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Sources close to the President of the All Nation Church have revealed that the tin-pot dictator Bainimarama had called recently on Rev Ratabacaca for spiritual guidance. The message which God had revealed and which Rev Ratabacaca had conveyed the tin-pot dictator was more or less the same as given to dictator Bainimarama by the Methodist Church: That he had done wrong by the nation of Fiji and its people by disregarding the rule of law, the ruling of the Appeals Court, in trashing the Constitution and in removing the basic rights and freedom of the people and by causing so much poverty and hardship. Rev Ratabacaca had conveyed the advice to the tin-pot dictator that he humble himself, seek forgiveness and reconciliation and hand power to elected representatives of the people at the earliest opportunity. It is believed that the tin-pot dictator had spurned Rev Ratabacaca’s counsel.
Meanwhile, in a move designed to salvage, in a roundabout way the fast eroding support of the Christian community in Bainimarama’s illegal regime, Bainimarama’s elder brother Meli Bainimarama, Permanent Secretary for Fijian Affairs, had this morning sent a telephone message to the President of the Methodist Church Rev Ame Tugaue asking that he call on him for a meeting. The two are currently meeting at Meli Bainimarama’s Office. The Methodist Church supported by other churches and Christian organizations, are currently fasting and are in a prayer vigil for the whole month of June following which, it is hoped that with God’s guidance, a decision will be taken on the Bainimarama junta’s refusal to allow the holding of the Rewa 2009 Conference of the Methodist Church.
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Reverend Tomasi Kanailagi- a true Christian Soldier.
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With all the clamour generated by Frank’s propaganda machine against the Methodist Church and especially Reverend Tomasi Kanailagi it may well pay to revisit the facts of the May 2000 coup involving the ex President of the Methodist Church .
Rev Kanailagi is from the chiefly yavusa Nayaumunu of Viwa Bau. It was Ratu Namosimalua the then Roko Tui Viwa who welcomed Reverend Joseph Hunt to set up the Methodist mission on Viwa as Ratu Cakobau and Bau were still about there heathen ways. The Reverend is also a blood relative of Viwa high chief Ratu Varani the notorious but later staunch Christian convert who ‘bent his knee to Jehovah’ on Good Friday 1845.
Reverend Captain Kanailagi is most admired amongst the real RFMF soldiers as the Padre of the 1st Battalion’s second contingent (Batt 2) UNIFIL during the tough Palestinian Liberation Organisation’s era of 1978-80. This era is when the first Fijian’s underwent their baptism of fire and stamped the Fijian character in Middle East UN peacekeeping. He was tested under fire such as the firefight in Qana when Private Leitubadei was killed in action. Most unlike some in high military office today who are calling for his resignation.
His leadership during his presidency of the Methodist Church in the dark days of the 2000 coup is exemplary for the moral courage and physical fibre of the man. Here is the evidence from the Fiji Times of Tuesday 23rd May 2000, (page 15):
Methodists Stay Out
Methodist Church President Reverend Tomasi Kanailagi has dissociated the church from the events on Friday (19th May). Reverend Kanailagi visited the President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara at Government House on Sunday morning and the two held a prayer session together. He later visited the group held hostage at the parliamentary complex and then the captors. Reverend Kanailagi said the church had made known its stand on what happened on Friday and it did not want to meddle into the politics of it.
Wesleyans and all Christians stand up! For such a man of God in his twilight age who does not fear Frank and his guns. His strength is eternal! Praise the Lord!
With the Lotu and Vanua’s defiant stand on the Bose ko Viti being held in Rewa, let’s again revisit the facts of the May coup 2000 involving the ex President of the Methodist Church Reverend Tomasi Kanailagi.
Frank in his convoluted ‘non political’ mind spews his political venom accusing the Padre of being deviantly motivated and an agent of political instability.
Well here is published evidence in the Fiji Times of Thursday May 25th 2000 to the contrary:
Churches unit against crimes
The Fiji Council of Churches say it is against the unchristian act of those who seized members of the democratically elected government last Friday (19 May).
“We the Fiji Council of Churches stand together to oppose this very thoughtless crucifixion of democracy that has taken place” its chairman Reverend Tomasi Kanailagi said.
The Council expressed its sincere apologies to everyone affected by the rioting, looting and fires experienced last weekend.
It was an understatedly unchristian act that truly shocked us all”
The Council called on Christians to play their part in restoring order through little acts of love and kindness to all their neighbours.
“Let us look for the images of God in the faces around us and treat every individual with utmost love and respect in these trying times”. Reverend Kanailagi said.
Methodist Church’s true May 2000 coup stand.
Here again we make the case for the Methodist Church’s true stand in May 2000 which Frank and Ayarse harps on falsely for the illegal regime’s naked power grab in December 2006 and April 2009.
This is evidence as published in the Fiji Times of Saturday June 10th 2000.
Churchmen want Peace.
Senior ministers of the Methodist Church visited the military camp in Nabua and the parliament complex yesterday. Church general –secretary Reverend Doctor Ilaitia Tuwere, said members of the church’s standing committee, ministers and some members, divided into two groups-one to the army camp and the other to the parliamentary complex. The church members went to Nabua to show their support for Commodore Bainimarama and the army in their effort to resolve the crisis. Last Friday the church leaders visited the parliament complex with the intention of urging Speight to release the hostages.
But Dr Tuwere said people in the complex thought the Methodist church had come to support Speight. “There are so many rumours going around. We give our support to Bainimarama to clear the air with our ordinary people.” Dr Tuwere said.
“What the church needs to see now is the rebuilding of the nation and that is not an easy job”.
Because the Methodist Church backed the military in 2000 for upholding the rule of law against Speight’s high treasonous act which he is now serving jail time for, Frank now sees the church as his Enemy No. 1 this time around.
Hey! So isn’t Frank in effect saying to the Methodist Church and Fiji, you are not permitted to destabilize me, even though I committed high treason! The church has been true in its stance against coup mongers like Frank even Reverend Josateki Koroi the President of the Methodist Church at the time of the Rabuka coup condemned the 1987 coup on behalf of the flock.
Amen to that venerable Reverend! Stand up Wesleyans! And defend your faith against the great usuper of the state and church of our fore fathers! Come hell or high water!
Tebara sili wacala.
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With all the clamour generated by Frank’s propaganda machine against the Methodist Church and especially Reverend Tomasi Kanailagi it may well pay to revisit the facts of the May 2000 coup involving the ex President of the Methodist Church .
Rev Kanailagi is from the chiefly yavusa Nayaumunu of Viwa Bau. It was Ratu Namosimalua the then Roko Tui Viwa who welcomed Reverend Joseph Hunt to set up the Methodist mission on Viwa as Ratu Cakobau and Bau were still about there heathen ways. The Reverend is also a blood relative of Viwa high chief Ratu Varani the notorious but later staunch Christian convert who ‘bent his knee to Jehovah’ on Good Friday 1845.
Reverend Captain Kanailagi is most admired amongst the real RFMF soldiers as the Padre of the 1st Battalion’s second contingent (Batt 2) UNIFIL during the tough Palestinian Liberation Organisation’s era of 1978-80. This era is when the first Fijian’s underwent their baptism of fire and stamped the Fijian character in Middle East UN peacekeeping. He was tested under fire such as the firefight in Qana when Private Leitubadei was killed in action. Most unlike some in high military office today who are calling for his resignation.
His leadership during his presidency of the Methodist Church in the dark days of the 2000 coup is exemplary for the moral courage and physical fibre of the man. Here is the evidence from the Fiji Times of Tuesday 23rd May 2000, (page 15):
Methodists Stay Out
Methodist Church President Reverend Tomasi Kanailagi has dissociated the church from the events on Friday (19th May). Reverend Kanailagi visited the President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara at Government House on Sunday morning and the two held a prayer session together. He later visited the group held hostage at the parliamentary complex and then the captors. Reverend Kanailagi said the church had made known its stand on what happened on Friday and it did not want to meddle into the politics of it.
Wesleyans and all Christians stand up! For such a man of God in his twilight age who does not fear Frank and his guns. His strength is eternal! Praise the Lord!
With the Lotu and Vanua’s defiant stand on the Bose ko Viti being held in Rewa, let’s again revisit the facts of the May coup 2000 involving the ex President of the Methodist Church Reverend Tomasi Kanailagi.
Frank in his convoluted ‘non political’ mind spews his political venom accusing the Padre of being deviantly motivated and an agent of political instability.
Well here is published evidence in the Fiji Times of Thursday May 25th 2000 to the contrary:
Churches unit against crimes
The Fiji Council of Churches say it is against the unchristian act of those who seized members of the democratically elected government last Friday (19 May).
“We the Fiji Council of Churches stand together to oppose this very thoughtless crucifixion of democracy that has taken place” its chairman Reverend Tomasi Kanailagi said.
The Council expressed its sincere apologies to everyone affected by the rioting, looting and fires experienced last weekend.
It was an understatedly unchristian act that truly shocked us all”
The Council called on Christians to play their part in restoring order through little acts of love and kindness to all their neighbours.
“Let us look for the images of God in the faces around us and treat every individual with utmost love and respect in these trying times”. Reverend Kanailagi said.
Methodist Church’s true May 2000 coup stand.
Here again we make the case for the Methodist Church’s true stand in May 2000 which Frank and Ayarse harps on falsely for the illegal regime’s naked power grab in December 2006 and April 2009.
This is evidence as published in the Fiji Times of Saturday June 10th 2000.
Churchmen want Peace.
Senior ministers of the Methodist Church visited the military camp in Nabua and the parliament complex yesterday. Church general –secretary Reverend Doctor Ilaitia Tuwere, said members of the church’s standing committee, ministers and some members, divided into two groups-one to the army camp and the other to the parliamentary complex. The church members went to Nabua to show their support for Commodore Bainimarama and the army in their effort to resolve the crisis. Last Friday the church leaders visited the parliament complex with the intention of urging Speight to release the hostages.
But Dr Tuwere said people in the complex thought the Methodist church had come to support Speight. “There are so many rumours going around. We give our support to Bainimarama to clear the air with our ordinary people.” Dr Tuwere said.
“What the church needs to see now is the rebuilding of the nation and that is not an easy job”.
Because the Methodist Church backed the military in 2000 for upholding the rule of law against Speight’s high treasonous act which he is now serving jail time for, Frank now sees the church as his Enemy No. 1 this time around.
Hey! So isn’t Frank in effect saying to the Methodist Church and Fiji, you are not permitted to destabilize me, even though I committed high treason! The church has been true in its stance against coup mongers like Frank even Reverend Josateki Koroi the President of the Methodist Church at the time of the Rabuka coup condemned the 1987 coup on behalf of the flock.
Amen to that venerable Reverend! Stand up Wesleyans! And defend your faith against the great usuper of the state and church of our fore fathers! Come hell or high water!
Tebara sili wacala.
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Frank’s Palace Politics and Dark Principles 101
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Deep in the dark recesses of the deviant dictator’s mind sits his box of tricks of the Machiavellian school known to all Fijian as the Vere vaka Bau (Conspiracy a la Bau).
