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banker 11 years, 6 months ago on Call to set up independent organisation

Call to set up independent organisation

How can a forum have any effect on crime, when the solutions above are treating the symptoms and not the root causes. The root causes are deep and disturbing and woven within the fabric of Bahamian society.

Starting at the top, we have a government kleptocracy with the likes of Shane Gibson who was caught with his hand in the cookie jar with the Rolex watch and the Anna Nicole Smith fiasco. We have the cabinet minister with a closet full of money. Under a decent, moral system, these miscreants would be forced to resign along with the government according to the Westminster traditions. Instead they get re-elected to inflict more harm with their cronyism, partisanship, and robbing the treasury blind.

Then we have Bahamian society itself, with its endemic, embedded sweethearting and its institutionalized hypocrisy. In addition, we have homosexual and bi-sexual parliamentarians who rail against homosexuals and yet practice it. We have ministers of the church who molest children on the church premises and who are retained even though they are jailed. We have ministers who drive Bentleys and fly private jets in essentially a Third World country. All societal institutions are rotten to the core and corrupt.

Added onto this, we have children having children. Sweethearts have babies just for the financial gifts, and we have three generations of a sexual cargo cult of young girls having babies, fatherless children, and disenfranchised young men. Added to the mix, is a non-caring government who actually nurtures and fosters an illiterate, uneducated growing population who`s vote can be bought with booze, hams, turkeys, and rent payments.

In this crucible of the heart of darkness, lies an unfair economic system that further disenfranchises Bahamians, keeps them at mediocre, low paying jobs, and kills all hope of achieving what is termed the American dream. Bahamians do not own the hilltops, or beaches unless they are rich enough to acquire them unlawfully using the Quieting of Titles Act to carve it up into lots and sell it to rich foreigners. The Bahamian currency is not convertible, hence one cannot pay for a foreign education with the money earned in the Bahamaland.

So all in all, this is the perfect recipe for anarchy, crime, societal disturbance, poverty, early death, hopelessness and the loss of the more altruistic elements found in peoples with a higher developmental index that that of the Bahamian people.

So Dr. Allen can pontificate all that he wants. He would be more effective if he did an intervention on his cousin the current Prime Minister, and confined him for counselling until he grows some courage and morality glands and starts doing the right thing for the country, even though it is politically unpalatable and totally against the grain of the mindset of the parliamentarians.