Someone should tell Patrick Manning that he must not judge other people by his own standards. Manning is a liar, so does that make everybody a liar?
What gives him the moral authority to summarily dismiss the plot against the life of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and some of her senior ministers?
Kamla has enough stress as it is without having to create a crisis to make headlines or to justify the need to extend the State of Emergency. She doesn't need an excuse. She is the Prime Minister and if she wants to extend the emergency she doesn't need permission from Manning or the PNM.
I wonder how many of you remember Manning's famous nancy story about how a man walked into his wife's office and announced that there was a plot to kill her husband.
And how he and Hazel were going to the gym at four in the morning when they was ambushed. And how he didn't report it because he didn't want "blood to flow".
Then when reporters asked Manning's pal, acting Police Commissioner James Philbert, about it he had to admit he didn't have a clue what Manning was talking about.
You see Manning made up that story to get attention and a little political sympathy when the sky was falling in around him. And he thinks that Kamla needs that kind of prop as well.
In case you don't remember the story, here are some links. Read them for yourself.
Manning reveals plot to assassinate him
Editorial: PM needs to explain why assassination plot was not investigated
Manning takes heat on assassination plot revelations
That's why Manning thinks Kamla made up the story.
We live in dangerous times in a country where one person used to be murdered every 17 hours. Kamla changed that. We used to have more murders than days in the year. Kamla changed that. Criminals had the country under siege, children were being murdered while Manning looked the other way. Kamla changed that.
Manning refused to declare a State of Emergency to deal with crime. Kamla changed that too! And that has caused great distress to Manning and Rowley and their friends who are feeling the heat from the State of Emergency.
From day one they have demanded that it be lifted. And they celebrated when the DPP decided that he didn't have evidence to prosecute the fellas from Nelson Street and other such places.
Manning didn't have a problem with gang leaders. In fact he thought of them as "community leaders" and entertained them at fancy hotels. People like Mark Guerra, Kerwin “Fresh” Phillip, Meryn “Cudjoe” Allamby, Sheldon "Crock" Smith and David "Buffy" Millard. He made them sign ceasefire agreements, and he gave them rewards.
Buffy became a coordinator of a $250 million NHA refurbishing project. And Guerra was a national adviser to the URP.
Kamla doesn't do things that way. You see, Kamla is really messing things up for Manning and these community leaders. And that is a real problem for Manning and the PNM.
Read related story: PNM encouraged criminals, failed to deal with crime: PM Kamla
And now this failed leader who almost made Trinidad and Tobago a failed state is suggesting that he and the PNM can do better than the Kamla government!
Didn't he just lose an election? Has he forgotten that his own party kicked him out of Balisier House and installed Keith Rowley as the new PNM leader?
You had your chance, Mr. Manning. And you blew it. So leave the pot hound to chase cars and let Kamla and her ministers run the country.
Take the advice that your good friend Louis Lee Sing offered you the other day. Go open your church and pray and repent. Ask the Lord to forgive you for the sins you committed against the people of this country. And leave Kamla alone to do the job that the people gave her!
Jai Parasram | 28 November 2011
What gives him the moral authority to summarily dismiss the plot against the life of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and some of her senior ministers?
Kamla has enough stress as it is without having to create a crisis to make headlines or to justify the need to extend the State of Emergency. She doesn't need an excuse. She is the Prime Minister and if she wants to extend the emergency she doesn't need permission from Manning or the PNM.
I wonder how many of you remember Manning's famous nancy story about how a man walked into his wife's office and announced that there was a plot to kill her husband.
Then when reporters asked Manning's pal, acting Police Commissioner James Philbert, about it he had to admit he didn't have a clue what Manning was talking about.
You see Manning made up that story to get attention and a little political sympathy when the sky was falling in around him. And he thinks that Kamla needs that kind of prop as well.
In case you don't remember the story, here are some links. Read them for yourself.
Manning reveals plot to assassinate him
Editorial: PM needs to explain why assassination plot was not investigated
Manning takes heat on assassination plot revelations
That's why Manning thinks Kamla made up the story.
We live in dangerous times in a country where one person used to be murdered every 17 hours. Kamla changed that. We used to have more murders than days in the year. Kamla changed that. Criminals had the country under siege, children were being murdered while Manning looked the other way. Kamla changed that.
Manning refused to declare a State of Emergency to deal with crime. Kamla changed that too! And that has caused great distress to Manning and Rowley and their friends who are feeling the heat from the State of Emergency.
From day one they have demanded that it be lifted. And they celebrated when the DPP decided that he didn't have evidence to prosecute the fellas from Nelson Street and other such places.
Manning didn't have a problem with gang leaders. In fact he thought of them as "community leaders" and entertained them at fancy hotels. People like Mark Guerra, Kerwin “Fresh” Phillip, Meryn “Cudjoe” Allamby, Sheldon "Crock" Smith and David "Buffy" Millard. He made them sign ceasefire agreements, and he gave them rewards.
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| File Photo: PM Manning meets with gang leader Sheldon "Crock" Scott in Laventille during the 2007 election campaign |
Kamla doesn't do things that way. You see, Kamla is really messing things up for Manning and these community leaders. And that is a real problem for Manning and the PNM.
Read related story: PNM encouraged criminals, failed to deal with crime: PM Kamla
And now this failed leader who almost made Trinidad and Tobago a failed state is suggesting that he and the PNM can do better than the Kamla government!
Didn't he just lose an election? Has he forgotten that his own party kicked him out of Balisier House and installed Keith Rowley as the new PNM leader?
You had your chance, Mr. Manning. And you blew it. So leave the pot hound to chase cars and let Kamla and her ministers run the country.
Take the advice that your good friend Louis Lee Sing offered you the other day. Go open your church and pray and repent. Ask the Lord to forgive you for the sins you committed against the people of this country. And leave Kamla alone to do the job that the people gave her!
Jai Parasram | 28 November 2011
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