By Max Sterling
During the better part of the last twelve years, the NNP Cartel through the apparatus of government abused and perverted the constitutionally provided for offices before the people can actually act through them.
Just look at the international image of Grenada and its current leadership and you will come to agree that it is the work of comparatively a few individuals (self-serving, I might add) who have used the standing apparatus of government as their tool to riches; for in the outset June of 1995, the people would not have consent to them at all.
This group that is posing as government endeavoured to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant showing its total disregard for and lack of integrity.
The NNP, under the leadership of Keith Claudius Mitchell, has shown without much zeal but understandable character (simply put the lack of good character) how successfully men can be imposed on for their own advantages.
They have absolutely no interest in educating our people for fear that a truly educated Grenadian population will put them out of business.
It is my conviction that the character inherent in the Grenadian people has done all that has been accomplished to date; and it would have done somewhat more, if the NNP Cartel had not most times got in its way.
According to Henry David Thoreau in his essay "Civil Disobedience" "But I speak practically as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves non government non-political men, I ask for not at once no government, but at once a better government."
We need a government that will not be attracted by individuals who see it as a retirement plan, by which each day, they who are employed by the people would siphon funds from projects into their personal bank accounts or set up unqualified "sychophants" to run important road and other public construction projects in order to secure a cut for themselves while that kind of vulgar corruption drives up the overall cost of living.
After all, the practical reason why, when power is once in the hands of the people, a majority is permitted and for a long period continues to rule, is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest.
Whenever one is faced with a government in which the majority-rule in all cases is never based on justice, even as far as men understand it it is time to get rid of such government!
Can there ever be a government in Grenada similar to that of Sir Nicholas Brathwaite's between 1990 and 1995 in which majorities do not virtually decide right from wrong, but conscience? In which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable?
Must every Grenadian citizen ever for a moment or in the least degree resign his conscience to the low life ruling legislators?
We need to desist from being a mass of people who serve the State, not as people only, but as machines, with our bodies. Such people have reduced us to command no more respect than people of straw in a lump of dirt!
Yet to many other impressionable citizens, the so-called citizens we looked up to who have been maimed by the advent of Eric Gairy and buried totally by the Marxist/Leninist/Communist/Socialist revolution of 19791983, are still commonly esteemed as good citizens by those who don't know better.
Let's face it, most of our legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers of government and other office holders serve the State chiefly with their heads and as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they have shown us how easily it is to serve the devil as it is to fool us into thinking of them as serving God.
A very few as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense and men, serve the State with their conscience also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part, and they are commonly treated by the holders of State power and all their inferior beneficiaries as enemies by it.
Such people like Sen. Chester Humphrey, George Worme, Sandra Ferguson, Dr. Francis Alexis, Eddie Frederick, have been virtually harassed and even marginalised publicly by the morally indigent.
I could not agree more with Henry David Thoreau when he wrote:
"I am too high-born to be propertied,
To be a secondary at control,
Or useful serving man and instrument
To any sovereign state throughout the world."
He who gives himself entirely to his follow-me appears to them useless and selfish; but he who gives himself partially to them while he spends most of his time t'iefing from them to enrich himself is pronounced a benefactor and philanthropist.
Based on all we have experienced over the last twelve years how should a real man behave towards any member or beneficiary of this disreputable bunch posing as government? It is obvious that he cannot without unpardonable and irreversible disgrace be associated with it.
We shall all see what happens to such men all in the fullness of time!
