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October24th , 2010
THE CHICKENS ARE HOME TO ROOST In the words of the black power leader of the sixties, Malcolm X, “the chickens have come home to roost”. Malcolm X made this statement when he was asked to comment on the assassination of the John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America. He had gotten in trouble for that statement and was reprimanded by the Hon. Elijah Mohammed leader of the Muslim Nation at that time. That statement is very appropriate today as one reflects on the massive turnout at the People’s United Party Convention on Sunday October 17, 2010. The crowd of almost 20,000 which represented 40% of the amount of votes (49,000) received by the PUP in the 2008 General Election. The crowd included hundreds if not thousands of frustrated UDP supporters who claimed that they cannot take the UDP and Dean Barrow government anymore. As a result of the total neglect by the UDP government that has occurred since taking office has forced their own supporters to choose the PUP as the party of hope. So if the UDP fanatics and Dean Barrow do not believe that the crowd on Sunday to be a sign of a crescendo building then he really is the ostrich in disguise that was suspected. That crowd on Sunday is in pain, and now they want to inflict back more pain to the UDP and Barrow greater than they received. That crowd proverbially is truly the chickens already come home to roost. Prominent in the forefront and dressed in blue and white was the UDP key spokesman Philip “Fada” Henry. He was proudly posing for pictures because he like the thousands that turned up at the convention is frustrated and fed up with the UDP and their corrupt and incompetent ways. No one was more UDP than “Fada” Henry. The hand writing is on the wall because without a shadow of a doubt the UDP days as a govern
ment are numbered. Jules Vasquez and Evan X Hyde tried to down play the resurgence of the PUP “massive” by focusing on the fact that Mark Espat and Cordel Hyde was absentfrom the convention. Well, they were absent by choice, but both the Albert and Lake Independence divisions was represented by the buses full. Their absence was miscalculated because they did not in their wildest dreams believe that the PUP as a party of hope would have been able to attract that many supporters. What was significant about the crowd in Dangriga was that it was not a renta-crowd nor was there any free and cheap alcohol and beer. Mark and Cordel have done themselves a disservice and the people they represent. Nows they have left the door open for “mongoose to enter their foul coop”. Significantly, absent was Francis Fonseca, who called in sick and Florencio Marin Jr., whom excuse has not reached this editorial desk. Evan X Hyde claim that Mark and Cordel was been left off the PUP National Executive, but we wish to clarify at this desk that they left themselves off the National Executive when they refuse to submit their names for nomination. If they had submitted their names for their desired post, they stood a good chance of winning that post on the convention floor. What is most interesting is the fact that both Mark Espat and Cordel Hyde were offered positions on the present PUP executive that they refused. No one sidelined them, they exempted themselves. What is most likely to happen is that they will be challenged for the PUP standard bearer position in their divisions and there is no guarantee they will win because the people in their area are tired of their negative behavior also, their challengers are embolden since they could have infiltrated and brought out so many of their
voters. Now even if they win at a convention, they will need to spend money to campaign. However, if they have an endorsement it cost less. However, they are the ones to blame because they choose to stand outside the blue tent and watch the crowd of PUPs swell. No one will argue that having dissenting views are a bad thing, but bad mind certainly cannot be tolerated, and this is what Mark and Cordel exhibited towards the PUP and of course against their divisions by not showing up. The PUP will win the next General Election with or without the “Zinc Fence” support. We wish they would stay out so they can be unleashed upon to expose their full hypocrisy because the full story has not been told to the Belizean people yet. Our warning to John Briceno is that if Mark and Cordel to runs and both win their divisions and the PUP forms the next government the PUP will need to win at least eighteen seats, because as hell has fire those two will be menaces to the Briceno government for that entire term. Another point to counter is the Evan X Hyde tries to distract the pseudo intellectuals by referring to the PUP as neo-liberals. However poor people do not have a
clue what that means nor do they care all they know presently that Evan X Hyde is supporting a demonic Dean Barrow that is putting an economic licking on them. Nevertheless, all neo-liberal means is using private sector to create opportunities for the poor. We repeat what is wrong for a government to create opportunities for its people by working with investors to build Belize. Don’t be distracted by this jack@ss that lived his entire life as a parasite and is still doing so only today instead of Said and Ralph, he is sucking Dean Barrow dry. Our advice to Mark and Cordel, humble yourselves and sever your ties with the old dinosaur and come home and ride to Belmopan as one of the eighteen plus representatives. This is the only way you will save your political careers. The tide is shifting and certainly there is no room and the PUP deck for the “Zinc Fence”, not this time around. As is our mantra, we are not prepared to powder any politician, unlike the “Zinc Fence” but we have to hang some hope on the PUP because the UDP has been an outright disaster and Belize cannot take anymore. Straight like that. OPEN YOUR EYES THE PEOPLE ARE TRULY AWAKE!!!
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