Dear Editor,
Kenneth Cook’s remarks in the paper of Saturday, January 4, 2020, spoke volumes. My take on the whole thing is that for the last nine-plus years is that we have never had a government. No self-respecting individual with a clean and clear conscience could go out in the public year after year deceiving the people. Their behavior coincides with the definition of the word parasite, and absolutely nothing has been done to possibly avoid that trend. I must say thus that to make a manifesto is a waste of time and putting more lies on paper.
Education, wow! For years now in my way I have expressed the fact that we have had and still have a whole lot of politically-illiterate representatives. Sad to say, our Constitution permits that. I have also stated and will repeat that a person is obliged to go to school until he/she is 16 years old, but does not need an education to run the country. This also diminishes my respect for those lawmakers who for so many years have seen the negative consequences of this, but conveniently have not made an effort to amend it.
Why would they do that? Very simple. The more the political leaders can find presentable young people “cronies” without an education to put on their party lists.
The question I would expect is, “If we know this, why do we still go out and vote?” Many people are pressed to vote by the different organisations and churches as a civic duty. I too would encourage the people to go out and vote, but because those political leaders who have been there for years have proven by now that they are not for the people, so we should not vote for them, no matter where they are on the party.
There are at least 10 politicians on the various lists who will not get my vote and I would wish that the voters would get rid of the old and vote in young people because it cannot get any worse than it is. If the young people follow the laws of the land we all will do alright.
My respect for political party leaders is limited, because they have proven to be users and have no regard nor do they care whether the voters and population appreciate the fact that life-determining decisions are being made for them by illiterates and people who completely do not understand what it takes to run the country.
I see political billboards being placed all along the streets with all kinds of slogans and I say to myself, “Again the same slogans being shuffled among the candidates.” The one that made me pause was “Marlin was right”, because my reaction was “Marlin could have been right, but when he ratified our Constitution he was lacking insight.” Since then people have been saying that he sold out the country just to get the date 10-10-’10.
What I know is that it baffles me why certain what would seem to be simple decisions to be taken are limited to entities. Because of the constant toppling of governments, which our political leaders relish, nothing concrete, beside appointing cronies to positions of authority regardless of their qualification, was accomplished.
These days I have been hearing from seasoned voters that they are ready to put more young people in there because it cannot get any worse than it is now. If we put in the same leaders before the year-end they will throw down the government again.
For a while now I have been advocating “out with the old and in with the new, but with the maturity, the principle and the integrity that Claude “Chacho” Peterson has already demonstrated he makes my choice for January 9, 2020, very easy. Along with that, his party leader has also demonstrated to be a man of integrity, so my vote along with all the rest who will vote for Chacho will not be wasted.
Russell A. Simmons
