Submitted by Mr. Thompson
Anarchy (definition):
- No ruler ship or enforced authority.
- A social state in which there is no governing person or group of people, but each individual has absolute liberty (without the implication of disorder).
- Absence of government; a state of lawlessness due to the absence or inefficiency of the supreme power; political disorder.
- Absence or non-recognition of authority and order in any given sphere.
- Acting without waiting for instructions or official permission… The root of anarchism is the single impulse to do it yourself: everything else follows from this.
- Anarchy is the basic rule of a no rule society.
How many of the above fully or partially apply to present Barbadian society?
- With respect to RULES one can say that Barbados does fully comply, as the saying goes “Barbados has a Rule for everything and ENFORCEMENT of nothing”.
“No enforced authority reigns”
- Politically it appears that both dominant parties are leaderless and have no definitive direction leading to a stable society and country. It would appear that personal ambitions, pocket lining, bragging etc. all take president over the countries daily and long term affairs.
“Political individuals appear to have absolute liberty”
- There is definitely not an Absence of government, however the opposite is TRUE. The government employees approximately 20 to 25% of the entire countries workforce, when typical democratic societies employ less than 1% of their workforce as civil servants. Only SOCIALISTIC enterprises have such high civil servant ratios.
“Inefficiency of the supreme power”
- Absence or non-recognition of authority and order in any given sphere. For this a few items come to mind:
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- QEH cardiologist fiasco,
- Greenland landfill,
- Flyovers,
- NON-Windows to the Sea,
- Failure to pay court ordered settlements(Barack),
- Un-tendered million dollar contracts,
- Senior Civil Servant ownership of Needhams Point development,
- Lack of Building Code,
- Firearms in the house of parliament,
- Drinking and Driving as a pastime,
- TS Tomas causes havoc, God forbid it was a Category 1,2,3,4 or 5,
- Law and Order deteriorating, robberies up, murders up, theft up,
- In fighting in senior police ranks with no government intervention,
- Non registered vehicles abound,
- Arch Hill apartment collapse and laughable investigation,
- Chief Justice appointment,
This list is endless, however in the interest of protecting trees; I’ll draw the limit to the few items above.
- Acting without waiting for instructions or official permission… The root of anarchism is the single impulse to do it yourself: everything else follows from this.
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- Majority ruling parties sometimes become a power unto themselves and ignore established procedures, rules, regulations and protocols in the belief that they know better and its best to proceeded expediently, as it’s in the public good. The truth being is that by ignoring the established procedures, allows for more pocket lining to take place while hoodwinking the general taxpayer. The un-tendered multi million dollar ABC Highway contract comes to mind as an example, Justification “we need it done for world cricket”.
- Anarchy is the basic rule of a no rule society.
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- Daily one reads in the news paper, hears on the radio or sees on TV, this or that Government Minister announcing or proclaiming some new miraculous strategy or development that is going to save the country from all ills and evils. Needless to say nothing happens, except that a couple of years later on some other Government Minister announcing or proclaiming some similar miraculous strategy or development that is going to save the country from all ills and evils.
As they say “what comes around goes around”
The country is slowly but effectively heading towards the edge of the Anarchy precipice, the question being, how close are we to the edge and can we step back and save ourselves.
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