At the height of Baun domination of Fijian politics in the 1840’s, Horatio Hale a white voyager through Fiji summarises the Baun attainments to power that he found.
First Principle – The enemy of my enemy is my friend and
Second Principle- The friend of my enemy is also my enemy.
Every decision to actions and reactions by the Dictator is taken personally and boils down to a familial microcosm a la Palace Politics we are now witnessing unravelling our nation. This is what Frank thrives on.
Yes folks hang tight as we spiral out of control in the coming days.
Kai wai
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Deep in the dark recesses of the deviant dictator’s mind sits his box of tricks of the Machiavellian school known to all Fijian as the Vere vaka Bau (Conspiracy a la Bau).
At the height of Baun domination of Fijian politics in the 1840’s, Horatio Hale a white voyager through Fiji summarises the Baun attainments to power that he found.
First Principle – The enemy of my enemy is my friend and
Second Principle- The friend of my enemy is also my enemy.
Every decision to actions and reactions by the Dictator is taken personally and boils down to a familial microcosm a la Palace Politics we are now witnessing unravelling our nation. This is what Frank thrives on.
Yes folks hang tight as we spiral out of control in the coming days.
Kai wai
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A shameful police state
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Day by day, this Military Government and the Military Police (that is what they have to be now called), take this country deeper and deeper into an evil “police state”.
At midnight, a whole group of police officers woke up Ro Temumu Kepa to take her to the Police Station.
Was she a dangerous criminal about to commit a crime at mid-night? Caught in the act? So dangerous as to require several police officers?
No. She is just an elderly woman, insisting on her basic human right to host an annual meeting of the Methodist Church of Fiji; the basic human right for all their Church members to participate at the meeting; their basic human right to discuss whatever issues affect their lives- economic, social or political. Who are the military to decide otherwise?
How demoralizing for professional police officers to blindly following this Military Government’s immoral orders, and treat this senior lady, Roko Tui Dreketi, like a common dangerous criminal.
They could have called on her in the morning. She was not running away from anyone. But no, the police had to mount a raid at midnight. Which evil person made that decision?
Notice that the media have been stopped from reporting on these immoral arrests and detentions.
Quite clearly, this military government and police have totally lost their way. Shame on them.
Shame on the Military Council and all the military-appointed Ministers who are going along with this evil immoral treasonous Military Government of Frank Bainimarama.
Shame on all those citizens and non-citizens who have taken appointments from this illegal Military Government and continue to do so.
Shame on all those coup supporters (all those in the NCBBF, CCF etc) who are now totally silent in the face of this onslaught on our people’s civil rights, while some make tiny bleating noises here and there, having helped to create this military monster over the last two and a half years.
Shame on all those businessmen who support Bainimarama and his immoral actions.
The blog-sites need to boldly name all of these coup supporters with pictures so that the ordinary public can identify them.
It is time that the rest of Fiji stops tolerating and associating with all these evil people who are destroying our country. When are we going to draw the line?
It is time for the ordinary decent folk to speak up, using their names. Do it on the blog-sites if the newspapers and TV won’t give you space.
As was said once before, if you do not speak up when others are taken away, “one day the evil ones will come for you, and there will be nobody left to speak for you”.
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Day by day, this Military Government and the Military Police (that is what they have to be now called), take this country deeper and deeper into an evil “police state”.
At midnight, a whole group of police officers woke up Ro Temumu Kepa to take her to the Police Station.
Was she a dangerous criminal about to commit a crime at mid-night? Caught in the act? So dangerous as to require several police officers?
No. She is just an elderly woman, insisting on her basic human right to host an annual meeting of the Methodist Church of Fiji; the basic human right for all their Church members to participate at the meeting; their basic human right to discuss whatever issues affect their lives- economic, social or political. Who are the military to decide otherwise?
How demoralizing for professional police officers to blindly following this Military Government’s immoral orders, and treat this senior lady, Roko Tui Dreketi, like a common dangerous criminal.
They could have called on her in the morning. She was not running away from anyone. But no, the police had to mount a raid at midnight. Which evil person made that decision?
Notice that the media have been stopped from reporting on these immoral arrests and detentions.
Quite clearly, this military government and police have totally lost their way. Shame on them.
Shame on the Military Council and all the military-appointed Ministers who are going along with this evil immoral treasonous Military Government of Frank Bainimarama.
Shame on all those citizens and non-citizens who have taken appointments from this illegal Military Government and continue to do so.
Shame on all those coup supporters (all those in the NCBBF, CCF etc) who are now totally silent in the face of this onslaught on our people’s civil rights, while some make tiny bleating noises here and there, having helped to create this military monster over the last two and a half years.
Shame on all those businessmen who support Bainimarama and his immoral actions.
The blog-sites need to boldly name all of these coup supporters with pictures so that the ordinary public can identify them.
It is time that the rest of Fiji stops tolerating and associating with all these evil people who are destroying our country. When are we going to draw the line?
It is time for the ordinary decent folk to speak up, using their names. Do it on the blog-sites if the newspapers and TV won’t give you space.
As was said once before, if you do not speak up when others are taken away, “one day the evil ones will come for you, and there will be nobody left to speak for you”.
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Hari Punja bribes Frank Bainimarama on 12th July deal brokered by Colonel Aziz.â€
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It has been revealed by inside military sources that there was a secret meeting held on the 12th July between Hari Punja, Frank Bainimarama and Commissioner Central Colonel Tikoitoga (Colonel Qiliho’s albino twin brother) at HP’s residence at Kavika place.
With a spy device placed right under Punja’s elephant god Ganesh’es statue in his foyer the discussions ranged from Hari bribing Frank to buying a property for $1 million instead of the market $5 million. No surprises HP is hedging his bets again.
Frank’s deal is to be sourced from India by the Teflon don of Fijian Holdings Ltd notoriety Colonel Aziz Mohammed.
Word from Camp is that the soldiers are p#@*! Off with Aziz’s lies. For instance, Aziz strutted his stuff into the Nadi court and told the Rabaka murderers that the immunity decree covered all their crimes.
But when the verdict was read out at the Rabaka court case he told the eight guilty soldiers to take their punishment like a man.
The soldiers are fed up with being lied to! Tu cake ra gone! Me vesu o Commander lasulasu ! Dou sa vakaloloma!
Red Diamond
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It has been revealed by inside military sources that there was a secret meeting held on the 12th July between Hari Punja, Frank Bainimarama and Commissioner Central Colonel Tikoitoga (Colonel Qiliho’s albino twin brother) at HP’s residence at Kavika place.
With a spy device placed right under Punja’s elephant god Ganesh’es statue in his foyer the discussions ranged from Hari bribing Frank to buying a property for $1 million instead of the market $5 million. No surprises HP is hedging his bets again.
Frank’s deal is to be sourced from India by the Teflon don of Fijian Holdings Ltd notoriety Colonel Aziz Mohammed.
Word from Camp is that the soldiers are p#@*! Off with Aziz’s lies. For instance, Aziz strutted his stuff into the Nadi court and told the Rabaka murderers that the immunity decree covered all their crimes.
But when the verdict was read out at the Rabaka court case he told the eight guilty soldiers to take their punishment like a man.
The soldiers are fed up with being lied to! Tu cake ra gone! Me vesu o Commander lasulasu ! Dou sa vakaloloma!
Red Diamond
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Monday, July 27, 2009
OPEN LETTERS FROM REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS
Open letter from Reporters Without Borders to Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama
http://www.rsf.org/Open-letter-from-Reporters-Without,33066.html
Commodore Frank BainimaramaInterim Prime MinisterSuva – Fiji IslandsParis, 18 May 2009Dear Prime Minister,Reporters Without Borders would like to refer you to the decline in press freedom since you promulgated the Public Emergency Regulations 2009 on 10 April, initially for a period of 30 days. These regulations have officialised prior censorship. Criticism of your government has disappeared from the Fijian media. Political, social and economic news is still being covered but journalists are not able to play their role as Fourth Estate. Fear has taken hold within the news media following a number of arrests of journalists and threatening statements by officials.The Public Emergency Regulations 2009 give the permanent secretary for information, Lt. Col. Neumi Leweni, full powers to prevent the media from publishing or broadcasting reports that could “give rise to disorder” or “promote disaffection or public alarm.” He has warned on several occasions that those who fail to respect the rules will be arrested and prosecuted. The media have been told to limit themselves to providing “positive” news.As a result of the regulations, which have been extended until 10 June, soldiers and information ministry officials have installed themselves in newsrooms in order to control content and prevent undesirable reports. Around 10 journalists and bloggers have been arrested and several foreign journalists have been expelled.The journalists who have been detained include Shelvin Chand and Dionisia Turaganbeci, who were arrested on 9 and 11 May for writing an article for the FijiLive news website that was “negative” about you, and Theresa Ralogaivau, who was arrested on 14 May because of an article in the Fiji Times.Joseph Ealedona, the head of the Suva-based regional news agency Pacnews, announced on 14 May that it would be temporarily relocated because of the political situation in Fiji.Journalists based in Suva have told Reporters Without Borders about the fear reigning in newsrooms. Some journalists even refuse to talk as they are scared by the possibility that someone could be monitoring what they say.Your government seems to be considering taking direct control of certain programmes on Fiji TV and using the Fiji Sun newspaper to publish official information. This would be a veiled and arbitrary form of nationalisation that jeopardises years of editorial independence for these privately-owned news media.As you know, the international community has adopted sanctions in response to the promulgation and strict implementation of these regulations. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has tried to give Fijians an explanation. He sent all the Fijian news media an editorial on 13 May about the reasons for your military-backed government’s suspension from the Pacific Islands Forum. None of the media in Fiji carried the editorial, presumably because of censorship.Your recent decisions suggest that you only tolerate the news media when they do not question your management of the country’s affairs and your government’s legitimacy. Fiji is heading dangerously towards a system of permanent prior censorship.These policies prevent the international community, including the European Union, from resuming close cooperation with your country. The repressive regulations that you have introduced are punishing the Fijian people and jeopardising the development aid that Fiji’s economy and society need. You have a duty to stop exposing your country to this danger.We ask you to lose no time in repealing the Public Emergency Regulations, especially articles 16 (1) and 16 (2), which violate the international human rights accords that Fiji has signed. We also urge you, as Prime Minister, to order the security forces to withdraw from newsrooms and to stop arresting journalists.We trust you will give this matter your careful consideration.Respectfully,Jean-François JulliardSecretary-General 47 rue vivienne – 75002 Paris (France)Tel: 331-4483-8484 / Fax: 331-4523-1151asia@rsf.org
http://www.rsf.org/Open-letter-from-Reporters-Without,33066.html
Commodore Frank BainimaramaInterim Prime MinisterSuva – Fiji IslandsParis, 18 May 2009Dear Prime Minister,Reporters Without Borders would like to refer you to the decline in press freedom since you promulgated the Public Emergency Regulations 2009 on 10 April, initially for a period of 30 days. These regulations have officialised prior censorship. Criticism of your government has disappeared from the Fijian media. Political, social and economic news is still being covered but journalists are not able to play their role as Fourth Estate. Fear has taken hold within the news media following a number of arrests of journalists and threatening statements by officials.The Public Emergency Regulations 2009 give the permanent secretary for information, Lt. Col. Neumi Leweni, full powers to prevent the media from publishing or broadcasting reports that could “give rise to disorder” or “promote disaffection or public alarm.” He has warned on several occasions that those who fail to respect the rules will be arrested and prosecuted. The media have been told to limit themselves to providing “positive” news.As a result of the regulations, which have been extended until 10 June, soldiers and information ministry officials have installed themselves in newsrooms in order to control content and prevent undesirable reports. Around 10 journalists and bloggers have been arrested and several foreign journalists have been expelled.The journalists who have been detained include Shelvin Chand and Dionisia Turaganbeci, who were arrested on 9 and 11 May for writing an article for the FijiLive news website that was “negative” about you, and Theresa Ralogaivau, who was arrested on 14 May because of an article in the Fiji Times.Joseph Ealedona, the head of the Suva-based regional news agency Pacnews, announced on 14 May that it would be temporarily relocated because of the political situation in Fiji.Journalists based in Suva have told Reporters Without Borders about the fear reigning in newsrooms. Some journalists even refuse to talk as they are scared by the possibility that someone could be monitoring what they say.Your government seems to be considering taking direct control of certain programmes on Fiji TV and using the Fiji Sun newspaper to publish official information. This would be a veiled and arbitrary form of nationalisation that jeopardises years of editorial independence for these privately-owned news media.As you know, the international community has adopted sanctions in response to the promulgation and strict implementation of these regulations. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has tried to give Fijians an explanation. He sent all the Fijian news media an editorial on 13 May about the reasons for your military-backed government’s suspension from the Pacific Islands Forum. None of the media in Fiji carried the editorial, presumably because of censorship.Your recent decisions suggest that you only tolerate the news media when they do not question your management of the country’s affairs and your government’s legitimacy. Fiji is heading dangerously towards a system of permanent prior censorship.These policies prevent the international community, including the European Union, from resuming close cooperation with your country. The repressive regulations that you have introduced are punishing the Fijian people and jeopardising the development aid that Fiji’s economy and society need. You have a duty to stop exposing your country to this danger.We ask you to lose no time in repealing the Public Emergency Regulations, especially articles 16 (1) and 16 (2), which violate the international human rights accords that Fiji has signed. We also urge you, as Prime Minister, to order the security forces to withdraw from newsrooms and to stop arresting journalists.We trust you will give this matter your careful consideration.Respectfully,Jean-François JulliardSecretary-General 47 rue vivienne – 75002 Paris (France)Tel: 331-4483-8484 / Fax: 331-4523-1151asia@rsf.org
On Target for the Rewa Conference
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The pig is only fooling himself that he has a mandate to rule and delay elections for the next 5 years. The facts as we know them point otherwise. How long will this mentally deranged terrorist remain on top? How long can he deny the people of Fiji their right to be ruled by the people of their own choice? How long can he deny the unlawful actions that have perpetuated his rule? Not long if we take recent happenings into account.
