Plain Talk, Good English

1. People have a lot to do after 9pm on a Monday night.

2. Anything broadcast via Blackberry Messenger is absolutely 100% fact and should be heeded.

3. A 14 year old girl who goes on Youtube to jokingly say things I occasionally hear from grown men and women in the streets of Trinidad and Tobago is a menace to society and should be taken into custody.

4. The Government is very good at sending clear messages to the public. Nobody in Trinidad and Tobago is confused after they speak.

5. Great journalism only occurs when the interviewee is made to look like an imbecile and or made to concede to the opinion of the journalist. Exposing facts and showing responsibility and or objectivity isn’t that important.

6. Trinidadians are so well informed, they can only agree with people who sound intellectual.

7. Ian Alleyne is Gandhi reincarnated, seriously.

8. Trinidadians can actually be disciplined, once their rights are taken away.

It’s the morning after the second night of curfew. About two days after I first thought about doing this blog.

Two days of which I held back typing these words because I was looking for something.

Something to make sense of it all.

To understand.

Last night as I saw Dominic Kalipersad mercilessly corner the Attorney General on national television, I was silently rooting for Mr. Ramlogan.

Not because I ultimately support the actions of the government, but because I wanted to actually hear something from them that made sense.

That makes this worth it, something reassuring.

Didn’t find it.

On Sunday night, upon hearing the announcement, I tried to rationalise it.

Instead last night as Dominic Kalipersad and later Martin Daly continuously exposed the flaws and faux pas’ of the government’s actions, I could see status updates, statuses and comments which symbolised an anger and tension that I hope, for the country’s sake, doesn’t boil over.

Hoping that, in this blog, I could find something to write for the people, to guide them through  this not so limited, but very real State of Emergency.

I haven’t found it.

Instead I continuously see more mis-information being spread, to the point that half the country is not even sure what is going on, because facts are continuously being distorted.

So this distorted that even media houses have printed and posted information that has misguided the public.

Distorted mainly ignorant racially fueled or political motivated Blackberry Messenger broadcasts or irresponsible rumor mongering.

Instead of stable messages being sent out by our leaders I see more party politic posturing by both members of government and opposition figures.

All simply stirring a fire, when we need to be mindful. Our leaders for the moment seem to ignored practicality, we the people can not.

I can’t use what the government said, but I, still hoping, appeal to my countrymen to not mimic the leadership at this point.

For the next two weeks, a heck of a lot of good sense has to prevail for us to see any rewards from this.

This is an all or nothing situation. Like Martin Daly said, “It’s like an Ace, you either hang jack with it or you don’t. You can’t play another ace.”
Either it works and it’s great, or we fail.

And we fail.

It may be badly put together, but at this point as a nation we need to live up to our often forgotten watchwords somewhat because I rather not see the outcome should this thing backfire.

Show some discipline, hold the strain and see out these two weeks.

It means that, we don’t need to create more tension by being idiotic.

So please people, act like you have some sense.