Forces Of Nurture

things are returning to normal… hmmm that sounded funny, because i have forgotten what normal meant here in maldives. i remembered a time when i cared less about anything simply because i was happy to be alive..happy to be living in maldives. not a worry. we stayed in this idyllic state while everything around us zoomed passed in to modernism. we suddenly scrambled to catch up but how could we. medicine, education, basic needs has set dormant or may i say just functioning for too long. government and private sector stood watching the passing world as if it was the july 26th parade. anyways,, no use dwelling on what happened or what should have happened. we are here now (where ever we are)…
the new members are ready to be sworn in.. presidents appointed members are to be appointed soon. its interesting to see the pro government website “the maldives” concerned with the selection of presidents appointed members. let me map out how the politics seems to be running at the moment in maldives. this is just my thought…
there are four main parties, gayoom, illiyaas, yameen, mdp. at the end of the current government these are the four groups that will fight for power in different guises of course. my guess is that “the maldives” is a website powered by yameen, dhivehi observer as we know powered by mdp, and the rest of state media by gayoom. i don’t see illiyaas doing this because he is after the islanders (where majority don’t have telephones let alone internet)… now as you know the presidential candidate for maldives will be first passed by the parliament. and each of this group wants to have more members aligned to them. which is the reason why the eight members appointed by the president are so important to yameens and illiyaas party. this will have very little effect on mdp although there are reformists who have aligned with neither of these parties which might work in favor of mdp.
unlike any other website i have seen, “the maldives” write a lot of articles about the ministers who ran for the parliament and lost... i dont think the people who won reflects a whole nations support for them nor the people lost reflect a whole nations dissatisfaction with them…... i have come to conclude that ….those who lost are not yameens candidate which is so obvious from the articles on the website. hmmmmm my thoughts… it doesn’t matter who lost or won we should put educated, vocal people who understand the constitution. i think there must be great people who lost for what ever reason and very unproductive people who won for whatever reason. instead of selecting eight candidates randomly i think he should not elect anyone aligned with illiyaas, yameen, or mdp. i think these eight people should be highly educated people within our society who has not sold their souls to some business tycoon…..
***yawn***too sleepy to think.. will write some more laters….

(T)Reason

the elections are over. people are still restless as ever. sometimes i wonder what these candidates would do for the ordinary people like us. it is a clear fact that most of the candidates’ were/are already aligned with powerful and rich individuals of this country.. i found it funny that iliyas was at the party of aslam who was portrayed as an mdp candidate during elections. wonder who are the people behind rest of the candidates.. would it not be funny to suddenly see mumoons government collapse and up comes iliyas, yameen or mdp all of which are controlled by our business community. rich powerful individuals. maldivians should wake up and look at these more closely. it is premature to think that fall of maumoon is the road to emancipation.. burumaa the richest man in maldives is running along side mdp yet he and iliyaas been playing the game together are we so naive to think that once mdp comes to power, with the money of these rich people, they will prosecute their friends- the corrupt thief’s? i highly doubt it. in every country the so called freedom fighters are given automatic immunity and their past corruptions erased. i for one would like to bring cabinet ministers who have abused public funds, rich business people, "royal' families to stand trial for what they did. i do not say every minister who is working for maumoon is corrupt nor every businessperson is maldives is corrupt. there are ministers who never touched public funds and rich business individuals who play it fair..
yesterday i was wondering what the difference is between treason and opposition...
there is a process to change a government and that is every 5 years we have what is known as the voting. if we want to bring down a government, talk about what we can do better.. and how we can do better. get the people to understand how we are going to achieve what we want to achieve so that people will vote a no to the present government. that’s the way to change it....there is nothing wrong with aspiring to be a president.. its every individuals right... but that right should not infringe somebody else’s rights.. So if we don’t like which ever group then go and educate the people on what we can do and how we can do it show them the plan... it is not me, mdp, illiyas or yameen to bring down the government with all these articles and useless talk.. simply tell us what you can do better, show me the plan and be willing to stand trail and prove your innocence- illiyas, yameen, maumoon and mdp