Dear Editor
I’m an aspiring businessman. I’ve never really taken much notice of policy makers (politicians, councillors, representatives of any form). Several years ago, my startup required capital and I borrowed money to get going along with all manner of sacrifices, stress and heartache. All quite normal of course.
I can trace my motivation to personality, freedom, a desire to better myself, a will to secure a future independent of others (notwithstanding ‘the man’).
Then came the pandemic crisis. Policy makers, who were previously endured as long as things worked, inserted themselves into my life and stopped things working.
Many of us live in a physical world, where doing constructive things, doing things better, selling things and moving them from A to B and in so doing create wealth. Being a curious fellow, I researched Covid-19 widely and came to the conclusion that restricting people’s movement, for absolutely no net health benefit, was the single biggest threat to our economic security.
It became obvious that, contrary to what many bureaucrats believe, most wealth is not created behind a computer screen, whilst dressed in pyjamas.
Consequently, it comes as no surprise that inflation is increasing, interest rates are going up, logistics are stalling, industries such as tourism are struggling, and we are all getting poorer as a result.
I resent the insertion into my life of idiotic policies and practices that limit freedom of movement by people who would otherwise be unemployable, and who have not suffered financially throughout.
As more information comes out and more of their lies get exposed, and as we see them backpedal their statistics and policies, duck for cover, or even try an elegant exit from their positions of power, the more we need to get vocal.
Clearly having an attitude of benign acceptance towards policy makers of whatever hue has been a mistake. It’s time to make these policy makers’ lives uncomfortable, very uncomfortable. We need to insert ourselves into their meetings, question everything and be prepared to march.
We need to press for a full review of their actions within the context of their global masters (another glaring truth being exposed) and put them in front of panels of citizens.
The way I see it is there are only three ways out for these policy makers, lest they try it again.
One is the Sri Lankan way, two is the full totalitarian way (a la Wellington protests) or thirdly, a Truth and Reconciliation way. The latter being the commission set up after the fall of apartheid where the victims got to confront their tormentors, and where laws were broken, the victims had the opportunity to forgive, or refer the matter to the police.
Until then, those of us with aspiration and motivation to make a better life are flogging a dead horse.
Tiger
