Leave the Maras alone and let’s find the galls and the balls to get Fiji out of it’s current mess!
Please lets give the two brothers a chance to sort themselves out. They need their privacy. Lets not meddle into affairs that do not concern us. Please leave the matter to the people of Lau to sort out because it is an in house matter for them the Lauans. Who befitts the title and who becomes the paramount chief of Lau is for Lau to decide. We must not use the blog sites to air and clean dirty linen that must be kept indoors. We have problems bigger than appointing chiefs on our plate at the moment.
To say the least we must learn to take what is ours and leave what does not belong to us aside. Lets talk about what belongs to us and that is our freedom and our democracy. Lets discus ways of getting this back. We dont want to know who is Mara or Tom or Harry, we want to find a way forward and out of this mess. Workers are being laid off, innocent children are suffering, business is struggling, freedom of speech is non existent, human rights are being violated etc etc ect so where do we go from here? Appointing a Tui Lau will not solve our problems. Ului or Mara will not but the people will if they are really keen, genuine and honest about their identity and the future of their children.
It would be better to ask Ului to try and use his chiefly connections to persuade Frank to return to the people of Fiji what rightfully belongs to them that is their right, freedom and their democracy. Ului will be remembered as a true chief if he does this because a trademark of a true chief is his love for his subjects or people not one who only thinks of filling his pockets and taking away from the people what is theirs.
Whether Frank, Ului, Chaudhary, Qarase or whoever is a chief is God”s choice and no one really can do anything about it. Whether any of these men can take Fiji out of our current mess is a concern to this very proud nation and its people.
Lets all get together and try and get us out of this mess. Lets not forget that Ului was born a Mara,period. Whether he is a true chief or not the devil may care because Fiji and its people care less. We need a chief, politician , talatala, public servant, soldier,farmer or villager who has the galls and the balls to take Fiji out of the mess that we are currently in.
Well said.
talei
August 18, 2009 at 11:48 pm
The SDL and the Methodist Church are now helpless to help the ordinary poeple do away with the mess they are facing. What is needed someone who will stand up and face the tyrant and his cronies and put them away…for good.
tunow
August 19, 2009 at 12:07 am
And who is stopping you from opening that line of discussion you so craved?
We are waiting ..
talei2
August 19, 2009 at 12:39 am
The choice to go to the media about this can of worms was Roko Ului’s. All bets are off from that point. Nowadays nothing gets published without Roko Ului’s say so making it an embarrassment to suggest that “they be left alone” although I am in agreement with tossing ideas and perhaps it is time we go beyond simply talking and get organized. Getting organized is what is needed but lacking.
veivueti
August 19, 2009 at 4:19 am
@tunow: I disagree, violence solves nothing, you will merely be playing into the hands of violent people. Non-violence is the answer; there will be a time for peaceful confrontation, until there is, let’s go with the flow.
cikinovu
August 19, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Thats correct cikinovu. Violence solves nothing but there is another way for the soldiers to put their heads together and tell FB to step down and hand over leadership to whoever will be chosen to prepare the country for the return to democratic rule and follow the Supreme courts’s April decision. this will be a sensible way and save the military from further humiliation but it is very hard now due to the fact that they had been brainwashed to believe that what they had done is correct but it is legally and morally wrong .
They may be trying to rid corruption but they are doing a corrupt practise by putting their own men in Government and benefitting from the coup which they said that they will not benefit from. This is bribery and corruption at its best.
josycam
August 20, 2009 at 4:00 am