“Mitchell: Pigs will fly before speaker needs FNM help” – The Tribune

Except from this article; “Fox Hill MP Fred Mitchell yesterday hit back at the FNM criticizing his decision to petition House Speaker Dr. Kendal Major over persons he felt were in breach of parliamentary privilege.

He accused the party of cancelling ‘itself out of useful criticism when it cannot come to defend the privilege which members of parliament enjoy.

Mr. Mitchell, in a statement, accused the FNM of ‘standing with those that defame their country’ rather than defend he privilege which members of parliament enjoy of free speech and the right to access they are enshrined in our constitution.

Mr. Mitchell said the FNM prefers to ‘wrap their arms around Fred Smith QC and Saver the Bays’ who stand accused of (allegedly) working together with the FNM to destabilize the country.”

Of course Mr. Mitchell is standing yet again to protect the parliamentary privilege that he so enjoys and cowardly hides behind as he seeks to table and reveal private emails of another person; sources of which still unknown; an act that he could  never  or would never do outside the halls of the House of Assembly without legal repercussions, under the fear of being sued and/or imprisoned. 

He has decided to take this dark and dangerous road and has decided to encourage the Speaker of the House along for the ride as he has yet to prove his assertions against the persons whom privileges and constitutional rights he now seeks to violate and he has yet to prove his allegation of ‘contempt of parliament’, which he has also threatened others with that seek to block him from using private emails and financial information in his parliamentary contributions.

“This week, the FNM charged that Mr. Mitchell’s letter to Dr. Major was a ‘direct attempt’ to ‘undermine weaken and diminish the authority and integrity of the Speaker’.  The FNM also said Mr. Mitchell’s letter creates an impression that he is attempting to ‘being public pressure on the Speaker to influence his decision on the matter advanced by (Mr. Mitchell)’.

Further, the FNM said Mr. Mitchell seems to be of a view that the Speaker is a ‘puppet of both the executive branch and the PLP’ and is subsequently ‘compelled to accept the executive’s blanket contempt for authority’ or face the possibility that he may not receive a nomination in the next general election.”, in short the FNM is contending that the PLP Mr. Mitchell and the executives are attempting to intimidate the Speaker of the House into following ‘bad company’.

Mitchell continues to encourage the Speaker of the House to allow him to table emails and other correspondence of others that the Data Commissioner has already cautioned him about but he has not heeded her warning and would seek to encourage Kendall Major to follow suit.

This had become Minister Mitchell style now, to use his authority and powers to defame, question, undermine and intimidate others while hiding behind his privilege; he has show his propensity for this wrong doing already as he has challenged a court’s ruling on a immigration matter which still stands unresolved to date because of the dictatorial and autocratic actions of Mr. Mitchell.

As a matter of fact, this ‘my word is the final word, end of story has become common of the totalitarian mindset of this government that seeks to rule rather than govern; maybe they have come to realize that they are just unfit to govern.

The Progressive Liberal Party fails for one reason, it is within their nature.

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