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| Elizabeth: Ryan Pinder is Better Than You |
Author:
admin ::
Posted:
Tue Jan 19, 2010 7:31 pm
Elizabeth: Ryan Pinder is Better Than You
At least he thinks so.
One of the most frightening things about Ryan Pinder is that he is a Bahamian lawyer, a member of one of the most corrupt legal fraternities on the planet. And the scariest part of it is that he doesn't see any corruption in the Bahamian legal system. He mussy blind or stupid, no?
That, alone, should be a good enough reason to vote for anyone but him.
Before he was chased off the Bahamas Community message board for consistently being an arrogant jackass, he used to constantly defend the Bahamas legal system like brainwashed members defend their cult.
He always talks about his father's stellar reputation, threatening to sue anybody who even hints that his pappy may have been corrupt.
But let's be real, Daddy was an MP in one of the most corrupt governments in Caribbean history, Lynden Pindling's government. Only Papa Doc and his perverted kid were more corrupt. Are we to believe that Ryan's daddy was a beacon of morality in a Cabinet that was rotten to the core. Only an idiot like Ryan would believe that.
Show me a white guy who survived, nee prospered, during the corrupt, racist Pindling regime and I will show you someone who really did make a deal with the devil.
Ryan Pinder is a coward and a fool. He would pop up on the message board to leave a snide comment but was never willing to really debate anything. One had to either believe what he said, or he would act like the spoiled little brat that he is and run off like a punk in a street football game who wants it his way, or he'll take the football and go home.
The good people of Elizabeth would be foolish to vote for an insincere, two-faced elitist like Ryan Pinder.
I saw a video being used to promote Ryan Pinder. It shows him in an all-black church acting like he's a regular member. I'd bet my bottom dollar he's never set foot in that church before, and he never will again. This is the kind of deceitful, two-faced lying hypocrite that the man is. It is only hoped that the voters of Elizabeth aren't stupid enough to fall for his little charade.
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| PLP Branded As Criminal Organization |
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admin ::
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Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:05 am
A high level official from the United States government has said, off the record, that the PLP is little more than a criminal organization.
A high-ranking official from a law enforcement agency in the United States government has branded the Progressive Liberal Party in The Bahamas as a criminal organization.
"When the treasurer of your organization is laundering money, it is hard to suggest that the organization itself did not condone such activity," the official said.
A former PLP Senator is currently on trial for attempting to extort John Travolta, and the treasurer of the party is under indictment in the United States for money laundering.
"Both of these people were active members, in good standing and high-ranking positions in the PLP when they committed the alleged crimes. Even a Bahamian lawyer with a D- grade point average can conclude that the group itself is rotten to the core," the US official said over drinks at a local restaurant.
He said that one has to be concerned with fund raising activities of political parties in The Bahamas, where laws are lax and there is no absolutely no transparency or accountability in political fund raising.
When you factor in the questionable behaviour of characters such as Lynden Pindling, Shane Gibson, Gary Christie, Sydney Stubbs, George Smith, George Wilson, Phillip 'Brave' Davis, Franklyn Wilson and others, it is difficult to view the PLP as a legitimate organisation.
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| Marital Rape in The Bahamas |
Author:
admin ::
Posted:
Thu Aug 20, 2009 12:11 am
The proposed marital rape law has garnered a lot of public debate. So much, in fact, that one visitor to a local message board quipped, "If we need this much discussion on rape of any kind, what does that say."
Answer: Nothing good.
Here we are, hosting the biggest beauty pageant in the world while we have members of the Bahamian public arguing over whether women even deserve basic human rights. Hope that doesn't make it into the Miss Universe pageant televised finals.
It would be even more embarrassing than having to admit you were a Bahamian back in 2000, right after the D- crowd beat down Hubert Ingraham for trying to change our flawed constitution to give women the same rights as men.
One of the most foolish comments I have heard thus far came from a self-proclaimed "Christian pastor", who obviously knows little about Christianity.
