On the Home Owner tax (addressed to the COP)

I believe that this tax is racially motivated, and that afro Trinidadians are the smallest per centage of home owners.
The casino worker situation does not apply here as they formed part of a PNM demographic which the party probably decided against alienating at this time despite the Prime Minister's son's losses.
Or perhaps it was a strong-arm move and the casino paid him back. We will never know.
What we do know and we may be afraid to acknowledge is that the PNM is waging war against the East Indian community, the other straight hair races don't really matter and are 'passing in the rush'. Where the rubber meets the road is that the COP has to either join or destroy the UNC, or by their existence will guarantee the PNM stays in power. Don't get me wrong, the COP is doing a marvellous job that in a civilized society governed by law would accrue goodwill that would eventually propel it to government.
Here the converse is true. By your present and any future action that splits the dominant East Indian vote you are literally working against yourself. Jack Warner's shenanigans in Chaguanas is working FOR the PNM, and I believe his motives are sinister, but that is not the point here.
The PNM will not deviate from this tax due to any COP protest and the exercise, though morally correct, is doomed to fail.
It is time we brought this government to it's knees through massive shut downs, shut ins, daily street protests, but be careful not to cross any lines because, any student of history will tell you, Manning praying to justify a proper Marshal Law imposition.
The shut down of Caroni was a shot across the bow and the East Indian community rolled over. The terrorism and gangsterism running rampant that targets the middle class, who makes up the middle class?
When and until the opposition parties are willing to call a spade a spade (no pun intended), you will not mobilise anybody except those looking for jerseys.
There are moments in time when leadership is thrust upon men, when the high road becomes the only road.
I believe we are at that place and the people of this country needs to know we are in the middle of a race war and it is time to push back through every legal and legitimate avenue available.
We need to shut this country down prior to the next orgy of spending, sorry, summit.
We need world attention. We need blogs and websites, we need the eyes of the world on us as we stand up to this blatant attempt at hegemony.
Do not forget the PNM is a MINORITY government.
They are well aware of it, which is why their every move is aimed at consolidating power. There needs to be a meeting of the leadership of every un-PNM organization with a view to a coalition of the brave.
There needs to be put in place as quickly as possible and as public as possible a plan to resist this evil regime. A clear leader needs to be chosen, and clear leadership apparatus and succession planned and made public.
This plan must call for the sustained resistance to the un democratic PNM government with an aim toward forcing and winning an election.
And you cannot win it alone.

If we fail to act on behalf of EVERYONE of the citizens of this nation, every creed and race, we will all lose.