Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish dictatorship, so wrote George Orwell. And that is what has been taking place in Fiji since December 2006. Now, the deranged and illegal bully boys in the police and military have once again barred their dictatorial fangs, supported by a section of the Mara-Ganilau clan, in arresting the men of God – the Methodists – and the paramount chief of Rewa, Ro Teimumu Kepa, whose late husband taught us the meaning and value of human rights in Fiji.
But we must not be distracted from our ultimate mission – to peacefully or violently overthrow the devils in disguise who are currently ruling Fiji, encouraged by a pliant and corrupt judiciary and an illegal president who has no constitutional powers to issue decrees or impose or extend public emergency.
To Justice Daniel Goundar, Anthony Gates, Paul Madigan and all judicial lackeys of the regime, we say, enjoy your days on the bench, for in the end justice will catch up with you – as to Madigan, he exemplifies the corruption and cronyism at its best – the very thing he had claimed he was trying to eradicate in the establishment of FICAC.Military fear is reasonable fear, and the more reasonable it is, the less there is to fear in it.
So, to the bully boys, we say, your days are numbered. Remember what happened to Oliver Cromwell. He died of malaria in 1858. He had abolished the monarchy, de-established the church and united British Isles.
When the monarchy was restored in 1660, Cromwell’s body was exhumed in 1660 and beheaded. His head was kept on public display until 1685.
People often ask me, Kofi Annan, the former Secretary-General of the UN once wrote, what difference one person can make in the face of injustice, conflict, human rights violations, mass poverty and disease: I answer by citing the courage, tenacity, dignity and magnanimity of Nelson Mandela.
We must draw courage and hope from Mandela’s long march to freedom, as he told his fellow South Africans in 1951: “Sons and daughters of Africa, our tasks are mighty indeed, but I have abundant faith in our ability to reply to the challenge posed by the situation. Under the slogan of FULL DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS IN SOUTH AFRICA NOW, we must march forward into victory.”
We repeat to the people of Fiji, what Mandela told his suffering people: “You can see that there is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountain tops of our desires.”
Again, we hear that Ro Teimumu Kepa will be prosecuted for incitement. Let the bully boys and the brainless A-G charge you, for remember Mandela’s ringing words of 7November 1962: “Posterity will prove that I was innocent.”He told his people: “I am charged with inciting people to commit an offence by way of protest against the law; a law which neither I nor any of my people had any say in preparing.”
The same applies to all the laws that have been passed since the abrogation of the Constitution – we have no obligation to obey unjust laws, for as Mahatma Gandhi, once reminded us: “An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”
There must be no turning back now, for as Mandela told the world from the dock in his Rivonia Trial in 1964: “The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices – submit or fight. That time has now come to South Africa. We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in our power in defence of our people, our future and our freedom.”
So let us support Ro Temimum Kepa and the valiant Methodist talatalas – it is now time to fight the illegal regime.
These brainless brawns are beyond redemption.
The future of the Fijian race is at stake in Fiji!
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