I see that Anon and Nostra, the husband and wife team came in with a one two punch here.
You see Nostra, the RawFijiNews piece above makes sense. The author is trying not hurt the feelings of certain segments of the Fijian community who have been stealing from their own.
So when the author above states, "The qoliqoli bill did have honourable intent…." that is saying that the SDL SOBs had their eyes on the QoliQoli money, that is, right after they had cashed in on the mahogany, they would move into the QoliQoli cash.
Regarding the bill, when the author says it had no "..intent to protect traditional Fijian fishing areas from exploitation and I think the wider Fiji community respects that." she is partially right – yes, the bill had nothing to do with the rights of the indigenous, just the coups we have had before – no gives a crap about indigenous rights – that is how it has been successive Fijian administrations – however, the author is wrong when she suggests that the wider Fiji community respects that – yes, many in Fiji do respect the move to better the life of the poor rural Fijians – but some of these same Fijians would turn around and vote the SDL back into power – because of the Indian bogey man.
Overall, the above piece from RFN is a really good piece – I think the idiot Nostradamus just did not get it…that is why he posted it in here.
Yes Nostra, Frank and his people do not have long term solutions for specific problems – no one expects them to have those solutions – we all want them to get out of the way once the elecroral reforms are completed and a new election is help in 2014 or hopefully earlier. One would expect them to deal with one issue at a time, the best they can.
We all expect the new elected government to deal with any changes to the new constitution that would be put into place by these guys – incremental changes. I am sure that it will be the new government that will deal with the long term Qoli Qoli issues, land lease issue, saving the sugar industry, if it can be saved and the rest.
I think you idiots should start attacking the article above as being anti-SDL and therefore being anti-Fijian, and anti Tui Savu…..probably written a vulangi with that subtle attack on the SDL.
As to how "long the pressure would remain contained". I think most folks are willing to sit it through til 2014 and see how things go – unless the economy totally collapses. After that, the long term problems don't addressed and the military insists in staying in power – then the pressure may begin to build up to the point that things may not be contained.
Gonei so la e kila – I think you expected too much from Frank – this coup, like all others, was a simple grab for power.
The important thing now is to figure out how we get out of this and have a society that is better than what we had under Qarase and the previous governments without doing any serious damage to our country.
You see, when your hand is stuck under a rock – you slowly ease it out, without applying to much pressure. Unless of course you are on a reef and the tide is coming in – then you chop off you hand and save your life.
The way I see it, we are in a position where we can slowly ease that hand out from under the rock. It is not time to chop off the hand – not yet.
