Back To Today's News

Commentary: Suddenly it's the 1960s again Published on Sunday, March 7, 2010 Email To Friend    Print Version By David Tapfer The march which is due to take place on Monday, March 8, is about the owners of the islands asking for their rights to some level of self determination. There seems to be wide spread acceptance of the fact that the former FCO chiefs and governors and at least one British judge let the country down. This is, after all, a tiny country and the Westminster system of government as it applies to us requires oversight and justice by the mother country. Once again, they let us down. David Tapfer is a retired, US-born engineer and management executive. He is married to Yvette Robinson, a TCIslander born in Middle Caicos and raised in North Caicos. They have a home in Conch Bar, Middle Caicos. He is also the chairman of the Middle Caicos Branch of the opposition Peoples Democratic Movement. One premier running wild and enriching his cronies is no more an indictment of the peoples of the islands than the actions of master criminal Al Capone were an indictment of the population of Chicago. Now we see two anonymous writers CB and LS on the TCI Journal tell the country that the system is prehistoric and everyone involved in politics is dishonest and anyone marching is dishonest as well. Sounds a lot like those southern governors speaking out against the MLK marches of the 1960s. One important difference is we knew who the southern governors were. Those southern governors themselves became the dinosaurs. To call people like Derek Taylor or Tom Lightbourne and a multitude of other past and present politicians dishonest and obsolete, speaks to either tainted thinking or another hidden agenda from the hidden agenda group. To assassinate the reputation of an entire people and country for the actions of one individual and those he infected is something that does not pass the smell test. If CB and LS want to go back to Canada, one can only wonder why they came here and stayed in the first place. Why they remained silent until this point in time. Are they now associated with those who push to dismantle the normal process that happens in all democracies? People march for their rights all the time. If at the end of the march and the end of the day, CB and LS decide to leave, I know a minimum of 12,000 permanent residents of this country who will be glad to help them pack.   Reads : 452 Back... Comments: No comments on this topic yet. Be the first one to submit a comment. Back... Send us your comments!   Send us your comments on this article for publication in our Readers' Forum or as a Letter to the Editor. All fields are required and in the interest of openness and transparency we will no longer accept anonymous submissions. We therefore request that all submissions include a name for publication, regardless of content. We will in special circumstances protect a writer's identity only after we have established good cause for anonymity, otherwise we will not be able to publish the submission. For your contribution to reach us, you must (a) provide a valid e-mail address and (b) click on the validation link that will be sent to the e-mail address you provide.  If the address is not valid or you don't click on the validation link, it will be a waste of your time typing your submission because we will never see it! Your Name: Your Email: (Validation required) Comments: Enter Validation Code *