By Jolly Green

When
Ralph Gonsalves decided to use Parnel Campbell to write a new
constitution that would ultimately favor Gonsalves himself, he
earnestly hoped and believed he would become President of SVG. 

It
took some three years for Gonsalves to get a new constitution
designed that he thought would ultimately capture the Vincentian
people. As part of the design and drafting research, he sent Campbell
to Cuba. He instructed him to go and study their perfected communist
system. Remember Gonsalves almost all his adult life has worshiped
the Cuban political system. Gonsalves thought and still thinks that
what the Cuban people have, and what Hugo Chavez at that time had,
was the only way forward for SVG. But what most intelligent
Vincentians believed was that the new proposed Constitution would
have installed in SVG another monster, not unlike Fidel Castro and
Hugo Chavez.

When
Campbell returned from studying the Cuban system, he was convinced
that Gonsalves was right and that the Cuban model was the way
forward. I think that Campbell had a lobotomy while in Cuba.

Here
is a returning from his Cuban indoctrination speech that Campbell
gave at Kingstown in 2008, it tells all about this man really.

_______

Speech
by Dr. Parnel Campbell, President of Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines’ Committee for Freedom of the Cuban Five at the
celebration of the 49th Anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban
Revolution.

Peace
Memorial Hall, Jan. 18, 2008.

“On
Friday, Jan. 11, 2008, during the course of my recent visit to Cuba,
I had the pleasure of visiting the Provincial Assembly of Cienfuegos.
There I received a detailed explanation of the political and
administrative system of the provinces and municipalities of Cuba.
Later that afternoon, I visited with one of the People´s Council in
the city of Cienfuegos.

That
was an experience I will always cherish.

The
People´s Council is democracy in its purest form. It is made up of,
literally, the grassroots of Cuba. Individuals, representatives of
mass organizations, civic officials, and so on. A forum in which
everyone can raise any matter of concern, whether personal or
communal, and where officials can be questioned, criticized, and
given instructions.

There
is no institution like that in our parliamentary system in the
Eastern Caribbean.

This
was my first visit to Cuba. I had been following the Cuban Revolution
ever since I was a student in the 1960´s and the 1970´s. I, too,
had been influenced by the anti-Cuban propaganda in the Western
Media. I had entertained doubts and anxieties about several aspects
of governance in Cuba based on the negative impact on me of
anti-Cuban reports over the years.

Having
gone personally to Cuba, however, and learning first-hand about the
Cuban system of government, I have been able to confront my
misgivings and to view the revolutionary governance in Cuba with a
new perspective.

Quite
clearly, the Cuban model is unique in its details. The system
endeavors to meet the multiple challenges of defending the
revolution; of empowering the people; of managing a complex state
apparatus in a highly technological age; and of according respect to
fundamental human rights.

My
immediate impressions of Cuba are overwhelmingly positive. I have
been struck by the loyalty of the people to the values of their
revolution; the collective discipline of the general population; the
integrity of state, provincial and municipal official at all levels;
and the ever-present cultural expressions of the Cuban spirit as
exemplified by the architecture, the murals, the paintings, and the
sculptures which greet the eye at every turn and in every building.

Cubans
have every right to describe their system as "democratic".
In my humble opinion, if democracy is described as “government of
the people, by the people, and for the people”, then there are many
things which we in the Eastern Caribbean can learn from Cuba by way
of achieving genuine democracy in our own constitutional and
political systems.

I
salute the government and people of Cuba -- correction; I salute the
PEOPLE of Cuba, since the “government” and “people” of Cuba
are practically the same entity. I especially applaud the magnificent
contribution of His Excellency the President of the Republic of Cuba
to the development and humanization of his country, of the Caribbean,
and of the developing world as a whole.

Long
live the Cuban Revolution! Long live President Fidel Castro Ruz!”

_________

So
who were the Cuban Five that Campbell used to screen his real purpose
in Cuba?

