The Prime Minister has given Grubsheet a massive free kick with his announcement that the government is to allow “electronic” public access to a redacted version of the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry Report into the Barbara Malimali affair.
You will soon be able to read a censored version presumably on a Department of Information website. But if you want to read an uncensored version, it was published here last week – the full eight chapters with every one of those individuals adversely mentioned identified by name and the whole sorry saga outlined in excruciating detail.
So what on earth is the point? Can those at the top of government be so seriously stupid that they would think the Fijian people will be satisfied with a censored version when they can get the truth here? My readership figures are already going through the roof. But Grubsheet will soon be reaching a fresh mass audience gifted to it by the very people whose removal I am campaigning for at the next election.
Sitiveni Rabuka and his rabble are genuinely the gift that keeps on giving – an army of lemmings poised at the edge of a cliff and seemingly determined to hurl themselves onto the rocks of public opinion below.
It isn’t just the sheer pointlessness in the modern age of officially publishing a censored document when an uncensored version is readily available and the cost to the taxpayer of doing so. These people at the top of government, the PM included, no longer even try to hide the fact that they think the Fijian people are genuinely stupid. Or can they really be that stupid themselves? Sorry, dumb question.
It is even worse for those mentioned in the COI Report. They’ve been demanding that the government release the contents to enable them to respond when they will have all read the precise details anyway on Grubsheet and Facebook. But when the government finally does release the Report in censored form, their names won’t be in it.
How the hell do they respond to the government-authorised version when it doesn’t name them? Have any of you idiots in the Prime Minister’s Office thought about that? How do the likes of Barbara Malimali, Manoa Kamikamica and Biman Prasad try to defend themselves when they’re not even named. And yet they are still having their reputations battered by the adverse mentions in the uncensored version on Grubsheet and elsewhere?
It is genuinely staggering. And yet another example – albeit the most glaring – of the sheer stupidity of the Prime Minister and his grisly gang of bumbling incompetents. Can you believe it, Fiji? They are actually driving a mass readership into the arms of one of their chief critics – me – while making it impossible for the wrongdoers and bumbling incompetents named in the report to defend themselves.
It’s going to be very interesting to see what the redacted version the government is releasing contains. Is it the version that Justice Ashton-Lewis and Janet Mason provided to it for public release or have further redactions been made, which was the demand reportedly made by some of those to whom the Report was leaked from the President’s Office.
Yet even that doesn’t really matter. Because the full version of the Report – with complete names and pack-drill – is already freely available. So all we have to do to discover the full extent of the government’s censorship is to compare the redacted version on the official website with the version on Grubsheet. It ain’t rocket science and the Fijian people aren’t that stupid. But that’s how we are routinely treated.
Coming next week, a series of articles on what the COI Report says about some of our top people and the implications for their futures. And it’s the uncensored version – totally unvarnished. Imagine. Some of Fiji’s dumbest people will be going to the official website to learn nothing while anyone with half a brain gets to read the whole thing here. (The really smart people have already seen it).
There’s only one word to describe the entire farce. Unbe -effing -lievable.
Nothing amazes us any more. The circumstances and circus around COI give definition to a Banana Republic with a capital C. Fijians now know one new word: Redact. Yet, the questions on leadership are moot, as this is no longer about leadership in any way or form, but a terrible indictment of those who voted these imbeciles into power. Especially those like GD and ilk who campaigned vigorously for their ascent into power and Shameless Sham n Droopy sisters dancing in exuberant displays of whoopy. No, the joke is seriously on us. Let’s make sure we are as vigorous and vigilant as GD, in h8s chastened avataar in making sure this lot of idiots and their faithful never ever come within cooee of power.
Graham, it’s really sad that we have a PM who has failed his people and the Vanua in doing what is right for the greater good. The man has no clear conscience to protect his chief who is refusing to suspend the CJ who is now taking on the case of ASK and FB in the high court.
I guess Ratu Mara was right in what he told my father that we are good for 4 L words that is Lasu,lega,limuri and lotu. We are our own worse enemy. There is no willpower to do what is right, no care for the well being of our people and/or country.
There are so many lies to cover one truth. There is no good out there. We have a PM who is part of the elite protecting his own whilst the grassroots are suffering and being lied too. Sometimes I think we are in hell for all the evil that is going on.
An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground and rule over ashes. This is what I see of PM SLR and the government he leads, Graham.
And now Temo is presiding over AKS and Saneem case….. Any lawyer is going to challenge the validity of this….a whole can of legal worms is going to open real soon…..
I wonder what they have redacted? Be interesting to see…..
A Nero moment. May you be so high, the law is always higher than you.
And than when we point out the implicated ones on social media, the stupid ones go, ” evidence please” and Coalition Ministers, Vijay Narayan and Anish Chand do a front page titled ” FAKE NEWS”
Hello GD
Rabuka will be addressing the National Press Club in Canberra on 02 July..so says the FT today.
The question is do journalists there really know what’s going on vis-a- vis the COI and its findings and all the other confusion and chaos surrounding it and Fiji generally?
You better be there!
GD,
Rabuka is making an appearance at the National Press Club in Canberra on 2 July.It would be interesting if he could be quizzed on the current shenanigans he is presiding over.The so called journalists in Fiji could learn how journalism is done too.
Maybe some kind person from Yorkshire left the ‘flat cap’ or more usually called a ‘flat at’ with Rambo when the colonials left Fiji to run itself.
Probably told him it was a symbol of the working classes and to ditch the gold watch and don the cap when under pressure to prove he was a man of the people.
It’s not working!
I hope the Buka makes a fool of himself at the National Press Club. I hope the journalist tear into him and make him stutter and cough and have a heart attack. Better still he should be made to look totally embarrassed in front of an national audience and made a national disgrace.