“NO JOB LOSSES”?… That Lie Exposed!

The Military Regime started their hype about reducing the Civil Service and at the same time “no job losses” for civil servants.

These contradictory announcements came from the same horse – Rishi Ram, the military mouthpiece in the civil service. He was also quoted in the Fiji Times online as saying that 300 more jobs would be advertised to fill in the vacant posts existing in the civil service.

Confused?

Well, here’s something that could set the record straight for those who still believe this illegal military regime is the way to go.

The Government Supplies Department will be reorganized with at least 174 civil servants to be made redundant after this re-organisation! This article on FijiTimes online quotes Mr Poseci Bune as saying

”So, we will have to start talking to the unions on a redundancy package for those who are going to leave the service.”

So Mr Rishi Ram, Taina Tagicakibau, Poseci Bune …can anyone answer the question that all of Fiji would like answered …
Because the Military Regime has chosen to squander away the remaining funds we have, how many more civil servants will be made redundant after the false promises of “no job losses”?

Come on Military Regime? Answer that question to the families of the breadwinners who are going to be kicked out of the service?

This Military Regime is just full of lies, started from their allegation of corruption till now.

Their lies and deceit continues.
When will it all end?

Say “NO!! TO THE MILITARY CHARTER!”

We don’t want the Military Charter!

Failed Vice President nominee and now acting interim “PM” (illegal) Mr Epeli Nailatikau said that the people of Fiji should back the Military Charter.

I refuse to call it by any other name because this charter was drafted by Akuila Yabaki and company based on values already documented in Fiji’s Constitution that is still being upheld, or so the military want us to believe.

The Military Charter has already been rejected by

Tailevu Province via their Tailevu Bose ni Vanua

Naitasiri Provincial Council

Methodist Church

Fiji Law Society

If the word of the illegal military regime is anything to go by, then this Charter has also been rejected by at least 20% of the communities and private groups that were invited to contribute to the Military Charter.

This illegal military regime has broken the rule of law when they forced the people’s elected government out in December 5, 2006. They have since broken a lot more laws and government regulations in the manner in which they have carried out their so called “clean up.” This “clean up” has brought on more corruption, more moral decay, and a lot more nepotism then existed previously in our society. Military personnel are being given major government roles without any vetting or qualifications required. The PSC Rishi Ram has been nationally labeled as a Military mouthpiece for his pro-military stand and constant support and excuses given to the military postings – most of whom are unqualified and unmerited.

The list of military personnel who have benefited from this coup is listed on another page, but lets not get carried away from the main topic.

The military are trying to convince the people of Fiji that the Military Charter is good for them. This charter is set up by the Military to govern the people without a parliament or opposition. This propaganda by Epeli Nailatikau, Voreqe and their Military Council is to be expected – after all NO ONE BELIEVES IN THEM ANYMORE.

On Fiji Day Holiday – October 6, the Military Regime plan to push their Military Charter onto the people with some obvious public flair and parade to make it appear that the people of Fiji support these bunch of criminals and thugs.
Epeli Nailatikau said this on the launch of the Fiji Day publicity campaign earlier today:

”Also and most importantly, the leadership in Fiji, and at all levels, needs to place the national interest ahead of any personal or sectional interest,” – Epeli Nailatikau

The “National Interest” is that the Military Regime step down and return power to an elected government in 2008! This Military regime is only concerned about their Power trip, nothing else.

The loser wanna be VP Nailatikau also had this to say about the anti-Charter people:

”Some here, evidently regard the interim Governments effort on the way forward through the proposal of Moving Forward together to build a Better Fiji for all, through a Peoples Charter for Peace and Progress, as a waste of time and money. In our view, they obviously have a lack of understanding, or a very narrow view of what the Proposal is all about,’‘

Well, I’m of the opinion that all level headed citizens of Fiji should boycott this Military do, and help spread the flyers for “NO! to Military Charter”. The flyers will be released soon on these web logs, so stay tuned. And stay sharp.

Say “NO! to the MILITARY CHARTER!”

This Gang of Thieves

No it’s not a repeat of HnC’s Looney Tunes article where Shaista presents a 25page “summary” for her initial 5 page submission in one of the recent legal cases!

One of the foremost experts on Fiji, and an architect on the 1997 constitution, Professor Brij Lal, has joined other experts in dismissing the Fiji Human Rights Commission report on the coup.

Professor Lal was speaking at the Australian National University in Canberra.

I couldn’t make it across the Tasman this time, but my Canberra correspondent tells me that the people he spoke to about the seminar all reported that Professor Lal was gloomy about Fiji’s prospects.

He said he would love to be able to identify a path out of the morass, but he just could not see one.

