Greaves said that allegations that culminate in a parliamentary censure of the Minister and Member of Parliament that “these are things which are very damaging to people and I think we have to be very careful with following up rumours and elevating rumours and innuendoes to a position of fact and then proceeding on that basis to prosecute some person without any clear evidence.” It seems that on the 2nd of December 2007, these words no longer have meaning. Believe it or not, this is the very Greaves that took apart Dr. David Estwick, presumably based upon some modicum of a principle, on national radio (VOB) about two years ago. Where have those principles for his jaundiced understanding of fair play and political ethics disappeared? Is the rhetoric we hear today from this man Philip Greaves who considers himself an ‘elder’ in the DLP? Let us go further and make some connections with the self-created debacle that Thompson is so busy trying to challenge the BLP, the Prime Minister, and Clyde Mascoll, not on the basis of fact but on innuendo and ridiculous technicalities. Does going to places like Deacon’s and Fitts Village not contradict the point that Greaves makes when Greaves convincingly said that “because they [politicians] have access to the newspapers of this country, they feel they can destroy people’s characters, as they have been doing in a number of editorials in this country on this particular matter and on other matters. I am saying that this kind of attitude, this kind of approach, is wrong and we should not as parliamentarians encourage that kind of behaviour or development in our political system.” It sounds almost as if Greaves was trying to teach David Thompson a lesson then and now. Has the course of ethical direction changed because Greaves is no longer a parliamentarian? Thank God that Greaves, Taitt, and other persons of the same ilk have gone. It is very likely that Barbadians and the DLP may be much better off without the fluctuating tongues of Greaves and the current excuse for a political leader in Thompson. While Thompson came on VOB Sunday’s Brass Tacks (2nd December 2007) and promulgated again in public with what he deems to be political savvy, Barbadians were exposed to another fact that the pastor misrepresented his conversations and discussions with the Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of Government Business in the House. Lest we forget, it was Greaves back then in 1993 that concluded “it is important that we do not use the occasion [in serious parliamentary debate or the general public forums afforded politicians] ... to destroy people and to convey the wrong impression to the public.” I wonder if Thompson knows that he is masquerading as a statesman when he is but a mere inheritor of fortune. The case against Thompson’s perpetrations and oral infelicities are substantial enough that Messieurs Kellman, Sealy, Jones, Lashley, and Estwick should be gathering at the time of writing in the hope of finding a man of integrity and truth to lead them in the next general election, unless they too want to be painted with the same confusing and circuitous brush.
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