The Chairman of the New Day Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) government continues to inundate the public with what I can only characterize as “weaponized misinformation”.

This morning he wishes to evoke biblical philosophies of “thou shalt not kill” and “Vengeance in mine sayeth The Lord”, as he laid the ground work for a very loose attack on Free National Movement (FNM) senator Darren Henfield for his recent comments in the Senate regarding capital punishment as a deterrent to crime.

My first thoughts were, if there were any other biblical philosophes which the “good” PLP chairman would like to invoke at this time; the first coming to mind Proverbs 19 [5] “A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape”

Mitchell goes on to make what can only be labeled as asinine comments wherein he asks; “Do we round up everyone on the street that we suspect is a killer and hang them right away, no trial, no judge, just go out and hang them?” This was never suggested based on what Senator Henfield was saying and only a person looking to mislead though misinformation would reach such an erroneous conclusion.

The “good” chairman should be ashamed of himself but we all know that he is not and totally prepared to do it all again tomorrow on some other topic, but Mitchell’s misinformation did not stop there.

Mitchell goes on to speak to meeting the standard of the worst of the worst in terms of capital punishment, a question which we as a country has not been able to agree on but the question is who set this standard for The Bahamas?  These would be bodies like the Privy Council and other Caribbean Countries; it’s odd that the PLP seeks to follow others at their convenience, lacking consistency in governance.

No, Mr. Mitchell, at no time during the Minnis administration was there a call for the death penalty and did you or any or your devoted followers van prove me wrong that I simply ask that you all present the evidence and layout your case.

The New Day government goes on even further in this dissemination of misinformation making the following statement; “What we know after hundreds died, if not thousands went missing in Abaco, this same Senator Darren Henfield was witness[ed] at a mass funeral in Abaco, where citizens of Abaco were protesting the funeral at the gates, it was shockingly negligent and a government, his government, was told in advance to evacuate the citizens of Marsh Harbour as the storm was coming and failed to do so and the result was scores of dead and missing.

Who should pay the ultimate price for this negligence”?

Like I said; “Weaponized Misinformation”.

It is pubic record at the time that the Minnis administration did appeal for the citizens of Marsh Harbour to evacuate and did carry our evacuation exercises to move people out of the path of Hurricane Dorian, and many actually did.  The ‘good’ chairman needs to attempt to be truthful with himself and the Bahamian people as to what really happened, instead of simply politicizing such a great tragedy.  Maybe there is a reason why Prime Minister Davis, now says that there will not be any further investigation into this matter, the “good” chairman needs to stop contradicting his leader with such blatant misinformation and lies; as they only cast aspersion on the very character of the New Day Progressive Liberal Party (PLP); not only as a political organization but as a government.

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

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