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Once, two traveling tailors swindled an entire country. Seems the
Emperor of that kingdom had a famed addiction for beautiful and
expensive clothes, so the two tailors offered to make him royal clothes
which would not only be extremely gorgeous, but unique in that they
would be invisible to anyone who was stupid or unfit for his post. The
emperor became attracted to the purported merits of such fantastic
clothes and readily employed the swindler tailors.
They asked for large
quantities of valuable silk and gold to make the cloth from; at night
they secreted those goods away to their families. When anyone came to
check on their work, the tailors pretended to be actively weaving and
sewing the wondrous cloth, and they always described the clothes in
glowing detail. Everyone who came to see the clothes factually saw
nothing at all, yet they each pretended they could - so that no one
would accuse them of being stupid or unfit for their posts. Even the
Emperor himself became a party to the mass deception.
One day, the
emperor went on procession to show off his famous clothes. As he walked
proudly along, all the people spoke among themselves that the Emperor’s
new clothes were the most beautiful and wonderful that they had ever
seen. Suddenly, a little child blurted out, ‘Mother, why is the emperor
naked?"
By their nature, crooked people claim that what is good is bad and what
is bad is good. Whereas simple people know the truth and try to lead
their lives by it. Seems like crooked people are running much of the
world’s countries and their media. They are proclaiming that Fiji’s
clean-up campaign is reprehensible - they won’t admit that the general
election was rigged by Qarase’s gang, which is why, despite their
repeated clichés about ‘legally-elected democracy’ we cannot ‘revert’
to what never existed. Fiji is luckier than USA. We have a strong,
Godly, pro-Fiji force to rectify our bogus government, USA doesn’t.1
Despite world sanctions, Fiji is luckier than Iraq. Monday,
November 27th, 2006 marked the day that USA had been in Iraq longer
than they were in all of World War II - over 3½ years. 655,000 Iraqis
are now dead as a result of USA invasion.2
What the media refers to as democracy should be renamed
‘demon crazy’. “The truth is that voters are powerless. The rich and
mighty take care of their own. Malfeasance carries little risk and
rarely any sanction. Western democracies are ossified bastions of
self-perpetuating interest groups aided and abetted and legitimized by
the ritualized spectacle that we call "elections".3
We
in Fiji feel safer under the military code of ethics: ‘sacrifice your
life to save another’ than we do under political manipulators. Rent and
watch the movie The Last Samurai to get a clear comparison between
spiritual warriors and selfish, greedy, corrupt politicians who feel
entitled to tax common laborers working for 10 dollars a day into
paying 15% sales tax (VAT) on everyday items while budgeting one million dollars for construction of a mansion for Qarase.
1 http://www.commondreams.org/views/110800-101.htm
2http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php
3http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-25-2005-67591.asp
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