This does need to end, but it must end as the result of a convention. There is too much division in the party and Minnis will be seen as a coward who ducked the challenge if he doesn't hold one. I say to it now, and whoever wins is the leader going into the next election. Minnis, if you bad, put the rumors to rest and unify the party by beating your opponents once again. If not, you only look weak and scared.
Hahaha, say the report is completed. I bet it is - and an amazing work of fiction too! They mussee hire the fellas who write Doc's Tonic for the Punch...
Oh, and if we can't stop acting like barbarians and abusing people's rights and calling for their torture, we should be bankrupted. Unthinking tribalism is a terrible thing. "Me and mines, and everybody else can go to hell" is an idea from the dark ages. If we can't rise above it to be more humanitarian and Christian than that, we don't deserve to prosper.
Cas0072 - I never heard of the man turning a case away. Perhaps it is because more immigrants bring their cases to him. Why don't you send him a bona fide case of a Bahamian having their fundamental constitutional rights violated and see what he does. It is unfair to accuse him of an agenda on the basis of counting cases, Bahamian vs. immigrant. It might be that more immigrants are having their rights violated because the authorities think they can get away with it; or it could be that immigrant communities have more of a culture of family members looking to help those whose rights have been violated, and so they come forward and seek out people like Fred Smith. You never know. Personally, I know many Bahamians who he has helped.
Wait, before I waste any more of my time, my2cents, it is your contention that informing Bahamians of their rights, defending their rights in the courts, and having under his belt a whole string of judgements - on stop and search powers of police, on road blocks, etc – that empower Bahamians is somehow different from what he has done in the case of Haitians? Why, because he didn't go international with it? As I understood Fred Smith's argument, it was Mitchell who first went the OAS and called the name of the Grand Bahama Human Rights Association, leveling all kinds of claims against them. Smith merely responded on the same stage.
Emac - To see just one of many examples of Fred Smith fighting for the rights of Bahamians - Rubis fuel spill victims, those sold out over the Small Homes Repair Project – see below. Do I win a prize?
Voltaire says...
Birdie - Haitians abuse Bahamians at the hospital??? What, they flogging people in the waiting room hey?
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Voltaire says...
This does need to end, but it must end as the result of a convention. There is too much division in the party and Minnis will be seen as a coward who ducked the challenge if he doesn't hold one. I say to it now, and whoever wins is the leader going into the next election. Minnis, if you bad, put the rumors to rest and unify the party by beating your opponents once again. If not, you only look weak and scared.
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Voltaire says...
Hahaha, say the report is completed. I bet it is - and an amazing work of fiction too! They mussee hire the fellas who write Doc's Tonic for the Punch...
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Voltaire says...
Oh, and if we can't stop acting like barbarians and abusing people's rights and calling for their torture, we should be bankrupted. Unthinking tribalism is a terrible thing. "Me and mines, and everybody else can go to hell" is an idea from the dark ages. If we can't rise above it to be more humanitarian and Christian than that, we don't deserve to prosper.
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Voltaire says...
Cas0072 - I never heard of the man turning a case away. Perhaps it is because more immigrants bring their cases to him. Why don't you send him a bona fide case of a Bahamian having their fundamental constitutional rights violated and see what he does. It is unfair to accuse him of an agenda on the basis of counting cases, Bahamian vs. immigrant. It might be that more immigrants are having their rights violated because the authorities think they can get away with it; or it could be that immigrant communities have more of a culture of family members looking to help those whose rights have been violated, and so they come forward and seek out people like Fred Smith. You never know. Personally, I know many Bahamians who he has helped.
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Wait, before I waste any more of my time, my2cents, it is your contention that informing Bahamians of their rights, defending their rights in the courts, and having under his belt a whole string of judgements - on stop and search powers of police, on road blocks, etc – that empower Bahamians is somehow different from what he has done in the case of Haitians? Why, because he didn't go international with it? As I understood Fred Smith's argument, it was Mitchell who first went the OAS and called the name of the Grand Bahama Human Rights Association, leveling all kinds of claims against them. Smith merely responded on the same stage.
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Voltaire says...
Sure! Fred Smith defends a Bahamian Rubis spill victims in the courts - http://www.tribune242.com/news/2015/apr…
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Voltaire says...
Emac - Fred Smith telling bahamians about their rights. Shall I continue?
https://www.facebook.com/87709582232067…
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Emac - To see just one of many examples of Fred Smith fighting for the rights of Bahamians - Rubis fuel spill victims, those sold out over the Small Homes Repair Project – see below. Do I win a prize?
http://www.thebahamasweekly.com/publish…
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Indeed. Exactly correct.
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