The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

I read with interest the article entitled, “Three More MPs Failed to Declare Their Assets” in the Wednesday, April 27, 2016 edition of you paper. Among the members of parliament currently breaking the law is Member of Parliament for Righteous Indignation, Mr Greg Moss.

The blustering Moss has spent the last few months telling us that he not only knows the law, but that he knows it better than the legal luminaries on the Constitutional Commission. He has also suggested that the Government of The Bahamas is lying to the Bahamian people, and has some kind of hidden homosexual agenda. Apparently,  Moss has been so busy muddying the waters around the referendum that he “just realised that (he) didn’t file”. Weak.

Now, we must necessarily doubt Moss’ legal prowess because The Public Disclosure Act is clear. Members of Parliament must furnish the Public Disclosure Commission by the 1st of March, if they haven’t declared by the 31st of December past. If he can’t understand that, why should we listen to his musing on the constitutional referendum.

Perhaps, it is not ignorance. While Moss has warned of the underhanded tactics and misleading motives of the Government, it looks as though he has been breaking the law himself.

Perhaps he is no different than those garish televangelists – like some of the religious leaders he has aligned himself with – who preaching the gospel with such fervent zeal you fail to realise they are also counting the offering money.

I would ask Moss to choose – ignorance or deceit? – but it really doesn’t matter.

This is really about hypocrisy. We should all find it difficult to believe a man who says that for the good of the country we should trust his judgment and govern ourselves against some phantom doom, when he cannot govern himself or his own affairs.

OLIVER POPE

Nassau,

April 27, 2016.