Time to Think: Politics Is Sickening:
By Dr. D. Paul Reilly -
Nassau, Bahamas:

At the time of writing this particular article, we are very close, six to eight weeks, away from a general election in The Bahamas. Now as anyone who is a regular reader to these articles will know, I’m not at all keen on politicians, as I find them for the most part to be dishonest, hypocritical, power hungry, and totally self-serving. I wrote another article some time ago about the ‘Two P’s of Politics’ which are Power & Profit. Believe you me, this is the only reason that so many people get into politics; that is to get into a position of power where they can laud it over others, in a desperate effort to shore up their chronic low self-esteem, whilst at the same time lining their own very deep pockets with illicit wealth. These are most definitely the two P’s of politics Profit & Power.

But coming up to an election, the politicians appear to excel in trying to pull the wool over the people’s eyes, in a desperate effort to either stay in power, or defeat those in office, by getting elected as the government of the day. As the title of this article puts it ‘Politics is sickening’.

In The Bahamas prior to the elections the only television station in operation was owned by the government, and it was so disgustingly biased in favor of the governing party, that it had just become a blatant ‘Government Propaganda Tool’. They really need to change the name of the Evening News, which is presently called ‘The Bahamas Tonight’ to ‘The PLP Propaganda Show’. The call letters of the government owned T.V. and Radio network are ZNS, which in my estimation stands for ‘Zero News Station’.

The one sided Political Propaganda emanating from this entity really was sickening, and I believe, that every Bahamian should rise up against the bias, the unfairness, the lack of balance which this government mouthpiece spewed out, supposedly as news, day after day it’s a National Disgrace!

During the six months prior to the election, the government signed more contracts for roads and bridges to be built, schools and other government buildings to be erected, than throughout the entire five years they were in power . . . .what a sham. . . .what a complete scam of the people. Then there was all the disgusting racism and xenophobia, which the ruling party had of course always used at election time, in a desperate effort to stir up the people.

Yes My Friend, at election time we all get to see right into the very soul of politicians running for office, and what we see is so very ugly ,so very disenchanting, that it makes us very upset and uptight about who will be running the country after the next election, which party will in fact be the ‘Lesser of two evils’. Yes indeed, I believe that most honest, God-fearing people feel that ‘Politics is sickening’....because it is!!!

THINK ABOUT IT!

E-mail: dpr@humanRI.com

24 May 2007