There have been several issues lately - all as important as each other so I highlight these here via a series of great letters to the Editor today (30 May 07) in the Fiji Times reproduced here :
"No evidence
WE are still waiting for the evidence of corruption against the SDL government which warranted a coup. Instead, we are getting the same report that the Auditor General used to give us annually.
Reports of corruption by senior civil servants have been there long before we knew about coups.
The only difference is that this time they have to form a new institution to investigate and duplicate the work of the Auditor General.
We have legal avenues to deal with corruption, just like what happened to Kunatuba and Shiu Raj. They were taken to court for alleged corruption well before this Independent Commission Against Corruption came to being.
No amount of corruption warrants an illegal overthrow at gunpoint.
We must all respect the rule of law. It means that, because your brother robbed me does not give me the right to lay a hand on him, let alone rob him or even kill him. It allows me only to report it to police, and let the court deal with it.
Utiko Nabunobuno - Lautoka"
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It is a shame that whilst watching the Secondary Schools Music Festival, I was moved to tears to think that our beautiful youth are having to live through this nightmare time in Fiji - what on earth are the lessons being inculcated in Fiji having to watch the idiocies presented by the goons in green - intimidation, gestapo like tactics, the military's rape and disrespect of our traditional institutes and of law and order in Fiji - all these things we are in danger of accepting as "normal" . Please be aware these things are far from normal and we should never be complacent about this. We must remember to continue teaching our children about respecting the proper law and order (which is NOT via the gun) , and respecting family values and principles in life. _________
Also an issue that not many people are seeing - but that is rearing it's very ugly head is how certain people in the ear of the Dicktator are talking about taking our itaukei land from us. Read Sai Lelea's letter here :
"Native lands
Fijians may wish to ponder on why the issue around the possible alienation of Fijian native lands is being raised now.
I invite them to examine the intentions of these people and the timing.
It should be nakedly obvious how Fijians regard as sancrosanct the issue of native lands, let alone the potential for it to be opened up for exploitation by others. It is also clear these people would not be raising such a topic unless they perceive the timing for it is right and that it would receive a sympathetic hearing from those in authority.
Fijians in the current regime had better decide if they want to be party to that form of deception.
People behind this idea may regard land merely as a resource and commodity. However, they must remember that when it comes to land for Fijians, rationality has only a minor place, as we are dealing with issues intimately connected to a peoples' values and what defines them and their existence.
Any credible government must be alert to this reality because as the global environment forces nations to look internally to deal with all the various crises, there will be a tendency to seek refuge and affirmation in one's own institutional practices, culture and values.
Fijians are engaging in precisely this and that is why they will come out of the crisis in Fiji and the trampling of their institutions by the regime much stronger and affirmed as a people. For the future, this resurgence will result in them challenging the State and its intentions and meting out retaliations to others they regard as traitors to the cause and collaborators, in downgrading their status as indigenous peoples. However, the alternative as seen in smarter nations is to embrace and support indigenous peoples as the focal point and focus for forging unity and common identity.
When they do well, the nation flourishes and has a proud sense of purpose. To do that in Fiji is to accelerate the economic development of Fijians, with them leading the journey and offering partnership with others. Regrettably, the current regime and its supporters are leap years away from doing such a thing.
Sai Lelea Wellington"
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and read Fiji Free Speech's comments on this and other matters here . iTaukei must question this development in Fiji very closely. Obviously Sahu Khan and cronies would not have raised this topic without feeling very comfortable they could get away with it. Very Very very very suspicious ! And very very very dangerous ! And we the itaukei must question the motives for this NOW !
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And vinaka to Mere Samisoni for telling it like it is :
"People's Charter
The People's Charter is a nave proposal for social engineering to be implemented by the National Committee for Building a Better Fiji who will advise the President. The theme of the document purports to oppose race-based policies. It then contradicts that theme by advising strategy-making supported by public relations interventions in the vernacular specifically targeting indigenous business.
Whoever wrote this document has done a copy and paste job obviously.
The whole text contradicts the theory, science and art of strategic-marketing which must discern multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and marketing intelligence in order to link them meaningfully to success factors.
Such theoretical framework is based on motivation so local intervention type policies can be created, targeted, measured and monitored for changes at input that result in improvements at output that can grow the economy. In other words, unless we use local data and differentiators, Fiji's discrete multi-ethnic and multi-cultural market needs and preferences will not be met. It would be like to trying to hit a target without looking at it. The contradictions and disconnections between market realities and policy design is symptomatic of ignorance of the fact that forcefully-imposed and arbitrary policies based on flawed reasoning can't change culture.
The so-called People's Charter has arisen due to an unwillingness to use the democratic process of freedom, identity, diversity and synergy that is the only sustainable path for developing a peaceful multiethnic society.
The PC cannot be sustained by the power of the gun' brand either. In the Fiji context, this document is structurally flawed in vision, design and motive.
The NCBBF will continue to slip and slide on that unsure foundation and is therefore a sure recipe for ongoing political instability.
Mere Samisoni MP Lami Open"
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And the Economy is again in the news with Waradi saying he is worried. Well perhaps this soon to be issued stamp indicates how our economy really is. 
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And finally today , poor Alanieta Rabaka is still waiting to hear who murdered her son - as I said in an earlier Blog, another day another lie by the illegal junta.
