Letters & Opinion

Words Are Messengers… and spoken, more valuable here

By Peter Josie
By Peter Josie

SIX weeks ago, I suggested that election season ought not to be described as ‘the silly season.’ The insinuation that ‘people here don’t read’ makes the spoken word more valuable. It needs restating too that here, tone is crucial. Harsh and uncouth words about one’s opponents, calling them insignificant bus and taxi drivers is asinine. Such criticisms are intended to destroy, not build up. Words spoken with care and love are positive messengers than that spoken in anger by idiots. Words ought to paint a picture imagined by a visionary – a leader.

Politicians are keen to use words to impress. Only a few are able to raise their vision beyond that which they think their followers will settle for. Perhaps it’s where the phrase ‘silly season’ had its origin. Some people say anything they think will work. Lacking verifiable sound information, politicians and their surrogates tend to construct schemes of their own beliefs and speak them publicly as if their words were gospel. Dishonest, not silly, is the word to describe such practice, even though both are equally abused by cynical politicians.

Surreptitious behaviours assume increasing significance at elections and are worsened by false advertising. As usual the spoken word dominates; its lies compounded by television. If this season’s election fever follows past examples, words will be traded exhaustively with little care for the harm they inflict. The more offensive messages will be threatened with court action as more and more words compete to define a clear vision for the country. The parlous state of the national economy will be avoided by those who mismanaged it.

Therefore one expects more failed politicians to use words which suggest that despite failure, they alone can build the New Jerusalem; giving wings to the literature of a Derek Walcott and the economics of an Arthur Lewis. Of course some will deliberately hold their tongues on earlier promises of ‘better days.’ It is left to others to remind an electorate often determined to forget past abuses that, better can in fact be achieved through hard work, in pursuit of a national vision.

Silence is not an option at this time. Properly chosen words spoken with passion and conviction can inspire the young, energize the ambitious, and make believers out of skeptics. Vice and deceit must be exposed for all to see. Unfortunately, there is little time to correctly analyze words spoken by harried politicians to constituents out for fun and little else. That’s why words float through political rallies like an elusive blur masked by free music and alcohol, obscuring truth. This is not silly, it’s planned deceit. It’s planned to hide truth. To describe it as silly is to be fooled. Crazy and outrageous may be, but not silly. The goal of the platform is to win votes, nothing else. Lies and empty promises are par for the course; spoken with the right tone they serve to further deceive.

An unprecedented rise of electronic communications on flashy plastic screens, has not replaced a familiar voice that speaks with conviction face to face. In societies that do not make time to read, the spoken word is indispensible. It is the only means of communication and social intercourse. It gathers persons around computers, television, religious and political rallies.

There may not be exact measurements to substantiate the claim, but it seems pretty obvious that the ethical conduct of a nation plunges towards disrespect, bad manners and lawlessness whenever the spoken word turns hateful and abusive. Increasing influence of politicians has been observed and recorded by sociologists and historians here since the fall of colonialism. Politicians now dispense justice, offer jobs, decide on contracts, dictate the value of money and direct the national economy, by spoken words, mostly.

The disease is widespread and entire nations can be afflicted by deceitful words from surrogates and politicians alike. Words influence the actions of persons who cannot think clearly for themselves. One ought therefore to be wary of loquacious politicians with the gift spoken with persuasion. How many persons have been misled and have had their lives upended by politicians using reckless words?

People clothed in the robes of office tend to be more influential than imagined. Such influence is often underpinned by greed and profit. For example, one observes a deliberate effort for the SLP to shield itself from criticisms from its opponents. The SLP enjoys opposition politics. They avoid responsibility and hard work in government, while they hide behind attacking others.

When the UWP is out of office it allows the SLP time and space to govern. Often, its members and supporters must demand sterner opposition from a timid and laid back UWP. This has been observed whether the political leader was Compton, Lewis, King or Chastanet. The SLP has never been accused of giving a UWP government a chance to govern. No party hides more secrets in silence than the SLP – a trademark it shares with other con artists.

The overturned election results of the 2011 in Gros-Islet and Babonneau is a case in point. Imagine, if you will, the SLP tantrum had a UWP stolen an election or appointed foreigners from the Middle East as Ambassadors. What about the U.S oilman contracted by a SLP government without the knowledge of nation? Can anyone imagine what would have happened had the boot been on the other foot?

Clearly, words are messengers too often poorly used by politicians. An apology spoken sincerely by the SLP to the people of Saint Lucia would ameliorate the hurt they have inflicted. But don’t hold your breath. Instead, hold all politicians to their word. Make certain that you, dear reader, walk in amity in the path of your own spoken words, stopping the blanket hypocrisy one voter at a time.

8 Comments

  1. Well Peter if you know the SLP has skeletons in its closet one can only assume you know what they are. This being the case put your neck out for your party and country and reveal these secrets. If you can’t do that stop your mischievous and malicious insinuations for the sake of goodness!

