Mr Crosbie
FIJI: THE WAY IT WAS, IS AND CAN BE
Dear Sir
I refer to your blog, for which I have had the unenviable task of visiting recently.
From having a general review of your blog I have the following to report: I think is all good and well to sit back and report on a journalist's remarks that: "it isn't all that bad… there is running water and two buildings got built in Nadi… so they must be doing a good job."
But this is all still drivel. Yes, the journalist must have been very honored and chuffed to have met with Aiyaz.
In addition, I agree with his sentiments, Aiyaz is not the devil. Yes, Frank is also not the devil. They are our people, the people of Fiji. So we have to take responsibility for their upbringing and demise.
But we don't have to condone their actions or beliefs. They are, to put it mildly, self-deluded criminals with an expansive belief in their own ineptitude as a method of forgiving their sins.
What they have done is to remove all the choices we ever had: freedom of speech, government, media and passage.
They have introduced a culture of fear into our social lives. We cannot talk politics, government, military or society anymore.
They have done this with all knowledge, malice and planning – it is no accident that they intend to remove any and all criticism of or questions concerning their criminal cabal.
I query why you, and your ilk, seem unable to appreciate or even pause to think that what you write about concerns our lives? Our future? This is not balanced "reporting", despite the title to your blog.
I am not sure where you are, how many people there are required to make one "you" (one barracks?), or what particular part of this planet earth you inhabit when you write your inane posts but you should be ashamed for having committed them to text.
The dictatorship, or "the government", you comment so sweetly about is a corruption, not only in what they purport to stand for but for the decay they represent in Fiji's moral values – what is power and money – we need to appreciate that power and money do not result from this abhorrent violence and use of force that Frank and Aiyaz represent.
Perhaps all of Fiji needs to be re-educated as to what government is – it is not enough to simply have it taken away and claiming that a dictator knows best.
Stuff that.
Where is your sense of righteous indignation?
Where are, to coin a phrase from a Western, "your balls"?
What is it that they did to, said to or paid you to make you roll over and play dead to your own rights?
If it is, in your final analysis, that the Military Dictatorship has done something beautiful, wise and happy for the people of Fiji, please mention it. [No, believe it or not, two buildings in Nadi are not enough to show this - show me evidence of corruption or abuse of power or the good works of the powers that be.]
In any event, do you really, truly, honestly believe that this military dictator will release it's grip on wealth and power in 2014?
Are you that naive or simply so blase with the rights and freedoms of another people in a land too far removed to actually give a shit?
For your information, I am a young person. I am less than 30 years old, living in a country run by an idiotic and fundamentally brutal dictatorship.
I would have liked to have been involved in the politics and good governance of my nation if I had been given the chance. The military dictatorship has taken this, and our other freedoms from us.
If I wanted to, my choice would be to line up with the military and attempt to justify my life OR to seek social justice for my friends and family in other forms.
SO EVEN IF Fiji has an election in 2014 this will mean that there will have been an entire generation of young people that is going to grow up used to asking for favors from government figures, used to taking orders from government figures, to having decrees issued about their fundamental freedoms and living under martial law.
So when they have their magical elections in 2014, how do you think they will vote? With freedom?
Do the lessons of other dictatorships creeping slowly out of dictatorships into weak democracies make you feel warm inside?
It is a disgusting prospect. It should make your stomach turn and your eyes weep.
Sir, I would ask that you take a short break to consider a reply, if you have any, to the above.
You should reconsider your motivations and thoughts for the end, and the beginning, of a new year.
As they say, the new year is often the time for turning over a new leaf – so must we all.
Kind regards
Radiolucas