He noted that the Fiji Labour Party indicated that an election was a lower priority, indicating that they understood that any election at the present would lead to an SDL “thumping majority”.

The People’s Charter expressed fine sentiments, but these, he said. were already set out in the constitution. The government that had been overthrown was the first genuinely multi-party government in Fiji’s history.

So, where to out of this mess? That is the question.

Its very hard to see. The army has control of all the guns and is willing to use brutality to enforce its will and suppress voices of dissent.

The answer probably lies in issues that I gather were not canvassed by Professor Lal; the internal cohesion of the regime.

Subtract the fine sentiments espoused by the IG in its People’s Charter, which are all things that everyone supports, and what have you got ? Answer : nothing.

Judged by its action, the IG is anti-union, anti-tourist industry, anti-legal profession, anti landowner and anti-Fijian. And its support for the sugar industry is completely phony as shown by its willingness to throw away the resources to deal with the serious problems facing the industry because the EU has made it clear that it will not provide the necessary funds without a return to democracy.

The only thing that holds the gang of thieves together is a desire to hang on to power. And here, perhaps, is the ray of hope that gleams through to the darkness.

This gang of thieves will sell one another out as easily as they sell out the nation. Bainimarama may well be planning to get rid of Chaudhry, who may in turn, be making plans with others within King Bai’s court.

Anti-Blog War still ongoing…

While Voreqe lies publicly about the upholding of Freedom of Speech, the military regime continues to isolate those who chose to speak out against the Military Regime through the Fiji Freedom Bloggers sites, and other avenues of expression.

The latest victim of the military regime is an unnamed civil servant from the Ministry of Finance. Recently a civil servant from the Ministry of Finance was suspended and has been presented with papers from the PSC on the basis of providing information to the blog sites. It has not been made public the name of this civil servant, nor the nature of the information provided and which blog site was involved.

Based on the Human Rights track record of this illegal Military Regime, we can only hope that this civil servant hasn’t been subjected to brutal treatment at the hands of the Qiliho-Ului led Death Squad.

Despite the threat from the illegal military regime, the Fiji Freedom Bloggers continue to blog on, even after some civil servants have been taken to task for posting information on these blogs sites.

In a recent Fiji Times article, PS for PSC Taina Tagicakibau said

”The previous case that concerned Filipe Nagera, a Clerk to the Public
Service Commission has been dealt with in accordance with the Public Service
Act and regulations. Mr Nagera has been severely reprimanded and has been
moved to another office within the Public Service Commission. But, this new
case, may look a bit more serious from the perspective of the commission,”
said Ms Tagicakibau.”

Tagicakibau also goes on to say that the best thing for them to do is to ‘resign’. Why resign when they’re speaking out against this tyranny and abuse of office that the Military Regime claimed to rid us of! Is it because Tagicakibau knows that they won’t have a case to push if the case it taken to court?

The track record of this Military Regime speaks for itself, and I call upon the UN officials to take note.

ps: The case of this civil servant has been kept under wraps, could it be a ruse to dig out the information sources within the Ministry? Or is PSC trying to keep their human rights abuse under wraps with their intimidating tactics? Be interesting to see who, how and what this is all about.

First Things First

‘First Things First’ is a principal that has long been dear to Cassandra.

It might seem to be common sense but its remarkable how often the wisdom of this principal is forgotten.

As in all things, the Illegal Government of Fiji has got it back to front.

The People’s Charter stands for a blissful state of racial harmony and social justices, as if the trouble Fiji has had achieving these goals is because no-one thought them desirable until now.

Then the process it has chosen to achieve these worthy goals is an assault on the rule of law and democracy.

Mahendra Chaudry bleats that the 2006 election was flawed, but this puppet dictator drops the ball and openly admits to TVNZ that if they hold an election now, the same people would be elected.

The charter points the finger at the 1997 constitution as the course of racial division. But this claim overlooks half a century of history in Fiji and the fact that in 2006, for the first time, the multi-party provisions of the constitution had been followed in both the spirit and the letters of the law.

Over the next twelve months the economy in Fiji will continue to languish. Tourism will remain depressed. The sugar industry will sink deeper into the mire without vital assistance from the EU. Major investments will be delayed and the knock-on effects of these will be felt more and more widely throughout the economy.

Whatever support the IG has in the population of Fiji will surely evaporate as it becomes clear that guns, bullying and intimidation can never be the basis of economic confidence.

It is no accident that the charter has been rejected by the legal profession of Fiji. It is clear that the elevation of lofty ideals to a position above the law is the path to the eventual destruction of the rule of law in Fiji.

