I am not discussing “The Four Just
Men” detective thriller published in 1905 by the British writer
Edgar Wallace.

Nor am I discussing the 1959 television
series of the same name produced by Sapphire Films for ITC
Entertainment.

A large proportion of our readers
probably have never read the novel nor watched the television series.

No readers. I am writing about the four
official opposition members comprising Kenneth Bryan, Alva Suckoo,
Arden McLean and Chris Saunders who spoke at the press conference.

I have a lot of respect for Saunders
and I am disappointed he was there to give the other three support
and therefore some justification to the utter nonsense that was said
there.

You can guess what the press conference
was about, although being a member of the press, I was not invited.

All three know where I stand on it and
it is on the other side, although I have also criticized the
government for tactics and nonsense they also produced along the way.

However, the four just men at the press
conference have only one side and that is to support the referendum
and stop the cruise berthing facility at any cost.

And mark my words, if it is stopped it
will be at great cost.

The referendum was initiated at first
just to get the government to provide more openness about what was
going on. And that was what was said to people their canvassers first
said to persons they approached. I was one. I heard them say this to
every single other person. Without exception I was the only person to
read the whole document all the others signed.

And these four just men have the gall
to hit out at the government for the way it has criticized the
campaign for the people-initiated referendum.

Opposition Leader, Arden McLean, said
the government’s behavior, going as far as encouraging people to
withdraw their names from a petition, was one of the most “dastardly
acts” he had ever seen any government do.

Have you ever heard the like?

“One of the most dastardly acts” he
has ever seen.

Dastardly means cowardly. He is calling
his other members of the LA cowards? I hope they all demand an
apology from him.

And Alva Suckoo described government’s
attitude towards the petition as a “slap in the face to democracy”.

Of course Kenneth Bryan had to weigh in
with “the way government had behaved” was giving him “real
cause for concern”.

I'm not going to add what Chris
Saunders said. I still have too much respect for him.

I can only say, although I am appalled
at them, they are only JUST four men.