Rick Lowe

Two videos of the recent "protest" against the sale of BTC have been widely circulated locally and sent to CNN iReport show some Bahamians pushing the Police barricades to force their way into Parliament Square.

Several MP's were seen mingling throughout the crowd but none of them were seen trying to help keep order.

One would think that our leaders would at least be encouraging people to remain calm.

While the protesters might have gone to Bay Street with the intention of a peaceful demonstration, which is their right of course, it does not take much to ignite a people's fury.

There are demonstrations that have taken place in our country that helped promote the rights of every Bahamian or the protest against the Government having the only radio station in the country that are understandable. However, to protest market liberalisation of the phone company, seems to be the opposite of what we should be doing.

We should be celebrating that politics will finally be removed from the day to day operation of the phone company and in a few short years we will have an open market where other phone companies can enter the fray.

In the final, these videos reflect a conflict of visions between those Bahamians that want to move The Bahamas into the first world of telecommunication services and those that seem to prefer the status quo.

Or is it simply rank politics?