THE EDITOR:
THE doctrine of the President of The United States, George W. Bush and the Prime Minister of England, Tony Blair, has the same connotation as the political decision by the ruling People’s National Movement (PNM) to invite the British and American State to sovereign Trinidad and Tobago by way of employing British police and an undisclosed number of FBI Agents to this country.

If only to prove the point, neo-colonialism is alive and fighting fit. This is as painful as the recollection of the misery of extinction of the native people of Trinidad, by enslavement, indentureship, colonialism and now neo-colonialism, and racial oppression by these two criminal states.

This is enough for the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago to call down the “Fires of Hades” upon the CIA and MI5 controlled government of Trinidad and Tobago. The unremitting racism accumulated in the inner recesses of the minds of George W. Bush and Tony Blair intermingle naturally with the neo-colonial overseers to pacify the working class with their dogma of “spreading democracy throughout the world”.

At present, these foremost imperial leaders and the local government as executives of big business, in the midst of poverty and political ignorance, look more like “communion wafers covered in shit”.

In a broadcast to the world on CNN and BBC recently, regarding imperialist expansionist ambition, the US President declared: “We choose to deal with challenges now rather than leaving them for future generations.

“We fight our enemies abroad instead of waiting for them to arrive in our country.”

This makes the hiring of 39 English policemen to this country very grave indeed, because it symbolises the re-imposition of the British and American State upon the backs of the working class in Trinidad in particular.

The evidence of re-colonisation is as plain as bright daylight, just as we were made to understand when we opted for constitutional independence from the British Empire within the Commonwealth, as (prescribed by Adam Smith) in: “The Commonwealth of Nations”, that the final determination of the ownership of labour, must reside in the hands of British and now United States imperialism.

What then is a State?

Simply put, it is a coercive unit of a nation that serves class interest, be it suppressing or oppressing, that is to say, either the capitalist class would oppress the working class, or the working class would suppress counter revolutionary activities. It has been said that as long as there are social classes, a State presents itself as a means of suppression or oppression.

The role of both these states (the United States and Britain) are well known for stealing land and stealing people to populate these lands.Therefore, the rationale for the re-imposition of these historically violent states upon the people of Trinidad seem to stem from the steel band rivalry of the 1950s and early 60s to the organisation of the “Project”, from which enhanced gang violence to secure votes for the People’s National Movement (PNM), National Alliance for Reconstruction (NAR), United National Congress (UNC) and back to the PNM whichever.

If anyone is culpable for the recent Homicidal Culture in our society, it will have to be the political leaders of these three reactionary political parties that gave Trinidad the DEWD, the LID, the URP and CEPEP.

Whichever we choose to accept, we will arrive at the same conclusion that the governments of Trinidad and Tobago is standing in the way of freedom of the majority of humanity, which is representative of the working class.

THE EDITOR:
KEITH SHEPHERD’s name was mentioned at a recent function I attended at the Recreation Hall, 3601 NW 21 Street, Lauderlakes, Florida, USA.

A small group of people who was there among the large audience to honour 80-year-old Mrs. Dularie Baldeosingh made the comment that the late Shepherd may have also lived to 80 if he were fortunate to get medical attention for his injury in the United States or Canada, where Mrs. Baldeosingh now resides.

One gentleman even suggested that the hospital which attended to the late TnT Mirror editor should have been sued for negligence.

You may recollect that a head scan was not performed on Shepherd immediately after he fell and injured himself during a football game.

As I have indicated before, good hospitals around the world normally perform a head scan on a person immediately after he/she suffers from a fall.

However, we live in Trindiad, where health facilities and services leave a lot to be desired.

Many citizens, including prominent ones, seem to be fearful of making critical statements in public about the poor health conditions which exist here because they either don’t want to rock the boat or are afraid of victimisation.

I can point out numerous instances when I have been victimised for pointing out corruption, mismanagement, racism and other social ills in our society.

However, I continue to do so with the hope that the authorities will take note and do what is necessary to make our country a better place in which to live.

Some corrupt people have even fabricated letters against me, but they have all failed in their quest to quiet me.

A few of them even act as if they are friends.

By the way, I was asked by the TnT citizens in Florida if any government or hospital official had made a statement concerning the failure of our local hospital to perform a head scan on the late Shepherd.

In closing, I wish to call on the authorities to spend some of our oil dollars in building new hospitals and improving on existing ones.

THE EDITOR:
IF the crass callousness, indifference and inefficiency displayed by the police in the case of Sean Luke, the six-year-old infant found so heinously buggered and killed not 300 yards from his home in Orange Field, is typical of detective work in Trinidad, then Patrick Manning, the Minister of National Security and the Commissioner of Police had better ensure that things are going to improve.

To ask the citizens to be patient, with the type of response apparently displayed by the police in this instance, is simply out of the question. Police Reform Bills have now been passed and this type of response for assistance cannot be tolerated if we are ever to return to sanity and safety in our nation.

This incident, unfortunately, only fosters claims of different strokes for different folks advanced against our force for their attitude towards kidnap (or crime) involving a Solis or Khoury, as opposed to that displayed to members in general (predominantly Indos) of our community. The safety of infants in particular must be of prime concern to all.

We simply cannot afford a complacent, unresponsive police force if we are to effectively stem the tide of blood.

It is to be hoped that the amendments to the legislation, rightly described by Minister Joseph as being the “threshold” of the fight against crime, will curb this indifference to the suffering of the people.

Further, for Minister Joseph to continue surreptitiously to try to lay the blame for the disgraceful state of affairs that exists in TnT today at the feet of the Opposition rather than where it belongs is utter hypocrisy.

Those culpable must be made to pay the price and the Manning administration must do what it is mandated to do -- ensure the relative safety of each and every citizen -- or they too must pay the price since we too continue to pay too high a price, in terms of loss of life and liberty, for their three generous increases under an inept leadership concentrating on squandering funds in fighting opposition crimes for political gain at the expense of the average citizen’s welfare.

Why don’t they put that money and effort into training and equipping our Police Service?

THE EDITOR:
MY paternal family suffered great financial and physical loss at the hands of the Hamel-Smiths.

In their heydays, the word “conveyancing” meant you were giving them the legal right to acquire your property.

Do not ask what a client’s account meant.

Do not give up and I commend the TnT Mirror reporter for assisting those who, like my family, have no other means by which they can get their matter into the court.

What does this empire have to fear by this Trust going to court? You obviously have something to hide.

Why should that citizen be prevented from being allowed to use that system.

In my predecessors day, they were warned that it was impossible to break that empire.

Today, it is a different story -- Go Hard.