Despite the announcement yesterday by bugler turned head poncho for the pig’s propaganda unit.....ahh.... Leweni threatening Methodist Minister’s against attending the Standing Committee meeting due to there being no license for such a meeting, it went ahead anyway. And despite the threat of arrest for those Ministers attending the meeting, the Methodist Ministers have well and truly called the pig’s bluff. That comes as no surprise; all this has happened before- remember the pig’s hullaballoo against Rev Kanailagi after his preaching against the evil deeds of the regime in that evening service of 17 May?
The threat remains an empty threat. What is becoming plain is that this regime rules by bluff. Yes, the pig will grunt, dig with its heels, show its rotten teeth and holler. Then it puts its head down, turns the other way and run as fast as its smelly feet can carry it. What is certain is that the pig himself and his regime are now stuck between a rock and a hard place. Your move pig. So much for picking a fight with God!
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The pig is only fooling himself that he has a mandate to rule and delay elections for the next 5 years. The facts as we know them point otherwise. How long will this mentally deranged terrorist remain on top? How long can he deny the people of Fiji their right to be ruled by the people of their own choice? How long can he deny the unlawful actions that have perpetuated his rule? Not long if we take recent happenings into account.
Despite the announcement yesterday by bugler turned head poncho for the pig’s propaganda unit.....ahh.... Leweni threatening Methodist Minister’s against attending the Standing Committee meeting due to there being no license for such a meeting, it went ahead anyway. And despite the threat of arrest for those Ministers attending the meeting, the Methodist Ministers have well and truly called the pig’s bluff. That comes as no surprise; all this has happened before- remember the pig’s hullaballoo against Rev Kanailagi after his preaching against the evil deeds of the regime in that evening service of 17 May?
The threat remains an empty threat. What is becoming plain is that this regime rules by bluff. Yes, the pig will grunt, dig with its heels, show its rotten teeth and holler. Then it puts its head down, turns the other way and run as fast as its smelly feet can carry it. What is certain is that the pig himself and his regime are now stuck between a rock and a hard place. Your move pig. So much for picking a fight with God!
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Church Elders to be Arrested and Detained
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After receipt of information early today that warrants were being prepared for the arrest and detainment of two senior Ministers of the Methodist Church Rev Manasa Lasaro and Rev Tomasi Kanailagi, senior Ministers and top officials of the Church gathered at the offices of both Rev Lasaro and Rev Kanailagi waiting for the Police and Military to turn up and arrest them.
Both Rev Lasaro and Rev Kanailagi confirmed that they were ready to be arrested for the cause of God’s truth and justice and in peaceful defiance of an oppressive, unlawful regime that has brought poverty and great suffering on the nation and its people.
The persecution of the Methodist Church by the Bainimarama regime is nothing new when one considers the history of the Church. Right throughout history, the Church has posed a real political threat. There continually hangs a nagging question over the loyalty of the Church to the State.
With the high moral ground that the Methodist Church has adopted against the 2006 coup and the resulting increased poverty and suffering of the people, the leaders of the Church have clearly shown, just like the Church martyrs before them, of their avowed allegiance to their Heavenly throne and to God’s commandments as opposed to those of Bainimarama and his unlawful regime. Like all dictatorships, the Bainimarama regime is sensitive to unrest, and demand complete submission and obedience. But the Church can give neither to the regime for its allegiance lies only with God and His justice.
So as we in Fiji approach a possible flashpoint resulting from the state refusing to allow and the Church deciding to go ahead with the Rewa Conference, let us be mindful of the lessons of history. The rift between the Roman state and the early Church was such that early Christians would not obey any secular law that contradicted their own belief. Their failure to comply with the required homage demanded by the State was to be a major cause of the martyrdom of many faithful believers. Yet in the martyrs’ sacrifice, and despite policies of persecution against it, the Church continued to flourish in influence and number.
We salute you Rev Kanailagi and Rev Lasaro. God’s grace and peace be unto you!
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After receipt of information early today that warrants were being prepared for the arrest and detainment of two senior Ministers of the Methodist Church Rev Manasa Lasaro and Rev Tomasi Kanailagi, senior Ministers and top officials of the Church gathered at the offices of both Rev Lasaro and Rev Kanailagi waiting for the Police and Military to turn up and arrest them.
Both Rev Lasaro and Rev Kanailagi confirmed that they were ready to be arrested for the cause of God’s truth and justice and in peaceful defiance of an oppressive, unlawful regime that has brought poverty and great suffering on the nation and its people.
The persecution of the Methodist Church by the Bainimarama regime is nothing new when one considers the history of the Church. Right throughout history, the Church has posed a real political threat. There continually hangs a nagging question over the loyalty of the Church to the State.
With the high moral ground that the Methodist Church has adopted against the 2006 coup and the resulting increased poverty and suffering of the people, the leaders of the Church have clearly shown, just like the Church martyrs before them, of their avowed allegiance to their Heavenly throne and to God’s commandments as opposed to those of Bainimarama and his unlawful regime. Like all dictatorships, the Bainimarama regime is sensitive to unrest, and demand complete submission and obedience. But the Church can give neither to the regime for its allegiance lies only with God and His justice.
So as we in Fiji approach a possible flashpoint resulting from the state refusing to allow and the Church deciding to go ahead with the Rewa Conference, let us be mindful of the lessons of history. The rift between the Roman state and the early Church was such that early Christians would not obey any secular law that contradicted their own belief. Their failure to comply with the required homage demanded by the State was to be a major cause of the martyrdom of many faithful believers. Yet in the martyrs’ sacrifice, and despite policies of persecution against it, the Church continued to flourish in influence and number.
We salute you Rev Kanailagi and Rev Lasaro. God’s grace and peace be unto you!
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Intelligent officer sacked by Bainimarma(Belovula)
FREE FIJI
SWM have been informed by one of our members in the military camp in Nabua that the two intelligent officers who carried out an assessment in regards to Bainimarama’s support in the Fiji army has been sacked.
The report that they deliver to Bainimarama say’s that he no longer command the respect of the Fiji Army and it is getting thinner every day.
Last week they brief Vore the result of their survey and they told Voreqe the frightening truth that the majority of the military no longer supports him and as a result they were fired on the spot.
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SWM have been informed by one of our members in the military camp in Nabua that the two intelligent officers who carried out an assessment in regards to Bainimarama’s support in the Fiji army has been sacked.
The report that they deliver to Bainimarama say’s that he no longer command the respect of the Fiji Army and it is getting thinner every day.
Last week they brief Vore the result of their survey and they told Voreqe the frightening truth that the majority of the military no longer supports him and as a result they were fired on the spot.
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Saturday, July 18, 2009
FRANK BEATEN BY THE LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURNS
CASSANDRA
Dear people at SWM,
Here's a little piece that could just prove timely in the over all scheme of things!
Warmest regards,
Cassandra
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From Cassandra's Desk
it is not often that your humble correspondent chances his hand as he is about to now, but on this occasion he can confidently make the following prediction: Frank Bainimarama's days as dictator of your beloved Fiji are well and truly numbered!
Wishful thinking I hear you say. Another example of Cassandra's hokery-pokery! well, dear readers, please feel free to think what you may.
But first you may wish to ruminate for a brief moment on a well established principle of both science and philosophy known as The Law of Diminishing Returns.
In Frank Bainimarama's case, his returns are diminishing faster then ever and his means of recouping them are becoming weaker and weaker. In short, he is finding himself with now where to go except, perhaps, into history.
Two and a half years ago Frank Bainimarama briefly enjoyed an actual majority in overall public support after seizing power and installing himself as interim Prime Minister. It's what is known in political terms as a strong constituency, but in Frank's case it was destined to be squandered, and oh so quickly!
