Introducing the Police State of Trinidad and Tobago
By Sissymoriah
When a government’s big, bad pig buys media houses while surreptitiously medicating citizens with slap-stick pills, and
carnival serums, it signals the installation of a police state.
In a police state, there is no
line between the judicial and executive branches; citizens are unable to talk freely
without being “maco-ed.” Citizens are also
casually shot as it easier to move a corpse to a morgue than a cussing live human
to a jail. And oh, … in a police state the Minister of National Security is
very rich and buys newspapers. The latter is happening Trinidad and Tobago where
the big, bad pig wants majority stake in two newspapers. This is straight out of
Orwell’s Animal Farm, that pesky fictional
story that real life always seen to imitate in one failed state or the other, as
those in power create, break and bend rules to fit a naughty agenda.
So this big bad pig says, “I see
no conflict,” in owning newspapers. Under his ownership what will these
newspapers be but weapons to be used in his party’s suppression of sheep,
donkeys and old horses? Irrespective of what party one supports (and his
supporters are rabid), this is bad business for the country. Maybe he is taking
a page from the life of old Rupert Murdoch, whose media personnel hacked into
the private conversations of ordinary people, celebrities and political figures
in England. Abuse of power always happens when media and politics not only sleep
in the same bed but become an asexual entity. The big, bad pig of Trinidad and Tobago
recently placed a photographer to spy on the opposition leader’s constituency
office.
Could he be trusted with the immense power that comes with owning media?
His actions make the answer obvious.
