The first thing that came to mind when I read the headline of The Nassau Guardian yesterday was the saying “Stupid is as stupid does”.  I always took this to mean that persons with the propensity to be stupid would always be followed by those that are just as stupid but I was wrong; it basically means that a person’s intelligence and commonsense are evidenced by the persons actions and not by a person’s looks.  In other words, stupid person is a person who does stupid things.

“Gibson defends Mitchell – ‘Minister had a right to urge PLP’s not to march” – The Nassau Guardian 11.30.2016

Excerpt from this article; “Minister of labour Shane Gibson yesterday accused the organizer of ‘We March Bahamas’ Ranard Henfield of practicing ‘selective democracy’ in his criticism of Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell, who urged PLP’s not to attend the event Friday.

‘Democracy must be democracy’, Gibson told The Nassau Guardian yesterday.

‘There cannot be selective democracy.  What gives you the right to say come and me not have the right to say don’t go?

What gives you that right?

‘Who crowned you and made you king?’

You tell people to come and the next mans tells people not to go, and you criticize him?

‘I don’t understand that.  Do you want democracy or not?  Do we have a new king?”

Mitchell has come under fire over a voice note in which he claimed the Black Friday march was politically motivated and said no PLP should be caught dead on it.”

Of course, Mr. Mitchell can say what he what he thinks is right but it does not make it right and since we live in a democratic society, he can be criticized for saying something that others may believe is not a proper statement from a member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister or just improper in general.

In my opinion this statement reeks of autocracy; allow me to explain why.

First, it would suggest that the minister speaks for all supporters of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) supporters and as the march called for transparency and accountability from this government and all successive governments, it would suggest that no PLP supporter that should have any faults with this government on any of these issues; this cannot be so and should never even have been suggested and two; there is nothing democratic about suggesting that a person’s constitutional right to freedom of association be based on party loyalties; this is an inherently wrong assertion and an even more asinine intimation.

Undoubtedly, there will be those that may read this and be offended by its ‘arrogance’ and brash expressions and I am willing to accept and live with this, as they to have their opinions, in a democratic society, I to have mine, so when did we get a new king and just purely out of curiosity; who was the old ‘king”?

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

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