Sure, it wasn't all rosy for Frank back in 2006. There was outcry, particularly from a vocal domestic minority (mainly lawyers, the media and non-government organizations) and from important democratic neighbours such as New Zealand and Australia.
Yet Frank appeared to have a lot going for him back then, so much so that the wily Mahendra Pal Chaudhry had no qualms signing on as Frank's interim Finance Minister.
But, as we have witnessed, things soon started going downhill, in every possible way, in every possible direction and at an ever-increasing pace.
Inexorably, the law of diminishing returns kicked in and Frank had no way to counter it, except to dig his heels in like an ill-tempered, obstinate mule (or should that be pig?).
Apart from our economy, the first thing to begin diminishing at an alarming rate (at least for Frank) was his credibility.
His initial platform had been cleaning-up corruption but by acting to protect Chaudhry's corruption ad by such greedy, stupid acts as ripping off $180,000 on the patently phony pretext of "unpaid leave" Bainimarama proved that he was as corrupt as they come.
In the beginning, Frank appeared to enjoy almost universal support from the ethnic Indian population of Fiji, but how strong is that constituency today and the economy crumbles and our once great sugar industry heads ignominiously down the gurgler?
Then, there was Frank's personal intervention to featherbed his brother-in-law, the convicted killer Francis Kean, and his mindless promotion of the drooling drummer boy, Neumi Leweni, to the rank of half-colonel, no less!
These two acts have seen the law of diminishing returns hurting Frank's credibility where he needs it most, which is among his own troops.
And now, as he unashamedly oversees the overt manipulation of our judiciary and presides over the worst press censorship this side of Pyongyang, the oafish dictator has decided to take on the Methodist church.
For Frank Bainimarama, the law of diminishing returns is leaving him with less and less support. He is now exposed on all fronts and his back has never been more vulnerable.
Don't forget, dear readers, history shows that the biggest single threat to any tin-pot dictator is other would be tin-pot dictators waiting in the wings.
And just how many of these are luring in the background, ready to pounce like hungry pussy cats?
On his latest count, you humble correspondent can think of at least three.
CASSANDRA
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Dear people at SWM,
Here's a little piece that could just prove timely in the over all scheme of things!
Warmest regards,
Cassandra
***********************************************************************
From Cassandra's Desk
it is not often that your humble correspondent chances his hand as he is about to now, but on this occasion he can confidently make the following prediction: Frank Bainimarama's days as dictator of your beloved Fiji are well and truly numbered!
Wishful thinking I hear you say. Another example of Cassandra's hokery-pokery! well, dear readers, please feel free to think what you may.
But first you may wish to ruminate for a brief moment on a well established principle of both science and philosophy known as The Law of Diminishing Returns.
In Frank Bainimarama's case, his returns are diminishing faster then ever and his means of recouping them are becoming weaker and weaker. In short, he is finding himself with now where to go except, perhaps, into history.
Two and a half years ago Frank Bainimarama briefly enjoyed an actual majority in overall public support after seizing power and installing himself as interim Prime Minister. It's what is known in political terms as a strong constituency, but in Frank's case it was destined to be squandered, and oh so quickly!
Sure, it wasn't all rosy for Frank back in 2006. There was outcry, particularly from a vocal domestic minority (mainly lawyers, the media and non-government organizations) and from important democratic neighbours such as New Zealand and Australia.
Yet Frank appeared to have a lot going for him back then, so much so that the wily Mahendra Pal Chaudhry had no qualms signing on as Frank's interim Finance Minister.
But, as we have witnessed, things soon started going downhill, in every possible way, in every possible direction and at an ever-increasing pace.
Inexorably, the law of diminishing returns kicked in and Frank had no way to counter it, except to dig his heels in like an ill-tempered, obstinate mule (or should that be pig?).
Apart from our economy, the first thing to begin diminishing at an alarming rate (at least for Frank) was his credibility.
His initial platform had been cleaning-up corruption but by acting to protect Chaudhry's corruption ad by such greedy, stupid acts as ripping off $180,000 on the patently phony pretext of "unpaid leave" Bainimarama proved that he was as corrupt as they come.
In the beginning, Frank appeared to enjoy almost universal support from the ethnic Indian population of Fiji, but how strong is that constituency today and the economy crumbles and our once great sugar industry heads ignominiously down the gurgler?
Then, there was Frank's personal intervention to featherbed his brother-in-law, the convicted killer Francis Kean, and his mindless promotion of the drooling drummer boy, Neumi Leweni, to the rank of half-colonel, no less!
These two acts have seen the law of diminishing returns hurting Frank's credibility where he needs it most, which is among his own troops.
And now, as he unashamedly oversees the overt manipulation of our judiciary and presides over the worst press censorship this side of Pyongyang, the oafish dictator has decided to take on the Methodist church.
For Frank Bainimarama, the law of diminishing returns is leaving him with less and less support. He is now exposed on all fronts and his back has never been more vulnerable.
Don't forget, dear readers, history shows that the biggest single threat to any tin-pot dictator is other would be tin-pot dictators waiting in the wings.
And just how many of these are luring in the background, ready to pounce like hungry pussy cats?
On his latest count, you humble correspondent can think of at least three.
CASSANDRA
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Tui savu
Tui savu
Re-evaluating the Fijian Chiefly system
April 30, 2009 by Free Fiji
It is an accepted fact; that no culture in the world remains stagnate, but constantly undergoes changes and at times turbulent transformations. The Fijian chiefly system is no exemption. Roko Tui Bau has previously warned hereditary chiefs in Fiji they can no longer sit back on their laurels and rely on their birth right alone, but need to work hard, prove themselves and earn the respect of their people.
This fact is much more apparent today when ordinary Fijians are returning to Fiji with Bachelor, Masters and Doctorate degrees and have so much more impact, wealth and influence than their own hereditary chiefs, who at times view them with deep suspicion because they feel threatened.
Chiefly disputes are becoming quite common today especially when lease monies are attached to titles; however the basis of adjucation as to who is the rightful owner of the title is from out dated records stored with the Native Lands Commission, which is frozen in perpetuity, whist Fijian culture has undergone so much transformations, making the NLC Records (Tukutuku Raraba) virtually obsolete and irrelevant.
The issue of freeing up more native lands for development is something very dear to native Fijians and shrouded in mystic, but this needs to be re-evaluated and our presumptions tested to see whether they are relevant and addressing the needs of modern Fijians today.
The hereditary chiefly system should be re-evaluated as well to allow qualified ordinary Fijians into traditional positions of authority as well, something akin to the House of Lords in the UK. The chiefly system should be reviewed with conditions imposed by law making hereditary chief unfit to hold office if they cannot fulfil this condition/s causing the title to pass onto the next most suited candidate or their title be stripped from them because of some disqualifying act.
For instance, conditions making a hereditary chief unfit to hold a title would be but not limited to; bankruptcy; previous criminal convictions, mental instability, brings disrepute to the title, country, trouble maker, etc. People who cannot pass these conditions should be deemed not worthy to hold and/or retain hereditary positions in Fiji.
For instance, in my recent articles, I have reverted to calling President Josefa Iloilo, Minister Epeli Nailatikau, Minister Epeli Ganilau and Colonel Ului Mara without using their hereditary ‘Ratu’ titles because in my opinion, they are unworthy and have forfeited their right to any hereditary chiefly position in Fiji.
My opinion is based on their committing treason against the lawful Qarase Government through their greediness, selfishness and hunger for power, which has brought about this great calamity, lawlessness, human rights abuses, poverty, unemployment, etc on the innocent peoples of Fiji.
The chiefly hereditary system in Fiji, if it is to remain relevant, the cornerstone and the beacon of hope for the ordinary Fijian peoples in the future, then it must be transformed and ensure only good, upright, moral and worthy leaders are eligible for these hereditary chiefly titles and if there is none available, then they should elect someone else who commands the most respect.
Too radical you say……….I don’t think so because we cannot continue living in the past and repeating the same mistakes in the future!
Tui Savu.
President.
Solivakasama Worldwide Movement.
President calls for a Coalition of the Willing from the US, UN, EU, UK, Australia and New Zealand.
April 22, 2009 by Free Fiji
The situation in Fiji today is totally untenable and no foreign government, regional or international body including non governmental organisations can legally and morally continue to treat Fiji’s illegal junta with kid’s gloves. Who are we trying to kid?
Both the Australian & NZ Governments are trying to shy away from imposing further sanctions claiming it will only further disadvantage the innocent victims, yet it knows full well of the intimidation, corruption, militarisation of the civil service and rule of the gun happening in Fiji at this very moment.
The UN is guilty of double standards by condemning the illegal abrogation of the 1997 Constitution by the Fijian Military on one hand, yet on the other hand allows itself to be represented by the same illegal soldiers taking part in UN Peacekeeping duties to other parts of the world!
The US too is not absolved from it share of double standards as well because whilst its Secretary of State Ms. Clinton condemns Josefa Iloilo’s illegal abrogation of the 1997 Constitution, it too continues to allow these same illegal soldiers to be part of its US-led MFO (Multi Forces Observers) in Sinai.
I challenge the US, UN, EU, UK, Australia and NZ Governments to act justly, responsibly and condemn Fiji’s illegal junta not only with words, but reinforced with smart sanctions.
For example, it could impose smart sanctions such as refusing Josefa Iloilo to come to Australia for his regular Medical Treatment, withdrawing of Aid, withdrawal of Military troops seconded by the illegal Fiji Military to the UN and US led Forces; criminalise all its citizens who have sworn illegal oaths to the illegal Fijian junta, travel bans on everyone connected with this illegal junta, etc. This is the only language a rouge government knows, which is a well known fact, so why pretend otherwise?
The innocent victims in Fiji are already being disadvantaged whether sanctions are imposed or not, so it makes very little difference to them, however if smart sanctions are not taken against the illegal Fijian junta now, then their miseries and woes will only turn into despair. The innocent victims can accept short term suffering if it sees hope at the end of the tunnel, but will wallow in despair, if they see no hope, as in the current situation.
I urge the US, UN, EU, UK, Australia and NZ on behalf of the Solivakasama Worldwide Movement to be part of its Coalition of the willing and act together to topple the illegal junta in Fiji, restore democracy and the rule of law in Fiji now and not wait until it is too late to intervene.
Tui Savu.
Solivakasama Worldwide Movement.
President.
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Re-evaluating the Fijian Chiefly system
April 30, 2009 by Free Fiji
It is an accepted fact; that no culture in the world remains stagnate, but constantly undergoes changes and at times turbulent transformations. The Fijian chiefly system is no exemption. Roko Tui Bau has previously warned hereditary chiefs in Fiji they can no longer sit back on their laurels and rely on their birth right alone, but need to work hard, prove themselves and earn the respect of their people.
This fact is much more apparent today when ordinary Fijians are returning to Fiji with Bachelor, Masters and Doctorate degrees and have so much more impact, wealth and influence than their own hereditary chiefs, who at times view them with deep suspicion because they feel threatened.