    Remember your audience is St. Lucia. Believe it not their passivity should not be mistaken for ignorance or forgetfulness. They know the rage you habour against the PM because the beating he gave when he came up against you for the Vieux Fort seat (remember Vieux Fort is your natural stomping ground). But they also know why you suffered that shameful defeat. If you are vex with someone vex with Vieux Fortians not the PM.

    In any case you should stop exhibiting that immature, ignorant, arrogant and uneducated obsession with KDA. Use your great talent for writing for dwelling on more positive subjects than wasting it on trivia or residing in the gutter. Really you should stop behaving like a whore who see bobol money and i’m sure your soul will be in a better state of health.

    1. This Sellout Negro, Black Pete Josie cannot help his disgraceful behavior, but he truly believes that Lucians are too stupid and cannot see his prostitution/Jamet behavior for a dry chicken bone from the retarded idiot Mulatto Allen Chastanet.

      You have given this lowlife sound advice, however, I will wager you one million to one he is incapable of heeding your good advice.

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    From the Qur-an: Surah Luqman

    “And turn not your face away from men with pride, nor walk in insolence through the earth. Verily, Allâh likes not any arrogant boaster[] (18)

    “And be moderate (or show no insolence) in your walking, and lower your voice. Verily, the harshest of all voices is the braying of the ass.” (19)

    The time has arrived when Lucians must awake from their induced coma, and begin to regain vision where the sellout Negroes become more and more conspicuous to the people of this little island who have struggled for centuries in search of freedom, truth, and justice. YOU MUST NOW QUESTION EVERYTHING YOU WERE EVER TAUGHT BY THESE EVIL-LIVERS, AND THEIR BLACK SAMBOES.

    The function of the Negro Samboes like Black Pete, Rick John Wayne the narcissist Stripper, and honorary whites like Derek Walcott, Sarah Flood, Mary Isaac, and the Socially ‘Mal-Cwab’ perverts residing in the homeless shelter you call presbytery, is the spreading of darkness, ignorance, and superstition in the Evil arts of Occultism – summoning Lucifer through the use of Dead Virgins.

    These pathetic den of self-hating Negroes have been licensed by the Caucasian plantation masters to continue the mis-education and enslavement of the the African, by teaching them from infancy, especially through imagery, that the so-called white man is God Almighty, and if Negroes act like cannibal savages, eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Naked Caucasian man, Negroes will become white, and like the disgusting and shameless Negroes Rick John Wayne, and Derek Walcott who have refused to acknowledge their African Ancestry, but go around Caucasians saying, “I AM NOT BLACK I AM A MIXED-UP RACE” and they are made Honorary White men, and like the mulatto Allen Chastanet given a pale melanin deficient woman as their certificate of Membership in the British Empire.

    Are these shameless Negroes sane – ‘boug fooh mem.’ These phantom characters fall upon their knees in front of a stone statue of some dead Evil Spirit, begging these Naked Caucasian men and women who they were trained to see as God and the Mother of God, to bless them by making them white like snow; begging to get lain by the white king and white woman – just listen to this hymn below of Sarah begging to get laid by the “KING”. I ask you, does the “KING” look like Stephenson King?? or Donald Trump ??

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU3qgPn3bGA

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    Then we are given other shameless Jamets like a Mary Isaac, who being in bed with the Mulatto-Idiot Allen Chastanet while using the Civil Servants as a footstool to further her selfish agenda to get rich. Add the Neggwess Sarah Flood to this mix with the Neggwess Isaac and we see some mentally deranged ‘femme fawl’, applying buckets of Gromozone to their hair hoping to transform them into white blondes because they hate their black selves so much, to the point of poisoning themselves with Perm Chemicals.

    The roles of Negroes like John Wayne and Black Pete are to shower complements upon these misguided and confused self-hating black women, because of their attaining proximity to Caucasian women, while ignoring the evidence now on public display in the House of Parliament as the scalded scalp of Gale Rigobert which has been transformed into ‘en TET KALBAS’, as the result of actions taken by this self-hating Neggwess to look like a Du Boulay settler, and perhaps becoming Allen’s Jabal.

    We see Gale Rigobert humiliated by another Neggwess as her blond is removed.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxB6rLbz-qI

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  4. Conversation overheard between the pathetic puppet Peetar Josie and his massa Chas
    “i like the stipend that you provide but I consider the following Wish Fulfillment

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFEcD4eta5w

    The greatest reward motivation for my despicable malicious works and pomps-
    after all I am all gum line and Viagra is a threat to my obscene heart-
    pleasey please even a bland sans bondah retired hooker from Paris will do”

    1. Woooe how about giving Josie access to Mother Theresa’s Grave, as it is common knowledge that these Roman Catholic deviants are necrophiles, making the Congo man the perfect name for CONGOMAN PETER. LMAO

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