tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4727226025187579533.post3631093115230278407..comments2024-03-27T22:14:41.569+13:00Comments on .: “The 2014 Budget: Selling the Farm Assets” by Wadan N arseyCrosbie Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02541276600232884176noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4727226025187579533.post-43146298199583190182014-01-21T16:24:06.701+13:002014-01-21T16:24:06.701+13:00I remember the story of a Vunimono village mother&...I remember the story of a Vunimono village mother's comment to her sleeping son trying to recover from last night's drunken stupor: "why do you keep selling off our few possessions, even our neighbor's electric iron you had to pawn it at Jack's shop to buy your mates a few beers, isa na luvequ, one of these day's we'll be waking up in Jack's shop" Basic economic sensibility has definitely deserted our shores.isananoquvanuanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4727226025187579533.post-10265143175449799302013-11-22T21:40:38.831+13:002013-11-22T21:40:38.831+13:00hahaha, struck a bone! truth is hurtful ain't ...hahaha, struck a bone! truth is hurtful ain't it, qarase slurper?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4727226025187579533.post-62655966148698994692013-11-22T19:46:58.174+13:002013-11-22T19:46:58.174+13:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4727226025187579533.post-8532748071961815972013-11-22T17:42:10.535+13:002013-11-22T17:42:10.535+13:00Dear Mr Qarase Commented on : fiji justice of peac...Dear Mr Qarase Commented on : fiji justice of peace accused of - "Dear Mr QaraseI have never spoken to you although I voted for your candidate in the 2001 elections. I believed then that you were the key to stability and respectability. I was wrong. First, you jumped into an unholy alliance with the CAMV, a party created to further the objectives of the 2000 coup. Its reason for existence was racism, and the marginalization of the minority groups in Fiji.Second, you jumped into an unholy alliance with corrupt businessmen who abused the system to get government contracts at unfair prices. Third, you took no steps to stop your Cabinet ministers and senators from making racist hate speeches in and out of parliament. Fourth, you pretended to follow the law in 2001 after the Court of Appeal made its decision, but in reality you thumbed your nose at it. Fifth, you refused to appoint a multi-party Cabinet, and went to court instead, relying on your supporter Chief Justice Fatiaki to delay the hearings for so long that when the decision came out, it was time for the next elections! Sixth, you used tax-payers’ money in the Agriculture Department to buy votes from the indigenous Fijians. Seventh, you pretended to respect court decisions in the cases in which your supporters were charged with 2000 treason indictments, but you released the convicts on extra-mural orders within weeks of their incarceration. Eight, you ordered the drafting of the Reconciliation Bill, the Qoliqoli Bill and the Indigenous Tribunals Bill, legislation guaranteed to free the guilty, create uncertainty in the tourism industry, and kill freehold title. Nine, your main advisers Naisoro, Bale and Baba seem to have been complicit in the over printing by 2,000,000 of ballot papers in the 2006 elections. Ten, you grossly miscalculated the real threat of a military coup in 2006, and continued to employ confrontational politics with the Commander when conciliation was the wiser course of action. Eleven, in a last desperate attempt to preserve power, you, in an act of treason, invited the Australian and New Zealand armed forces to invade Fiji without the knowledge of the President. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4727226025187579533.post-41184051646988763702013-11-17T22:28:20.571+13:002013-11-17T22:28:20.571+13:00In the immortal word of Frederick Douglas, “Power ...In the immortal word of Frederick Douglas, “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com