[Editor's note: The United Kingdom took the Turks and Caicos Islands in a coup in August 2009. The UK also took all democracy from the people and is trying to impose a new constitution giving UK permanent power there. A blogger from TCIpost discusses the threats and intimidation that he and his countrymen have endured when trying to bring attention to the democracy crisis and special interest deals by the UK which are alleged to have caused the takeover.]
By: John Glasgow
For everyone who has been following my blog, thank you. Even you Mr. Attorney General who I know feels that I picked on him. I am not about to label myself a political activist or anything like that I just see a need to defend my country of Turks and Caicos. Anyone can label me what they like. But like I said all along I label myself a dumb blogger. I started this blog to oppose the British regime hurting us and taking our power from us and hurting us when we try to expose they are taking our power from us. If you have been reading my blog, you know what I am saying. If you haven't, keep reading. I have been doing this for over a year.
My mother would be annoyed that I call myself dumb because she raised me after all and that could be an insult of the highest order to her as a mother. But relax mother, I say I am dumb but I am smart enough to see that the power is in my hands. The power is in all of our hands just some of us don't know it. I was given the gift of emotional intelligence by my mother who taught me to stand firm for my beliefs and to follow in Jesus' footsteps to march on with the message of good no matter what. Even when threatened by Pontius Pilates Jesus continued ahead with his message of truth. Now I am not saying that I am Jesus, so relax. I am saying that TCI people are religious people that have faith that God will save them. Just like God gave Jesus the power forge on with his message, God gave me that strength too.
If you have been reading my blog for the last few days you will see that I have written some entries about our Attorney General and I have gotten under his skin. I never thought that my agitating opinions about him would cause a threat of legal action against me and my blog. Here is where my emotional intelligence comes in and where Mr. AG's exits. I know that I am just a dumb little blogger and I cannot fight the big oppressive powers of the British government and either could most armies. But the British government is too dumb to see that they can't win a war in order to get away with their secret deals and cover ups anymore. I mean, they can probably get away with it if they threaten a weaker person. But not everyone is a weak person and all it takes is one strong person paying attention. It doesn't take an army anymore.
Come on Mr. AG and British interim government. Don't you see that we live in the age of the computer super highway? The internet can reach thousands of people in different nations around the world in seconds. Colonialisms best tool is conquer and divide. You can't do that anymore. Did you ever hear of a little group called Wikileaks, Mr. AG? They revolutionised the movement of helping citizens to force governments for transparency. This is the world we live in now. You need to modernise your thinking. Threats don't work in the new world of anonymous whistle blowing.
But I want to be honest, Mr. AG. When I wrote all of those articles about you and about the cover ups by the interim government what was I trying to achieve? Just like when the civil servants protested with a sick out, what were they trying to achieve. Do you think somewhere in your shiny head that we are trying to get you to listen. You had so many chances to listen, learn and collaborate with us. The UK doesn't operate like that, does it? You see us as trouble makers that you need to "deal with". With that attitude, Mr. AG, you will never win. You will never have our respect or alliance. We will always be your trouble makers. Nobody is backing down as you will see soon enough.
When you read my blog entries, you were angry like a little school boy. You'll show me, you thought. Where did I read it again, hmmmm, TCI Journal said that the TCIslanders are the children and the UK the parents and the UK needs to punish the children for being bad and that's what caused the UK to take our country. Mr. AG and the UK, you are the bad little children. If you were responsible adults you would not have thought in a million years that taking our rights and threatening us would work. My mother always said that adults must give children freedom to make mistakes, it is as important as sunlight to a seed. But the lot of you are not adults but spoiled children who just want your way in a fit or worse tyrannical monsters trying to govern us with an iron fist. You are not dealing with little children in TCI. You are dealing with clever adults that do not take kindly to threats and taking of our civil rights to keep us from speaking.
You threaten to silence me with criminal and legal threats when I hit a nerve. I find that to be laughable. We live in a world where news travels fast around the world. One click and you are on notice to the world. We live in a world where secrecy is old fashion and Wikileaks is right there listening and waiting. I have faith in the new era of information sharing. There is someone out there right now in the UK or the TCI that will leak the truth about the truth of the British agenda. Maybe it's a MP like Chris Bryant or maybe someone in the FCO or maybe someone in TCI. Somebody or several people out there will come forward with the smoking gun. I get leads and tips every day from my contributors who are your insiders. People know things. You will be accountable for your actions and trying to stop a dumb blogger like me is futile.
