Rick Lowe
According to The Nassau Guardian, an MP charged on Monday that "Several members of Parliament (MP) stood idly by while young men brazenly smoked marijuana near polling areas during the Elizabeth by-election last year…" [More…]
This is the level of debate to help with proposed changes to the Parliamentary Elections Act by the way!
I've worked in elections in some form or fashion since 1982 up to the 2002 poll and there are always Police present, so why wouldn't they arrest people that are allegedly smoking pot?
If we want to debate something meaningful about marijuana let's discuss legalisling it by brining a Private Members Bill to the House. In the meantime there's a serious proposal on the table regarding amendments to the Parliamentary Elections Act to which one can offer suggestions for improvement.
Is this parliamentary or school yard debate?
Rick:
This displays the total IGNORANCE of some M.P’s, they are not intelligent enough to hold a civil meaningful debate on matters of national importance so they just deal in “GUTTER POLITICS.” I do believe they want to be heard just to be heard and it does not matter to them what is said.
I agree GQ.
I’m thinking about a brief blog about the hatred in politics these days – the personal attacks – and the fact that it can’t be a very useful to approach politics or life that way.
Rick.. Just start your blog with our neighbor the United States where hatred of opposing points of view has become the order of the day.. How many women did Bill Clinton destroy with the support of the so-called media?? Now the Democratic machine is attacking women in the Republican Party.. How sad that a once great country has become so divided that political hatred and character attacks today are common place.. A nation that has lost its self-respect is a nation that has lost its way and can only lead to further decline..
There is a lesson here for the Bahamas, but given our political ineptness, one has to wonder if our country’s leaders are paying any meaning attention to the social and economic decline that is taking place.. Be careful Bahamas we are riding on America’s coattails and the Chinese are here in full force..