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OWTU SPEAKS 2005-05-27
MAHATMA Gandhi was a little man but a towering personality with an awesome capacity for intelligent struggle. He influenced the Indian masses and moved liberation fighters the world over in those intense struggles for Justice, Peace, Bread, anti-racism, respect, equality and recognition for all God’s Peoples.
Any attempt to equate Chandresh Sharma’s asinine, puerile, undisciplined and very disgusting behaviour with the internationally acclaimed leadership of Mahatma Gandhi is a regrettable insult on the integrity and profoundness of that struggle which the Mahatma led and which had consequences for the South African sub-continent.
Chandresh Sharma is just farce and out-of-place and should be treated with the contempt that he deserves. According to news reports prior to today’s 1:30 pm sitting of the Lower House – and this piece was recorded before any more up-to-date information was had – according to my latest information, Mr. Sharma was determined to challenge the decision of the House and to attend today’s sitting even against the advice of his constituency executive and top officials of his Party’s leadership. Mr. Sharma seems intent on going contrary to the rules as are at present in force. He seems to have arrogated unto himself a right to martyrdom. He seems intent too, on inviting a cut arse and confinement as a guest of the state. If I were the authorities, I would deny MP Sharma every one of those wishes in his bag-full of illusions of grandeur. I won’t harm him in any way. I would let him in and allow him to take his seat. I would thereafter instruct the baddest in the police service – just two of them including the one most recently charged with murder – that will be enough – I will instruct them to remove Mr. Sharma, bodily and unobtrusively and deposit him somewhere near a monument – any monument appropriately decorated with blinking blue lights. That should suit his fancy. And he should be kept out until he becomes contrite enough to say ‘sorry’ and to repudiate the immorality that divisive and backward politics has elected as its own. Sharma is not the only one though, but he can be made an example as to what could be the consequences for the undisciplined, unmannerly and miscreant on both sides of the Houses.
It is not enough to berate the decadence that passes for normal behaviour these days. Crime is out of hand; exemplars are hard to find; there are more thieves and bandits than there are good policemen; there are more hoodlums than there are godly priests; few are the fathers and mothers who are good parents; too many are the youths whose only relationship with a parent is through a barrel of mostly used North American brands; radio was used for propaganda during the war – today radio is used to make war. And Mr. Ramlogan complains that he has not heard me condemning the PNM’s Proposed Broadcast Code. But neither have I heard Mr. Ramlogan on the circumstances surrounding his departure from the Petrotrin Board in the recent halcyon days of the UNC.
But back to my main point – leadership at all levels and in all sectors have fallen down and it is time to call halt and declare ‘enough is enough’. Let Sharma sweat outside for his foolishness.
And to all who came, the OWTU extends solidarity and best wishes for a happy Arrival Day celebration. Let it be enjoyable, reflective and peaceful.
I am Errol Mc Leod for the ‘OWTU Speaks’
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