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The dictator and the traitor must not win<\/strong><\/p>

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by D.Gisele Isaac<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For seven years, I went through Gethsemane, carried my cross up Golgotha Hill, and was nailed to it \u2026 but I survived.<\/p>

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In the present situation, I have had nothing to lose by maintaining my silence, even as the architects of lies built their walls higher and enlarged their territory.  After all, I am seeking no vote, no office, no material gain.  Rather I am responding because of those who love our Party like I do and have urged me to speak.<\/p>

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While the double-sider left for \u201cgreener pastures\u201d I was satisfied to remain loyal and faithful in the place where I pitched my tent, secure in the knowledge that I cannot be induced, bribed, or seduced by blandishments \u2013 red nor blue \u2013 and that neither my vote nor my support is for sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No word I wrote, or spoke, or wrote for others to speak \u2013 right up to The People\u2019s Parliament \u2013 has ever been for \u201cblue me,\u201d but for others (like the one who wore yellow to signal his cowardice) to advance.<\/p>

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And yet, here I stand \u2013 yes, stand \u2013 in a place where my strength has beenmaligned by a weak-minded feller and by those who have elevated his treacheryinto sacrifice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here I stand \u2013 yes, stand \u2013 among people who, wholesale, have chosen to swallow the word of a person who proved himself capable of association on Saturday; denial on Sunday; and betrayal on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and all the days that follow.<\/p>

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A being capable of looking into a colleague\u2019s eyes and lying.  A creature who sat among us as we discussed strategy, knowing full well that he was playing for the other side. <\/p>

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And, yet, some folks have chosen to take his words as gospel. Why?  Because it fits their agenda against \u201cthe Leadership,\u201d of which, up to the point of sale, Less-Than-Judas was a full member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We, the two publicly attacked members, were among the five who rebuilt our Partyfrom Ground Zero in 2018 to coming within 148 votes of reclaiming the Government in 2023. This, after our Opposition Leader, like Horatio, kept the bridge, defending Rome from the enemy and the likes of False Sextus.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curious now that this single defender, the One who refused to allow the 15+1 in Parliament to step on the Black Man’s neck, so suddenly is painted as \u201cweak\u201d and unable to speak his own mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amazing, too, that the woman on the battlefield \u2013 like Antandre \u2013 is suddenly being derided for being a warrior and chided for not being a Florence Nightingaleinstead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strange: there were no complaints about her strength, her \u201ctone,\u201d her capacity before the announcement of Convention; a Convention where, just three months ago, the Party faithful \u2013 those who came to stay and stayed the course \u2013 reposed their confidence in her overwhelmingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because you<\/em> were not the recipient of such confidence is no reason to call them \u201chypocrites.\u201d  What should they be calling you<\/em> after what you\u2019ve done to them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, as the Japanese proverb goes, \u201cIf you wait by the river long enough,  the bodies of your enemies will float by.\u201d And I\u2019ve sat and watched as police commissioners and enforcer cops, magistrates and false accusers have floated by, with others still lined up awaiting their turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, I\u2019ve come out on the other side of Hell before; and having been outside of Purgatory these last 10 days has allowed me to have an amazing experience as Iwatched the political happenings in America.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the space of two days, I witnessed the despair of the Democratic Party \u2013 the blue party with the people-first ethos \u2013 flicker into hope and then burst into euphoria aspatriot President Joe Biden made it possible for Vice President Kamala Harris to demonstrate her own patriotism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It rekindled in me the belief that my party, the United Progressive Party (UPP), can use its own crisis to see the Big Picture; respond in like fashion to the changes that have taken place; and remount the fight for the soul of Antigua and Barbuda, its sovereignty, its people, its lands, its future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like the Democratic Party, the UPP  accomplished a great deal during its tenure in office \u2013 and that cannot be gainsaid. And had this last general election gone in our favour, I have no doubt that we would have reclaimed and advanced this country against the odds, just like the Democrats have done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In spite of the carefully cultivated furor engulfing us now, I still believe that the UPP, with the type of reinforcement that VP Harris has received \u2013 selfless support from party colleagues; financial support from conscious organizations; campaign support from volunteers; unprecedented moral support from Black women, from Black men, from White women responding to the challenge, and from 50,000 \u201cWhite Dudes for Harris\u201d \u2013 can regroup and regain the ground that the manipulators have stolen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our people still believe in the ideals, the values, the programs, and the possibilities of the UPP.  The fence-sitters still believe that Antigua and Barbuda can do so much better than it is doing.  The business community knows that a UPP Administration will provide fair opportunity. And the Barbudans are assured that the UPP will not allow them to be marginalized in their own land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ALP and its infiltrator have done a good job of weakening the confidence of those less grounded in our Party; of teaching young people that corruption is the better alternative to hard work; of making sisters and brothers look at each other with suspicion and distrust, concluding that red money and position will alwaystrump integrity and loyalty.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But not everybody is greedy or gullible or lacking in principle. Not everybody will hold our Party to ransom.  Not everybody came to run and then, having arrived, ranaway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are thousands who \u2013 come what may and go who will \u2013 are bedrock believers in the hope the UPP represents and confident that it can deliver.  I put itto these members, supporters, and well-wishers that now is the time to reject the manipulation of the ALP, to stand up with our Party, and to reclaim the gains we made last January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, like the millions of Democrats who have galvanized around Kamala \u2013 rather than trying to create \u201canother Joe\u201d \u2013 our insiders and outsiders need to come together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While we allow ourselves to be distracted by every orchestrated \u201creport\u201d on the UPP, the water situation remains unacceptable; the roads are still a crime against humanity; the cost of food is still climbing; the Cancer Centre remains closed; pension increases remain outstanding; and gun crimes are still paralyzing us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ALP\u2019s strategy is not to address and correct these things but to weaken what it saw as a formidable Opposition from within.  But we have six million reasons not<\/em>to allow the dictator and the traitor to succeed.<\/p>\n

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