Chiefly disputes are becoming quite common today especially when lease monies are attached to titles; however the basis of adjucation as to who is the rightful owner of the title is from out dated records stored with the Native Lands Commission, which is frozen in perpetuity, whist Fijian culture has undergone so much transformations, making the NLC Records (Tukutuku Raraba) virtually obsolete and irrelevant.
The issue of freeing up more native lands for development is something very dear to native Fijians and shrouded in mystic, but this needs to be re-evaluated and our presumptions tested to see whether they are relevant and addressing the needs of modern Fijians today.
The hereditary chiefly system should be re-evaluated as well to allow qualified ordinary Fijians into traditional positions of authority as well, something akin to the House of Lords in the UK. The chiefly system should be reviewed with conditions imposed by law making hereditary chief unfit to hold office if they cannot fulfil this condition/s causing the title to pass onto the next most suited candidate or their title be stripped from them because of some disqualifying act.
For instance, conditions making a hereditary chief unfit to hold a title would be but not limited to; bankruptcy; previous criminal convictions, mental instability, brings disrepute to the title, country, trouble maker, etc. People who cannot pass these conditions should be deemed not worthy to hold and/or retain hereditary positions in Fiji.
For instance, in my recent articles, I have reverted to calling President Josefa Iloilo, Minister Epeli Nailatikau, Minister Epeli Ganilau and Colonel Ului Mara without using their hereditary ‘Ratu’ titles because in my opinion, they are unworthy and have forfeited their right to any hereditary chiefly position in Fiji.
My opinion is based on their committing treason against the lawful Qarase Government through their greediness, selfishness and hunger for power, which has brought about this great calamity, lawlessness, human rights abuses, poverty, unemployment, etc on the innocent peoples of Fiji.
The chiefly hereditary system in Fiji, if it is to remain relevant, the cornerstone and the beacon of hope for the ordinary Fijian peoples in the future, then it must be transformed and ensure only good, upright, moral and worthy leaders are eligible for these hereditary chiefly titles and if there is none available, then they should elect someone else who commands the most respect.
Too radical you say……….I don’t think so because we cannot continue living in the past and repeating the same mistakes in the future!
Tui Savu.
President.
Solivakasama Worldwide Movement.
President calls for a Coalition of the Willing from the US, UN, EU, UK, Australia and New Zealand.
April 22, 2009 by Free Fiji
The situation in Fiji today is totally untenable and no foreign government, regional or international body including non governmental organisations can legally and morally continue to treat Fiji’s illegal junta with kid’s gloves. Who are we trying to kid?
Both the Australian & NZ Governments are trying to shy away from imposing further sanctions claiming it will only further disadvantage the innocent victims, yet it knows full well of the intimidation, corruption, militarisation of the civil service and rule of the gun happening in Fiji at this very moment.
The UN is guilty of double standards by condemning the illegal abrogation of the 1997 Constitution by the Fijian Military on one hand, yet on the other hand allows itself to be represented by the same illegal soldiers taking part in UN Peacekeeping duties to other parts of the world!
The US too is not absolved from it share of double standards as well because whilst its Secretary of State Ms. Clinton condemns Josefa Iloilo’s illegal abrogation of the 1997 Constitution, it too continues to allow these same illegal soldiers to be part of its US-led MFO (Multi Forces Observers) in Sinai.
I challenge the US, UN, EU, UK, Australia and NZ Governments to act justly, responsibly and condemn Fiji’s illegal junta not only with words, but reinforced with smart sanctions.
For example, it could impose smart sanctions such as refusing Josefa Iloilo to come to Australia for his regular Medical Treatment, withdrawing of Aid, withdrawal of Military troops seconded by the illegal Fiji Military to the UN and US led Forces; criminalise all its citizens who have sworn illegal oaths to the illegal Fijian junta, travel bans on everyone connected with this illegal junta, etc. This is the only language a rouge government knows, which is a well known fact, so why pretend otherwise?
The innocent victims in Fiji are already being disadvantaged whether sanctions are imposed or not, so it makes very little difference to them, however if smart sanctions are not taken against the illegal Fijian junta now, then their miseries and woes will only turn into despair. The innocent victims can accept short term suffering if it sees hope at the end of the tunnel, but will wallow in despair, if they see no hope, as in the current situation.
I urge the US, UN, EU, UK, Australia and NZ on behalf of the Solivakasama Worldwide Movement to be part of its Coalition of the willing and act together to topple the illegal junta in Fiji, restore democracy and the rule of law in Fiji now and not wait until it is too late to intervene.
Tui Savu.
Solivakasama Worldwide Movement.
President.
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Restrictions emerge on Pa
Restrictions emerge on Pa
Organisers of the Pacific Youth Festival being held next month in Fiji will know later this week who has been barred from attending.
A security sub committee made up of defence and police personel has insisted on complete details of all the speakers, facilitators and presenters.
The Chair of the Pacific Youth Council, Jacque Koroi, who chairs the group responsible for the Festival’s programme, says the political climate is affecting the atmosphere surrounding the Youth Festival.
But she says those involved in organising the event have varied responses to this vetting procedure:
“We have those who are understanding of the situation because of the current public emergency regulations in place, and there are those who are not in agreement because the specific purpose of having a regional gathering where everyone is allowed to speak openly and freely about , especially young people, about issues that affect us.”
It has now been confirmed that all speeches at the Festival must first be vetted by Fiji’s Ministry of Information.
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Organisers of the Pacific Youth Festival being held next month in Fiji will know later this week who has been barred from attending.
A security sub committee made up of defence and police personel has insisted on complete details of all the speakers, facilitators and presenters.
The Chair of the Pacific Youth Council, Jacque Koroi, who chairs the group responsible for the Festival’s programme, says the political climate is affecting the atmosphere surrounding the Youth Festival.
But she says those involved in organising the event have varied responses to this vetting procedure:
“We have those who are understanding of the situation because of the current public emergency regulations in place, and there are those who are not in agreement because the specific purpose of having a regional gathering where everyone is allowed to speak openly and freely about , especially young people, about issues that affect us.”
It has now been confirmed that all speeches at the Festival must first be vetted by Fiji’s Ministry of Information.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
METHODIST CHURCH 101
METHODIST CHURCH
How important is the Bose ko Viti or Annual Fiji Methodist Conference to Fijians, is it just the funds pledged or soli misinari ?Much as we like to believe in modern western democracy and one of its pillars-the separation of state politics and the church, in Fiji the separation is much more complex with the lewe ni lotu Waisele.
The nexus between the Methodist Church and Fijian Politics is part and partial of the doctrinal harmonizing of Lotu, Vanua kei na Matanitu that Wesleyan instructions created in 1838.
This is when the Wesleyan’s in Fiji under Reverend John Hunt formed the Bose ko Viti (Fiji Methodist Conference) after being recognized by the British Wesleyan Methodist Conference as large enough to do so.
In becoming a district of the British Wesleyan Methodist Conference, the Bose ko Viti was recognized internationally as a national identity. A first time ever such political recognition was given to the group of indigenous inhabitants of the Feejeean archipelago based on religion.
From its inception the Bose ko Viti did not exist by itself but was fused with close collaboration with the Vanua and the Wesleyan Connexional Government that reinforced Kubuna hegemony over the other Matanitu’s of Burebasaga and Tovata especially after 1854 and Ratu Cakobau’s conversion to Christianity. More so the present three traditional Matanitus with the three Turaga Bale’s is a Wesleyan construct crafted by Rev Waterhouse to foster political unity of Viti by adopting a Fijian mindset. It was created mainly for the Fijians, symbolizing the British Wesleyan Methodism’s recognition of the Fijian’s independence and sovereignty over their islands.
Further, in the instruction to Missionaries published on 20 Feb 1825 as a guide to Wesleyans working overseas article 5 stipulates- Behaviour to Lawful Authority, as follows. ‘You know that the venerable WESLEY was always distinguished by love to his country, by his conscientious loyalty, and his attachment to that illustrious family that had filled the throne of Great Britain. You know that your Bretheren are actuated by the same principles, and walk by the same rule: and we have confidence in you that you will preserve the same character of religious regard to good order and submission “ to the powers that be”- in which we glory. Our motto is “FEAR GOD AND HONOUR THE KING”. These provisions directed the Wesleyans to strengthen the Turaga Bale’s authority and unity. This motto now adorns our national coat of arms. (Late Rev Dr. T Baleiwaga’s thesis ANU 2003).
That the Methodist Church is opposed to the present illegal regime is not surprising Understand Fiji Methodist History then you can Understand Fijian Politics.
J Baledrokadroka
ANU
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How important is the Bose ko Viti or Annual Fiji Methodist Conference to Fijians, is it just the funds pledged or soli misinari ?Much as we like to believe in modern western democracy and one of its pillars-the separation of state politics and the church, in Fiji the separation is much more complex with the lewe ni lotu Waisele.
The nexus between the Methodist Church and Fijian Politics is part and partial of the doctrinal harmonizing of Lotu, Vanua kei na Matanitu that Wesleyan instructions created in 1838.
This is when the Wesleyan’s in Fiji under Reverend John Hunt formed the Bose ko Viti (Fiji Methodist Conference) after being recognized by the British Wesleyan Methodist Conference as large enough to do so.
In becoming a district of the British Wesleyan Methodist Conference, the Bose ko Viti was recognized internationally as a national identity. A first time ever such political recognition was given to the group of indigenous inhabitants of the Feejeean archipelago based on religion.
From its inception the Bose ko Viti did not exist by itself but was fused with close collaboration with the Vanua and the Wesleyan Connexional Government that reinforced Kubuna hegemony over the other Matanitu’s of Burebasaga and Tovata especially after 1854 and Ratu Cakobau’s conversion to Christianity. More so the present three traditional Matanitus with the three Turaga Bale’s is a Wesleyan construct crafted by Rev Waterhouse to foster political unity of Viti by adopting a Fijian mindset. It was created mainly for the Fijians, symbolizing the British Wesleyan Methodism’s recognition of the Fijian’s independence and sovereignty over their islands.
Further, in the instruction to Missionaries published on 20 Feb 1825 as a guide to Wesleyans working overseas article 5 stipulates- Behaviour to Lawful Authority, as follows. ‘You know that the venerable WESLEY was always distinguished by love to his country, by his conscientious loyalty, and his attachment to that illustrious family that had filled the throne of Great Britain. You know that your Bretheren are actuated by the same principles, and walk by the same rule: and we have confidence in you that you will preserve the same character of religious regard to good order and submission “ to the powers that be”- in which we glory. Our motto is “FEAR GOD AND HONOUR THE KING”. These provisions directed the Wesleyans to strengthen the Turaga Bale’s authority and unity. This motto now adorns our national coat of arms. (Late Rev Dr. T Baleiwaga’s thesis ANU 2003).
That the Methodist Church is opposed to the present illegal regime is not surprising Understand Fiji Methodist History then you can Understand Fijian Politics.