It is not funny anymore. It never was
Mum cries foul over investigations delay
Fijilive Tuesday May 29, 2007
Distraught Nadi mother, Alanieta Rabaka says she is ‘shocked’ that police have not wrapped up investigations into her son’s death after he was allegedly beaten by Fiji Military soldiers early this year.
She said despite sufficient evidence gathered by police no one has been prosecuted for the alleged murder of 19-year old Sakiusa Rabaka. Rabaka died of brain hemorrhage after he was picked up by six soldiers and a police officer on suspicions of peddling drugs.
Acting Police Commissioner, Romanu Tikotikoca says they will need to take statements of suspects and eyewitnesses again because original statements which were electronically recorded, malfunctioned.
"I am not surprised with all these lies because they have been doing this ever since they began their investigations." "These are delaying tactics which the police are good at but they cannot fool me," Rabaka said. "If they do come again for an interview from my family members we will ‘refuse’ to give them because this is not funny anymore." "How can they be so unreliable and this has caused hurt to my family."
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Alanieta - don't give up fighting - there are many people behind you. Keep the faith ! And keep your steadfast trust in God.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Fiji News Topical Issues
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
5 months Scorecard on Dicktatorship Rule in Fiji
A] Fijian Taxpayer's Dollars continue to be abused by the Military Ignoramuses that rule Fiji
Fiji Village (May 18) reports that Chaudary says our nation cannot afford to maintain salaries and that the country's finances are in a bad state and the government just cannot afford to give any pay increments and maintain salaries at pre December 5th levels.
He says " that it is about time that the public sector union leaders wake up and realize that their civil servants' demands in relation to pay cannot be met "...... and "that civil servants just have to accept reality and stop threats of strike action."
And he has the audacity to blame the previous government for what he and his illegal cronies have done to this country. Fiji was doing very nicely thank you under the previous elected government warts and all. People were excited about Fiji and investing here then.
Well dear man Chundery, you should have thought of us the peasant workers before backed this futile coup , before you traipsed off the India with all your hangers on. You should have thought about this before you spent approx. 250,000 of our tax dollars hosting the ACP meeting; sending Mr Sukanaivalu to France for the UNESCO meeting; sending Chand and Bune to the USA and having "cabinet" approving a union delegation, petty officials and Bernie's trip to an ILO meeting. Not to mention all the new vehicles for the boys in green, the on-going never-ending fees for Ului's rental cars, sending him to India (what for pray?) the unecessary ego-boosting "army exercises" round Suva, our tax dollars to hire the very expensive IT fees for the hackers looking for the bloggers, the endless round of bullshit meetings that we the taxpayers are paying for. And pray tell why Ganilau's party to Samoa had to consist of EXTRA people ? Again the taxpayers are footing this bill without ANY SAY in how our tax dollars are being used ! How rude ! 
And what is the point of recalling all our foreign rep's? Is this just an exercise in pointing out who's boss ? So much expense - what is the point Chaudary? The exercise to bring home five heads of missions, two diplomats and their families at a cost of $107,000 is an expensive move (FT 16/5). Then, in the next few months a further $107,000 more or less would be spent on sending the replacements. The country cannot afford this idiocy!
So what else are the achievements of this illegal military ? A correspondent blogger contributor assists me in pointing the illegal regime's scorecard results out for us :
B] The break down of law and order and destruction of the legal system in Fiji, and the judiciary massively compromised.
Where the evidence against our proper Chief Justice? Wheres the evidence against anything? Where is the justice for Mrs Rabaka and Mrs Verebasaqa' families - still waiting after 4 months for some accountability from the soldiers that murdered their loved ones ?
Vinaka vaka levu to our Marama Bale na Roko Tui Dreketi ko Ro Teimumu Kepa, for standing up to this illegal regime and challenging them to produce the evidence and challenging them to stop her from speaking (article here). Ted Young joined the fray recently as he was taken up to have his dentals checked at QEB a few days ago when he said this, and then it was revealed, as we expected, that his rights were not respected . He indeed got punched in the chops for his efforts. Ditto Ulai and countless others before him. The world is paying closer and closer attention to all this kind of abuse like in this article .
Its not just Ted Young, or Ulai, it's the principles and values involved in what these people are doing to their own fellow countrymen and to our dear country, Fiji. And what we are showing our children and grandchildren in this kind of behaviour. As a grandparent I am extremely worried for the future value systems of our young because of what is happening in Fiji.
C] The destruction of the tourist industry in Fiji.
Tourists are staying away in droves. Some hotel industry staff have been asked to take a 50% paycut or go home. By the time you catch the bus or passing mini-van to work and back home, you've spent what you've earned that day ! We might as well stay home and plant bele. Hotels are offering 50% off rates! They may as well close down too. People are HURTING so much ! 
And Chowdery is looking to India to save our tourist industry - ragone, can you imagine droves of our newest imports - bula curry chutney vulagi ? Bolleywood ga o keda.
Introducing the national meke : na bollycibi ,na bollylakalaka , mekebollywesi . Happy Bollyvude.
By the way the emergency decree still in place because of a perceived security threat (made by a few bloggers without guns and a few women) still affects the tourism industry .
In the words of the Editor (F/T 21 May) " Unfortunately the interim regime is not responding to the crisis sufficiently and appropriately as one would expect in such circumstances.
