EDITOR, The Tribune.

I found Fred Mitchell’s comments directed at Mr. Izmirlian to be absolutely outrageous. Mitchell’s statements were disgraceful. It seriously makes me worry about the direction this country is headed when a prominent politician, supposedly educated, could make threats such as these in public.

Reading the papers, one would think that the powers that be would be more concerned with the social rot that exists within the indigenous Bahamian population, as BEC, BTC, Bank of The Bahamas, The Post Office Savings Bank, Bahamasair, an all time record murder rate, continuous credit down gradings by international credit agencies, persistent drop in World Bank business ratings, epidemic gambling and drug addiction rates, and a whole host of horrendous social and economic indicators that suggest that this country is going to hell in a hand basket. Why do you think the majority of foreign-educated Bahamians fail to return? Economic opportunity alone?

But, of course, losers always lash out at those around them when it becomes all too obvious that they are an utter failure. Is Mr. Mitchell representing himself or his country’s failings as he makes these utterly insane statements? It is time that Bahamians take a good look in the mirror. It is not the foreigners who are dragging this country to its demise. The Bahamas is approaching the reasonable definition of a failed state. It is morally, spiritually, economically and socially bankrupt. It is time to quit blaming the foreigners and take a good look around you. Yes, you and your so-called leaders. These are not small matters. If things keep up as they are now, every decent person who has the opportunity will up and leave this god-forsaken country. Perhaps it is time for Bahamians to shut up and listen to people who come from countries that actually work and where people are decent to each other and their leaders are not corrupt to the bone. Now that would be a step in the right direction.

SADDENED IN THE FAMILY ISLANDS

August 6, 2015.