Political cultists at it again

I can usually depend on the usual assortment of political cultists to compulsively miss the point of my articles in favour of ad hominem attacks. Here are a couple of emails that I received in response to my letter that appeared in the Observer today (edited of course, for libel!):




EMAIL ONE

Your man Professor Stephen Vasciannie is not qualified to be the solicitor general, he is more useful teaching students.

I am not a lawyer, but he gave the governmnet wrong advice regarding CCJ.

He did not support the dutch governmnet in the lawfully investigation into criminal activities by their national.


MY RESPONSE

Sir (?),

Like many who have expressed a view on this issue, you do so without any the slightest resort to the facts. You have not even bothered to express a view as to whether the facts I set out in my article are accurate or not. Again, like many Jamaicans, you much prefer to personalize an issue, rather than deal with it on principle.

Did you review Prof. Vasciannie's resume before concluding that he is unqualified to be SG? If you are not a lawyer, on what basis do you infer that Prof. Vasciannie gave the wrong advice? Have you even read the letter of advice for yourself? If you had, you would hopefully conclude that your claims are entirely baseless. What is more, you seem not understand the role of Prof. Vasciannie in advising the government on the international and legal requirements for facilitating the Netherlands authorities. For your own information, the current government has actually acted on his advice in procuring the requisite ministerial order to facilitate the Netherlands authorities.


Get a grip.


EMAIL TWO

Mr. Sobers, being myopic is a sin, Stephen is a PNP sympathizer and what with the policies differential with the present govt? how could he function as the chief legal advisor to government ???

You need to change your tone........


MY RESPONSE

I assume that you are a Jamaican. Like many Jamaicans, it seems that you have tendency to confuse facts with opinions. While it may be your opinion that Stephen is PNP sympathizer, on what empirical or rational basis do you base this? And even if he is, so what? What does that have to do with his qualification to be SG? Since you have so much energy to construct an imaginary political affiliation for Stephen, why don't you attack the government for retaining people like Kingsley Thomas and Derrick Heaven, who are real/known PNP supporters?

Why is it that Jamaicans like you seem to have such trouble in processing issues in terms of principle, rather than personality? What do you know about the role of the SG? Are you aware that a previous SG, Dr. Ken Rattray served for almost 30 years under both PNP and JLP regimes? Based on your argument, why not fire the entire civil service when a new government comes to power and replace them with loyalists (to the new government?). Do you have any clue about the constitutional mandate that prohibits the political directorate from interfering with the selection of civil servants (generally)? Go read the constitution and then get back to me, if you are interested in rational, informed discourse.