Sunday, 11 October 2009
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Barack Obama Joe Biden Free Fiji from Fear and Want
We had followed Barack Obama’s election campaign trail with much enthusiasm seeing that this was going to be an unstoppable train of Change for America and for the first time it put the greatest country on earth in the same situation that has sadly being an integral part of Fijian politics since the 1987 military coup.
It was interesting to note the sentiments of white Americans on CNN, and in this instance a famous Star Wars actor’s call for the American people to take back America and give it back to the Americans earlier this year whilst Obama was on his first official International appointment at the Davos Summit. The actor rallied on National TV, “we have one whole week let’s do it”.
In no uncertain terms what the actor was asking the people to do was to stage the first coup and return America to white supremacy and the planning of this all was to happen at a ‘tea party’ and a rallying cry for 50 million Americans to support this cause was aired live on CNN. Thank goodness for free speech in the land of the free. No Frank this is not sedition like in tit pot land.
The American Constitution has been “defended protected and preserved” not like our Fiji, it changes with the weather, including anything new that Frank comes up with in the future because we have too many QC’s KC’s and DVC’s in our country, in fact, we have around 300 plus bush lawyers that can fit into a mid tier law firm in the 1st World back office at the basement next to the sewer lines.
Back to Obama’s electoral campaign trail, there were 5 promises made by Barack Obama and Joe Biden to not only the American people, but the International Community 4 of which needs to be summarized here as same is relevant to the relationship between the present United States administration and our illegal tin pot Dictator Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama.
Obama’s first promise to the International Community:
“To renew American leadership in the world, I will strengthen our common security by investing in our common humanity. Our global engagement cannot be defined by what we are against; it must be guided by a clear sense of what we stand for. We have a significant stake in ensuring that those who live in fear and want today can live with dignity and opportunity tomorrow.” Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2007
Barack Obama and Joe Biden's vision of leadership in this new era begins with the recognition of a fundamental reality: the security and well-being of each and every American is tied to the security and wellbeing of those who live beyond our borders.
Fighting Global Poverty
· Achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The United Nations (UN) has embraced the Millennium Development Goals, which aim to cut extreme poverty in half by 2015. Barack Obama and Joe Biden will target new U.S. assistance to help the world's weakest states to build healthy and educated communities, reduce poverty, develop markets, and generate wealth.
· Provide Sustainable Debt Relief to Developing Countries. The poorest countries in the world suffer under the weight of an enormous burden of external debt...Barack Obama and Joe Biden will lead a multilateral effort to address the issue of 'odious debt' by investigating ways in which 'loan sanctions' might be employed to create disincentives for private creditors to lend money to repressive, authoritarian regimes.
Expanding Prosperity
'We need to invest in building capable, democratic states that can establish healthy and educated communities, develop markets, and generate wealth.' Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2007
· Lead Efforts to Reform the IMF and the World Bank. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have contributed in important ways to an era of tremendous openness and global growth since 1945, but both institutions face crises of governance and are in need of modernization and reform. Barack Obama and Joe Biden will lead an effort in the G-8 to achieve a new consensus on the missions of the IMF and the World Bank, while at the same time securing necessary changes in how both institutions are governed to reflect the increasing influence of middle-income countries.
Supporting Effective, Accountable, and Democratic Institutions
· Democracies are our best trading partners, our most valuable allies, and the nations with which we share our deepest values. Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States will join with our democratic partners around the world to meet common security challenges and uphold our shared values whenever they are threatened by autocratic practices, coups, human rights abuses or genocide.
· Matching Rhetoric with Deeds. In his second inaugural address on January 20, 2005, President George W. Bush used the word 'freedom' 25 times, 'liberty' 12 times, and 'democracy' or 'democratic' 3 times. All of these words, however, have done little to advance democracy around the world. Instead of mere rhetoric, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will focus on achieving concrete outcomes that will advance democracy. They will work for the release of jailed scholars, activists, and opposition party leaders such as Ayman Nour in Egypt. Barack Obama and Joe Biden will stand with struggling democrats as they denounce elections that are not free or fair, so that flawed elections can no longer be used to legitimize authoritarian rule in places like Russia, Zimbabwe, and Azerbaijan. They will confront the perpetrators of genocide, such as the Government of Sudan in Darfur, rather than standing by, content with idle half-measures.
· Promote Freedom from Fear. Barack Obama and Joe Biden will commit his administration to promoting one of Franklin Roosevelt's four pillars: freedom from fear. They will commit to strengthen the pillars of a just society in countries around the globe, through insistent calls for reform and critical investments in the growth of transparent and accountable institutions that provide the opportunity and dignity that people so desperately seek. The U.S. should help build strong legislatures, responsible political parties, free presses, and vibrant civil societies, and help ease the fears of communities in the developing world by strengthening judiciaries and building honest and professional police forces in order to ensure that legal systems enforce peoples' rights and stabilize societies.
Confronting Common Threats
· 'And since extremely poor societies and weak states provide optimal breeding grounds for disease, terrorism, and conflict, the United States has a direct national security interest in dramatically reducing global poverty and joining with our allies in sharing more of our riches to help those most in need.
· Strengthen the Capacity of the UN and Regional Organizations to Prevent and Respond to Deadly Violence. Barack Obama and Joe Biden support renewed US leadership in support of effective United Nations and regional peace operations. Such missions engage nations around the world to bring stable peace to war-torn regions; to establish the rule of law and to prevent state failure; to address threats that are not easily contained by borders and boundaries; and to halt atrocities and genocide. Yet, our expectations of the UN have often not been met -- because obstructionist member states have blocked timely action (as on Darfur and in the UN Human Rights Council) and because corruption and management failures have undermined the UN's effectiveness.
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden you have rubbished President George W. Bush on your campaign trail stating that he did not match rhetoric with deeds, but we love the Texan and if you had even half the size of George W Bush’s Texan manhood between the two of you, you will honor your words by doing the following:
1. Veto Fiji’s application for Finance from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank until the 1997 Constitution of Fiji is restored together with the strict observation by the Fiji military regime of the Bill of Rights therein and a firm written commitment is made to hold elections in 2010 as requested by the Commonwealth of Nations.
2. According to Ambassador Rice, utilize the United States “veto wielding power” and relieve Fiji Military Force Soldiers from United Nations Peacekeeping Duties immediately, notwithstanding that they are the cheapest soldiers on earth that costs less that 1% of Global Military Spending until the 1997 Constitution is restored.
3. Finally, although public international law requires that states and governments inherit the debts incurred by their predecessors, however ill-advised those borrowings may have been, and notwithstanding that these debts are congenital, adhesive and ineradicable, can you please actively caution all International Financiers including the Chinese Exim Bank, of the repercussions in financing an illegal military dictatorship, in answer to the ‘odious debt’ dilemma, in full knowledge of the fact that crystallizing a solution in the absence of an International Bankruptcy regime could significantly reduce cross-border capital flows to sovereign borrowers, because quite simply Frank Bainimarama’s military government is corrupt, and are borrowing money in the name of the State and are stealing and squandering the proceeds which Fijians should not be required to pay on moral grounds, since the military regime do not have the consent of the governed.
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