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14 comments:
There you go Earl Bousquet! You did not let me down. That's what it is all about...dynamic columns. I am very impressed.
Then you clowns came in in 1979 and put the country back 25 years with your "power for the boyz" socialist madness. The country saw that "elections have consequences" and that "power for the people" and all those inane slogans are just that but in the end you need leaders and not feeders at the trough.
We had to call back the conservative Sir John George Melvin Compton to fix the broken country that the me centric fools had ripped asunder.
The same stupidity and liberal philsophy then came back in 1997 and squandered $500 million and placed all that debt on the backs of our children.
Now we have one of the most inane of them all trying to rewrite history.
Boy, it's a good thing some of us are still alive to blow away these shameless efforts by Labour acolytes to rewrite St. Lucia's history. Any suggestion that Compton took the island into Independence because he and the UWP were unpopular is patent nonsense. The idea of Independence was first introduced at the height of Compton's popularity. Even so, look how those who opposed Independence took pride in the island's sovereignty. In the first address to the UN General Assembly by a foreign Minister from St. Lucia, did Odlum rail against the way in which we got our Independence? No! Did Hunte ever say he would not accept the Presidency of the UN General Assembly because he disagreed with the way Compton took the conutry into Independence? No!
I'm sick of the intellectual dishonesty of people like Bousquet. SLP opposed Independence not because of any fundamental opposition to the idea but because Odlum did not want Compton to become the first Prime Minister of St. Lucia. That's all there ever was to it. All the things they demonstrated about when in opposition like the Public Order Act and the Essential Services Act remained in the law books while they were in office. and let's not forget teh crime wave that swept the country between 1979-80. remember Inspector Alphonse? He was gunned down just like Vincent Peters. Stop da crap Earl!
Independence celebrations were no more high key during Labour's rule than it's been under UWP.
But then again what else can we expect from Bousquet?
I don't care much about independence day, I rather Saint Lucia's day. Perhaps I'm biased because I was born during colonial times but then again it is my birth right, I had nothing to do with politics.
Just a reminder of where the liberal/socialist selfish local leaders have placed St. Lucia with their abysmal leadership and twisted scholarship and words :
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Put the trumpet to your lips! Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed My covenant, and rebelled against My law. They cry out to Me, "My God, we of Israel(St. Lucia) know Thee!" Israel(St. Lucia) has rejected the good; the enemy will pursue him. They have set up kings, but not by Me; They have appointed princes, but I did not know it. With their silver and gold (borrowed money) they have made idols for themselves... how long will they be incapable of innocence? ...For they sow the wind(liberal immorality, gluttony, political lies), and they reap the whirlwind(crime, bankruptcy, broken families)... Since Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin, they have become altars of sinning for him. Though I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My law(thou shall not kill replaced by Section 166), they are regarded as a strange thing. As for My sacrificial gifts, they sacrifice the flesh and eat it (adultery), but the Lord has taken no delight in them. Now He will remember their iniquity, and punish them for their sins; they will return to Egypt. For Israel (St. Lucia)has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities, but I will send a fire upon its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings. (HOSEA 8:1-14).
Let all St. Lucians vote on who they would rather have led them into Independence:
Sir John George Melvin Compton
George Odlum
Mickey Pilgrim
Winston Cenac
Rufus Bousquet
Kenny Anthony
Richard Fredericks
Allen Louisey
Phillip Pierre
Walter Francois
Lewis
Stephenson King
Somehow I think it is NO CONTEST !
SJGMC was head and shoulders above so many of the miscreants pushed up by our political process- but the scribbling clown Earl Bousquet says otherwise.
Even the way Bousquet writes in that vulgar, coarse, uncouth, loutish manner with the word "In-de-pen Dance" shows you why so much of our culture has become coarse and vulgar.
Everything these louts touch becomes dross.
So "Independence" as a word signifying the beauty of our road to self recognition and determination is now denigrated by this clown.
This is why they see nothing wrong with how they run the country when in power because good and bad, immorality or decadance are all the same to them.