The neon light has been flashing before us for some time. The message reads: We need the tourists more than they need us. If we are serious about it, we have to take the extraordinary steps to lure them back into the country in large numbers.This is the simple message the Fiji Hoteliers Association, Tourism Action Group and the Fiji Visitors Bureau have been trying to get through to those running the show at Government Buildings.
The response so far is inadequate for their needs. In fact the message coming back from those running the show at Government Buildings is "save yourself". What it reflects is a total lack of responsibility and immaturity in managing the nation's affairs. Bad governance."
D] The imminent collapse of Air Pacific
Jumbo jets parked at airfields are not a healthy sign; maybe Pakistan or India might like to buy it at a bargain price since they are opportunistically seeking ways to get into Fiji and take us over here.
E] Nurses and other professionals leaving the Fiji
By the dozens to seek employment in Australia or NZ and the US.
F] Fijian press censored in what they can publish 
The press is in the process of being neutered but some of the mainstream are doing their best to buck this trend - and good on you people! And the army spending countless number of man-hours and wasting more of our tax dollars hunting down the bloggers. Oilei, why dont they send the soldiers to go and help our flood victims plant tapioca and get their houses re-built ! Obviously military regime priorities have been VERY misplaced. They care more about their image than they do about the people of Fiji.
G] Much needed 300 million Euros which should have been flowing into Fiji, now on indefinate hold
To delay holding our elections till 2010 would put at risk millions of dollars in aid. It does put in jeopardy hundreds of millions in aid from the European Union, and puts us - Fiji's citizens in grave danger of sliding quicker into the abyss we are already sliding into.
Chaudhry's election date seriously contradicts an agreement the interim government reached with the EU in April to hold elections in less than 24 months.
The consistent bashing of citizens is not helping Fiji and the so called "roadmap".
And the green goons consistently lie to the citizens of Fiji - we who paying their wages - the world must know that they are are still taking people up the camp to be interrogated, bashed and detained illegally . Don't worry boys, we know what you are doing, and we know who you are - we are not stupid. Fiji is a small place ! And EVERYONE knows that Driti, Baini and Leweni know and condone this violence but still choose to lie about it . Everyday - SO many many LIES - tamani lasulasu. 
H] The economy that is heading towards disaster.
Believe it , we are going to crash badly. The breweries closing is a very good indicator that we are heading downhill fast. We can feel the effects now. People roaming around in gangs robbing people for money and things they can sell because they are hungry and desperate. Malnutrition on the rise. Poverty very much more of a problem now. Church social welfare groups not able to cope with the cases they are seeing (so much so it even prompted the ever-changing-in-the-wind Methodist Church to come out and condemn this coup - se vuni tiko? where was your voice before ?).
The mere fact that our national saving scheme the FNPF has paid out Millions and Millions in 3 short months to people that are suffering because of wage cuts and job losses has to stagger the mind . Read it here . Unbelievable !
Personally I now have 6 extra mouths living in my house right now that I am trying to support because they cannot cope as the breadwinners have lost their jobs and cannot pay their rent and I know many other families around us who are facing the same situation. They cannot even come up with the money to catch the boat back to the koro - but they can pay $2.00 to the church soli each Sunday. We are such huge open-hearted people but I think we have our priorities wrong right now. The Church is not showing much sign of giving back to the people especially now when they need help the most. They certainly have not been able to help my fellow villagers in their hour of need. Instead they carry on bleeding us dry every Sunday. Our community talatala is very fat and grog-doped - he is no help to us in his state of un-health.
And I would challenge the Methodist Church in particular - if they really care about us to postpone their annual conference this year (they can vote by ballot instead by posting their votes to Suva for their appointment recommendations) and the next year, and have the people take back the funds they are planning to raise in support of their own koro/vanua - to assist their own people in poverty - those who need to help pay for the village nurse for instance so they can keep some level of medical help around - to help for village drainage, roading and water tank schemes for example.
You see dear Talatala's, Fathers' and Bishops' , this illegal regime will not be able to pay for any of this . Look around us - signs of infrastructure cracking all around - water restrictions, potholes the size of moon craters in the roads, electricity generators starting to succumb under pressure, civil servant morale low, national productivity depressed ! I would urge you to seriously think about the people and anticipate their hardships .
I] Investors leaving Fiji faster than Leweni can say aaaaaah and NOT coming back in
Read my lips Mr Chundery - investors have lost confidence in Fiji. Why? Because even if you lure them back, what guarantees are there that in 6 months time, there won't be another stupid coup by another wannabe "strongman" ? None my man, none.
And the illegal finance illegal minister is upset no one will belive him when he complains that the last elections were rigged. Sour grapes man - get a life ! 
As for looking to India - Mr Chowder , we have already been colonised twice in a major way - I think you are treading on dangerous ground here. Plus there is no such thing as a free lunch - what do they want to screw out of us iTaukei now ? Please take heed of what Prof Brij Lal said recently .
J] Corruption, nepotism and cronyism on a scale you have never seen before, as a way of life.
Its like Bainimarama and Chaudary's private club ! Hey "pssst - you have a job for me?" "Oh yes, we can dismiss that board next week and you can go back in there nevermind that you have been sacked from that organisation before - just go and sit there and pretend you know what you are doing - you can earn a nice fat per-diem for your "services" . Here's a very good example of what I am talking about !
