Letter from Peter Williams regarding TCI Journal
Posted: http://groups.google.com/group/turks-and-caicos-informers/browse_thread/thread/48b34034931a2a1a#
You have obviously not read me correctly Mr. Williams, or Mr. Williamson, whichever one you are; I do not know neither do I care actually, if the TCI Journal and Shaun Malcolm are doing the four things stated in your first paragraph. And I know for certain that I have never said that these positions have a political agenda and are insulting people. Perhaps you will be so kind as to point out to me where I have said this, if you are so convinced.
I have seen enough in the Journal to conclude that they have no love for, and seemingly want to see the demise of the PNP and PDM Parties; for one thing, disparagingly calling them on more than one occasion “gangs”. I am not willing to assume that the folks at the Journal are anarchists and want to see the total breakdown of government and of law and order here. I would much rather believe that if they want to see the end of the two political parties, they must have something in mind to replace them with.
If I have said that Malcolm and the Journal are doing something wrong, it is not because of your four points, but rather because the Journal has time and again insulted the Turks & Caicos people, allowing their contributors to accuse us all of having “unearned privilege” and Commissioner of Human Rights, Ms. Doreen Quelch-Misick, as “a prominent TC Unearned Privilege Baby”, and the “Non-Commissioner of Human Rights”; and calling the indigenous women of the Turks and Caicos “minority”; and Turks & Caicos workers “completely overpaid and dishonest TCI citizen bidness-man”
And no Mr. Williams, the PNP is not a “well run gang”. It is instead, a legitimate organization, committed to serving the Turks & Caicos people. Both the PNP and the PDM comprise many individuals that are honest and upright citizens of the Turks & Caicos Islands, and I am certain that they feel very insulted being called members of a gang, and of their party being called a gang. Not only has one of their contributors repeatedly referred to our political parties as gangs, the editors themselves on September 18 accused both parties of being “the two rival gangs masquerading as political parties”.
Comments from Mr. Henry Jolson http://groups.google.com/group/turks-and-caicos-informers/browse_thread/thread/721f9d352c9a0a10#
You have obviously not read me correctly Mr. Williams, or Mr. Williamson, whichever one you are; I do not know neither do I care actually, if the TCI Journal and Shaun Malcolm are doing the four things stated in your first paragraph. And I know for certain that I have never said that these positions have a political agenda and are insulting people. Perhaps you will be so kind as to point out to me where I have said this, if you are so convinced.
I have seen enough in the Journal to conclude that they have no love for, and seemingly want to see the demise of the PNP and PDM Parties; for one thing, disparagingly calling them on more than one occasion “gangs”. I am not willing to assume that the folks at the Journal are anarchists and want to see the total breakdown of government and of law and order here. I would much rather believe that if they want to see the end of the two political parties, they must have something in mind to replace them with.
If I have said that Malcolm and the Journal are doing something wrong, it is not because of your four points, but rather because the Journal has time and again insulted the Turks & Caicos people, allowing their contributors to accuse us all of having “unearned privilege” and Commissioner of Human Rights, Ms. Doreen Quelch-Misick, as “a prominent TC Unearned Privilege Baby”, and the “Non-Commissioner of Human Rights”; and calling the indigenous women of the Turks and Caicos “minority”; and Turks & Caicos workers “completely overpaid and dishonest TCI citizen bidness-man”
And no Mr. Williams, the PNP is not a “well run gang”. It is instead, a legitimate organization, committed to serving the Turks & Caicos people. Both the PNP and the PDM comprise many individuals that are honest and upright citizens of the Turks & Caicos Islands, and I am certain that they feel very insulted being called members of a gang, and of their party being called a gang. Not only has one of their contributors repeatedly referred to our political parties as gangs, the editors themselves on September 18 accused both parties of being “the two rival gangs masquerading as political parties”.
http://groups.google.com/group/turks-and-caicos-informers/browse_thread/thread/48b34034931a2a1a#
I have been getting your post for a couple of months now, but very seldomly post any thing to the group discussions. I normally just read to stay in touch and be informed, but I feel compelled to respond to this attack on Peter Williams by evanson williamson.
I must begin by taking offense to Mr. Williamson placing you in the same bracket with Shaun Malcolm and the TCI Journal. From my reading you continue to show yourself as someone that loves your country and only wants the best for it.
I also agree that there are honest and respectable men and women in both the PDM and the PNP. I actually have friends and family members that support and are involved in both political parties. They do not behave as gang members. They have families, they run businesses, they have legitimate jobs and they work hard for their living.
Gang members normally sit idly looking to create havoc, terrorize their neighborhoods and rob people in order to survive. In short they live off of other people.
Can someone please let me know if I am missing something. Didn't shaun malcolm claim that he has not been able to work now for a couple of years? But I see him regularly in Miami. Is it just me or do you wonder how he is able to maintain his house and travel as frequently as he does without working?
There are too many accounts of Shaun Malcolm telling his sad story and going to business people every month to pay his bills rather than getting a job.
It is the TCI Journal that has attacked every Turks and Caicos Islander with their disrespectful commentary and sought to destabilize the TCI economy with its reporting.
I know that our people like gossip, but we have to see through how these people are using come islanders to destroy our entire country and demean all of us.
The TCI Journal sits in the dark looking to see who they can attack without cause.
I ask you who sound more like a gang the political parties in the TCI or the TCI Journal?
I know that many people back home give the journal credit for the commission of inquiry (that I believe was totally necessary), but i read the Foreign Affairs Committee report and did not see any thing from the journal and the only thing i saw from shaun was him complaining about his personal land. With all the people that would have probably been in a similar position, he only complained about his land that was lost. I read that and made up my mind that he just wants what the government had. Most of the other submission had to do with real issues of corruption.
And even it they did anything to help bring the corruption of the former administration to an end, it does not give them the right to destroy our country and to behave the way they have been behaving for the past year.
Here in the States I run into so many use car salesmen and conartist that will seek to associate themselves with honest people or drop names of popular figures in hopes that people will look at them in the same vain and place in them the same trust they had in the honest person or popular figure. That seems to be exactly what Evanson Williamson seems to be doing by associating Peter Williams and his google groups with the TCI journal and it offends me.
Please people we were tricked by conartist in the last two elections, PLEASE do not allow the conartists that will emerge now to still continue to deceive us in 2009. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
