Well, the writing was always on the wall – and it sure wasn’t graffiti!! It was the unfolding of a system of the rule of law taking its inevitable course, based on its internal logic and imperative for delivering justice. That Donald Trump – the 45th President of the USA, still the most powerful country on earth – was indicted on criminal charges is another shot heard around the world. He was the first-ever former US Commander-in-Chief to have this done to him. The first shot, of course, was when Americans rose up against the British colonisers and created the first independent republic in the world!! That set off a chain reaction that launched the French Republic in 1789 and the Haitian Republic in 1804. And us in 1970!!
This shot should remind all and sundry that leaders – and wannabe leaders like in Guyana!! – gotta be held to the same standards as ordinary folks. It’s the only way to pre-emptively ward off dictators and dictatorships.
Donald Trump always insisted – by words and deeds – that he was above the norms of society, much less the law. Can you imagine a President boasting he grabbed the privates of females at will – expecting that the shock of the degradation would prevent them from outing him!??! This particular charge came out of a Manhattan grand jury investigating hush money payments to two women – one porn star, “Stormy Daniels” – who claimed to have had sex with him.
The payments became public after he was elected in 2016, and more details were revealed in sworn testimony as Trump served in the White House. His own lawyer, Michael Cohen – who’d been jailed on another matter involving Trump – is one of those who’ll testify against him on the hush payments that perverted the course of justice. The case is being pursued by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, whom Trump insists is “racist”!! Right now, folks in the US are agog at what happens next.
Will Trump be arrested, and have his head pushed as he’s inserted into the back seat of a Police car?? When he gets his mug shot and fingerprints taken? Will they allow him to fix his tousled hair? Will he have to take a “perp walk” in front of the cameras and gaggle of reporters?? We know he’ll be read his Miranda Rights – that he “has the right to remain silent, the right to an attorney, and what he says can be used against him in a court of law”. Or would he turn himself in and voluntarily self-surrender??
Whatever it is, it’s gonna be a circus!! But then Trump always liked circuses – especially when it increases support for his 2024 Presidential run!!
…in land distribution
For a country of 83,000 square miles – less the area of our half of Ankoko – with a mere three-quarter million citizens, we sure have a lotta squabbles over land!! There are the protests and marches by the Opposition over the removal of squatters – which THEY also did when in office!! Then one particular truculent bully suddenly claims that land – on which folks have been living for generations – is actually owned by him, cause his great-great-great-great-great grandfather bought it!! Never mind he doesn’t have any transport, like other folks who bought land after slavery, but it’s his, and by golly, he’ll kick off anyone who claims otherwise.
Now, when Burnham was sharpening his “sharper steel”, he gave out hundreds of thousands of acres in MMA and elsewhere to his supporters. The trouble was…very few of them could be bothered to cultivate the acreage – whether individually or as co-ops. So now they’re subletting the land – against the terms of the lease – see how they’ll be bawling “racism” when Govt acts!!
…for slaves’ descendants
That standard-bearer of liberalism – the Guardian newspaper – revealed that research has shown its founders were – gasp!! – slave owners!! So, they’ll be offering £10 million to Gullas and Jamaicans who are descendants of those slaves.
That’s it??
