Okay. Some of this article is about the PUP. I am not a member of any political party, and my only stake in party politics is what will happen to Belize, the place of my father’s birth, my wife’s birth, the birth of our three children and two of our grandchildren. The news reports as regards the result of the February 7 elections are beginning to assume a surreal character; like am I really hearing what I’m hearing? It appears that there is a brewing battle within that party as to who will inherit the leadership; the Mark Espat- Cordel Hyde alliance, the northern faction spearheaded by Johnny Briceño, or the budding alliance of Francis Fonseca and Godfrey Smith.

Last week I wrote an introductory commentary on matters relating to our Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and promised to expound a bit more this week on issues pertaining to diplomats posted abroad.

Well, hell; the passing of the days have come, and the glory children have taken possession of the free land. Let us all hope that the love of God and humanity returns to us; and let me hope that this thing called brotherly love will embrace us as before. In Belize, like any other country, we have educated thieves, we have con artists, we have morons and jackasses. So God has spread us out evenly; but then, you cannot judge us all by looks. So learn about yourselves, and put the truth together; and there is no way in hell you will ever overlook the power of your Creator in you.

Vellos pleased with new GoB. This love affair (fling) won’t last too long…Russell Vellos and politicians/lawyers/that ilk are oil and water, so it was quite amusing, very, very, to read in the editor’s shot Look in the mirror, in last week Tuesday’s Amandala, that the PUP are doomed to remain the Opposition, unless the UDP, at some point in the future, become the PUP, which is not likely to happen anytime soon if Prime Minister Dean Barrow sticks to his game plan, which was a pleasure to hear, when he announced his cabinet today, Monday. The government reportedly has said that within one hundred days we will feel the winds of change. I give the Vellos/new GoB honeymoon one hundred days too. Trust me, it can’t last.

The February 7th, 2008 general elections have come and gone, and frankly - now there’s a bad pun - I’m glad to see it gone. My feeling right now is one of close to absolute exhaustion. Political campaigns are grueling exercises at best, and this one made me realize that I’m not a young man anymore. I do feel good about having helped an intelligent, young, talented and energetic man, the Hon. Mark Espat, one of the only politicians I have ever met who has a conscience, to continue his political career. The only other Belizean politician that I have similar respect for is Hon. Henry Young, a man who I will continue to address as such even though he has retired from active politics.

Well hell, I came home to live a few years longer; I did not know that the country had turned into a republic. As any republic we have become a murder country. Again, the guns, the bullets are never free in a poor ass country; so do not tell me one sh__ about poverty here, because that did not reach us until 1944, when the Americans’ cousin needed help in World War Two, and they went into slavery no. 2. And the whole Caribbean got the effect of that war, and by traveling we began to learn that we were the furthest thing from “subject”. So to the point we were studied by every ass on earth who did not look like us, and then they found money in religion and called God a liar.

There are lies, damn lies and statistics. This is, an oft quoted saying because statistics are often quoted to mislead. The figures are true but the conclusions are false. Here is a good example. The Human Rights Commission has concluded that there is no correlation between the death penalty and the incidence of murder. We don’t know which countries have been studied and the circumstances appertaining. This is important. For instance, since 1957, the incidence of murder in Belize has increased annually, dramatically so in the last five years. In 1957, there was one murder and the murderer was convicted and executed. The penalty for murder is death but, there has been no execution since 1957. So, a study of the death penalty and the incidence of murder in Belize would show that there is no correlation between the two. In fact, it would suggest that we might be better off to abolish capital punishment. You can see the illogic of it. In fact, it is absurd.

All things work together for good. After thirty years, the Americans and the Italians have decided to open up their Pandora’s Box worldwide, so start listening for some strange sounding names. This is supposed to be bigger than big, and they are talking about big time corruption. After five days of Belize’s weak election, I must wonder why. So I will flash my mindset way back to an old song on Water Lane in the forties. “Sly mongoose, yu name gone abroad.” There is something very strange about this.

It seems to me that the PUP have a problem. No, not the problem of getting used to the realization that they are now the Opposition, and that there are only six of them.

The nights have a thousand eyes, and the day but one, and any jackass should know this. You listen daily to a bunch of twisted tongue asses. They are all saying the same thing about each other. Even the politics is pure s—t. All of this is strange to me, because it is the same people, the same bulls—t. The truth seems to be the hardest thing to get from these sycophants. Listening to the same story, your ass will always be in trouble.

I am writing this article on Thursday morning, February 7, 2008.

We are living in the world, the flesh and the devil, with a cross breed of infidels. You have asses here who are selling the country’s ass backward, for the glory of a football game, and a disgrace to all of us in the bottom, where the money stops. The fifth columnist is at work, and not one ass seems to care. Check the names, and you can pinpoint who the hell I am talking about.

I would like you to try to cut yourself away from your connections and feelings about political politics, government and Opposition, and consider the essentials of the referendum and what it means to the ordinary citizens.

JC Arzu gets special award from ABAF