Newly formed boards stacked with cronies and operating under skewed agendas. Also the so called anti-corruption gestapo squad so cooking evidence as they go and carrying our witch hunts against people that the regime has grudges against, and stacked to the ceiling with biased military and yes men.
This squad is Fiji's own self-styled cop, judge, jury and jailer. It's worse than a kangaroo court. No one trusts what it is doing and certainly all their decisions can be challenged in a court of law since they have been formed under an illegal decree.
K] The respect for the Fiji millitary is nationally and internationally ZERO on the score-card
The culture of BULLY and BASH people when you can't get your way (oh - includes women & children) is rife through our vanua. Look at the young boys hanging around at night just waiting to waylay someone - because they can and they think its cool - because the army has taught them its okay to do so - showing the way for our children. No respect and no manners left in the koro. Leaders not sure how or what to think. Shame on you ! Our value systems and societal moral fabric is under very very great strain and I despair for our future. My fellow blogger addresses some of these issues here
L] The disrespect the Fiji military has shown to our chiefs , the boundaries they represent and the traditional itaukei institutions
The vanua is stirring. There are many many upset people in our provinces and our villages. Our chiefs are gathering strength to rise up against this tyranny. Watch this space.
M] Delaying tactics towards general elections and no guarantees as to the events that may occur at the outcome of this
Starting with (so they think they can look good in the eyes of the UN and EU), Frank and gang coming up with something called the National Council (aka Dicktatorship Council) or the committee for the people of the people. Oilei, sounds like something out of Communist China. The idea of this committee of hundreds is a joke. Why? Because bananainpyjamas will stack it with his supporters. They will be an unrepresentative rabble. It is an insult to the people of Fiji that this mob would want to take over the Parliament of Fiji. Not to mention more of our $$ being spent for all these pretenders. Sorry pori - we want elected personnel voted by the people for the people - not your cooked up sorry excuse for a rubber stamp.
Oh, and as for the formation of the fancily titled : "National Council for Building a Better Fiji", there was a very nice press release for the illegals saying : Yes please, we want everyone can contribute, we are happy to hear from you all about this Council and what we should do and discuss etc " .... BUT what is the first thing that happened ? SDL party put forward their discussion paper with which apparently the military decided they were not happy , so they took Ted Young up and punched him in the gob! "Go figure !" as the young people say today ! So there you go people - the moral of the story is : expect to be punched in the gusu (gob) if you dare put forward your 2c worth about this new bullipupu national council.
Secondly, delaying all the unions from going on strike ... watch this space ... ongoing delays and more lies from the illegal administration.
Third , electrical voting . Turaga! What else ?! As if we can afford this! As Karavaki says ."We should just make use of the current system, we don't need such machines to complicate matters," he told the Fiji Times. He said the interim government was just trying to delay the elections by introducing a new system of voting. Chundery says na kai idia will fund this. Again let me ask again since there is no such thing as a free lunch, how much of our collective itaukei soul are you promising India ? And without asking the people ?!
As for those people that still dont understand that we as a nation are now under a dicktatorship this is what Bai said when he was trying to trip Karavaki of his job as Supervisor of General Elections: (FijiLive) "Tell him, I dictated his termination," said Commodore Bainimarama. He added that Karavaki can "take the matter to hell for all we care". "He is a kid on the block."
I ask you - what do those statements tell us about respect, rule of law and contempt of the judicial process?
N] The complete loss of respect and integrity by the people for one of the last bastions of "protection" - the Human Rights Commission in Fiji
Headed by a coup-apologist, nothing Dr Sham Sham says anymore deserves the ink it is written on. Shamima Ali was right on the button when she commented on this 21st May. Someone called it the NO-RIGHTS commission - sa dina .
Importantly for Fiji is what does it now make of Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama's vow to uphold the Constitution and its integral value of freedom of expression? Ooolala eso tale na lasulasu. As the Fiji Times said in relation to protecting the rights of free speech in Fiji (the rights of Ro Teimumu Kepa and Qarase to speak) : "It seems the military found the heat in the kitchen too much, but rather than get out it decided to burn the house down. What will it set fire to next? .
Then the Ms. Sham Sham no-rights defender comes out saying bloggers are indulging in hate speech (where in my blog do I have anything hateful?) and other allegations about why we bloggers are base human beings. Madam we will defend to our deaths the right to point out the facts, the right to speak freely in our own country, and the right to email people and the right to talk with each other, and the right to have meetings with each other - all the rights you decide that we shouldn't/can't have.
Luvequ, raica mada - Miss Sham Sham chooses to write to the FijiTimes May 22 (if you cant find it on this link, the letter is archived at the Fiji Times for 22 May) telling us all about Voltaire instead of writing to assure the people of Fiji of her concern. Mmmmm, on reflection her take on Voltaire sounds just like her own charater. Pote!
Thomas Jefferson once said "Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation." Think about that one for a minute Ms Sham Sham.
O] The prospect of MANY MANY lengthy courtroom battles regarding this so-called "clean-up" campaign that has the potential to ensnare this nation in costly and damaging courtroom battles for years to come
(The F/T 17 May 2007 says it very succintly ) : "Dozens of career public servants have been sacked; boards of directors replaced and reputations smeared publicly based on allegations of corruption allegations that so far are just that and nothing more. The "scoreboard" for the much-lauded Anti-Corruption Unit stands at just one policeman charged with taking a bribe hardly evidence of widespread corruption in the police force, let alone the entire public service. While the boxes of "evidence" mount at the unit and its staff search feverishly through the documentation for proof, you can be sure that those whose heads have rolled are consulting lawyers and seeking advice. Probably that advice at the moment is to sit and wait for when the time is right for when the country has fully returned to democracy.
