Sunday, August 26, 2012

Is Trinidad and Tobago Becoming a Police State?


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. 

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