Mai'khi C'Nia, Contributor
DEARLY BELOVED, our 'ticians art at it again, constantly disrupting our consciousness with their unabated bickering and quarrelsome tendencies, and displaying the fact that some of them art sluggish in appreciating matters that extend beyond their noses.
Behold, them that hunger and thirst after authority seek immediate assuage, and they who hath been asinine in incumbency ceaselessly defend their uninspiring stewardship of the less-than-satisfactory existence that they hath fashioned for this society; and ne'er the twain shall meet.
When shall the house of Jamdown behold worthwhile discourse between its eminent citizens, to which they can endear themselves and be elevated? These are they who art entered into the house of Gordon for thou hath placed them in positions of trust over thy sovereign interests, but their personal ambitions hath seduced them away from the mandate that thou hath given unto them, and now they take no stock of thy national interest whilst they art contending overzealous politics.
Dearly beloved, let no 'tician forbid thee to keep company with whichever land thou so choseth because it runs the risk of offending the sensibilities of them who art insensitive to the needs of no other nation, but themselves and those within the inner-circle who find immediate favour with them.
HEMISPHERIC HISTORY
For our hemispheric history in its infinite irony hath taught us that the Roosevelt Corollary, which is the cornerstone of foreign policy in the land of the free as it relates to Latin America, was announced in 1904 by Teddy the son of Roosevelt when Occidental nations were trying to coerce Venezuela into repaying its debts to them. Yea, the mighty North American gorgon was prepared to defend the shores of its South American buddy by deploying a flotilla of naval battleships to patrol its aquatic borders.
It was then that Teddy declared his intentions to intervene in the domestic affairs of any Latin American nation which was "guilty of internal or external misconduct" and vowed to back up such actions with an "exercise of international police power," and thus begun a practice of intervention which soon annoyed the living daylights out of most Latin American administrations, and grew into a rather overbearing American administrational and industrial tendency.
STUNG
Dearly beloved, much of Teddy's legacy is being foisted upon many democratically-elected societies across creation this day and e'en here in Caribbean territories thou hath been stung by the Chiquita affair, and there was that e'en more recent thing in Haiti when the Fresh Prince and the island bloc had to stand firm behind Aristide the ousted, in the face of blatant American audacity.
Verily I say to ye, the pendulum swingeth over time and today the same Venezuela is pretty close to having that flotilla of American battleships camped out at her doorstep, but this time it will be Caracas that will be locked into their firing solutions. Verily I say to ye, these things art ne'er simple, and 'tis time the baker and company, acquire an enlightened grasp of the fundamentals of such international runnings.
Hear O Jamdown, the sun hath long set upon the cold war and thy geographic location is of no further strategic value in today's global dispensation.
Still some here in Jamdown art trapped in the decade of the "80s, ignoring the realities of existing geo-political prerogatives. Know ye that the Caribbean Basin Initiative is no more and PetroCaribe is the significant transnational facility on the table this day. Verily I say to ye, if thy ballot can earn thee a few more barrels of oil, then cast away according to thine own obligations. Selah.
