Submitted by: Black Woman Who Reads
Dear Barbados Underground,
First, I want to say to Pat thank you for your support. I agree about BFP. It is the blog equivalent of the National Inquirer. Unsupported accusations and hard evidence twisted to say what it wants them to say. BU alone, it seems to me, provides what is lacking in Barbados. A credible Fifth Estate doing the job that the “legitimate” Bajan news media ought, and fail, to do. What parades as legitimate press in Barbados is merely, in terms of news, tabloid versions of the Official Gazette.
During the next weeks, I shall be doing my best to obtain court documents on the Kingsland Estates Canadian action issue and will be sending them to Barbados Underground so that David can either post them or comment on them at his discretion. I will also be sending my comments by e-mail which also allows him that option. For the sake of security, just in case some Canadian lawyer manages to persuade a Canadian judge to issue an order to Cable & Wireless (Barbados) Limited on the “see what happens” basis and what happens is my identity is released to all and sundry, I will continue to do what I have been doing, which is to save any anonymous e-mail correspondence or anonymous comments I may want to make into draft form or e-mail document attachment and get my son overseas in a country where “see what happens” will be nothing to send them for me.
I see that I have been variously identified in BFP, Keltruth and even here on BU as being the Chief Justice, Peter Simmons and Iain Deane.
I wish to say to Mr. Deane that I have read his dignified and reasonable statements in Barbados Underground. He appears to have correctly identified the attempt by Keltruth and BFP to get him to commit himself in a manner that will provide them with something (anything, at this stage) to place before the Ontario courts and has refused to be drawn into the issue. Which is correct from his point of view, but if he would only engage in the fray, it would be far more fun for us.
I want to relate a little joke. One Easter, my late husband and myself were visiting family in Dash Valley. This was in about 1964 or 1965 or 1966. Mid 1960s. We lived in the Oistins area and, of course, this was long before the days of cell phones or car phones. On our way home, just by Bannatyne, our car broke down. We had the choice of going into Bannatyne to beg for a phone call, or just walking home, which was not too far. We decided to walk and, as the field underneath Bannatyne did not have tall canes, we walked through the field. Half way through the field, we bumped into Mr. Vernon Knox, Madge’s late ex-husband. Mr. Knox had obviously enjoyed a vigorous bout with Mr. Mount Gay, and Mr. Mount Gay had won. Mr. Knox had elected (which I understand was a habit with Mr. Knox) to walk home to Bannatyne from Kingsland. In addition to not being too secure on the feet (but neither was my husband) Mr. Knox was very upset and annoyed with the Deane brothers and with Muriel Deane. In fact, he was very annoyed with everybody at Kingsland. He, a Venezuelan, had attempted to point out to all and sundry that English was a very inferior language, that Spanish was greatly superior and that Spanish customs ought to be imported into the English language in order to improve it. For example, he cited the sound made by the letter F and said that it was only correctly spelt by the letters P and H. Mr. Knox felt himself to have been ridiculed and mocked by inferior intellects (although he used different words for them) when Vere Deane asked if that meant that he spelt “fart” P H A R T. We were unable to help Mr. Knox home, as he got the impression that we too were mocking him as a result of my late husband indulging in a bout of what I like to call “stand-pipe laughter”.
But seriously:
This whole case, if you look at the documents David has already posted, is an unjustified and unsupported attack on Barbados itself, its laws, governments, institutions and people since 1958. It is, in effect, a deliberate attempt to harm Barbados and its people and to bring them into disrepute internationally.
And why would anybody want to do that?
Simple. Barbados has failed to allow a billionaire (Peter Allard) and his toadies and agents (Madge Knox, “Professor” John Knox, Kathy Davis and Jane Goddard) to annex it and declare Mr Allard, in effect, king and therefore exempt in law, like Elizabeth II, from all laws.
Without doubt “Professor” John Knox would be appointed prime minister and minister of education by King Peter (forget about any elections) and Jane Goddard would be attorney-general (also unelected, but on the basis of her tremendous grasp of law gained through all the law cases her mother has lost).
As for the saintly Madge, well, I have no doubt the plan would have been something like that she would be enshrined as a goddess, like Vesta was in ancient Rome and be waited on by Bajan virgins (where available and while stocks last). Naturally, the virginity of Madge would be proclaimed and her three offspring declared immaculate conceptions. Now, the last time that happened, there was a Star in the East, but Madge would say that she found that ostentatious and vulgar. The truth, however, is that Mr. Allard and the Knox family have not yet found a way to arrange for a star from the East, but they are working on it. Barbados is merely a warm-up…..in which they are ably assisted by Little Billy Goat McKenzie.