Not until then will the nation finally see the full cost of the December 5 takeover and the subsequent "clean-up" campaign. When those whose careers have been destroyed through unsubstantiated allegations, rumours and innuendo finally get their day in court, the damage bill to this nation could easily run into tens of millions of dollars. Chief executive officers, for example, who were earning substantial salaries, will be seeking compensation for years of lost income, not to mention redress for the hurt and shame that the allegations brought on them.
The interim Government desperately needs some victories. It needs scalps to justify what has happened. What it does not need is failed prosecutions.
Under such pressure there may be the temptation to take short-cuts and to "try" people in the public arena, hoping the humiliation will stop them taking action in the legal one. That would, of course, be a very short-sighted and foolish assumption to make."
P] Bullshitting their way to an "election date" that will never come 
Bai and cronies promised the EU 2008 for elections. See above [G]. Then they come with a poor excuse for hanging onto their Dictatorship reigns - oh but we need to do a census first. And then another excuse, oh but we need electronic voting. And then Chundery announces to India - not in Fiji , not to the itaukei, that he has decided elections will be held in June 2010 .
Lasulasu Chundery !
Come on, come clean you people sitting in the corridors with the illegal power - are you telling the truth to the nation ? Or do you prefer we find this out for ourselves ?
There are many many rumours around about the story that Bai and Co are determined that there will never be another election while they are in power !
Now think about that people and whether you are prepared to face YEARS of these people sitting on you - telling you how, when and where you are to talk, walk and work. Fiji doesn't think so !
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Bainimarama Regime's claims to uphold the Constitution , the Rule of Law and protect Fijis's Citizens is a Lie
The Fiji Times 21 May 2007 highlights the following story :
Mother gives up hope of justice
THE mother of a 19-year-old student who died from injuries allegedly sustained during an assault by soldiers believes the perpetrators will walk free. Alanieta Rabaka said the delay in bringing those allegedly involved to court, three months after the death of her son Sakiusa Ligaiviu Rabaka on February 24, will eventually lead to the matter being "swept under the carpet".
On January 28, Sakiusa of Votualevu in Nadi and two other youths were alleged to have been picked up by seven soldiers and a police officer on suspicion of drug offences.
It is alleged they were taken to the Black Rock Reservoir in Votualevu and beaten up before being dropped at home a few hours later. Sakiusa was later admitted at the Nadi, Lautoka and Colonial War Memorial Hospital before being discharged on February 20. Four days after undergoing head surgery at the CWM Hospital, he collapsed at his home and was rushed to hospital but died about a half an hour later.
Mrs Rabaka said the delay in bringing those responsible to justice was an indication of the unwillingness of the director of public prosecution and police to prosecute them. She said it would be three months on Thursday since her son died and none of those responsible for the alleged assault were yet to appear in court.
Mrs Rabaka said she could not understand why it had taken so long especially since those involved in other crimes including murder since then had either appeared in court or been jailed. She said just last week, two police officers visited the area asking for the other two youths who were with Sakiusa at the time of the alleged assault.
She said the officers said they needed to interview the youths again. "We cannot understand why they are still being interviewed especially after they were interviewed so many times after the incident," Mrs Rabaka said. On Friday, Assistant Superintendent Ulaiasi Ravula said police would send the file on Sakiusa's death to the Director of Public Prosecutions Office this week.
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So Bubu asks when are these murderers going to be brought to justice and why are these files going round and round - we the people know exactly it is only to delay prosecution , so why are the green goons lying to us? Where is the transparency? This regime has no intention of respecting the people's rights or feelings. In fact I will put my last dollar on the bet that at the end of the day, they are going to give these soldiers immunity under the "presidential decree". Which of course makes a mockery of us, our judicial system, law and order and makes the President guilty of condoning murder. Think about that today !
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Turning the Internet Off and shutting the Bloggers down
Here is something that will make Leweni, Driti and others in Fiji's ruling Dicktatorship who want to shut us down VERY HAPPY. I have discovered you can actually shut the internet down. Its is very easy. Just press this button - go ahead I dare you !:
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
Remind us again - who has the gun ?
Bubu is really disgusted . Imagine the country is being held to ransom by buffoons dressed in military fatigues who consider they are not able to lift the emergency decree because of "on-going" threats to "national security".
First, someone, remind us again - who has the guns ? 
Now lets examine these so called threats and ask ourselves the question - what is the army SO afraid of? :
1) a few cyber scribes armed with nothing but a computer , courage and their own brain cells telling the world on their blogs what's really going on in our country, and who are expressing their God-given rights to speak freely. And the army want to close our blogs down . (Well boys try if you want to - we will be your worst nightmare!)
And by the way, this is apparently the lady that taught you in Class 3. Where is the respect ?
Not to mention threatening women ..................... wow - such a manly thing to do !
Congratulations you have brought Fiji's once highly esteemed army down to a laughing stock. Why don't you go pick on someone your own size ? You are nothing but a BULLY.
One of the hardest lessons you will have to learn in your life young man, is that to earn respect, you have to give it !
