Court of Justice.
Are these the people who have appropriated the people's rights for themselves on the grounds that they can make a better decision than the ordinary citizens of Jamaica?
Some of their trite arguments, polarising stance and strange, petty behaviour on such an important matter of national importance in the current debate in the Senate have brought home forcefully that they are not fit to make such an important decision for the over 2.7 million of us.
And they have vindicated the point I made on radio recently: What can be more political than politicians in Parliament making decisions along party lines?
Then again, maybe these politicians are right about the people not being capable of making such important decisions, because, after all, we were collectively foolish enough to have elected their party into government despite gross mismanagement, mass corruption, arrogance, and contemptuous regard for the people.
Or do they believe that many of us were born premature babies and, hence, are not real people anyway?
Peter Townsend
President
National Democratic Movement
ndmjamaica@yahoo.com
In a real sense
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What a past week we have had in the Jamaican politricks!
From the minister of health in Parliament trying to justify the deaths of at least 19 Jamaican babies in our hospitals due to a deadly bacteria and suggesting that prematurely born babies are "not babies in the real sense" to the petty squabbles in the Senate arising out of their so-called debate over the Caribbean Court of Justice.
Are these the people who have appropriated the people's rights for themselves on the grounds that they can make a better decision than the ordinary citizens of Jamaica?
Some of their trite arguments, polarising stance and strange, petty behaviour on such an important matter of national importance in the current debate in the Senate have brought home forcefully that they are not fit to make such an important decision for the over 2.7 million of us.
And they have vindicated the point I made on radio recently: What can be more political than politicians in Parliament making decisions along party lines?
Then again, maybe these politicians are right about the people not being capable of making such important decisions, because, after all, we were collectively foolish enough to have elected their party into government despite gross mismanagement, mass corruption, arrogance, and contemptuous regard for the people.
Or do they believe that many of us were born premature babies and, hence, are not real people anyway?
Peter Townsend
President
National Democratic Movement
ndmjamaica@yahoo.com
In a real sense
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