It seems that Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Senator Fred Mitchell, through sheer arrogance, has come to the belief that he can fly, although many have warned him that he cannot.  One can only stand in utter amazement at the resentment that this childish, petulant and selfish man has displayed since being removed from office in May of this year.  It is indeed shameless or shameful, whichever way you wish to view it.

“Mithcell warns of tit-for-tat response to PLP arrests” – The Tribune

Excerpt from this article; “IF the Free National Movement loses the next general election, National Security Minister Marvin Dames ‘will understand what tit-for-tat mean,’ Senator Fred Mitchell has said, adding the governing party is ‘slave shaming’ the opposition Progressive Liberal Party by charging former PLP politicians in court.

Mr. Mitchell insisted the FNM is ‘setting a dangerous precedent’ in how it is now handling the political affairs of the country.

He suggested the governing party has ‘turned on its opponents and is attempting to use the state to imprison, bad mouth and create a bad image of them across the country.”

This from a man that attempted to use his parliamentary privilege to read the private emails of private citizens in The House of Assembly; he has gone mad.

It is clear that Senator Mitchell is about to jump in this attempt to fly as he rants on “Poor Marvin Dames who is the minister of national security and appears to conducting this witch hunt against the PLP from his office in Nassau went to the papers a couple of weeks ago and said he didn’t understand the notion of tit-for-tat,’ Mr. Mitchell said to the small group of supporters gathered Wednesday night in Bailey Town, Bimini during a PLP branch meeting.

‘He says because this is not tit-for-tat.  The police are actually doing their investigations and he does not understand it.”

Of course, no one understands the madness that Senator Mitchell is displaying at this time other than to realize that he has made this completely political and extremely personal.  Marvin Dames is correct, the police force has finally been given the authority to investigate any wrong doing by political figures through the formation of the Anti Corruption Unit (ACU), for Mr. Mitchell to suggest that what is going on here is political or personal is actually a dangerous precedent, as it would seek to suggest that for the police to carry out there jobs against these man, as they have done, is wrong because they are above the law.

At this point, for Senator Mitchell to suggest that this is anything more than the police doing their jobs and ‘the chips falling where they may’ is a very dangerous and reckless suggestion.  What is a truly dangerous precedent is the senator’s statement of “Well I tell you what.  I bet you (certain PLP politician’s) children understand what tit-for-tat means.  And when they lose in five years, I think Marvin Dames will understand what tit-for-tat means because if this now is the precedent for how to conduct political affairs of The Bahamas you are setting a dangerous precedent”

Seriously, the fight against corruption has become a ‘dangerous precedent’ which has been set and not the vile threats that the senator has laid out here, likening politics in The Bahamas now to a drug war between two warring cartels in Mexico?

What has actually been set are a set of standard for political figures to abide by and adhere to; a set of standards, that always existed actually, to protect the both politicians and the average citizen but not in Senator Mitchells extremely jaundiced view as he states; “…it means now every little faux pas and every exercise of judgment and every little management issue you’re involved in suddenly becomes criminal…”, now who is preaching ‘gloom and doom’?  Of course this is not so and is just a extremely biased position being taken by the senator to justify his claims of the PLP being under attack.

The Progressive Liberal Party continues to fail, because it is their nature.

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