To show you how badly raise were people like Bousquet and the dirt in his mind he cannot see how he has turned a word that ought to signify something good, into a set of words signifying a comedic mess.
"You can take some people out of the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto out of them."
He thinks he is being smart and bright but he just shows the inner filth that his clouded and hazy mind belches forth.
What is even more unfortunate is that 80% of the people reading this article see nothing of this. They cannot recognize this vulgarity when they see it straight in the face, so jokers like Bousquet continue to write to their hearts content and lead St. Lucia to the mess it is in and will continue to be with their collusion.
Oh yes. They also go to the polls and vote for them !!
Maybe Bousquest can say which date he would have preferred for our Independence as he put it "one that has historical significance."
Bousquet says UWP wanted so badly to use Independence to win the election that they fought tooth and nail to get it using SSU, teargas and all. Those who were around at the know well of the circumstances in which SSU and teargas was used. And guess who used the SSU and teargas in July 1979? A hint? It wasn't Compton.
in-de-pen-dance
what's this: black humor?
I give Earl Bousquet credit for writing this piece which has stirred up and aroused his critics whose ideology obviously differs. In the process this gives our young readers and history enthusiasts an indication of what transpired during the years leading to independence and shortly after from his and his critics' perspective.
This is a courageous move by a skillful writer. What is missing here are the comments of those on the other side who agree with his written discription to bring some balance to this interesting debate he has generated.
As a witness and non partisan observer of the social and political events leading to independence, I have vague recollections of UWP using the quest of nationhood as a campain issue which anyway would be the obvious strategy for any polical party seeking another term in office. I do not have clear knowledge that UWP was unpopular in the period precceding Statehood but prior to the election that followed independece UWP was very unpopular, I personally witnessed massive crowds of people at Castries Boulevard throwing human feaces at the members of the UWP and disrupted their political meetings all over which resulted in them losing the election.
With the expeption of UWP's pre independence unpopularity and using nationhood as a campaign issue which I cannot recall at this time, I have to conclude that Earl Bousquet's accounts of the events during this era are accurate.
Ironically, much of what you said (with which I agree) is not in Bousquet's article, which I regard as a skilfully selective representation of the history of the pre independence and post-independence era. What Bousquet has given readers is HIS version of developments during that era. If young readers read only his version they will get a very distorted view of events. I did expect him to give the other side of the story. That clearly was not his agenda.
I never knew we had a National Pledge, even though I attended primary and secondary school here.
Great article but could you be the one to lead the charge to educate us.
This comment probably does not fully relate to what Mr. Bousquet wrote in his column. I not aligned to either UWP or labour and taking this opportunity to express my views on the political climate during St Lucia's transition period from Colonialism to Statehood (Self Government) and eventually Independence of which John Compton was Chief Minister, Premier and Prime minister respecttively.
In my opinion had there not been a power struggle in the Labour Party which resulted in a neophyte Mikey Pilgrim becoming an Interim Prime Minister in a caretaker government and significantly diminishing the momentum of change labour campaigned on moving into nationhood after years of the same old, same old UWP rule, the UWP would right now be defunct. The woes and misfortunes of Labour brought new life to a decadent UWP which was mortally wounded during the election campaign following independence.
Compton was destined to be a founding father, no doubt he was a natural born leader who transitioned his nation from colonialism to independence without back up from the rest of the members of his party exept for Hunter Francois who later swiched to Labour and was rejected by the people of Central Castries.
Growing up in Conway a labour stronghold and without concious political thought and as a result of custom or habit, I was not a fan of Compton and the UWP who at the time wanted to displace the residents, but looking back I can see where the Labour Party at the time were using the people to obstruct Compton's vision of strategic planning which was momentus, noteworthy and having a major effect as we move into nationhood. The same can be said of the Pigeon Island project which labour called a White Elephant."
If Compton was still around today as leader of St lucia I assume he would hane constitutional, judicial and other reforms so St Lucia would adapt or change to meet the requirements of this fast changing world in the 21st Century.
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