Lawlessness & A Free for All

Seychelles is being engulfed by a wave of violence, crime, drugs & alcohol scourge, mafia style plundering, free for all corruption - all orchestrated or condoned from the very top of the SPPF leadership hierarchy. While the country crumbles on all fronts - an economy in the hands of the IMF, land handed over to foreigners, property and lives being ransacked, our children’s lives destroyed by vices…it is indeed a free for all. This is what we get for ‘being what we want to be’ under SPPF’s total leadership collapse.

The SPPF government is happy with running a lawless society. It helps keep them in power. They keep on baffling and promising their herd-like supporters while they torpedo the country and enrich themselves and all their cronies. Not only have they run out of ideas but the chaos that they have brought upon this people is acting as a camouflage for their inability. It is the perfect trick from the book of all autocracies – create a side show to take away your focus from the bigger picture. “Kile les Jj travay! Les SPPF trankil!”

This lawlessness acts as a smoke screen and turns the citizens into hostages in their own homes… But let us not forget that James Michel’s government is a continuation of Albert Rene’s government. His big talk about being his own self with his own style is just hot air. He is of the same breed that perpetrated this lawlessness since 5th June ’77. They ruled this country for 15 years from the barrel of a gun. Lest we forget, this country under Albert Rene’s dictatorship was a fully militarized state with its ‘Seychelles People’s Liberation Army’, ‘Gard Bate’, ‘National Guard’, ‘People’s Militia’, ‘Young Pioneers’, ‘Youth Brigades’, military style NYS… all destined to instil FEAR and unleashing VIOLENCE on the people of Seychelles. When you breed a lawless society you end up destroying its moral and social fabric. Today we are worse off than we were 10, 15, 20 years ago. We have drug addicts, drug dealers, child molesters, wife beaters, alcoholics, thieves, prostitution, racketeering; mafia style executions, murderers, house break-ins, beach/tourist thefts… and we can count ourselves lucky that there are no guns involved yet. We all know who the ones with the guns are!  It is a dog eat dog world and the tail has been wagging the dog all the time…

The current state of our country’s security begs a few questions.

• Why is it so complicated to reign in this lawlessness? Are the acts being aided and abetted? Are they being orchestrated by themselves?

• Why is it so difficult to contain crime when the country’s defence budget has always been increasing year on year?

•  Is it a question of siphoning off the funds to protect certain individuals and neglecting the population at large?

• Who is involved in the drug trade? We are still waiting on James Michel’s promise to bring the Escobar to justice. Or are they sitting too close to him? Or are they the top leadership’s own henchmen?

• Why do we see crime, theft and other scourges being allowed to perpetrate? Who is involved? Who is making the money? Why is the drugs trade being allowed to flourish?

• Who is running the show? We are now being invaded by crooks at the top while the rest of the population is being harassed by criminals who are on the rampage, targeting tourists and terrorizing the population at large.

• What is the government’s solution? Join in the anarchy by unleashing their own breed of gangster / mafia style ‘investigators’ with their own hidden agenda to wrestle control of this underworld?

• Why is our police force powerless to cope with this sudden wave of crime? Who orchestrated the systematic destruction of our law enforcement establishment?

The list of questions might cover a whole edition of this paper….

Fear mongering is a tactic that the SPPF have been using since they raped our first constitution. They will use this weapon to maintain their stranglehold on power – the more desperate they get, the more ruthless they become! The more scared you are the better it is for them. When you cannot eliminate this fear factor, they have control over you. Albert Rene & James Michel threatens this people by instilling fear into them. When you fear them, you forget your right to speak up. When they beat you up and violate your basic rights under the constitution, they exert total control over you.  And it all works in SPPF’s favour as they trample over these rights which are the basis to challenge them and unseat them from their perch. A lawless and free for all society is meant to create more fear on the population.

FEAR NO MORE PEOPLE OF SEYCHELLES. We need to get rid of this monkey on our backs.

Instead of delivering dreams (‘be what you want to be’!), SPPF now promise to protect us from nightmares. Nightmares they have been weaving since 5th June 1977…

July 18, 2008
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