J Baledrokadroka
ANU
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DO NOT PAY YOUR FINE
FIJI NEWS 234
News from our sources in the Ministry of Finance at Ro Lalabalavu House is that LTA Boss Etuate Koroi has been given the bum job of filling the empty illegal regime’s coffers by increasing LTA revenues through all types of traffic fines slapped on Fiji’s motorists and their vehicles.
These ‘fines’ are desperately needed to pay for government workers. 800 motorists were fined last weekend with LTA officers stationed all over the country, hiding in bushes, up mango trees, around sharp turns and under road culverts. Every “breech” of the traffic laws under the sun is being used to ensnare unsuspecting motorists and wheel barrow (Bara) boys in Suva market alike.
Even one Sigatoka farmer using his bullocks and gasita crossing the upper Sigatoka Valley road was fined for endangering oncoming traffic. The inside brief from LTA is that all officers on duty have been tasked a quota of 80 fines per day or else get demoted or chucked out on their bum.
So people IF YOU ARE ENSNARED BY THIS LATEST SHAME BY THE ILLEGAL Regime OF THUGS DO NOT PAY YOUR TRAFFIC FINES!! EVEN BETTER DON’T PAY TAXES!! AND LET THEM STEW THE CROOKS!!
Crosseyed
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News from our sources in the Ministry of Finance at Ro Lalabalavu House is that LTA Boss Etuate Koroi has been given the bum job of filling the empty illegal regime’s coffers by increasing LTA revenues through all types of traffic fines slapped on Fiji’s motorists and their vehicles.
These ‘fines’ are desperately needed to pay for government workers. 800 motorists were fined last weekend with LTA officers stationed all over the country, hiding in bushes, up mango trees, around sharp turns and under road culverts. Every “breech” of the traffic laws under the sun is being used to ensnare unsuspecting motorists and wheel barrow (Bara) boys in Suva market alike.
Even one Sigatoka farmer using his bullocks and gasita crossing the upper Sigatoka Valley road was fined for endangering oncoming traffic. The inside brief from LTA is that all officers on duty have been tasked a quota of 80 fines per day or else get demoted or chucked out on their bum.
So people IF YOU ARE ENSNARED BY THIS LATEST SHAME BY THE ILLEGAL Regime OF THUGS DO NOT PAY YOUR TRAFFIC FINES!! EVEN BETTER DON’T PAY TAXES!! AND LET THEM STEW THE CROOKS!!
Crosseyed
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Monday, July 13, 2009
Alice In Blunderland
Alice In Blunderland
By GRAHAM LEUNG
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
THE recent disaster caused by floods has exposed the regime's near total inability to govern in time of crisis.They are finding that the easy part was taking over the government by force.It's a different ball game running the machinery.The latter takes brains and experience.If the floods have shown anything, it is that they are in short supply.
Complaints and criticisms
It has been impossible to ignore the complaints and views of the people in recent days that the administration's response to the humanitarian disaster that is facing parts of Fiji has been too little, too late.Unbelievably some of the regime's lackeys have taken to blaming the flood victims for the predicament they are in.For not moving in time and not stocking up on food rations in anticipation of evacuation.
One could be forgiven for thinking that we are living in "Alice in Blunderland".What world do these people live in? The people most affected by the disaster have enough difficulty putting bread on the table in normal times.They are hardly likely to be able to stock up extra supplies in a cupboard to take with them after the floodwaters have subsided.Faced with a barrage of criticism, government stooges have now taken to suggesting that its critics are politicising the crisis and should exercise self-restraint.
When the regime is able to show the people of Fiji it is deserving of praise, some might come its way.But until that day happens, the people are entitled to be disgruntled and dismayed. This is the regime, to use a cliché, that wants to take Fiji forward to a more perfect democracy with its People's Charter.Accountability and criticism are a hallmark of democracy as is the freedom to criticise.It's a strange brand of democracy which is uncomfortable with criticism.Instead of rebuking its critics, the regime should spare no effort in deploying every available civil servant in the massive effort needed in rehabilitation work.
Response Time
The delay and response time to the victims of disaster, put simply, have been abysmal and incompetent.While hungry mouths have waited for food and blankets, the response of those in charge has been that they are doing assessments.Why could the distribution of rations and need surveys not have been done together?A Fiji Times report (FT 15/1) quoted Major Neumi Leweni as saying there were 30 soldiers deployed in the Western Division on relief work.If this is correct, one wonders where the rest of the military are and why they have not been dispatched to reinforce numbers on the ground.There has been little sense of urgency and that the West, Nadi in particular, is a disaster.They need help now, not tomorrow.
DISMAC, the arm of government set up to deal with disaster relief, seems almost clueless in its response.Surely with all the natural disasters and institutional experience gained over the years (Bebe, Lote, Meli, Eric, Nigel etc), DISMAC should have been in a state of readiness from the start of the cyclone season in November.By contrast, the Red Cross moved swiftly into action even before the floodwaters had receded.But for their timely intervention, the effects of the disaster would have been far worse and the humanitarian impact of the crisis much greater.
There is a lesson too to be learnt from this.Institutions do far better when they stick to what they are supposed to be doing.When they exceed their mandate, they are likely to botch things up through sheer lack of experience and ability.The regime's response to the people's suffering has been callous and indifferent.In short, very poor.Such inefficiency would not be tolerated in the private sector.Through all the tears and tales of woe and destruction, the President has been conspicuously silent and invisible.
I remember past disasters and the congenial frame of the late Tui Cakau, Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, touring affected areas soon after cyclones when he was head of State.
It's a pity his good example has not been followed.
The people of Fiji deserve better.
Soul searching
I read that a senior government official said they would ask for help internationally from Fiji's friends.Given the way we have been shouting at our neighbours recently, I'd be surprised that we have any friends left.People who throw their weight around don't win friends that easily.Governments are not that different.The days of the Orion at Nausori and the Hercules at Nadi (within days of a disaster bringing much needed relief to stricken areas) are gone.Why should our neighbours care when we publicly scold them and send their envoys home?
The chickens have definitely come home to roost. To their credit, the governments of New Zealand and Australia, regularly on the receiving end of abuse, have shown remarkable grace and generosity towards Fiji in terms of the aid they have promised since the floods.The attitude of our neighbours should be a salutary lesson that it pays not to burn bridges because one day you might have to cross them.It is time that the regime and its advisers took time out for a bit of reflection and soul searching.
The current crisis presents a good opportunity for the so-called interim Prime Minister to front up to the Forum leaders' meeting in Port Moresby next week and to announce that he will take Fiji to elections in December 2009.Eleven months is ample time to undertake the necessary preparations for elections under the current Constitution.This would be a courageous step that would signal Fiji's return to the international community.
Even the USA is learning that the world today is about building alliances and partnerships, not destroying them.The last two years have shown that we are adept at the latter.It's nice to beat the drums and puff your chest out, but where will it get you?Some good old fashioned courtesy and humility will go a long way. Isolationism is not an option.Constructive engagement is.Fiji has been an independent country now for 38 years.There is no returning to the womb.
Fiji's recent foreign policy shifts since the latest coup place us in the same league as Syria, North Korea and Iran.The rhetoric of self-reliance and blaming your neighbours for all the country's ills may sound good, but it is hollow and comes at a huge price for a poor, aid-dependent country.Maybe it's time to swallow our pride a bit and eat humble pie.Maybe it's time to ditch the streak of stubbornness and arrogance which has been the modus operandi of the administration since its seizure of power.
When will we learn
The damage to infrastructure, agriculture and small business will easily run into the millions.It would be foolish and unrealistic to think that as a country, we are capable on our own of fixing the mess left by the floods.Put simply, we will need outside help.The international community is more likely to be receptive to requests for assistance if they are assured that credible steps and specific timetables towards returning Fiji to a parliamentary democracy are in place. Foreign governments are not comfortable handing out their hard earned taxpayers' dollars to regimes that are accountable to no one except themselves.
The effects of the financial meltdown on Wall Street are being felt across the four corners of the globe.The days of unconditional development assistance are over, if they ever existed.The mops, buckets and brooms are out in Nadi. In six months maybe, there will be a semblance of normality. Our wannabe leaders and civil servants will return to their slumber and it will be business as usual. Attention to blocked drains, a sustainable and effective disaster management plan, assessments on the adverse impacts of logging on coastal towns etc will all be but forgotten.
When will Fiji ever learn?
We seem to be a country that continues to repeat the errors of the past.If there was ever an opportunity for the regime to prove that it is capable of running this country, it was last week in the wake of the disaster.If it can't get the job done, it should make way for those who can.Armies the world over have little training in how to run a country.Their raison d'etre is to defend a country against its external enemies and threats.
The regime should not take advantage of the patience of a docile and politically inert populace.
People can only take so much.
* Graham Leung is a former president of the Fiji Law Society. The views expressed here are his own and not those SWM. Email: gleung@howardslaw.com.fj.
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By GRAHAM LEUNG
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
THE recent disaster caused by floods has exposed the regime's near total inability to govern in time of crisis.They are finding that the easy part was taking over the government by force.It's a different ball game running the machinery.The latter takes brains and experience.If the floods have shown anything, it is that they are in short supply.
Complaints and criticisms
It has been impossible to ignore the complaints and views of the people in recent days that the administration's response to the humanitarian disaster that is facing parts of Fiji has been too little, too late.Unbelievably some of the regime's lackeys have taken to blaming the flood victims for the predicament they are in.For not moving in time and not stocking up on food rations in anticipation of evacuation.
One could be forgiven for thinking that we are living in "Alice in Blunderland".What world do these people live in? The people most affected by the disaster have enough difficulty putting bread on the table in normal times.They are hardly likely to be able to stock up extra supplies in a cupboard to take with them after the floodwaters have subsided.Faced with a barrage of criticism, government stooges have now taken to suggesting that its critics are politicising the crisis and should exercise self-restraint.
When the regime is able to show the people of Fiji it is deserving of praise, some might come its way.But until that day happens, the people are entitled to be disgruntled and dismayed. This is the regime, to use a cliché, that wants to take Fiji forward to a more perfect democracy with its People's Charter.Accountability and criticism are a hallmark of democracy as is the freedom to criticise.It's a strange brand of democracy which is uncomfortable with criticism.Instead of rebuking its critics, the regime should spare no effort in deploying every available civil servant in the massive effort needed in rehabilitation work.
Response Time
The delay and response time to the victims of disaster, put simply, have been abysmal and incompetent.While hungry mouths have waited for food and blankets, the response of those in charge has been that they are doing assessments.Why could the distribution of rations and need surveys not have been done together?A Fiji Times report (FT 15/1) quoted Major Neumi Leweni as saying there were 30 soldiers deployed in the Western Division on relief work.If this is correct, one wonders where the rest of the military are and why they have not been dispatched to reinforce numbers on the ground.There has been little sense of urgency and that the West, Nadi in particular, is a disaster.They need help now, not tomorrow.
