How Do Citizens Retain their Freedom of Choice after several Coup-de-tats?

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Read more from this blogger who laments Fiji's situation;
"Inspired by Intelligentsiya I am joining in Fiji's fight to retain our freedoms of choice in life - before we know it our freedoms will be taken away and what we take for being normal is really not. We must guard against this at all times and fight to retain what can never be suppressed! A government that knowingly and deliberately violates people’s rights loses the moral authority to demand obedience." Discom Bubu.

Monday, August 24, 2009
The Stench from behind the Tapa curtain - Na i Boi-ca sa kuvucake mai na daku ni i lati.

THE moral stench that emanates from Fiji’s regime is putrefying and can be smelt all over the world.

The wonderful Michael Leunig, contemporary philosopher & cartoonist said once,
“The time has come to be honest with ourselves and stop pretending we live in nicey-nicey, happy-clappy land”
Which is what Frank and Co would like to have us believe. .. Hello ... Atu’s Police Station .... praise the Lord.

Struth !!!!

To be frank (wonder why I loathe using that term now) , we live in a country driven by military madness. What is happening to Fiji is deeply ghoulish and evilly primal.

And we experience this unease everyday that we wake up and go out to work.

Each day I meet ordinary citizens who are very principled and who share their opinions; others who show no substance of character but who exist only to bend and twist in the wind, agreeing with Frank one day and siding with Ro Teimumu’s stand the next. These people are empty and creepy and lack a spiritual and moral soul.

Each day we also awaken to see the military and police spooks on their sinister watch in their suwai - in the streets, in our boardrooms and in the internet cafes. A menacing hovering specter in our daily life. [for more...]http://discombobulatedbubu.blogspot.com/

Write to the US Congress' foreign relations committee as well!

Thank God the ailing Fiji [Puppet] President has resigned. He was useless anyway. Yes great idea to approach the Powerful Congress gentleman.

looking back in time....below!!

April 2009

Fiji: The Failing State
This policy briefs describes how Fijian President Josefa Iloilo's abrogation of the 1997 constitution has entrenched a military dictatorship in Australia's backyard. The author argues that Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama's dominant leadership of the interim government and his exclusion of dissenting voices will exacerbate and accelerate economic decline in Fiji and cause unprecedented hardship to Fiji's population.

© 2009 Lowy Institute for International Policy

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Author:
Jenny Hayward-Jones
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Lowy Institute Policy Briefs