It is only a question of time before it becomes clear to everybody that the rule of law is the only foundation on which democracy can be built and that talk of building “a non-racial culturally vibrant and united, well governed, truly democratic nation” by overthrowing a democratically-elected government and subverting the rule of law is the work of a gang of thieves with nothing but their own interests at heart.

CASSANDRA

Blacklist back at work again!

Something that was missed out by mainstream media I discovered on “Dateline Dispatch” a new blog (not political mind you so please spare this blog owner from Military exercises).

The article can be found here: http://datelinedispatch.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/imrana-jalal-on-departure-blacklist/

Imrana Jalal on departure blacklist

Prominent human rights lawyer Patricia Imrana Jalal was prevented from leaving the country last week despite holding a diplomatic passport, Dateline Dispatch can confirm.
Jalal was to have boarded a flight to Tonga on August 27 but was stopped at immigration in Nadi.
Jalal has been an outspoken critic of the military junta. She serves as a human rights advisor to the United Nations Development Program and as a member of the International Commission of Jurists, a body of sixty eminent judges and lawyers, to which she was elected in May 2006.
She is the Human Rights Adviser at the Pacific Regional Rights Resource Team (RRRT) in Suva.

Jalal was travelling on a United Nations diplomatic passport. UN officials negotiated with representatives of the military-led regime and she was allowed to fly out the next day.

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[Bainivore]

Well, what else can we say about these lamusonas at the Fiji Military or the regime?
Imrana Jalal has been victimised since the coup because of her vocal opposition, and it was only her public status that spared her the treatment suffered by her colleagues Virisila Buadromo and co.
This attitude of the Fiji Military Forces in restricting movements of Fiji Citizens  - not because they’re criminals  but because they dare to speak the truth about the Military Regime without the anonymity that I and fellow bloggers benefit from - well this attitude is just simply pathetic and cowardly!

 

I’d like to call upon the international countries involved in one way or another with Fiji to please bring back your travel restrictions, and if they’re still there, make it harder for the military to travel to visit their friends, relatives or for medical reasons!! Please, let this military suffer as much as we are!!

The art of Distraction and Delay

Legal history has been made. Shyster’s brief excursion into constitutional law is the most remarkable legal document ever produced. It is the equivalent of a scientist outlining proof that the world is flat, gravitation an illusion and the moon is made of green cheese.

Where does one start in pulling apart the web of fantasy?

Take the parallel with the Australian dismissal of Prime Minister Whitlam. There is no basis for this, but even if there were, the effect of the dismissal of Prime Minister Whitlam was to order an election, not appoint the head of the military as PM.

The 1997 constitution follows the classical model of parliamentary democracy. The Prime Minister is a member of the House of Representatives. Full stop, no qualifications.

There is in fact little point in pointing out the obvious in regard to the flights of fantasy in Shyster’s document, the real issue why did she publish it?
Does she have some pathological need to court ridicule and contempt?
Is it just, as many on the freedom blogs assert, that her brain is so suffused with TCHP that she has lost touch with reality?

I don’t think so. I see, instead, the usual pattern of this mini axis of evil: desperation and a grubby, reptile-like instinct for self-preservation.

Above all, they struggle to keep their shonky regime a step ahead of the courts. This document is sent off to the UN, from which there will be no reply for who knows how long? That means they can always say they are waiting for the UN to respond.

In parallel, the ridiculous accusations against Qarase are fed into the court system. Their obvious lack of merit means nothing. They will have to be examined, they have bearing on the case being brought being brought by Qarase, and what do you know, we need to hold off a decision on his case until we have looked at the charges brought against Qarase.

Lets not be distracted by this piece of theatre of the absurd. It was only designed to distract and delay.

CASSANDRA

Cowards break under pressure!

Coward Voreqe Bainimarama has brought back the Emergency Regulation (Public Emergency Regulation) because…according to Voreqe himself – it is ment to restraing ousted Fiji Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase!

Since Qarase’s return the military have been stumbling all over themselves contradicting their “Qarase is irrelevant” statements with public surveillance of Qarase. Laisenia Qarase stated in TV interviews what everyone else was thinking – that this coup’s reason for cleaning up was a cover for something darker, that this interim military regime is more corrupt! Qarase also stated in today’s Sun that he is being followed around with plainclothes military making it obvious that Qarase is being watched – all part of the intimidating tactics for sure.

What no one really expected (but isn’t a surprise) is the quickness in which Coward Voreqe brought back the PER – the military’s own tool for strapping resistance in line with their pathetic dictatorial leadership.

Two reports on Fiji Live state categorically that Coward Voreqe has threatened to exile Laisenia Qarase and SDL’s spokesman Peceli Kinivuwai back to their islands. You can red them here.