DISMAC, the arm of government set up to deal with disaster relief, seems almost clueless in its response.Surely with all the natural disasters and institutional experience gained over the years (Bebe, Lote, Meli, Eric, Nigel etc), DISMAC should have been in a state of readiness from the start of the cyclone season in November.By contrast, the Red Cross moved swiftly into action even before the floodwaters had receded.But for their timely intervention, the effects of the disaster would have been far worse and the humanitarian impact of the crisis much greater.
There is a lesson too to be learnt from this.Institutions do far better when they stick to what they are supposed to be doing.When they exceed their mandate, they are likely to botch things up through sheer lack of experience and ability.The regime's response to the people's suffering has been callous and indifferent.In short, very poor.Such inefficiency would not be tolerated in the private sector.Through all the tears and tales of woe and destruction, the President has been conspicuously silent and invisible.
I remember past disasters and the congenial frame of the late Tui Cakau, Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, touring affected areas soon after cyclones when he was head of State.
It's a pity his good example has not been followed.
The people of Fiji deserve better.
Soul searching
I read that a senior government official said they would ask for help internationally from Fiji's friends.Given the way we have been shouting at our neighbours recently, I'd be surprised that we have any friends left.People who throw their weight around don't win friends that easily.Governments are not that different.The days of the Orion at Nausori and the Hercules at Nadi (within days of a disaster bringing much needed relief to stricken areas) are gone.Why should our neighbours care when we publicly scold them and send their envoys home?
The chickens have definitely come home to roost. To their credit, the governments of New Zealand and Australia, regularly on the receiving end of abuse, have shown remarkable grace and generosity towards Fiji in terms of the aid they have promised since the floods.The attitude of our neighbours should be a salutary lesson that it pays not to burn bridges because one day you might have to cross them.It is time that the regime and its advisers took time out for a bit of reflection and soul searching.
The current crisis presents a good opportunity for the so-called interim Prime Minister to front up to the Forum leaders' meeting in Port Moresby next week and to announce that he will take Fiji to elections in December 2009.Eleven months is ample time to undertake the necessary preparations for elections under the current Constitution.This would be a courageous step that would signal Fiji's return to the international community.
Even the USA is learning that the world today is about building alliances and partnerships, not destroying them.The last two years have shown that we are adept at the latter.It's nice to beat the drums and puff your chest out, but where will it get you?Some good old fashioned courtesy and humility will go a long way. Isolationism is not an option.Constructive engagement is.Fiji has been an independent country now for 38 years.There is no returning to the womb.
Fiji's recent foreign policy shifts since the latest coup place us in the same league as Syria, North Korea and Iran.The rhetoric of self-reliance and blaming your neighbours for all the country's ills may sound good, but it is hollow and comes at a huge price for a poor, aid-dependent country.Maybe it's time to swallow our pride a bit and eat humble pie.Maybe it's time to ditch the streak of stubbornness and arrogance which has been the modus operandi of the administration since its seizure of power.
When will we learn
The damage to infrastructure, agriculture and small business will easily run into the millions.It would be foolish and unrealistic to think that as a country, we are capable on our own of fixing the mess left by the floods.Put simply, we will need outside help.The international community is more likely to be receptive to requests for assistance if they are assured that credible steps and specific timetables towards returning Fiji to a parliamentary democracy are in place. Foreign governments are not comfortable handing out their hard earned taxpayers' dollars to regimes that are accountable to no one except themselves.
The effects of the financial meltdown on Wall Street are being felt across the four corners of the globe.The days of unconditional development assistance are over, if they ever existed.The mops, buckets and brooms are out in Nadi. In six months maybe, there will be a semblance of normality. Our wannabe leaders and civil servants will return to their slumber and it will be business as usual. Attention to blocked drains, a sustainable and effective disaster management plan, assessments on the adverse impacts of logging on coastal towns etc will all be but forgotten.
When will Fiji ever learn?
We seem to be a country that continues to repeat the errors of the past.If there was ever an opportunity for the regime to prove that it is capable of running this country, it was last week in the wake of the disaster.If it can't get the job done, it should make way for those who can.Armies the world over have little training in how to run a country.Their raison d'etre is to defend a country against its external enemies and threats.
The regime should not take advantage of the patience of a docile and politically inert populace.
People can only take so much.
* Graham Leung is a former president of the Fiji Law Society. The views expressed here are his own and not those SWM. Email: gleung@howardslaw.com.fj.
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Democracy a chimera of the pacific
Warden Narsey
Fij, still suffering from semi-feudal political gambles, faces political and constitutional instability, reports the Economist. This has become clear after Voreque Bainimarama, who became the country's prime minister without being elected, says that he may give a new constitution within about four years from now.
He thinks elections may also take place after the new constitution is drafted. But he did not specify anything on the process and procedures of drafting and approving the new constitution if it is really drafted.
This shows that democracy is still a distant truth for the people of Fiji.
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Fij, still suffering from semi-feudal political gambles, faces political and constitutional instability, reports the Economist. This has become clear after Voreque Bainimarama, who became the country's prime minister without being elected, says that he may give a new constitution within about four years from now.
He thinks elections may also take place after the new constitution is drafted. But he did not specify anything on the process and procedures of drafting and approving the new constitution if it is really drafted.
This shows that democracy is still a distant truth for the people of Fiji.
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Sunday, July 12, 2009
DO NOT PAY YOUR TAX AND FINES IN FIJI
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News from our sources in the Ministry of Finance at Ro Lalabalavu House is that LTA Boss Etuate Koroi has been given the bum job of filling the empty illegal regime’s coffers by increasing LTA revenues through all types of traffic fines slapped on Fiji’s motorists and their vehicles.
These ‘fines’ are desperately needed to pay for government workers. 800 motorists were fined last weekend with LTA officers stationed all over the country, hiding in bushes, up mango trees, around sharp turns and under road culverts. Every “breech” of the traffic laws under the sun is being used to ensnare unsuspecting motorists and wheel barrow (Bara) boys in Suva market alike.
Even one Sigatoka farmer using his bullocks and gasita crossing the upper Sigatoka Valley road was fined for endangering oncoming traffic. The inside brief from LTA is that all officers on duty have been tasked a quota of 80 fines per day or else get demoted or chucked out on their bum.
So people IF YOU ARE ENSNARED BY THIS LATEST SHAME BY THE ILLEGAL Regime OF THUGS DO NOT PAY YOUR TRAFFIC FINES!! EVEN BETTER DON’T PAY TAXES!! AND LET THEM STEW THE CROOKS!!
News from our sources in the Ministry of Finance at Ro Lalabalavu House is that LTA Boss Etuate Koroi has been given the bum job of filling the empty illegal regime’s coffers by increasing LTA revenues through all types of traffic fines slapped on Fiji’s motorists and their vehicles.
These ‘fines’ are desperately needed to pay for government workers. 800 motorists were fined last weekend with LTA officers stationed all over the country, hiding in bushes, up mango trees, around sharp turns and under road culverts. Every “breech” of the traffic laws under the sun is being used to ensnare unsuspecting motorists and wheel barrow (Bara) boys in Suva market alike.
Even one Sigatoka farmer using his bullocks and gasita crossing the upper Sigatoka Valley road was fined for endangering oncoming traffic. The inside brief from LTA is that all officers on duty have been tasked a quota of 80 fines per day or else get demoted or chucked out on their bum.
So people IF YOU ARE ENSNARED BY THIS LATEST SHAME BY THE ILLEGAL Regime OF THUGS DO NOT PAY YOUR TRAFFIC FINES!! EVEN BETTER DON’T PAY TAXES!! AND LET THEM STEW THE CROOKS!!
LTA FINES A BAILOUT SHAM FOR BROKE REGIME
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LTA FINES A BAILOUT SHAM FOR BROKE REGIME
News from our sources in the Ministry of Finance at Ro Lalabalavu House is that LTA Boss Etuate Koroi has been given the bum job of filling the empty illegal regime’s coffers by increasing LTA revenues through all types of traffic fines slapped on Fiji’s motorists and their vehicles.
These ‘fines’ are desperately needed to pay for government workers. 800 motorists were fined last weekend with LTA officers stationed all over the country, hiding in bushes, up mango trees, around sharp turns and under road culverts. Every “breech” of the traffic laws under the sun is being used to ensnare unsuspecting motorists and wheel barrow (Bara) boys in Suva market alike.
Even one Sigatoka farmer using his bullocks and gasita crossing the upper Sigatoka Valley road was fined for endangering oncoming traffic. The inside brief from LTA is that all officers on duty have been tasked a quota of 80 fines per day or else get demoted or chucked out on their bum.
So people IF YOU ARE ENSNARED BY THIS LATEST SHAME BY THE ILLEGAL Regime OF THUGS DO NOT PAY YOUR TRAFFIC FINES!! EVEN BETTER DON’T PAY TAXES!! AND LET THEM STEW THE CROOKS!!
Crosseyed
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LTA FINES A BAILOUT SHAM FOR BROKE REGIME
News from our sources in the Ministry of Finance at Ro Lalabalavu House is that LTA Boss Etuate Koroi has been given the bum job of filling the empty illegal regime’s coffers by increasing LTA revenues through all types of traffic fines slapped on Fiji’s motorists and their vehicles.
These ‘fines’ are desperately needed to pay for government workers. 800 motorists were fined last weekend with LTA officers stationed all over the country, hiding in bushes, up mango trees, around sharp turns and under road culverts. Every “breech” of the traffic laws under the sun is being used to ensnare unsuspecting motorists and wheel barrow (Bara) boys in Suva market alike.
Even one Sigatoka farmer using his bullocks and gasita crossing the upper Sigatoka Valley road was fined for endangering oncoming traffic. The inside brief from LTA is that all officers on duty have been tasked a quota of 80 fines per day or else get demoted or chucked out on their bum.
So people IF YOU ARE ENSNARED BY THIS LATEST SHAME BY THE ILLEGAL Regime OF THUGS DO NOT PAY YOUR TRAFFIC FINES!! EVEN BETTER DON’T PAY TAXES!! AND LET THEM STEW THE CROOKS!!
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
impasse
Impasse with Australia and NZ can be solved: says Voreqe and SWM says, ‘yes we can’ with Vore in jail……
January 2, 2009 by solivakasama
Happy New Year . We at SV are really excited because of the ’smart strategies’we are going to incorporate in 2009.
For instance, asking the Australian and NZ Governments, why it isn’t a crime in their respective countries when its citizens can prop up illegal regimes like Vore’s because in essence their opportunist citizens are responsible for spreading and promoting ‘terrorism’worldwide by taking up lucrative employments in Fiji. Their reprehensible conduct in the long run, will threaten their very own ‘national security.’
On another note, whilst we understand there has been some misunderstanding in the past few days, we at SWM wish to make it clear that the ’cause’ is much bigger than us all, so let’s take a deep breath and refocus on the ‘enemy’. Remember we are getting close to the 2m hit mark, which no one dreamed of, but it is about to become a reality because of your support and we ask that you continue to support SWM this year.
Well it seems this bastard Vore is now forced to acknowledge just how ‘insignificant’ he is and imagine just how stupid and foolish he sounds when trying to convince Pacific Forum Leaders to respect Fiji’s sovereignty, when you consider this is the same bastard who executed a coup against PM Qarase in December 2006 and is the cause of all of Fiji’s woes!
