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wifihead
Papayo!
Oct 27 2008, 1:00 PM EDT | Post edited: Oct 27 2008, 1:00 PM EDT
Pow! Pow! Pow! The sound of the killing fields of Trinidad and Tobago. No one looks out. Scared, petrified, defeated, desensitized. What a pity? I read with dismay and disbelief the reports on the daily newspaper. Last count, 440 plus. A country so blessed with natural resources, beautiful, kind and family oriented people now suffers at the hands of a few. Who is to blame? Is it the overlooked youth? Is it the government? Is it the Americanization and deculturalization of the island? Is it the neglected "all black" neighborhoods? I pray that their is someone more knowledgeable than myself who will help me understand this injustice to the masses. I look, though from far away at the seemingly passive acceptance of the destruction of TnT. I laugh at the reports that "yuh wouldn't recognize town boy, is onee skyscraper". Yet I hear of water shortages, police apathy to respond to crime, "current gone!", heroine seeping into my home, no hospital beds, murders in Point Fortin, Erin, Siparia, Sandre Grandre, kidnappings, lord help my people. I heard one call for American intervention, but what's happening now is American intervention. It is the greatest American export. Chaos, crime, drugs, Godlessness, gangsterism, sexual deviation. We don't need any more. Trinidad needs to filter the politicians. It's always a different puppy but from the same mother. The welfare of a country is never determined by how well the elites are doing but by looking at the living conditions of the poor class. The man in the country doesn't give a rat's anus about the skyscraper in Port-of-Spain. He wants and needs water, medicine, electricity and a job to feed his family. Our children do not need HBO, they need a stable family. Isn't it ironic that we allow the worst of the worst to come perform for our children, fake pastors to pitch tents and peddle holy water and miracle cloths while our young men are dying on the streets. A! A! Do you find this valuable?    
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