Instead of picking up innocent good law-abiding Christian citizens like Ulai Taio, and using 8 soldiers to bash this HARMLESS man who you stripped naked and humiliated, why don't you army boys try cleaning up your own backyards, cleansing your hearts and minds and doing the right thing by Fiji.
Lay down your weapons and go back inside your bai. Let the country be run by people who are chosen by us Fiji's citizens. Go back to your wives and children, your vanua and seek their forgiveness for what you have done to them and to the rest of us.
I thank the Lord that Ulai Taoi has a very deep faith in his God.
To you Ulai, we say you are a hero - you keep the courage of your convictions and have shown the evil you have faced the stuff you are made of.
The Lord's Prayer is for you , and all of us who stood behind you while in your time of despair.
God bless you Ulai Taoi, and God bless the bloggers. Blog on blog on ! You will NEVER shut us up.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
The cows are coming home
Fiji' s Military Dicktator once said in a moment of Strongman Madness and clapped on by his purile fans dressed in green "We can argue on the legality of the government until the cows come home."
Well as you can see Mr DickTator, the cows ARE coming home, and this 'cow' will hold out a signpost for you to look at everyday until you get off the grass, stop chewing the nation's fat (whats left of it), and go plug yourself into an halal abattoir somewhere so we the nation's citizens can rebuild what is left of our shattered sovereignty.
Monday, May 7, 2007
Fiji's Moral Decay
Bubu predicted a rapid rise in crime. Isn't it strange that with the soldiers reportedly withdrawing from checkpoints, crime suddenly rises. So now the soldiers are being brought back because they are "needed". And this justifies the emergency decrees ? And now we are supposed to be grateful ?! Hellloooo !
The public isn't stupid - crime has been rising all the time but incidences just were not being reported. We know why people are committing crime - they are hungry and frustrated and bored and the coup-makers have taught them its okay to bash others around, bully, and to take from others because you can go to God on Sunday and all will be forgiven. People have lost sight of morality and good value systems.
The FIJI TIMES in its editorial today (Tuesday, May 08, 2007) addresses this and says the following which points to the greater worry in our society : this lack of morals, values and principles - the same vacuum that causes people to be sympathetic to the coup-makers, the same fuzziness that makes people "accept" what is going on and even preach it from the pulpits, the same decay that causes our own people to beat up and bash and kill innocent citizens and to abuse our fellow human rights , and the same moral ineptness that thinks the the coups are just and right , and the same lack of principles that has Bainimarama and his cronies lie to the people of Fiji on a daily basis, and go hunting down it's citizens who only want the truth (eg. Military goes after Sereimaia Tui May 8th):
CRIME MIRRORS MORAL DECAY
THE surge in violent offences .................. is alarming to say the least. It is, however, the nature of the offences that is even more worrisome. For now, we appear to have more people being stabbed as opposed to the usual punches or threats that robbers in the distant past have employed.
Take for instance the incident involving Dharmend Krishna. He was robbed, stabbed in the neck several times, shoved in a boot then dumped, possibly left for dead, in a creek! Again, it was a group of men behind the offence. Dharmend today lies near-motionless in hospital as his family struggles with the painful incident and the need to make ends meet. Then, there's the equally horrific incident on Sunday in which a mother, who ran to her husband's defence, was struck in the head with a cane knife by one of the robbers.
It is accepted that poverty and greed are factors that influence criminals to do what they do. But in recent years, the nature of crimes in Fiji points to an even deeper, complex problem that is more worrisome.
That problem is moral degradation.
How is it that despite our small, communal setting, our morals appear to have broken down at a disconcerting proportion?
What has happened to our cultural teachings that espouse values of respect handed down from our elders and of the sense of community and fellowship?
For a country that boasts a multitude of different faiths, why then is there so much moral decay? We need to wake up to the fact that our crime problem is more than economics.
Somewhere in the scheme of trying to pass on the fundamental moral values to the next generation, we have gone wrong.
Our leaders in society need to consider this aspect and set about resolving it before it's too late.
Fiji is not safe - not for us ordinary citizens fearing for our lives and our rights and our freedoms from our fellow citizens and certainly not safe for it's vulagi. Where will it all end?
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Vinaka Fiji for May 1st 2007
Vinaka to everyone that stuck to the courage of their convictions yesterday May 1st in our act of non-violent civil disobedience. We know of many many people both from the private and the public sectors who stayed at home yesterday and out of respect to them we are not going to pinpoint their places of work or the gestapo units will be upon them singling them out.
As fellow Bloggers Intelligensia put it today:
"The Journey has just begun…
Pat yourself on the back if you stayed at May 1st because the reality is no one else will. Rest easy however in the solace that by doing what you did, we as a collective critical mass pushed the tempo with the Junta by their very reactions.
That is PEOPLE POWER folks.
Yes we knew that we wouldn’t change the state of our democracy in a day, but we will get there!
The journey has just begun but already we have shown that we will continue to be a thorn in the side of this Junta and all of their elements even without a parliament or an opposition."
The 1st of May Protest DID rankle the Public Service Commission to a state of hysteria because dear "apolitical" (NOT) Taina came out in full voice on radio WARNING people that the gestapo will be onto them. And our protests DID ALSO RANKLE the Gestapo Boys. Their mouthpiece Leweninoni stated on Australian radio that the IG is still hunting for us . Listen here . Why Lewenisky - what are you afraid of ? The pen?
