THE NEW AND
IMPROVED RICHARD FREDERICK
Where?
I didn’t see
it. Did you?
What I saw
the entire political class fall in stature to the point where they were no
better than Richard Frederick. In fact, Richard Frederick has one up on them.
One of the
most important rules of war is that you shouldn’t fuck a man who has nothing left
to lose.
Another
important rule is that you shouldn’t wound a dangerous beast if you mean to
survive. You should kill him. One time.
The wounded beast..
"Do I look dead to you?"
The failure
of Kenny Anthony and Allen Chastanet to effectively address the threat of
Richard Frederick, their procrastination, delay, indecision, weakness in the
face of internal dissent, all of these have led us to this point.
The point
where everyone in the international community and the local populace can see
clearly that Richard Frederick is no worse than any of the politicians who have
successfully painted him as a drug dealer, a wheeler dealer and the most
dangerous kind of politician.
They’re all
the most dangerous kind of politician.
But Richard
Frederick has one on them.
He’s more
dangerous. He plays hard ball. While they are weak hearts who don’t know how to
kick the dog when it’s down, Richard Frederick is a risk taker, who has
correctly bet that neither Labour or Flambeau has the guts to do what it takes
to get rid of him.
Richard Frederick with some retarded children
And here’s
the upshot.
Richard
Frederick, of all people, now has the most legitimate shot at coming out as the
real hero, the real goddam revolutionary, in all this.
He is
expertly armed in information that lesser men in the same position neglected to
arm themselves with.He has maintained cells of personal loyalists in the
planning ministry, in the justice ministry, the attorney general’s office and
of course, the police force. He had always had cells and contacts in Customs
and Immigration, although those are not so useful given the heightened state of
international surveillance of St Lucia.
Who really runs planning? Richard Frederick or the current minister (who just happens to be Richard Frederick's former partner and Richard Frederick's child's pawen)
He is not
averse to collecting background information on his rivals and using it against
them.
He’s a real
Macchiavellian. The kind of Christian pope who will stab you in the back and
take all your shit, just because the time is right.
Now that he
has had enough time to use his Lucian al Qaeda to gather all the information he
could need to attack his enemies, now they want to throw him out of the party.
Now, they want to figure out how to beat him in an election so that he loses
his diplomatic passport.
But it’s too
late for that. Because the smart money says that there is more than one person
in the Lower House of Parliament who has dealt in the traffick of cocaine.
There is more than one person there whose accounts and lists of assets are full
of ill-gotten gains. It doesn’t even matter which political party you’re
talking about.
These men
are corrupt.
"Drug money, it's gonna buy you what you want
Fish scale, I'll buy you what you want
Thousand bill, I'll buy you what you want
A hundred square, I'll buy you what you want..."
And Richard
Frederick, perhaps more than anyone else, knows how corrupt they are. They don’t
want to fight with him. They want to dance with him.
But if he
has the guts to expose them for what he knows they are…
If Richard
Frederick starts dropping bombs of truth that no one else in parliament would
tell…
Tell me, wouldn’t
you consider him a hero in the making, too?
Of course, I
wouldn’t bet money that Richard Frederick is going to drop any real hard
science on his enemies in Flambeau and Labour. I’m betting that he’s dancing
with them, too. They’re negotiating the new balance of power, now that it seems
a credible third political force has come about for the first time since George
Odlum had abs.
Richard
Frederick could change the entire game by exposing every single one of the
dirtiest players in parliament. But the problem is that Richard Frederick is not
one of us, yet.
He’s still
one of them.
I wonder if
he’ll ever learn.
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