Tale Of A Teller Of Tales

Written by Pio Sioa
Friday, 14 December 2007
The call for all HRPP supporters to come together this Friday is a legitimate one for our governing party to make. There may also be a valid excuse for changing it from Thursday to Friday, but of course the scoffers will have their say - they always do. Since the gathering of the faithful is to celebrate and to be informed of what the party has in mind for next year, everything is all above board. The party whip, MP La’auli Polataivao Fosi, has admitted as well that the Prime Minister as HRPP leader will address the proposed road switch policy. So, it is difficult to assume with any firm conviction that the HRPP has planned all this to counter the protesters march on Monday. But while the scheduling of the meeting is a coincidence, the intention to whip up a show of public support for the Government policy is no strain on the brain. The opportunity is there and it is only natural to take advantage of it – why not?. When the iron is hot, strike it for goodness sake. What the PM will have before him on Friday is a captive audience who will cheer long and loud the merits of the Government’s viewpoint. It does not matter if it is a rehash of the same old story that the media has covered from practically every imaginable angle. Since the road switch debated started the media has struggled to sift through the truth, half truths and plain fairy tales akin to Robin Hood and his merry men. The best teller of tales so far has been the Prime Minister himself. Poor Robert Louis Stevenson must be turning with envy in his grave at the top of Mount Vaea, by the blend of fact and fiction this born and bred lad from Lepa, Aleipata has built into his amazing story telling skills. Come Friday, the issue will be the same but the spin the PM will put on it, will have everyone clogging the phone lines to New Zealand and Australia to send home right hand drive cars, on the first boat out to Samoa. The timing of the meeting on Friday is a touch of brilliance. With the media slobbering over every detail of what the PM will have said, and of the reaction from a beholden crowd, resounding approval for the Government’s cause will saturate the media waves throughout the weekend. By the time the ‘People Against Side Switch’ comes around on Monday morning, Government would be sitting back, savouring with a knowing smile the gut punch they had already thrown and landed on the protesters belly. The PM has already denied any hidden agendas behind the policy, yet members of his own party caucus has admitted there is. Still they are prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt in the belief that he probably has something big to reveal when the time is right. Hopefully there is! Hopefully too it is big! Anything less than big, this dragged out fairy tale of Robin Hood and his merry men is unlikely to end merrily ever after. Comments (1) Subscribe to this comment's feed Dear Writer... written by Vai Patu, December 15, 2007 O tatou o tagata malamalama....Afai e te ita ia Tuilaepa, Then go face up with him....Ao lou tauina o le igoa o le matou nuu....Lepa. You know, e aafia fua ai le tatou va. Ou te fiafia lava e sau sau ii ma faitau tatou news mananaia o loo maua ii... One other thing e fia faamanino....Lepa is not Aleipata. Lepa is Atua i Saute. Lepa ma Lotofaga.....Aleipata rounds from Lalomanu to Tiavea... Our village is small with its huge people...now dont get me wrong for that sense...because it might not meant what might you think it is. (sorry plain old English) Faamalie atu i lou le fiafia..I can understand. ae aua tatou te taumafai to go beyond our limits. A e fai lava oe ia Tuilaepa le tatou Palemia...leai a se mea oi ai...Ou te le amanaia fua lou manatu...its your own mindful awareness...Ae leaga o matou, matou te manumanu nei tauvaleaina le igoa o le matou nuu o Lepa.... Faapei foi ona pele ia te oe lou nuu...e faapena foi matou. You know, sa ou ataata lava ma faitau lou pepa, ae ua ou tei i lou tauaina mai o le igoa o le Nuu sa fofoa mai ai o matou olaga...Im sure o oe o se tagata malamalama... ae aua nei e ita si ou uso foi...na o se fautuaga lava mo le alualu i luma. faafetai, Write comment Name Email Title Comment
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