No Bull... (no goat either)

A police Inspector together with his men showed up at a farm in the midle of the night to conduct a search, and the farmer whose farm he wanted to search was happy to grant him full access and  told him he could go anywhere he wanted to on the farm but in the big barn. The Inspector arrogantly whipped out a badge, stuck it in the farmer's face and said "you see this badge? This badge means I could go wherever the hell I want on this farm!"

The farmer tried to object but was getting nowhere so he got out of the Inspector's way, who headed off deliberately to the big barn first. Minutes later he came running out of the barn with a two ton bull in hot angry pursuit yelling for the farmer's help, and the farmer yelled back "show him your badge!'

This may be the silliest opening to an article ever, but I need to ask; we in Trinidad kill a priest or what?

What is going on in this place?

In answer to my first question a comic friend of mine replied "one priest? boy iz like we kill ten pope, two imam an' a pundit oui?"

These days the daily news is so disturbing, people on medication and the elderly are being advised to avoid it altogether.

Police killings, children killings, random violence, rape, human trafficking, kidnapping, extortion, home invasion, armed robbery, murder, as well as bestiality, child abuse, sexual abuse, molestation, incest, and abductions to name some of the maladies now afflicting our formerly blessed land.

Taken individually, most of these incredibly horrors could be discussed, processed and filed away, but the speed with which the citizenry is being bombarded with bad news left, right and center is leaving little processing time, aptly described by one newsroom editor who told me he was busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest these days. 

Collapsing, breaking, dying, killing, falling, tripping, leaving, fighting, excusing, stealing, cheating, bracing, breaksing, coming, going, are words that each have terrible stories attached, and there are some that cannot make the list as they would automatically make this piece x-rated.

I am hard pressed to think of a time when Trinidad has had it this bad.

To make matters worse and compounding ALL of the above, we are also struggling to fend off a financial collapse and a social meltdown, coupled with total failure at the highest levels of Public Administration and I question how much more the people of this country can take.

Are there underlying, overlaying reasons for all of this?

Prior to this current clown car of leaders, we had Palaces, smelters, jets, waterfront developments, industrial estates, rapid rails, multiple universities, scholarship schemes, flags, useless summits, Calder Hart, the list can go on and on.

What of the people held captive by this revolving parade of bungling incompetents and bandits, restrained only by their own sense of right and wrong and law and order?

How long before their patience runs out and that wold famous Trinidadian resolve quits collectively for good?

What then?

Any fool could see that this country is heading for a human catastrophe of epic proportions.

History has taught us that a people will accept abuse and bondage for only so long before they throw off the yoke of oppression and take matters into their own hands, and I would again like to advise members of Government against hubris in the face of the growing disenchantment.

We need calm and sober governance right now, with real plans, real people service and less playacting and showmanship.

Of course they could always do as they damn well please, and deal with the bull in the end on their own.