[Cubaminrex-Embacuba
San Vicente y las Granadinas]

The
Cuban Five, also known as the Miami Five (Gerardo Hernández, Antonio
Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González, and René González),
are five Cuban intelligence officers who were arrested in Miami, USA,
in September 1998 and later convicted in Miami of conspiracy to
commit espionage, conspiracy to commit murder, acting as an agent of
a foreign government, and other illegal activities in the United
States.

The
Cuban Five were one of Ralph Gonsalves's pet Cuban subjects that he
chose to continually attack the USA on the rostrum with wherever he
may be at the time, preferably in Havana, certainly within earshot of
the Cubans. He loved the brownie points it always brought him; when
he called the USA the Empire. The Empire is designed to be a
derogatory description of the US; he just loved using the term.

When
the new Constitution was presented by the Referendum to the
Vincentian people, they rejected it. Many did not trust Gonsalves,
and they did not trust Parnel Campbell. Campbell spent months before
the Referendum giving speeches and talks on TV and radio, in
newspapers. The people judged him as insincere, obviously did not
trust his judgment and rejected him, did not trust Gonsalves, and
most certainly did not trust the new Constitution.

Gonsalves
had probably discussed the matter with Hugo Chavez because Chavez
dared to write to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth demanding HM to let
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines go. Gonsalves later said if he had
given away building materials, as he does before general elections,
the Constitution would have passed.

On
Nov. 25, 2009, Vincentian electors had overwhelmingly rejected
proposed changes to the Constitution that the British left when St.
Vincent and the Grenadines gained independence on Oct. 27, 1979.

Campbell
was chair of the Constitution Reform Commission, which conducted a
years-long [2008/2009] review of the Constitution, which supposedly,
included consultations with Vincentians at home and abroad. We now
know that it included his visit to Cuba for indoctrination. This kind
of Cuban indoctrination was one of the process’s Maurice Bishop
used to control his underlings. Bishop sent many of his key people to
Cuba for indoctrination. So here we see some of the work of Maurice
Bishop being emulated by Ralph Gonsalves on his underling.

Ref:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLPFeuQLwBs

Ref:
https://gtcradio.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/letter-i-am-here-to-finish-the-work-of-maurice-bishop-a-statement-by-ralph-gonsalves/

Ref:
https://www.ieyenews.com/wordpress/the-unfinished-work-of-maurice-bishop-by-peter-binose/

Campbell
and Gonsalves have spitefully referred to the failed Referendum ever
since. They both believed they had the Vincentian people fooled and
tamed, ready to support him fully. They were relying on what they
incorrectly judged as a bunch of ignorant Vincentians, who when asked
to jump, would reply “how high Massa”.

In
August of this year, Campbell dared to say a lot of nasty things
about Vincentians in an article that appeared in I Witness News

https://www.iwnsvg.com/2019/08/16/referendum-vote-was-a-rejection-of-emancipation-campbell/

The ULP
ever since the 2009 rejection has more or less ignored many parts of
the 1979 constitution. If they couldn’t have a new one they
would ignore the old one.

It is
time that Gonsalves and Campbell started to understand, the people
won, and they lost. With his backward ideas of his aristocracy of the
skin…Massa still has his stooges who prefer to crawl on their
bellies to Massa … instead of holding their heads high and erect”.
Let us not be that stooge, let us not fail to remember the past, lest
we become once again our African forbearers.

Thankfully
when the referendum failed, we narrowly escaped becoming a Cuban
satellite. As long as we have Gonsalves or his dynasty the danger is
always there. Let what’s happening in Venezuela be warning to us
all. And may what recently happened in Bolivia be the beginning of
the end for all the Nasty Communist leaders in SVG and throughout the
Caribbean and Americas.

Don’t
you the readers think it about time for a change from a liar regime
to a none-liar government? Change from an anti-democratic system to a
New Democratic regime?

The
whole Unity Labour party runs on deception, distortions, lies,
misquotes innuendo, and misrepresentation.

Jolly Green, remember democracy dies in darkness, and SVG has got pretty dark over the past eighteen years

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