Wednesday, April 20, 2005

second coming

things are pretty calm around here except ocassionaly there is the talk of anni coming back to maldives. i guess the government is in a delemma about this because they cant imprison him becuase of international organizations and communities jumping on or they cant really leave him alone which will signal that he has not done anything wrong.. the way i see it is that the government will take tha latter and prosecute anni or atleast send the case to court. ofcourse mdp and some of the organizations will have a field day. well anni as an opposition have been invovled in a lot of activites and activites that are illegal which broke the law. their is no doubt about this. but one has to understand that under the maldivian law one has to break the law to say what one wants to say.. having said that i am not saying that anni's affilication with violence or being a catalyst for violence is the right thing.. but people should understand that at present the law of maldives need to be changed and revoked.. unfortunately anni is in a bad situation beucase he did break the law. sometimes i think the people who play with governments like this should be cleaver and not give a chance to the government to apprehend you.. those are good politicians.. those people who dont leave a trail behind. most of the mdp thought that they were beyond the hands of maldives governement and that international community willl protect them. most international countries will care less as long as they get nothing in return or as long as their countries big coporate giants are operating in the country....simple capitalism. so for anni and mdp, the trails you guys left behind will haunt you in maldives and in internationl courts and countires. these will remain as evidence against you guys because in the eyes of the court hardly anyone will look at the situation or the reason for doing it judgement will be passed on the action comited.
this is the thing i say to do website too. it clearly incites violence when it asks people to attend rallies. in no country can one hold a rally without the governments permission including the routes that the rally will take place has to be submitted to the city council. Having said that i dont see the current government granting permission to hold any rally that speaks against it which clearly infringes on our right of expression. i think there is no pressure valve that let us release these frustrations within us and people will obviously resort to these kind of tactics. i think it is hightime that the government started to create arenas for people to articulate their frustrations and one place they could start is through art and i dont mean drawing and paintings alone but art in its broadest sense. we knew what happened when we had the reform talks. it went out of hand the reformist (like everything thats done in maldives) went too far ahead of time and started to call for the government to resign. the very body that gave permission to hold these meetings in the first place. one should work slowly and intelligently to gain what one wants to gain rather than to start running before one could walk. in my opinion those reform talk arena was a really good place but this time i will blam the reformist for jumping too far ahead. forgetting who we are, where wer come from and where we are heading. i think the government should also start to open new arenas even limited for people to express their dissetisfections and should get real and come to terms with the sentiments of the people. governement has given permission to release adduvas an "opposition" magzaine. which is in a way a good move but i still dont see how the average persons can dissipates his or her frustration. these magazines and websites are not indipended arenas they are aligned to either side and always has a personal agenda. none of them celebrates the young and old achivers of this country. people who contribute to the running of this society. Are we to be just blind and thing that this country just run by itself and the money pours in from tourism. at the very basic level there are individuals, people who run this country. it is people who make policies that keeps this place afloat. how many times have we seen governement or the opposition celebrating these people. none. its about dog eat dog political arena.
i read on haveeru news and do site that some one has send a bill to parliment about the way resort biddings went and they have also sent the cause to court. as i was saying having the right to contest is fantastic and i like the fact that they were able to do this. everyone has a right to contest. having said that i still belive that tourism ministry did the right thing in bringing outsiders to eveluate the bids because there is no way the maldivians could do it. not because they are less capable becuase every maldivian in the field is connected to some resort owner or a company. which has been going since they started to lease these tourist resorts. this time atlease we have seen new faces that will become enterprenurs in the field. one funnything i noticed is the very people who sent the bill to court and to parliment are people who already have resorts, people who are rich and powerful. i say take a break and let others have a piece of the cake. i read their submission paper to parliment and it said "to elect a comitee from the parliment to look in to the bid eveluation process". here is the first step to corruption. first the people in the parliment know nothing about the technicalities of resorts and evnvironment etc. second i am tired of giving these mps so much power. they are bloody peoples servents as i have been saying so many times they are not like all in one-can-do-anything people. a commitee from parliment makes me laugh these are people who already got sold to either government or the mdp (atleast most of them) and for these rich resort owners who did not get more resorts will be so easy to buy these guys. anyways taking the matter to court and parliment is fantastic but i have a huge problem in the way this might go because the rich owners who did not get the resort are at the very bottom of this. get a life guys.
anyways.. i cant seem to get on dos forum. why do i get this feeling that it has been hacked by someone. i saw a few comments on themaldivian website about this. i dont think do is trying to spy on people or delete posts. i think it was hacked because it started with funny posts supposedly by the admin and then suddely it crashed. whoever did this... what a lowlevel way to bring on a fight.
anyways lets wait an see if annis second coming will bring any salvation to the maldivian people.

2 Comments:

At 1:49 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

How do we contact you??

 
At 12:44 AM, Blogger Maldives Blogger said...

in good time...
for now
you can write what you want to write here,,, thanks

 

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