There was also talk of a PSC 'CIRCULAR' - can we please see this circular Taina, and what was printed on it, as no one we know in government has seen it ? Perhaps the peasantry were deemed too lowly to see this Decree ?
The PSC is now telling their workers what to think ? Workers have their own minds and thoughts and are ENTITLED to them. What is this -- a Mao-ist Red Book Communist State already !? Hmmmm - maybe.
And hot off the press we find out today that the Interim Government have stopped internet access to civil servants so that they can't visit the blog sites. There must be a new Decree stomping on freedom of information somewhere. Please if anyone finds it can you send it to me? Nevermind, there are many ways to skin the manupusi.
As the employer of the largest work-force in the country, the PSC should be ensuring the rights of workers are intact and that under the various domestic and international industrial relations laws, surely workers are entitled to stay at home for a day under the various provisions provided for within them.
It was also absolutely appalling that the PSC chose to threaten its core human resource capital in this manner and is a very clear sign that the military government is not adhering to commitment number 2 under the Rule of Law stipulation made to the EU on 18 April.
The sage blogger FijianBlack says :"Workers within the civil service should not be afraid of victimization as the Fiji Public Servants Association is the primary body that should be defending violations of labour laws of their members by the PSC".
That the military government is promising one thing in Brussels yet allows the directives of threats, is not a good thing.
It reeks of dishonesty and ACP countries currently in Fiji are warned to note such displays of "leadership" '
NostraBubu's Predictions for the Future in Fiji
Although the current Military Dickstatorship are doing their best to "seem nice" while they prostitute themselves bowing to the demands of the EU's paisa, they will soon leave behind any attempt to hide what it really is. This will now be an all-out, unmasked, dictatorship, followed by any number of new "Institutional" Acts and Decrees -- which are really tools of repression. Already they are breaking promises made to the EU as an example .
I cannot see that Bainimarama will ever hand over power, as he is insidiously dismantling the institutions of state - the Parliament, the independent judiciary and now the GCC and his administration is accountable to no one.
On an earlier blog I said the following : The army is basically lazy, and because they are 'busy' being the government of the day , we will start seeing more and more conspiracy theories come out as "Conspiracy" is easier to 'prove' and it is most likely that the army-influenced police force will increasingly turn to conspiracy charges in order to convict people or try to turn public opinion against that person. Major Aaaaahnada accuses the bloggers of "conspiring to incite". More propoganda from the horned mouthpiece.
Leweninoni misses the point of nonviolent resistance for our use of this method of non-cooperation or civil disobedience, is a means to awaken a sense of moral shame in this Military Dicktatorship. As Martin Luther King said, "Our battle is against the force of evil and not the individual. Tension has been created between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness." And our individual May 1st victories are not merely for the nation but a victory for justice and the forces of light.
MISINFORMATION, CONSPIRACY, PROPOGANDA & DECREES :
You have and will continue to see a plethora of "conspiracy " theories come through . We already see this in the heaps and heaps of committees and subcommittees to "review" this board and "restructure" that , all under the guise of finding some conspiracy of corruption or wrongdoing. Misinformation is then spewed out to the public about the "righteousness" of these bodies followed by the obligatory news of "mismanaged" affairs of the organisation.
All of these "inquisitions" are led by people who are polically appointed and who are directed to head their enquiries on a skewed agenda. According to my score-card - all they can come up with at the other end is nothing but curry-up-tion. And they will arbitarily chop and change boards and committees where and whenever they feel like it and set up their own people in it - see this article for just one of the many many examples. As the Fiji Times asked in its editorial on May 1st, 2007 :
WHERE IS THE PROOF ? :
" It is now almost five months since it executed the coup, saying the nation needed to be cleaned up and good governance practised.
So far we have not been given any evidence of corrupt practices. In fact all we have seen, from the appointments being made to boards, statutory bodies and the civil service, are examples of corruption and nepotism which it has set out to eradicate. There is nothing at all good about that kind of governance.
It almost seems like a clique working at the top level with close friends and families being given top jobs and key positions. Saying it is one thing, doing it is another. "
The most amazing conspiracy theory came out a few months ago - and quite frankly the mind just boggled - Qarase for treason ? Helen Clark from New Zealand said " it was "extraordinary" that a government which had installed itself by military coup – "which in my view is a seditious and treasonable act in itself" – was accusing a democratically-elected prime minister of asking for support. She has said it all. This conspiracy theory died a quick death when the military lawyers realised they weren't going to get anywhere with it fast.
There are many other examples - there was 'conspiracy to incite' spun out for Laisa and her freedom fighters, Richard and his comments, and the various others that were taken up to camp. The next major "conspiracy" was when the IG they accused the GCC of conspiring to NOT recognise the IG. Once they "proved" that this body "weren't going to take the country forward", what did the Dicktatorship do ? The acted on their illegal Decrees and "dissolved" this body only to appoint their own team in which they will place their puppets !
