Volney's Volleys...

Desperate to clear his name after being publicly disgraced and fired from the Cabinet for his role in the early proclamation of Section 34, former Judge, former Minister and soon to be former Member of Parliament Herbert Volney continues to stomp around in anger, throwing tantrums and attempting to blame anyone else for his miserable circumstances, anyone that is, except the one who publicly called him out by name, hung the responsibility around his neck and fired him. Is it that he (Volney) thinks the Prime Minister to be incompetent and erred in her dismissal of him but does not know how to say it? Does he believe her public indictment against him on that faithful evening to be nothing but a well crafted lie? Or is he trying to convince us (or himself) that her actions were stage managed by others who were 'out to get him' for some reason or other?

Clearly getting more unhinged by the day the longer this plays out against him, the problem with his (Volney's) public rantings are that eventually and much like the boy who cried wolf, should he ever really come out and spill the beans as to who did what when, who was there, who knew, who benefitted, who conspired, who planned and who paid, we would all be too tired and unconcerned to even care. Having blamed Attorney General Anand Ramlogan straight out the gate and some other unnamed public official who he alleges collects commissions and kick backs in brown paper bags, verbose Volney then backtracked and went on to lay the responsibility for the fiasco at the feet of (then) Acting Minister of Justice and Minister of Legal Affairs Prakash Ramadhar, but he has yet to say why or for what, and who (in response) insists that he (Volney) is talking rubbish, which brings us to today.

Posting several entries to the e-mail blogs this week, Volney wrote: “I am happy to be free enough to say without fear of contradiction that the DPP is both incompetent for the job he holds and is a PNM trojan horse in an independent office.” - but what that has to do in any way with where he (Volney) finds himself is anyone's guess. Had that been all he posted it would have been enough, but he went on -  “My last indirect experience with him is knowing the ‘Piarco Nine’ would have benefited from Section 34 and sitting on his laurels for nine months until after the horses had bolted to complain when he knew all along of the impeding proclamation but chose to remain silent.”

Read that again.

Clearly suffering from some form of personality disorder where he needs to evade responsibility for his own actions (especially the ones that go awry), Herbert Volney is searching for a scapegoat as a way of deliberately transferring accountability for his own actions onto another and blaming that other for not saving him (and the country by extension) from his actions. Really Herb?

This particular sideshow has gone on way too long and the media needs to be cautioned against giving this man this much 'face-time' for his rants as he is making a joke of a very serious situation. Someone suggested that even this may be part of a bigger plan, to so obfuscate any real investigations into the matter, blurring reality by this erratic behavior. We must not stand for this. Section 34 will be recorded as one of the most brazen of crimes against the people in our history and the questions have to be answered at some point (if only to protect the citizenry from any repeat in the future) as to all whom were involved and how this was allowed to happen in the first place. Systems have to be put in place to prevent laws being passed in secret and governments must NEVER be allowed to hijack the people's legislature to further their own ends again. Herbert Volney should have only one more part to play in this and that is to give evidence against those who assisted him in this nefarious design. Until then he should just be ignored.