Published On:Wednesday, September 01, 2010

EDITOR, The Tribune.

I double dare anyone to contradict what I am about to say. Too many of us refuse to see truth in what is said; we always look at who is saying it. But if we have a conscience, we would stop covering up for unscrupulous politicians and say it as it is and stop being used.

I think it is high time that sensible Bahamians stop letting PLP rhetoric cause them to be fools. When certain questionable members of the PLP make public statements it is treated as gospel. How could people repeat what a man who is already despised by his own party be saying?

Think about it; there is absolutely no way the FNM government can prevent anyone from raping his supposed girlfriend or dictating morality.

There is no way the FNM government can prevent two drug dealers from killing each other.

There is no way the FNM government can prevent a judge from exercising their discretion and give bail to a murderer. The rise in crime is not the FNM's or PLP's fault. It is all of our faults.

The FNM cannot go into people's bedrooms and prevent a domestic fight. How preposterous.

These are some of the environments that cause major problems sometimes totally ignoring conflict resolution exercises. If anyone wants to get technical, then the drug trade is the core of the problem. Now we all can remember who facilitated that. Remember?

Crime has no politics, no religion, no race, no colour. It is hatched in a demented mind. It knows no gender. So the PLP should stop using the fear, emotions and anxiety of crime to torture the people. It is cruel and has far reaching consequences, the like of which some of us may not be too happy with later.

We have our own minds, let's use it and arrive at our own sensible reasonable conclusions.

IVOINE W INGRAHAM

Nassau,

July, 2010.