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on in Belize for years now and if you or a
family member have not experienced this,
you are not living in Belize. Belizeans
must now report all these victimizations
and retaliations to the UN Human Rights
Commission as human rights violations,
to end this practice by both UDP and PUP
in our country.
In the police force, if the inspector
refuses to release a prisoner, then the
minister will call the commissioner of
police and the person will be released. If
they cannot get the person released from
prison, then they will work on destroying
the evidence that has been gathered from
the police station exhibit room before the
matter reaches the courts. This is why
the director of Public Prosecutions or his
or her crown counsel have been going to
court, to ask that the charges be withdrawn
from some defendants for lack of
evidence.
The evidence was there in the beginning
but in some cases they were intentionally
destroyed to acquit the favored defendants.
Changing the government back and forth
between UDP and PUP, will not stop corruption
in our country because we have
been doing that for years and it has and
will not work. What we need to do is to
(1) Legislate code and ethics laws for the
prime minister, minister of his cabinet and
all civil servants, with penalties for infractions,
(2) change the way we appoint our
attorney generals, directors of public prosecutions
and commissioners of police.
Maybe, setting up a regulatory board
with representatives of all the political parties,
churches, unions and social partners
to appoint these individuals, giving them
oversite authority and to force the UDP
and PUP to sign on to the United Nations
Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC)
enacted by the United Nations in 2005. I
have spoken to many of my family members
and friends about the issue of corruption
in Belize and most of them have
experienced one or more of these incidents
in Belize. The UDP and PUP use this issue
against each other just to get elected into
office but as soon as they become the government
nothing serious is being done by
any of them to end corruption. They will
not do anything about it if we elect one of
them into office again in 2020.
We the people of Belize must take full
responsibility for what is happening to us
because even though we know that they
have and are abusing us, we continue to
elect and reelect UDP and PUP back into
office as if we have no other choice. They
cannot get elected if we do not vote for
them and now some of us are giving up the
only power we have over them by selling
our votes to them.
It took me some years to come to this
conclusion and I gave a lot of thought
before I felt this way. One thing I hate like
most Belizeans is for somebody to take me
for a fool. When I listen to the way how
some our politicians speak. That is exactly
the way many of them think about us. We
must stop selling our votes and retain our
political power for ourselves.
what that does to the economy.”
Abbas declared: “Our rights are not
for sale. Jerusalem is not for sale.”
The deal for him is a “conspiracy” to
make Palestinian into what the Balfour
Declaration of 1917 had failed
to do: build a Bantustan, a colonial
enclave for the British Empire; in
this case a Judea-Christian canton.
NO PALESTINIAN
HISTORY
The history of Palestine was
absent. Palestinian heritage, hurt,
feelings, fears were nowhere part
of the deal. Trump spoke exuberantly
about himself: “I was not
elected to do small things or shy
away from big problems.” He spoke
of the deal as a “win-win” solution.
He said it was an “obligation of
humanity” to get this deal done, the
most difficult deal in history. He
gloated. He had assassinated “the
world’s top terrorist”, the Iranian
Major General Qassem Soleimani;
and had quashed the Iran Nuclear
deal. Netanyahu praised the deal for
granting Israel “sovereignty where
our prophets preached and kings
ruled, places inscribed in Bible —
historic and religious places, etched
in soul of Jewish people – a permanent
part of the Jewish state.”
No one mentioned the Palestinian
martyrs, heritage, history, soul.
It was left to Abbas to inscribe
this on the day’s proceedings: “Our
martyrs in all our villages will not
be betrayed, your blood will not be
wasted.” He declared: “Not a single
child in Palestine is going to accept
a state of Palestine without Jerusalem.”
He said that whilst his nation
would rely on the Arab League, the
Organization of African Unity (in
which he is the vice-president), and
the UN for resolution, ultimately it
was the struggle and initiative of
the Palestinians that would count.
The Palestinians were the ultimate
vanguard. He vowed: “We are going
to continue our uninterrupted
struggle to protect our nation.”
In this deal, fake as fake could
be, Trump has nothing to lose. He
is facing re-election in November.
When the plan falls through he will
say to his constituents that he gave
it his best shot, he kept his promise;
it was the Palestinians who failed to
accept peace. Netanyahu, his political
fate hanging on a string, has
nothing to lose either; he desires
to be seen as patriotic peacemaker
for Israel’s general elections on
March 2nd 2020. The deal sought
to prolong on our planet the wellestablished
gospel: US and Jewish /
Israeli exceptionalism.
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