Last week the Attorney General’s office sought to set aside an injunction put in place by the Supreme Court to stop certain persons within the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) government, the attorney general being one of these persons, from revealing the personal and private emails of members of the environmental group Save The Bays to the general public.  Since this time some persons have come out chastising the Supreme Court Justice for what they saw as her attempts to silence the ‘voice’ of the Executive, while it is my opinion that the Justice has only made the attempt to protect the constitutional rights of private citizens against a lawless Executive that seeks to invade the privacy of individuals to prove that the Save The Bays environmental organization is really a political organization with the intent of destabilizing the Progressive Liberal Party government.

Today Justice has stood her grounds, even in light of clear attempts of intimidation by members of the Executive, “A resolution was moved in Parliament last Monday by Mr. Fitzgerald to determine whether Justice Charles…….should be held in contempt of the House.

“Injunction over emails remains despite challenge” – The Tribune

Excerpt from this article; “The answer whether parliamentarians can use privilege to disclose confidential information of private citizens has far- reaching implications beyond the Bahamas, a Supreme Court said on Friday.

Justice Indra Charles made the statement at a hearing in which representatives from the Office of the Attorney General sought to have the judge set aside an injunction that seeks to prohibit respondents including Marathon MP, Jerome Fitzgerald, Fox Hill MP Fred Mitchell and Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson, from appropriating, publishing or disclosing emails, even in Parliament, belonging to Save The Bays (STB) members.

The Justice, in this case, as set herself up as the last line of defense between the average citizen and the Executive branch of the government that has lost sense of right and wrong and is willing to do whatever it takes to ‘make their case’ even if it means breaking the law.  The steps that the Executive has taken in this matter can only be described as democracy in decay, a sign that Karl Marx saw of a move toward fascism, as they seek to use parliamentary privilege to openly invade the person lives of Bahamian citizens without just cause.

As Justice Charles has made her ruling she also states, “I do not make orders lightly,’ the judge added.  ‘If there’s going to be an application to discharge, it has to be heard in full she said.”

So now the government and its agents will have to prepare an argument as to why they feel that should be able to violate the constitutional rights of other citizens of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas but as they prepare said arguments they will have to meet the standard that Justice Charles has already set because if you were to leave it to this government they will probably just say “because we said so”.

Justice Charles said the issues at hand are obvious and will be expanded upon by both parties.

‘Is parliamentary privilege absolute if someone complains that their constitutional rights have been infringed upon, bearing in mind the walls of Parliament is sacred?  Is the Constitution the Supreme Law of the land?  The judge asked.”

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