In regards to 'Akilisi's statements in Parliament prior to the 16th, the radio announcement on the 16th and in the interview after the 16th: 'Akilisi himself needs to revise his history, both past and present, before he advises others to do so.

Neither Hitler nor the Pharaohs were rejected by the people. In the past the Pharaohs ruled Egypt for many thousands of years (in fact the longest continuous history, as a unified state, of any country in the world). They must have been doing something right until they were deposed by the Libyan kings, Persians and Graeco-Romans.

Hitler was not made the leader of Germany as a God given birth-right. He usurped the position exploiting racism, extortion and corruption.... Hitler was not rejected by the people. He lost his power, when he failed to expand his grip over the rest of Europe, to overseas forces.

'Akilisi, and in the present - one cannot claim responsibility one day, while you think you are a winner, and deny it the next, when you realise you are a looser.

Finally, when you make racist statements like, "Vakataumai is currently being leased by a Chinese for 99 years", 'Akilisi and those who would listen to him, need to acknowledge how many Tongans are living and working hard overseas, leasing and purchasing property overseas and supporting their families back in Tonga. It is a two way street. Or perhaps you are one of those who advocate double standards?

Also it was the Chinese who came up with the "Christian" principles centuries, perhaps thousands of years, before Christ. A concept you have yet to adopt.

Having crippled the business community and put the workers out of their jobs, who was it that your group would have been fundraising from back at Pangai Si'i to rebuild Nuku'alofa?

Do you have any concept at all of economics and the value of what has been destroyed?

In a thin disguise of representing the will of the people of Tonga, what we have found is a pack of neo-Nazi dictators with bitter agendas.

Anonymous.

-as we have now, since the 16th and for the time being, truly become a nation where it is unsafe to speak your mind for fear of being individually further persecuted.

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PS: Our thanks go out to the soldiers who have camouflaged their tents and checkpoints with balloons and Christmas decorations. Have a Merry Christmas Season and a Happy New Year!