By Nathan' Jolly' Green. July 06, 2020.

So often, when leaders of small countries
follow dirty and nasty politics of others and sometimes larger
states, it is because they have something personal to gain from doing
so. When leaders of little countries have something to offer in
return, they are well rewarded for supporting other countries
irrespective of how dirty the politics of the paymaster country are.

My worry is how Saint Vincent's Prime Minister
Dr Ralph E Gonsalves has aligned the country with Cuba and Venezuela.
They are most obviously what I would conclude as dirty and wicked
leadership countries. Can the comrade, as Gonsalves likes others to
call him, really believe that these two countries are decent upright
democratic countries that we should align with? There is an apparent
dislike, even perhaps hatred of the USA, by the comrade. But is that
reason enough to get into bed and support every nastiness emanating
from Cuba and Venezuela? I think not.

So, what has Gonsalves got to offer to
Venezuela and Cuba? Well, I suppose when such countries leadership
inflict gross human rights on their citizens. They are incredibly
open to being sanctioned by the UN, either in the General Assembly or
the Security Council department. SVG diplomats sit in both chambers
and therefore have some powerful influence with their voting powers.
Nothing is easier than to vote against any sanctions on a chosen
country, voting with a country, even abstaining when the situation
calls for that. Most states, like Cuba and Venezuela, even Taiwan,
have several little countries and perhaps their leaders in their pay.
At least Taiwan is a democratic non-communist country and being
aligned with them is a different situation to being aligned with
dirties like Cuba and Venezuela. But still, they are paying, buying
even, and they are getting SVG's votes and support in the UN. The
problem with that kind of corruption of the United Nations system is
that the payor instructs the payee how to and when to vote, it is
pure corruption, undiplomatic, undemocratic, indecent even. I am sure
that SVG is not the only country to be using the UN voting system to
obtain financial gain from other countries, but that does not make it
right, it is still corruption, but of a grander kind of design than
local corruption. This kind of corruption allows countries to get
away with murder, and they do. Just take the time to check SVGs
voting records at the UN, there is where the story unfolds.

Is it a matter of personal political belief, is
it for personal gain, is it the glory of being recognised as a
revolutionary? If it were only Cuba and Venezuela, I would say yes to
all those reasons. But with Taiwan in the equation, it tells me that
it may well be more for financial gain, or thinking about it, even a
mixed bag situation. Supporting communist based countries for
ideological reasons, with financial gain as the bonus, while
supporting others strictly for financial gain. Every country that the
ULP has aligned us with, and there are several, have a human rights
disorder problem, some are rape and sexual assault countries,
everyone of them are willing to pay any country, or anyone, who
supports them at the UN.

I have been thinking about belief in certain
kinds, types, of political systems, and why anyone would support
those systems contrary to those of your own country. Firstly, what is
the difference between belief and opinion? When I do this kind of
exercise, I always go way back to the ancient philosophers and work
my way forward to modern times. So, being a great follower of Plato,
I decided to visit my past studies and came up with this. Plato's
analogy of the divided line is a well-known illustration of the
distinction between knowledge and opinion, or knowledge and belief,
in customary terminology of contemporary philosophy. Opinions can be
persuasive, but only the assertions they are based on can be said to
be true or false.

A given opinion may deal with subjective
matters in which there is no conclusive finding, or it may deal with
facts which are sought to be disputed by the logical fallacy that one
is entitled to their opinions.

Distinguishing fact from opinion is that facts
and events are verifiable, i.e. can be agreed to by the consensus of
experts. An example is: "People are dying in Venezuela"
versus "Maduro is right to have his people killed if they oppose
him and the communist system". An opinion may be supported by
facts and principles, in which case it becomes an argument.

Different people may draw opposing conclusions
(opinions) even if they agree on the same set of facts. Opinions
rarely change without new arguments being presented. It can be
reasoned that one opinion is better supported by the facts than
another, by analysing the supporting arguments.

In casual use, the term opinion may be the
result of a person's perspective, understanding, feelings, beliefs,
and desires.

Though not fact, collective opinions or
professional opinions are defined as meeting a higher standard to
substantiate the opinion.

