Thank you, Don, for posting this comment. The horrid comments made by some of the other poster shows that they just do not understand how easily a government and government employees can go bad and threaten the democratic freedoms that we take for granted. Fred Smith a national hero and a man of courage and integrity. I hope to meet him one day so I can shake the hand a good man.

hey Sleeprunner, " It's just that the spawn is getting worse.", you are funny, cynical, but funny.

Plicks2 jus love them police. You will not hear any objective or rational comments from him about no police matters. Perhaps he is a retired cop who done his share of police work under cover of the cells in the back of the police station where mo one can hear the screams.

As always, I thank The Lord Jesus Christ and your biological parents, the late Reverend Doctor Ortland H. Bodie Sr. and your late mother, Annie Hepburn that they did not birth twins. Can you imagine a world with twice as much politically sycophantic quasi-religious rubbish published in the letters column of our dailies. Bodie and that Felix Bethel man talking on an eternal talk show would approximate my idea of Hell.

The letter writer is blinded to the reality that most of the rest of us experience. The police has too many vicious and corrupt officers. It is past time for Her Majesty to withdraw her Royal Charter from this organization.

Hey, pawbahamian. And your God's purpose in creating hermaphrodites was what please?

Hey, joeblip, you write: "Common sense, biology and genetics confirm that there are only two sexes.". Take the time to look up hermaphrodite in a dictionary. Sigh.

Why not use up some more of the National Insurance money that is supposed to be invested for future pension pay-outs, like happened under the PLP Christie administration. The Tribune ran a story on it at the time with the senior NIB official taking credit for spending the money held in trust on buying 4 ambulances for the PHA. it was shameful.

I thought the language he used in his radio interview was a little coarse perhaps even undignified. There is a big difference between fiscal incompetence and criminality.

Thank you, Dr. Bethel for your courage to express your considered opinions. You must have anticipated the reaction from many of our fellow citizens for whom nationalism is a wonderfully positive attribute intricately tied with the policies of the early plp which supposedly led the "true" Bahamians to the land of milk and honey. Political and religious beliefs are notoriously blind to the appeal of reason. The Wehrmacht Republic was made up of millions of citizens convinced that nationalism was the answer to their nations problems. A belief that persisted right up to the outskirts of Stalingrad where the magnitude of the lass of human lives could no longer be ignored. Obviously our country operates on a vastly different scale but your warning is both timely and pertinent.