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EDITOR, The Tribune.

I'd like to thank Mr. Roberts for his brief civics lesson in his recent rebuttal, but it's important to correct him when he says he does not recall hearing anything anti-government from me.

It is interesting when people try to weave a yarn without deference to the facts. If Mr. Roberts would visit www.weblogbahamas.com or www.nassauinstitute.org he'd find consistent statements about the bad policies of the FNM and PLP over the years, along with suggestions for improvement. Hopefully he will visit those sites and garner some new policy ideas to help the government on what he refers to as the "new path to empowerment, peace and prosperity."

As I expressed to Mr Roberts on the phone, there is not only one group of people that love this country and want to see it and her people do well.

Unfortunately though, he seems to have missed one of the most important points I was making so it's worth restating it here.

The burden of the country is now on the shoulders of Mr. Roberts and the PLP's team. Undoubtedly it's heavy, but they wanted the challenge. Elections are over and the country deserves more than what amounts to rhetoric to keep us all at odds.

But why should we be surprised? He just confirms what H. L. Mencken said:

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

It's time now to help move us "Forward, Onward, Upward, Together" until the next election, Mr. Roberts.

Yours in Liberty,

RICK LOWE

Nassau,

July 10,2012