I think I can speak for most Bajans when I say that we would like to have Mr. Allard’s money, but not at the expense of our independence and liberty. We fought too hard for those.
Both Mr. Allard and Little Billy Goat (LBG), with or without legal teams, are welcome to come to Barbados any time they want. So is “Fishy” Heaslet. We will welcome them all, protect their bodies (but there is not much we can do about their minds) and generally be the kind of hosts that we Bajans are famous worldwide for being and which makes people from other countries make return visit to our shores time and time again.
But Allard, LBG and Fishy must obey our laws and respect our institutions and the collective will of our people in the same way we respect theirs when we visit their countries. If they cannot, please leave in peace and leave us in peace.
As for Madge Knox and her children, well what do we say to them? No one forces them to stay in Barbados. Their father and Madge’s late ex-husband was a Venezuelan so they must have some sort of ancestral rights there. I am sure that Mr Chavez and his cronies would be only too happy to welcome them and afford them the rights and liberties – and court decisions – that they feel are denied them in Barbados and by the Privy Council in London.
If, on the other hand, they should find the superior freedom of Venezuela too much of a psychological leap for them after the severe oppression they have lived under in Barbados and they elect to stay in Barbados, they will just have to put up with our oppressive laws and inadequate judicial and other systems and, like the rest of us, institute changes through means other than annexation. Or, like Kathy Davis, they can find some other corruption-free country where everything works perfectly. Like the United States which, according to Kathy Davis in Keltruth, leads the rest of the world in its lack of racial prejudice.
Seriously, though, we all know that there are areas of corruption and institutions that do not work here in Barbados. We know there is a lot to be done. But you know something…..there will ALWAYS be a lot to be done. That is the march of progress and it is also human nature. We know the traditional press does little or nothing to push for changes and improvements and we know that certain of the blog press has succesfully filled the void of the castrated Fifth Estate in Barbados. However, blogs like Barbados Free Press and Keltruth by their bias and prejudice and (until now) hidden agendas have highlighted and made us (me at any rate) all too aware of the vigilance that must be exercised by us citizens in order to avoid the creation of a climate like that which existed in Europe in the 1930s and gave rise to the various facist movements like Franco in Spain, Mussolini in Italy and you-know-who in you-know-where. In case Kathy Davis misses the point, it was also situations like the one she is trying to help to create that spawned the dictatorship in Romania about which, as a very brief departure from the hammering she usually gives us on Kingsland, she has complained in connection with Royal honours given to heads of state by Her Majesty the Queen.
So here is a question for you all. What is the difference between the Knox/Allard faction and the West Coast developers who are trying to deny Bajans access to their own beaches? I cannot see any basic difference at all, but if you can, please let me know. By the way, did you know that Richard Cox is a Bajan? From birth, I believe.
As said, I have been variously identified as being the Chief Justice, Peter Simmons and, most recently, Mr. Deane. However, I could easily also be any one of the lawyers who have been involved in this issue, any one of the defendants, OR precisely what I am – an old Bajan woman who had the good fortune to be what is taken for grated today, educated, and has learned to reason for myself, rather than being someone to be blindly led up the garden path by Madge Knox, her children, Allard, LBG and BFP, not to forget “Fishy” Heaslet.
I have managed to obtain and I attach a copy of the Affidavit of John Knox in the Canadian action sworn August 3, 2007 in support of Nelson Barbados’ claim. I have also been able to obtain and will attach by e-mail to BU within a week or so the affidavit of Mr. Clyde Turney in response to the Statement of Claim. Other documents will follow in due course as and when I get my hands on them.
Since Keltruth has devoted 98% of its blog to attempting to try this matter in the court of public opinion and since Barbados Free Press too have devoted so much space to the advancement of the agenda of Keltruth and since, in my view, this is a very serious attempt to negatively impact and annex our country and people, let us by all means refer the matter to the Barbados Court of Public Opinion – don’t you think annexation deserves a referendum? The question is Elizabeth Windsor or Peter Allard? But, let us provide Barbados with the documents it needs in order for it to make a decision and eschew the selected and edited and deliberately misinterpreted documents spoon fed us, like if we were infants, by Keltruth and BFP. Finally, Horatio, Lord Nelson was a great man who protected our little island from conquest and annexation. That his name, so honoured by us in Barbados, should be usurped and used by a group of people intent on our take-over, is insulting to Lord Nelson and I devoutly hope that wherever he may be, he will arrange something interesting for them
I rest my case…….but only for the moment.
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