So I predict you will see these sorts of powers coming into Decrees soon under the name of President's "Mandate" :
* The puppet president will be able to dissolve Cabinet any time
* The puppet president can intervene in any local government or statutory body via the IG illegal Ministers
* The puppet president can revoke all civil rights via the IG
* The president can fire or retire anyone, anywhere via the IG
* The right for Habeas Corpus will be revoked in "political crimes"
* Massive Censorship
And you will hear more and more of this phrase : "Conspiracy to Incite" listen here on this May 1st news item
ARRESTS and CONSPIRACY TO INCITE :
The next series of arrests will be because of the "Conspiracy to incite civil unrest" - and this will come just before the strikes scheduled for later this month where they will arrest and charge union leaders so the mass unions are without their
leaders and supposedly without direction.Lets hope our union members are made of sterner stuff to see their protests out.
Conspiracy - in case you are wondering what this means, I explain : The concept of 'Conspiracy' is usually deemed a politically dangerous legal weapon as a conspiracy is a joining together of people with a common purpose, under a tacit or implied (read non-existent) agreement to do harm. In this context most political groups could be said to be conspiracies. The fact the police/army are resorting to conspiracy charges shows that they cannot prove that a substantive offence has taken place; which in itself ought to start alarm bells ringing.
In the legal sense, the army see the Freedom Blogging movement as a whole as one big 'conspiracy', and so virtually anyone connected with talking or exchanging views on the internet could be prosecuted for participation (we are already in the words of the army "being hunted down" - warai na herd animal !
A connects to B, B connects to C and so A and C are in the same conspiracy, even though they never met. The legal notion of 'conspiracy' might be applied to any political group which the state takes a dislike to - such as the SDL party. The best defence against this is for people to exercise their capacity to speak freely more and more; not for the movement to be silenced but to develop and strengthen its own, multiple-path methods of communication. Experience shows that we cannot rely on the mainstream media to report what is happening . A stronger, more effective movement, with increasing political momentum for change, is the only real answer.
Frank says he doesn't want the Freedom Bloggers "inciting unnecessary fear and anxiety". I can't see that reporting what the Bloggers hear as it happens is deliberately provocative. Insulting your opponents, calling them names ("Bakola, Ulukau!") may not be pleasant. Needling and making fun of them may sting the feelings, for example, jokes about the army circling the internet . But we should understand 'incitement' narrowly to mean calls to irrational violent action. I think the likes of Leweni who are calling for us to "watch out" might be more guilty of this.
Causing offence should not be confused with incitement. To this some will argue that surely we should be aware that those who take offence will respond in very agitated ways. If the agitation is foreseeable, then it is incitement. This is a very poor argument.
It makes the definition of incitement entirely dependent on how violent the other party can work himself up to be. The more violent his response, they more he is likely to get his way and the freedom of the speaker curbed. In the final analysis, such a position effectively rewards violence. Hardly a good way to build a peaceful society.
This is related to the problem with the phrase, "expressing an opinion responsibly". It seems to suggest that if free expression causes offence and possible backlash then that freedom must be curtailed in the name of "responsibility". This is foggy headed thinking.
What is the meaning of freedom, if that freedom cannot in practical terms be exercised due to various forms of censorship? It is the same as having freehold title to land you are never allowed to take possession of ?
REPRESSION TECHNIQUES , PARANOIA :
Back to Predictions for our Future in Fiji - An elaborate repressive apparatus has been formed by the Dicktatorship to stop people like the bloggers and anyone who makes any criticism of it , and to pay for doing so. The Dicktatorship will use mental and physical torture freely this has happened as we all know, and is continuing to happen . The occasional murder perhaps (already happened - Rabaka & Verebasaqa, Selestino and others), and no accountability.
Judiciary is effectively gagged where the Judge and the Lawyers have to go to the camp gates with caps in hand begging to have permission to have their clients come to court .
Propoganda that flows from this illegal IG is part of this apparatus and we as citizens must be aware that the paranoia this propoganda serves amongst us can disempower us by sowing fear and confusion. There is a real fine line between being paranoid and being vigilant, and we must try to be vigilant. It is often disconcerting when conversing with family members or friends and you don't know if somewhere somebody is listening and is going to "pot" you in for a comment that they are free to distort and twist any which way they want.
The culture of telling on your neighbour is being actively encouraged with the army assuming the role of judge and jury daily - this dose of "power" being experienced by junior soldiers is VERY dangerous. People - DO WE WANT TO LIVE LIKE THIS ? How can we not be suspicious of the closed door meetings that require heavy taxpayer expenditures on “security” to protect our leaders from ourselves?
Whats the latest count of bodyguards for Voreqe and bodyguards for the bodyguards ? How ridiculous !!!! And it is our taxpayer dollars that are funding this hypocrisy !
Do we pose a danger to the State ?
Or does it pose a danger to us?
There is a palpable decline in respect for authority serendipitously (for those in power) and this has correlated with an increase in these activities encouraged by this junta.
More of us citizens will be rounded up, taken to barracks, questioned and bashed or tortured. Methods of repressive torture will be creative. Drugs will be used or planted on victims (the excuse given for Rabaka's death was drugs) , psychological torture techniques will be used (have been used on Laisa and her freedom fighters) , children will be kidnapped (Andrew Hughes claimed his family were going to be kidnapped and held hostage) torturers will kick the bellies of women and they will not care whether they are pregnant or not (see Laisa's story)Documents will be prepared now by this Dicktatorship and released years later claiming they "had nothing to do with current allegations" , and data will only be released on a need to aaaah know aaaaah basis.
People accused of "conspiring" will be arrested and tortured. Common citizens will be commonly abused, accused of belonging to "terrorist" organizations and of conspiring against National Security.