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Where were the initiators of this project when the trampling on our people was going on?

May 11, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
I believe that, if we remember the history of our country’s struggles towards independence and thereafter, we would be better able to judge whether our government’s resistance to any interference in our national affairs and any violation of our sovereignty is justifiable.
When the British government established the Waddington Constitution under two leaders who represented the vast majority of our people, our country seemed at last headed towards true unity, independence and progress on all fronts.  But matters developed in a manner that threatened the influence of the two major western powers, and I am sure that is it now universally accepted that the suspension of this constitution and the “Divide and Rule” solution that they imposed on us have been almost wholly responsible for the problems that we have encountered in all aspects of our development to this day.
This imposition resulted in the advent of the most infamous period in our history when rigged elections and dictatorship became the norm for nearly 30 years, effecting a retrogression in our affairs that nullified all the gains we had made as an aspiring nation and people.
The burning questions since then, which have become more intense now that this project to “strengthen democracy” has been conceived, are: Where were the initiators of this project when this blatant trampling on our people was going on, and why did they not try to intervene in this same manner as before?
I will always remember the words of maybe one of their most simple-minded presidents who said in cowboy-like language that people should understand that whenever his country intervened anywhere it was to protect his country’s interests.
Some letter-writer wrote of his perceived hypocrisy of one of our more balanced feature-writers who had supported intervention when democracy was clearly being trampled upon, and I wonder whether he has the integrity to accept the same of the people he seems to be defending.
R. Paul

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