Cutting Track for 'Gouti to Run... (Wrong is Wrong Anand)

Ever notice how little children who are caught doing something wrong are always keen to make you aware of who is doing it as well? Their 'go to' defense is usually 'he did it,' in the hope that, well, as there are so many other guilty parties you might be inclined to just let the whole thing go. In a now glaring example of this, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan seems to have opted for the 'but mammy they did it too' defense over his and his political leader 'taking' Silk, and there does  not seem to be anyone around to advise him how immature this sounds.They say when you 'rationalize' you tell your self and others 'rational lies' and in this case there can be no truer statement. His tired rationalizations as justification for glorifying himself by pointing the finger 'deflectively' at who else may have done it in the past is disgusting to listen to, as if two wrongs have suddenly become the acceptable formula for making something right. Morphing into a sort of reverse King Midas who is turning everything he touches into a dirtier version of itself, his role in politics seems to be more of a warning to others than an example, and by the time he is finished with his clear but clumsy agenda there may be little to recognize of anything he puts his hands on; we may well have to agree when his stint in Office is over not to use any of his acts as precedent if we truly want to grow beyond this immature phase of our development.

In another example of what is obviously the 'blame them, not me' policy of this government, Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar is attempting to employ the same tactic and is trying to shift blame from herself onto others to justify her doing things she campaigned so strongly against when she was just candidate KPB. Her insistence that others may have hired family members in the past is  childish and further undermines her credibility as 'Agent of Change.'

Vice Chairman of the Congress of the People Vernon De Lima, who is known for his statement 'wrong is wrong and it cannot be right if it's wrong,' must be squirming in his seat watching the intellectual gymnastics that are being employed on a daily basis to make his statement a lie. Surely the contradiction must be too much to bear now that the very abuses against which the COP was built have suddenly and magically become right? Not so?

It seems that precedent has become more important than principle and whether they understand how wrong their actions appear is of little consequence as long as someone else somewhere did it before.  In this new order, justification is now based on interpretation, and interpretation seems to be the job of the clever, the cunning and the brave. Leader of the Opposition Dr. Keith Rowley is trying to make the point that wrong cannot be made right and he too is correct, but unfortunately he cannot be the one to say it as his own political credibility is shot. His failure to purge HIS Party of the abusers and wrongdoers of the last administration as promised on the campaign trail has damaged him irreparably, and his one chance to take the moral high ground, to establish himself as the country's political watchman was missed for political expediency and squandered for a hug on San Fernando hill.

Only Kamla Persad Bissessar can undo all of this and turn this deplorable situation around. She needs to fire her sister not because she is her sister but because she campaigned against nepotism. She needs to fire her Attorney General for using her to advance his own ambitions because he ought to have known that, as a former Minister of Legal Affairs, Attorney General and Prime Minister she would never need Silk or any other accolade at that level now or in the future. She also needs to return the artificial Silk to make a point that she is capable of recognizing right from wrong regardless of who may have done what in the past and, most importantly she needs to do these things to demonstrate to the people by her actions that they have elected to high Office someone who is in fact capable of keeping her word.