15886: Schweissing: Editorial on Bahamian Religious Xenophobia (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Daniel Schweissing <dan_schweissing@hotmail.com>

The Punch Says [Editorial]
The Punch
June 12, 2003, p.7

PLP bible-pounding preacher Bishop Neil Ellis—the personal pastor and
religious guru of the PM—has been known to talk lots of nonsense and
baloney.

But last Sunday, Bishop Ellis was talking “plenty sense” as he preached to
his members at Mt Tabor Baptist Church in Pinewood Gardens.  Rev Ellis was
speaking of the illegal Haitian and Jamaican problem, which is escalating to
crisis levels.

He warned PM Perry Christie that he should not recognize the 1985 treaty
with Haiti to regularize all those Haitians who are in The Bahamas
regardless of whether they are legal or not.  Instead, he said any Haitians
who were not here before Independence Day on July 10, 1973, should be
shipped back to Haiti—and not on Bahamasair as it was “too expensive.”

And he said that for every house the Government builds for homeless
Haitians, they better construct a home in Farm Road—the PM’s area.  He
pointed out that most Haitians in the illegal shanty town do not pay
electricity, water, phone and property tax bills.

At the same time, they over-burden our schools, hospitals, housing, police,
Defence Force, prison, customs and immigration departments.  But Rev Ellis’
most serious warning about illegal Haitians dealt with the violent Creole
culture that Haitians and Jamaicans bring here.

He said Haitians and Jamaicans kill for petty reasons since life has little
value in their homelands.  And that evil killer culture is slowly destroying
our civilised society.

He stressed that soon one third of the MPs in the House may be
Haitian-Bahamians who have no idea what it is like to grow up in Long
Island, Bimini, Exuma, Eleuthera, Abaco and other Family Islands.

Additionally, Haiti has no history whatsoever of democracy, free and fair
elections, basic human rights, or freedom of expression and the Press—and
those same Haitian MPs may try to turn us into a Haiti-style secret police,
4th-world oppressive banana republic.

Of course, Rev Ellis was only repeating what Punch has warned about for
years.

Most Haitian-Bahamians are hard working, responsible citizens, who make
valuable contributions.  We welcome them.  But the fatherless and stateless
drug gang Haitian males are a menace.  They have no respect for anybody.
And these jailbirds do not care who they murder, rape, assault, or rob.

Those hardened Haitian criminals and wreckers need to be deported for good!

There are 50,000 Haitians out of our population of 300,000.  And at the
current rate of illegal entry, there will be more Haitians in The Bahamas
then Bahamians in 10 years.

So, Christie must act now and deal with the Haitian crisis.  As Punch and
Rev Ellis warn: “Don’t let our nation turn Haitian!”

And at this rate, if Christie fails to resolve the Haitian crisis, pretty
soon we will wake up as strangers in our own Bahamaland!

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