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13th
Feburary 2010
Political
Suicide
By Randall Mondesir
(LION I)
It
is now more than obvious that the country is
preparing for another round of political confrontation,
war rooms are being set up, ground soldiers
are rounding up, and tongues are being sharpened
to undo any acts of good will. The time has
come for every politician to be on their best
behaviour, it is in the interest of every contender
to create a positive public impression, or mask
their unproductive efforts with deceit and lies.
To make any sort of mistake between now and
election day will be considered futile, and
detrimental to any party, what is sad is that
all attempts of goodwill by opposing fractions
will be exposed on the local market step, with
the intent to undermine and discredit any or
every good intention one may have. This seems
to be the trend that some political leaders
have embraced. In a world that is so unstable,
where civil unrest and fear dominate the course
of the day and a peace of mind seem to be a
thing of the past, there are leaders who use
the political platform with the intent to create
even more social, economical, and infrastructural
mayhem.
St Lucians today have lost their proclivity
for people that constantly bear bad news. The
people of this nation all have their hands full
with their own personal problems, what they
crave for are solutions. The selfish and self
centered attitude of some political leaders
have become too obvious, and their craving for
power is not based on their level of success,
a history or charitable commitment, or an impressive
track record, but merely based on egos, and
vengeance.
Leaders must be aware that our implicit thoughts
have heightened over the past decade, political
leaders take heed, the days of platform tongue
lashing is over, if you can’t cook up
a solid future for St Lucia then stay out of
the kitchen. There are men today who have developed
and adapted a doctrine that is geared to the
immediate response to the people’s needs.
Affirmative action with effective solution response
time is the way of the future, time is money.
St Lucians do not want to hear leaders bleat
like goats about the problems that we are faced
with; on the contrary, they are consequently
entertained by leaders who address the solution.
Be alert, St Lucians are more assertive and
have become more politically inclined than ever
before to the tricks and trades of their leaders,
and that is why those who have been removed
will not be allowed the credence to exercise
their failures.
After every gray cloud there is a silver lining,
there are men out there that have made that
lining a reality, men who have set their agenda
to serve entirely in the interest of the people
of St Lucia. Men like Dr Robert Lewis, Ezekiel
Joseph, Guy Joseph, Richard Frederick, Stevenson
King, Guy Mayers, Dr Steven King, and Dr Ulric
Mondesir etc. These men have made extensive
and prolonged impacts on the lives of thousands
of St Lucians and they continue to do so even
to this day, to challenge their efforts would
lead the public to question one’s ulterior
motive.
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Men like these
are doing their best to ensure that we may
live and progress through the hardships that
we face in the world today, these men have
shown their true nobility of patronage to
the people of this nation. Backed by people
like Angel Brouet, and Jocelyn Fanis who spend
their lives seeing to the needs of the people,
while they spread good will to St Lucians
in hard times. They struggle every day, and
at times put their own personal lives at risk
to do their part in securing a stable, healthy,
environment for us all. It is a shame and
an embarrassment to know that there are people
out there that sought out to discredit good
leadership, not based on a personal character,
but simply because these men have established
themselves as an elite set of leaders who
have spent their lives accomplishing outstanding
work over many years that have directly impacted
thousands of St Lucians.
If the ulterior motive is to defame good leaders
like these I will say that it would just be
a complete waste of campaign money. Money
that could be used to satisfy many problems
that their supporters, friends, and family
members encounter every day. To do otherwise
would be political suicide, a grown man must
know that when he confronts leaders who have
established positive results, he does not
pose a challenge, it is his/her ego that drives
him to peruse a battle that he knows that
he will lose. Even though he/she has the choice
of using his campaign money to help his/her
people in need. Instead he/she does what a
dying man would do, spend it all in a constituency
that they know they have already lost in order
to satisfy his/her selfish intent. When the
money is done there is nothing left to help
the wounded.
Political leaders must now more than ever
choose their battle grounds, we live in a
very sensitive environment and the people
are not interested in verbal political diarrhoea,
they want money, security, jobs, and long
term results. They are no longer fooled by
cheap talk and power suggestive actions, large
structures that bear no fruit, St Lucians
crave for immediate attention. The leaders
who spend their time discrediting anything
that is St Lucian both here and abroad, proceed
with caution, you may very well have to eat
your own words. Our main issue here at home
is crime, and jobs, the whole country knows
that, there is nothing political about this.
These issues shape and define the very fabric
of our society and the way every St Lucian
lives, it is not the sole responsibility of
the incumbent to suppress these matters, we
the public are just as responsible.
If there is anything wrong with St Lucia we
are the ones to blame, all of us, it is our
country, our lives, our future, we are responsible
for all of our action, we are responsible
for the leaders that we entrust wit
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