Wednesday, 05 August 2009
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Response to Fiji's Ambassador - Appalling
Further to your Web story posted Monday 3rd August 2009, under the heading, Fiji Ambassador to the U.S. Appalling. I agree with your analysis, and would like to pick up one important point from this distasteful episode.
The illegal Ambassador to the United States of America, Winston Thompson is quoted as saying in para 4. "There are many other views that exist around the world on the Fiji situation but most of it is not contributing to arriving at a satisfactory solution and outcome, and it is something we all desperately want to see, and we want to see that achieved in the quickest and the most acceptable way possible.
In other words, Thompson's mealymouthed rationalization appears to be acknowledging that Fiji's current status quo IS unacceptable, and that by implication, Bainimarama's inexplicable five-year timeframe (2014) to democratic elections is also unacceptable (or at the very least, undesirable).
This is the height of strategic mismanagement and Leadership disconnect (a very familiar trait of this illegal Regime).
I wonder what will the Commander do about this apparent departure from the official Regime policy given publicly by Fiji's representative in Washington? Give him the boot?
Earlier this year Ratu Isoa Gavidi got the sack for stating the obvious in reply to a Fiji TV One interview question "that he hoped the Interim Prime Minister would attend the Forum Island Leaders meeting in Samoa".
Such is the evidence of implosion happening from the top level of people chosen by the illegal IR to act or speak on its behalf. They either do not have the skills, experience, qualifications or the fundamental human values to do the job they have been tasked with. Or else they do not have the requisite conscience or self-respect judgment needed to not tell baldfaced lies for the Regime when they are put on the spot.
Whatever the case, apologists like Thompson are increasingly finding that they cannot have their cake and eat it too. Like anyone else faced with a moral choice, they are being forced to choose almost daily between either lying, or keeping a clean conscience. Or between having to say/endorse something stupid, or keeping their self-respect. And as the Thompson example showed the other week, it is not possible to always stay on Regime message under that kind of pressure.
Dr. Mere Tuisalalo Samisoni,
Member for the Lami Open Constituency.
http://meresamisoni.xanga.com/
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