I was thinking about opinions against belief
because I have been studying what Gonsalves has been doing and saying
regarding Cuba and Venezuela. Is Gonsalves acting from conviction or
just voicing an opinion. Worse of all, perhaps both.

Is Gonsalves a collaborator, collaborating with
Cuba and Venezuela? Perhaps he is, but does he personally gain from
that collaboration? Perhaps not financially, but he most certainly
enjoys the state of heroism that they pile on him. Gonsalves has said
in the past he is here to finish the work of Maurice Bishop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLPFeuQLwBs

Here is what Comrade Gonsalves said in December
2019 at the Cuban embassy and reported in the Cuban media. "Prime
Minister Gonsalves recounted the Cuban collaboration with his
country, thanked Commander in Chief Fidel Castro and the General of
the Army for their permanent solidarity with Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines and with all the Caribbean countries. He also reiterated
the indestructible bonds of friendship between both peoples and
governments and wished all present a year 2020 full of collective,
personal and family successes.”

May 2018, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
resoundingly congratulated Maduro on his second win, as the EU and
OAS rejected the results as fraudulent.

The prime ministers of Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines resoundingly congratulated Maduro on his second win.
Gonsalves, said: "We applaud your government and your people for
conducting these elections. We congratulate you (Maduro)
wholeheartedly on this re-election.

"It is with joy that the government and
the people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines welcome the good news
that the government and the people of the Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela held presidential elections on Sunday, May 20, 2018, which
is consistent with the high standards required of the international
community.

"We congratulate you whole-heartedly on
your own re-election to the presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela."

Maurice Bishop was a Cuban collaborator; the
Cubans were acting as nominees of the USSR, Russia, Bishop knew that,
and he was happy to be regarded by the Russians as Hero of the USSR
communist party cause. When Bishop died the Russians printed fifteen
million postage stamps for Russian use, with Bishops image and the
word Hero. Which is evidence that he was working for them.

An opinion is a judgment, viewpoint, or
statement that is not conclusive, rather than facts which are true
statements.

I is a fact that a communist party runs Cuba.
It is a fact that they imprison people for political reasons. It is a
fact that the people are living under a regime that enslaves them in
wage slavery. Human rights are being breached daily. There are many
more malfacts, so why would anyone outside of Cuba support that style
of a repressive system? Is it the search to be regarded as a hero of
their revolution? Have you been awarded honorary membership of their
communist party? Or are you simply proud to be following a repressive
system that you fully approve of?

It is a fact in Venezuela; people are starving;
the opposition political party is being repressed; murdered, locked
up, and disappeared, multi thousands have fled the country.
Currently, the Caribbean and Americas including Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines have thousands of Cuban doctors and nurses between them;
all paid small wages while the Government keeps up to 80% of what
they charge for them. It is slavery; it is human trafficking. Human
rights are being breached daily. Ralph Gonsalves knows that the Cuban
workers only get a small proportion of what SVG pays to the Cuban
Government, so, therefore, is he compliant in the overall scheme of
the trafficking of Cuban workers? You cannot blame us the people for
that unless of course, you voted for him at the last elections. There
are many more malfacts. So why would anyone outside of Venezuela
support that style of a repressive system?

So why would the comrade support Venezuela and
Cuba, and in doing so describe it as the people of Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines who support the regimes in those countries? The
Vincentian people, in general, do not support such leaderships or
their political and social systems. The Vincentian people love the
people of those countries, which is quite different from what
Gonsalves supports when he backs those leaders and those political
systems.

The Vincentian people do not want dirty money,
blood money, human rights abusive state generated cash. They want
nothing to do with these nasty types of leadership.

I have seen it written many times before if
Gonsalves loves and supports these leaders and their style of
leadership, to go and live in one of those countries. Because we the
Vincentian people do not want the same style of leadership in SVG. A
style of leadership which is gradually being imposed on us year on
year, since 2001. Eventually we will finally be rejected by our
allies, the US, UK, and EU. The danger is that one day we will wake
up and find ourselves living like Cubans, or worse still like
Venezuelans.

It is time for you to retire comrade, time to
let the people go.

"Let My People Go" Book of Exodus 5:1:

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