The fellow told a local Rotary Club that, if we passed this amendment, we would be creating a "society of rapists."
Hmmm. With some of the highest rape and incest rates in the word, some might say we are already a society of rapists. This proposed amendment is part of the solution to that problem.
And what exactly did the "pastor" mean by that statement? Did he mean that there are so many Bahamian men who force themselves upon their wives that this law would create a problem in our society?
If that is true, then it is all the more reason why this amendment must be passed.
"Each day you will be a potential rapist in your own home if you initiate sex with your wife without her consent," he told the Rotary Club of West Nassau earlier this month.
Uh, well, that's right! Anytime, anyone has sex with anyone else, against their will, then it is rape. Period!
I wonder how the pastor's wife feels about all this, when he isn't forcing her to submit to his demands.
Violence against women continues to be a VERY serious, widespread problem in The Bahamas. This amendment sets our sick society on the right course. Passing this law is not an option, it is a necessary part of rectifying the wrongs that are destroying our society.
Rape is rape, regardless of the relationship between the rapist and the victim. It can be a total stranger; someone you recognise by sight, but have never really communicated with; someone you know superficially, a neighbour or a colleague; a friend, a boy-friend or a former boyfriend; a live-in partner, or a former partner; someone you are married to or have been married to in the past.
Marital rape is almost always part of an abusive relationship. And spousal abuse is a huge problem in The Bahamas. We have prominent lawyers and MPs beating their wives. How many times is it because the wife said "No" to their advances, I wonder?
Another self-styled "Christian" pastor, voicing his objections to the proposed law, was quoted in the press as saying, "The man is the head of the home as Christ is the head of the church."
In response, the editor of the Tribune got it right, big time, when she wrote:
"What the Bible said was that a man - not an animal - was the head of the home. This amendment would strengthen the foundation of marriage because it would remove an animal from the bedchamber and keep him out until he discovered his Christian manhood."
I ask the people who are opposed to this amendment to read this article, then tell me how they can object to the proposed change in the law.
Some of the best arguments for the passing of this amendment come from two men I have a lot of respect for; writer & attorney, Anthony L Hall and Bahamian Minister and marriage counselor, Barrington Brennen.
Anthony Hall, writing for Caribbean Net News, had this to say:
"This proposed legislation has incited such widespread moral condemnation that one might think Bahamians were living in a Taliban paradise. Indeed, this condemnation exposes the fact that Christian fundamentalists, in many respects, are every bit as fanatical as Islamic fundamentalists.
"Accordingly, I implore political leaders to ignore the blandishments of religious leaders who not only condone but actually champion marital rape — based on their reading of the Bible and their chauvinistic concept of traditional family values. I rather suspect, though, that self-preservation would preclude these religious leaders from supporting legislation calling for all adulterers to be put to death – as the Bible commands.
"To be fair, however, I should note that there are progressive religious leaders in The Bahamas. And I duly entreat them to lend their voices to this debate by preaching the gospel, especially to women, that sexual abuse in marriage is as much of an abomination against God as physical abuse."
You can read Mr Hall's complete article here.
Minister Brennan, way back in 2004, wrote a paper on marital rape.
"Rape is not about sex. It’s about power and control. Generally, men who rape are married or have multiple sexual partners. Men who rape their partners are not being overpowered by testosterone, but by their insatiable and evil need to control and be in charge.
"When their wives say no, they feel that their alleged power position is being threatened. Therefore, to show their authority in the marriage, they demand and force themselves on their wives. Too many bedrooms are darkened, not with romantic candle light, but with the pain of self-gratification, intimidation, and coercion."
Despite what the phony pastors say, forced, violent sex is not a marital right. Marital rape is not motivated by sexual desire, but by violent aggression.
And we have too much of that in this country as it is.
Quoting the Tribune Editor again, "This amendment has to be passed into law - and the sooner the better."