Coward Voreqe has stated that the reason for bringing the PER back is to find an excuse to send Laisenia Qarase and Peceli Kinivuwai back to their island, after that “the rest of us move on with our lives.”

What the blazes is he thinking?!!!!!!!!!!!

Woes continue for Vatukoula.

Vatukoula homes were without water and electricity last night because Westech had to preserve fuel and water, stopping the powerhouse operations for the first time in 71 years!.

Since taking over the mine operations, Westech has also provided electricity to Vatukoula homes via the Vatukoula powerhouse, and water via their pumps they set up at the mine. The company shut these down last night because they could not purchase more fuel due to the garnishee order placed by FIRCA.

FIRCA’s claim is that Westech, who just took over the mining operations last month, owes FIRCA some $11.1 millions dollars in TAX ARREARS which was incurred by the former owner!

Now I might be missing something here, but if the former owners owed this much, why can’t FIRCA write this off like they did Chaudhry’s debt in the $6million write off Parmod Archary just wrote off?

IArse Kaiyum hopes the issue will be resolved in the next two days.

Now, from what I gather from Fiji Times online, and Fuggedaboutit who initially broke this story that wasn’t covered in the mainstream media, is that

-        Vatukoula mines were shut down when previous owners left in December 2006.

-        Westech stepped in early in January 2007 expressing interest in taking over the mine

-        The illegal interim military regime delayed dealing with Westech for reasons stated in Fuggedaboutit’s articles

-        Westech finally got the deal signed by the Mineral Resource department 8 months later

-        Westech hired workers back in the mine, and things looked good

-        Until Chaudhry stepped in and got FIRCA to put a garnishee order on the company Westech for TAX owed FIRCA by the previous mine owner – or so Chaudhry claims.

-        Talks were held yesterday between Westech and FIRCA / illegal military regime where Iarse Kaiyum and FIRCA told Westech they had to pay up the alleged $11.1million owed FIRCA by previous Emperor Gold Mine company, and for Westech to start with paying up $7.5mill within 2 days.

The lack of logic in getting Westech paying up for the tax dues not owed by them is something I’ll leave to you the reader to draw your own conclusions about.

The fact is, the Vatukoula community have suffered and are still suffering, due to the incompetence of the illegal military regime in handling a simple investor situation.

Is this what will happen to future investors that the military regime don’t like?
We know what they do to locals they don’t like!
This bungling by the military regime is not going to regain investor confidence, far from it. It’ll probably work more for those investors who don’t have a high standard of ethics or principles. Contrary to what Chaudhry’s been promising Fiji, the military regime have done nothing to sow confidence in investors. IF this is what Westech has to go through in order to run a mine, what charges will future investors be slapped with? Speculation on whether Westech’s treatment is an example of what’s in offer for future investors is going to be on the investors’ minds. Question is, after all the headless-chicken bungling they’ve come upt with, will the military regime be able to deliver on at least regaining investor confidence?

Chaudhry laughing all the way to the bank!

FACT: Evidence is provided to FICAC and Police by unionist Mr. Tabu regarding Mahendra Chaudhry’s tax fraud cases over the past decade - this is in reply to Voreqe’s challenge to provide evidence of corruption and the minister will be investigated.

FACT: FICAC Changes policy to NOT investigate any Tax Fraud cases, leaving that in the hands of FIRCA and Police. Police refuse to comment to questions regarding investigations into the matter.

FACT: Chaudhry changes FIRCA leadership, placing his boy - Parmod Achary as the acting head of FIRCA

FACT: Chaudhry has spoken as the illegal “minister” finance that the FIRCA will decide on the matter of tax fraud corruption. FIRCA then acts under a directive from the Minister Finance saying that it will write off the $6mill debt and not investigate anyone.

FACT: Chaudhry’s boy Parmod Achary declares F$6million dollars in debt write off by FIRCA.
(hint: click on the sentence and get the Fiji Times article)

Of this $6million dollars, Parmod Achary does not provide a statement of why these debts are being written off. Note that the above facts occurred in chronological order.
Some questions that should have been asked are:

(i) Are these debts from a particular year or are they spread out over years, if so what years are these specifically?
(ii) Are these debts from a particular person, individual, or business? FIRCA will understandably say they can’t provide names out of confidentiality reasons, but I’m sure they can state the number of individuals or business entities involved!
(iii) On what grounds was the $6million written off?
(iv)What criteria did these debts meet to justify their “write off” status?
(v) What actions were taken by FIRCA to exhaust all means of recovering these monies?
(vi) What percentage of the business entities owing money to FIRCA are part of the business entities that entertained the illegal Military regime since December 2006?
Willing to bet that Chaudhry’s tax fraud owing to FIRCA is part of the $6million write off?