Only puppets can operate blind folded [1]
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 - 18:54. Updated on Monday, September 9, 2013 - 18:40.
Editor,
PLEASE allow me to respond to Soni Uatas letter, "Mr Cauchi: A captain abandoning ship."
My emotions were very confused whether I should laugh or I should cry after reading Mr. Uatas comments . . . so I decided to write a reply instead.
"He knows, if not, should have known that regardless of what the constitution says, traditionally, the Tongan Judiciary Branch of Government has always served at the pleasure of the King, this has been the practice from Taufa'ahau Tupou I. For him to come in and think it was going to be any different is beyond me," Uata wrote.
The Prime Minister and the government rescinded on their contract with Mr. Cauchi by not giving him the power as the independent Attorney General he supposed to be. Mr. Cauchi is a fine scholar and does not make a good door mat. There is enough coconut husks in the kingdom for that purpose.
Returning home should be the right thing to do. Being comfortable at his own home is also his constitutional right that he should enjoy without having to answer to anyone including you.
"The least he could have done was voice the seriousness of his concerns, but stay and see justice prevails somehow, by continuing to stay focus on his task as an independent prosecutor," Uata continues.
Did you really want him to stay and serve at the pleasure of the king, or as an independent prosecutor? How can anyone accomplish anything at all if he is blind folded with mouth taped and his hands are tied behind his back Mr. Uata? You can explain to me but only one type of people that can still perform well in the situation mentioned above . . . puppets.
"It is extremely troubling to see him leave and now what are the people really left with? Nothing!" According to Soni Uata.
The Prime Minister and the people of Tonga have to realize that an Australian material called Cauchi does not make very good puppets nor does it make a decent door mat. According to the government, Tonga is a very old country and only Tongans know how to make the appropriate changes.
Therefore, we don't need Mr. Cauchi since he is not Tongan.
". . . while injustice continues in Tonga's Judiciary. And what of the Ashika victims? They will continue live on with the memories of their loss without any real hope for justice," Mr. Uata wonders.
I am sorry Mr. Uata but I thought it was the PM and the cabinet members that were responsible for the purchase of the Ashika which inadvertently put us in that situation. They are also the ones responsible for sabotaging the inquiry process for the sinking of the MV Ashika.
Their recent blockage of the Ashika Inquiry Report indicate that they have no interest in transparency nor accountability.
What is evident here is that the government have way too much power and they are struggling to relinquish it. However, in the mean time . . . "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely," Sir Lord John Dalberg-Acton.
Malo,
'Aisea T. Tu'ikolovatu
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