You Scratch My Back And I'll Scratch Yours

An Excerpt From FAN THE FLAMES dated 8th June, 2001

By TIM HECTOR

People here are being fed a lot of drivel, a lot of so-called opinions, without side work, let alone method. The end result, issues are being prattled about and bandied about, and nothing is but what is not. Or villains become victims, then are transformed into heroes in the general confusion of values and ideas. For example, the indicted Errol Cort said: "Regrettably, my efforts to ensure the supremacy of the rule of law over anarchy, democracy over dictatorship and accountability over corruption were all met with tremendous resistance and hostility", by the government of which he was a member up to two weeks ago. This is the same Errol Cort, who while a Minister, Minister of Legal Affairs and Justice, and when Attorney General, had according to Gaston Browne, Minister of Planning, yes, had his maid, and at least two of the secretaries, in the abundantly rich chambers of Cort & Associates, paid by the Ms Charles make-work programme. The Attorney General enjoyed this largesse and backed up his truck. In the United States to have an undocumented alien in your service is cause for removal from the Cabinet. This is the same Errol Cort, who while Attorney General, changed, unilaterally changed, the regulations on a money laundering law, putting himself in place of the Prime Minister, in order, it is believed, to protect his chief client Allan Stanford, and this change in the regulations of the law, this unilateral change by Cort, caused a money laundering case, involving the very notable Attorney, Dane Hamilton, to be dismissed. The record is there. Yet this man who played monkey tricks with the law, claims he was a defender of the rule of law over anarchy. As a consequence of this act changing the regulations, the U.S. and UK financial advisories against Antigua and Barbuda, were extended in time.