UK take over of Turks and Caicos Islands - don't drag dissenters through the mud

As many of my readers know, I have been locking horns with an activist web blog in Turks and Caicos Islands, called TCI Journal. Instead of simply disagreeing with the views of a majority of the islands' citizens (including my own opinion), it attempts to drag me through the mud. That seems to be the way in which TCI Journal deals with any opposition.

Accordingly, I started writing about TCI Journal as well. Am I an anti-TCI Journal activist? No. I just think it's high time that someone points out what bullies it is and the level of game playing it perpetuates. I hate to use "they started it", but they started it. And, most Turks and Caicos Islanders know what I mean because it's not just me who it has attacked.

You may also be aware that I disagree with UK's take over of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Is it just me? No. It's the world, including CARICOM, the EU and the UN. More importantly, it is also the opinion of many citizens of Turks and Caicos. That TCI Journal is trying to link me with agendas, such as being a part of the political parties of the Islands called the PNP and the PDM, is convenient but untrue.

TCI Journal is trying to drive the point home to its readers that there was corruption in Turks and Caicos for the last 6 years with the Michael Misick administration as a defense for its aggressive actions. This allegations gives TCI Journal unlimited leave to say whatever suits its agenda? The UK also appears to be hanging its hat on this theory as justification for taking the Turks and Caicos Islands' government.

Does the world know that Misick has been out of office since March of 2009? The UK executed an overthrow of the Islands in August of 2009. Does anyone account for the missing 6 months for which a newly elected government was installed?

TCI Journal continues to clobber me with insults and immature name-calling. I am a big boy, I can handle it. However, the distraction methods of pointing and shouting about Michael Misick is not holding water. It's over. I cannot figure out why TCI Journal wants to continue to jump-and-down pointing to a government that has not existed for months. Perhaps it's to justify its own divisive agenda. I am not clear. I don't think Misick even lives in Turks and Caicos anymore.

In one of TCI Journal's blogs, I cannot keep them straight now but this one is in Google Group, TCI Journal makes the following comment (please excuse the grammar, this is a direct quote and was authored by someone else):

"You see Burke you are not dealing with these issues and instead you insist on making up lies about the tcijournal causing this economy to suffer when it your PNP Colleagues and yourself who placed this economy in the sick position it is in. With the British here Burke, they an stop investors from being harassed by crooked Ministers, the British can ensure jobs are given to Belongers by sending 2000 work permit holders home. Forcus on these issues burke."

To read this, I can only feel sorry for the desperation in the tone. It is almost painful to read. Is anyone understanding why TCI Journal is presently not helping to mend the islands, instead touting the UK presence citing to only UK's ability to solve the Turks and Caicos former problems? What's worse, is that they lack any ability to analyse independent thought. Instead TCI Journal sticks to a bad position.

Really TCI Journal? Is big daddy UK going to "ensure jobs to Belongers"? TCI Journal ... please. That's like moving back into my parents house and asking for an allowance yet giving them my trust fund to pay it.

The opinion that UK's control will fix Turks and Caicos is nonsensical at best, if not ludicrous. Sure TCI Journal accepts credit for sounding the UK alarm bell, but is that credit worthy? Handing over the islands to UK on a silver platter is not progress. To take over the control of the Turks and Caicos government should have been the last resort by the UK. What about other options? What about partnership, which is the only relationship sanctioned by the UN between Turks and Caicos and the UK? What about UK helping Turks and Caicos with the newly installed government? What happened to the other options? UK's maneuver, partnershipped by TCI Journal, stinks to high heaven.

One of my readers pointed out that many of the complaints made to the UK about the Turks and Caicos government was duplicative, anonymous and exaggerated. Duplicative was the word that sounded my red flag. I am aware that the editor of TCI Journal, and perhaps the sole contributor, is one person, Shaun Malcolm; though he uses dozens of aliases. How many of those letters to the UK were Malcolm's alter egos?

Speaking of egos, if Malcolm's goal was to summon the UK daddy, then why is he still writing? Why is he entitled to get in the business of what the UK has been summoned to sort out. Let them sort it out then Malcolm. Stop trying to involve yourself in government transparency. Isn't that what the UK is there for in your opinion? Malcolm: hello? You are not in charge and you have no right to speak for the people.