“There is no parliamentary sovereignty in the Bahamas, there was never and there never can be no such thing under a written constitution.  It had been ancient practice, first to subject the ordinary person to the vexations of the King.”

Gilbert Morris

They say that absolute power corrupts, if this is the case then does the perception of absolute power drive you to madness?

“All MP’s should be outraged – Mitchell, Speaker again blast ruling in email case.” – The Nassau Guardian.

Excerpt from this article; “Fox Hill MP Fred Mitchell last night suggested that millions of dollars from foreigners were funneled through a local law firm to get a challenge before the court’s against parliamentarians’ unfettered right to free speech.

Minister Mitchell speaks to a parliamentarian’s unfettered right to free speak as he defends the Jerome Fitzgerald in the act of the unconstitutional breach of another citizen’s privacy, just seeming to brush aside the citizens constitutional right to privacy, this callous act within itself should be disturbing to most Bahamians and is a sign of the ministers relentless pursuit of ‘absolute power’ but the question is can anyone in a democracy; any branch of government claim ‘absolute power’ over another branch of government or over its citizenry?  When we allow this to occur have we not then become autocratic in nature?

The Minister and his government has brought unsubstantiated charges against members of the STB’s organization, the claim of them being a political organization with intentions of destabilizing the Bahamas government, then sought to back up these unsubstantiated charges by exposing the private emails and private financial details of this organization, all while seeking to claim parliamentary privilege to violate their constitutional right to privacy and have done so by attempting to declare ‘absolute power’ over the judiciary and the people that they serve and they do this while displaying ‘outrage’ at being told that their ‘powers’ are not absolute and there is a responsibility that comes with the power that they have indeed been afforded and they have now been seen as abusing these powers; indeed these people have gone mad.

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

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