SV asks the Forum Leaders to show this bastard Vore up in PNG and maintain your sanctions because it is working and furthermore be prepared to implement new laws to criminalise conduct of your citizens being employed by illegal governments!
.
UN Peace Keeping Mission under threat
Regime spokesman Major Leweni is being totally dishonest when he attempts to justify the allocation of an additional $15 million to the RFMF in the 2009 Budget by claiming it’s needed to train troops for UN peacekeeping duties.
This is because Fiji is very much on the nose at the United Nations, which has announced it has no plans to tap Fiji’s military for any new peacekeeping missions until our country returns to democracy.
As a spokesman for the UN was recorded as saying earlier this year: “There has been no increase in Fijian troops or police numbers since December 2006, nor has Fiji contributed to any new missions since then.”
The UN’S decision to bar Fiji from peacekeeping missions following the 5 December 2006 coup was first enunciated by the former Un Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, shortly after our dictator assumed power.
While Annan’s successor, Ban Ki-moon, has not spoken publicly about Fiji’s black listing, it’s highly unlikely that he would ever choose to reverse it.
This is because he is well aware that major players such as the European Community, the United States and Australia would vigorously oppose such a move; and they carry a great deal more weight with the UN Secretary General than a tinpot little dictator like Bainimarama.
So, talk by Leweni and others of future UN peacekeeping missions will be nothing more than misleading speculation for as long as Fiji remains under the control of the dictator and his goons.
And if the dictator thinks he’s sending anyone a message by spending Christmas with Fiji’s troops on UN missions, he most certainly is. However, it’s a negative message as far as the democratic-minded UN is concerned.
For the record, Fiji’s current contribution to UN missions remains relatively small and has not been allowed to increase when regular rotations of personnel occur.
Altogether/ Fiji’s UN peacekeeping and monitoring deployments total only 223 soldiers with UNAMI and 37 police officers and eight military observers with UNMIL, UNMIS and UNMIT.
If Leweni was honest and had any brains he would have been better advised to explain that the extra allocation is in reality a desperate measure to make up for the shortfall in revenue flowing to the RFMF from the United Nations.
And if Bainimarama doesn’t hand power back to the people in the very near future, the United Nations money will be in real danger of drying up altogether.
And that would mean an end to any prospects of overseas missions for members of the RFMF, yet another example of the dictator and his regime moving Fiji backwards.
FIJI DEMOCRACY NOW
Solivakasama is adding names of the coup supporters in their list send names you know to Info@solivakasama.org , the pressure is working.
SWM family, don’t forget to register on www.solivakasama.org because our smart strategies beginning next year will be lobbying Governments about their citizens involved in treason in Fiji and people like John Samy lobbying his former employer like the ADB to ensure, they do not touch him again for the rest of his natural life
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January 2, 2009 by solivakasama
Happy New Year . We at SV are really excited because of the ’smart strategies’we are going to incorporate in 2009.
For instance, asking the Australian and NZ Governments, why it isn’t a crime in their respective countries when its citizens can prop up illegal regimes like Vore’s because in essence their opportunist citizens are responsible for spreading and promoting ‘terrorism’worldwide by taking up lucrative employments in Fiji. Their reprehensible conduct in the long run, will threaten their very own ‘national security.’
On another note, whilst we understand there has been some misunderstanding in the past few days, we at SWM wish to make it clear that the ’cause’ is much bigger than us all, so let’s take a deep breath and refocus on the ‘enemy’. Remember we are getting close to the 2m hit mark, which no one dreamed of, but it is about to become a reality because of your support and we ask that you continue to support SWM this year.
Well it seems this bastard Vore is now forced to acknowledge just how ‘insignificant’ he is and imagine just how stupid and foolish he sounds when trying to convince Pacific Forum Leaders to respect Fiji’s sovereignty, when you consider this is the same bastard who executed a coup against PM Qarase in December 2006 and is the cause of all of Fiji’s woes!
SV asks the Forum Leaders to show this bastard Vore up in PNG and maintain your sanctions because it is working and furthermore be prepared to implement new laws to criminalise conduct of your citizens being employed by illegal governments!
.
UN Peace Keeping Mission under threat
Regime spokesman Major Leweni is being totally dishonest when he attempts to justify the allocation of an additional $15 million to the RFMF in the 2009 Budget by claiming it’s needed to train troops for UN peacekeeping duties.
This is because Fiji is very much on the nose at the United Nations, which has announced it has no plans to tap Fiji’s military for any new peacekeeping missions until our country returns to democracy.
As a spokesman for the UN was recorded as saying earlier this year: “There has been no increase in Fijian troops or police numbers since December 2006, nor has Fiji contributed to any new missions since then.”
The UN’S decision to bar Fiji from peacekeeping missions following the 5 December 2006 coup was first enunciated by the former Un Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, shortly after our dictator assumed power.
While Annan’s successor, Ban Ki-moon, has not spoken publicly about Fiji’s black listing, it’s highly unlikely that he would ever choose to reverse it.
This is because he is well aware that major players such as the European Community, the United States and Australia would vigorously oppose such a move; and they carry a great deal more weight with the UN Secretary General than a tinpot little dictator like Bainimarama.
So, talk by Leweni and others of future UN peacekeeping missions will be nothing more than misleading speculation for as long as Fiji remains under the control of the dictator and his goons.
And if the dictator thinks he’s sending anyone a message by spending Christmas with Fiji’s troops on UN missions, he most certainly is. However, it’s a negative message as far as the democratic-minded UN is concerned.
For the record, Fiji’s current contribution to UN missions remains relatively small and has not been allowed to increase when regular rotations of personnel occur.
Altogether/ Fiji’s UN peacekeeping and monitoring deployments total only 223 soldiers with UNAMI and 37 police officers and eight military observers with UNMIL, UNMIS and UNMIT.
If Leweni was honest and had any brains he would have been better advised to explain that the extra allocation is in reality a desperate measure to make up for the shortfall in revenue flowing to the RFMF from the United Nations.
And if Bainimarama doesn’t hand power back to the people in the very near future, the United Nations money will be in real danger of drying up altogether.
And that would mean an end to any prospects of overseas missions for members of the RFMF, yet another example of the dictator and his regime moving Fiji backwards.
FIJI DEMOCRACY NOW
Solivakasama is adding names of the coup supporters in their list send names you know to Info@solivakasama.org , the pressure is working.
SWM family, don’t forget to register on www.solivakasama.org because our smart strategies beginning next year will be lobbying Governments about their citizens involved in treason in Fiji and people like John Samy lobbying his former employer like the ADB to ensure, they do not touch him again for the rest of his natural life
Latest Fiji Newsclick here
TORTURE IN FIJI
TORTURE IN FIJI
UN Works with Fiji Security Forces to Ban Torture
SUVA, Fiji - The United Nation High Commissioner for Human Rights is helping Fiji’s security forces ensure that detainees will not be tortured or ill-treated.
International law dictates that torture or ill-treatment of those arrested or detained is illegal. Matilda Bogner, a regional representative, said that Fiji already has a strong commitment to banning torture and ill treatment.
At the same time, Bogner says she has worked closely with Fiji Police and the Prison Authority to educate them not to take the law into their own hands, but to defer to the proper legal authority.
Bogner was also careful to point out that Fiji is not unique, and it is crucial that the UN work with other countries around the world to educate and eradicate torturous treatment of those who are arrested or detained. The UN hopes to work harmoniously together with local security forces to address these human rights issues.
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UN Works with Fiji Security Forces to Ban Torture
SUVA, Fiji - The United Nation High Commissioner for Human Rights is helping Fiji’s security forces ensure that detainees will not be tortured or ill-treated.
International law dictates that torture or ill-treatment of those arrested or detained is illegal. Matilda Bogner, a regional representative, said that Fiji already has a strong commitment to banning torture and ill treatment.
At the same time, Bogner says she has worked closely with Fiji Police and the Prison Authority to educate them not to take the law into their own hands, but to defer to the proper legal authority.
Bogner was also careful to point out that Fiji is not unique, and it is crucial that the UN work with other countries around the world to educate and eradicate torturous treatment of those who are arrested or detained. The UN hopes to work harmoniously together with local security forces to address these human rights issues.
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Smith not confident about Fiji democracy
There is little confidence Fiji will return to democracy in the short term, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith says.
The island nation, led by self-appointed Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, needs to be engaged in some way to set a realistic timetable to return to democracy, Mr Smith said in Perth on Wednesday.
Fiji was axed from the Pacific Island leaders forum after tearing up the country's constitution.
Commodore Bainimarama seized power in a December 2006 coup and has faced a barrage of international criticism after a speech last week which set an election date more than five years away.
He says he needs until September 2014 to introduce a fairer, non-race-based voting system and write it into a new constitution that replaces the one his regime tore up in April.
Mr Smith said reports the military leader was lobbying other Melanesian countries to oppose Fiji's exclusion from the Pacific Island Forum were not a concern.
"I'm confident that all members of the Pacific Island Forum will conduct themselves in accordance with the two most recent unanimous resolutions of the Pacific Island leaders forum ..." Mr Smith told reporters in Perth on Wednesday.
A method to successfully engage Fiji in a plan to return to democracy was necessary, the foreign minister said.
"The recent abrogation of the constitution and Commodore Bainimarama's recent speech give us no confidence that there is any short-term prospect for advancement or for improvement," Mr Smith said.
"But at some point in the process we need to successfully engage Fiji in a dialogue about its return to democracy on a timetable which is much more realistic than the timetable, the unreasonable timetable, which Commodore Bainimarama published through his speech in the last week or so."
The island nation, led by self-appointed Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, needs to be engaged in some way to set a realistic timetable to return to democracy, Mr Smith said in Perth on Wednesday.
Fiji was axed from the Pacific Island leaders forum after tearing up the country's constitution.
Commodore Bainimarama seized power in a December 2006 coup and has faced a barrage of international criticism after a speech last week which set an election date more than five years away.
He says he needs until September 2014 to introduce a fairer, non-race-based voting system and write it into a new constitution that replaces the one his regime tore up in April.
Mr Smith said reports the military leader was lobbying other Melanesian countries to oppose Fiji's exclusion from the Pacific Island Forum were not a concern.
"I'm confident that all members of the Pacific Island Forum will conduct themselves in accordance with the two most recent unanimous resolutions of the Pacific Island leaders forum ..." Mr Smith told reporters in Perth on Wednesday.
A method to successfully engage Fiji in a plan to return to democracy was necessary, the foreign minister said.
"The recent abrogation of the constitution and Commodore Bainimarama's recent speech give us no confidence that there is any short-term prospect for advancement or for improvement," Mr Smith said.
"But at some point in the process we need to successfully engage Fiji in a dialogue about its return to democracy on a timetable which is much more realistic than the timetable, the unreasonable timetable, which Commodore Bainimarama published through his speech in the last week or so."
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