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| Newly Proposed Rape Legislation |
Author:
radiant ::
Posted:
Sat Aug 15, 2009 1:13 pm
Hello everyone - truly hope that all has been well and is well with you all.
I've been hearing bits and pieces about a new legislation that aims to make "rape" illegal in marriage, and was wondering what are your thoughts on the issue? For me as a Christian for 25 years, a married man of 17 years, and a Bahamian that respects our constititution of which its pre-amble states:
"WHEREAS Four hundred and eighty-one years ago the rediscovery of this Family of Islands, Rocks and Cays heralded the rebirth of the New World;
AND WHEREAS the People of this Family of Islands recognizing that the preservation of their Freedom will be guaranteed by a national commitment to Self-discipline, Industry, Loyalty, Unity and an abiding respect for Christian values and the Rule of Law;
NOW KNOW YE THEREFORE:
We the Inheritors of and Successors to this Family of Islands, recognizing the Supremacy of God and believing in the Fundamental Rights and Freedoms of the Individual, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM IN SOLEMN PRAISE the Establishment of a Free and Democratic Sovereign Nation founded on Spiritual Values and in which no Man, Woman or Child shall ever be Slave or Bondsman to anyone or their Labour exploited or their Lives frustrated by deprivation, AND DO HEREBY PROVIDE by these Articles for the indivisible Unity and Creation under God of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas."
I believe that such a law should it be passed would be a grave mistake to the institution of marriage and only serve to further weaken society in general, and men in particular. While the preamble guarantees the rights of the individual, those rights are guaranteed according to the principles of Christianity and the Supremacy of God. According to the word of God then, a woman, or man for that matter, has no control sexually over one's own body so as to deprive one's spouse from sexual intimacy (1 Corinthians 7:1-5). Furthermore, the aforementioned passage says that sexual relations should not be withheld except by consent (agreement with each other).
A loving Christian husband would live with his wife in an understanding manner and not be demeaning toward her when under reasonable circumstances she wishes to decline sexual relations (1 Peter 3:7), and bestow honour upon her as part of their loving relationship. Wives are instructed to obey their husbands in everything (that's according to godliness of course), and husbands are instructed to love his wife as his own flesh and not be embittered against her (1 Peter 3:1-6; Ephesians 5:22-38; Colossians 3:18-19).
It has been suggested that this new legislation is to protect wives from drunk husbands that come home and then abuse their spouse; if abuse is what this legislation seeks to prevent, it is a poor choice of proposed legislation to do so since this proposed law simply takes away a God given right and privilege form both the husband and wife to engage unfettered in sexual relations with one's spouse as a spouse may claim rape because he or she is simply angry at the other spouse.
Additionally, this legislation makes no sense since rape itself is a difficult incident to prove when two individuals are single, let alone married! It creates a situation where a spouse may lay-wait as it were another spouse that has not been living in the matrimonial home by enticing him with sex and then claim or threaten rape as a means of blackmailing the other spouse. If abuse is what the proponents of this legislation seek to address, then abuse is what they should focus on. Physical abuse can be more readily proven and is against not just the constitutional rights of the individual but also against Christian principles.
For the sake of further discussion - supposing this legislation is passed, and husbands are charged and brought guilty by the courts for "rape" in marriage - then what? What would the penalty be? Would it carry the same prison sentence as rape outside of marriage? What would become of a husband that otherwise has been a good husband and father, a good provider? What happens to the children that may be involved? If you are a man, and a married man in particular; if you have a son or sons; if you have daughters that you wish one day would marry real men that would stand up for the right course society must travel, it is my opinion that you had better look very closely at what may be going on with this proposed legislation, and others that might be similar in intent. There are too many circumstances in which men through our own doings, the on-goings of others, and what I believe are special interest groups have moved decisively to undermine our men that are now, and our young boys that some day shall be men. Remember, as the men go...so goes society. In other words, which ever direction our men travel, that is the direction that society at large will travel.
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