Charlie Charters seems to think that his praise for the Coalition government on social media entitles him to special treatment and certainly not to have his phone seized again by the police after he won his court case against FICAC.
Grubsheet doesn’t know enough to make any credible pronouncement on the case. But our local “Homer in a Muumuu” is in la-la land if he thinks his services to the government are going to help him.
Nor is he likely to benefit in the court of public opinion from a statement that reeks of self-entitlement and self-delusion:
Woo-hoo! So does this mean that Charlie is going to break ranks with his gaggle of fellow government worshipers and break ranks with the Coalition? Old Rolex Rambo will be quaking in his sandals.
Charlie describes himself as a “citizen journalist”. But what journalist goes to “great pains to give credit” to any government in the expectation of special treatment when they fall foul of the law?
With his international media experience, Charlie should be the first to understand that the executive – the government – normally has no say in what happens in the criminal justice system. Or is this Charlie telling us that in Fiji, things are different? Because this very much suggests that Charlie believes the government can put an end to his misery. And we thought they were independent. Silly us.
Poor Charlie. The Fiji Times accompanies its website coverage of his statement with multiple ads for “losing a hanging belly”. Surely they could have been placed somewhere else? Or is some wag at the FT deliberately trawling for sniggers?
With this statement, Charlie is clearly looking for sympathy. Alas, as the renowned British theatre critic, Ken Tynan, once said: “It’s in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary somewhere between sh*t and syphilis”.
In other words, you won’t get any here.
Media freedom, my arse.
(Refer to previous article)
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