Seaga
THE EDITOR, Madam:
I READ Lloyd Williams's interview with The Honourable Leader of the Opposition with some amount of disdain and pity both for the interviewer and for the interviewed.
I felt pity for the journalist because I realise that, try as hard as they may, Jamaican journalists simply do not have the guts to stand up to someone like Mr Seaga and ask the questions that really need answering.
Let me now refer specifically to the interview printed on Sunday, July 9, 2000.
The first observation was the domination of the interview by the person being interviewed.
Mr Seaga seems to have told the journalist what he felt he should tell him, in other words, it is felt that no interest was paid to what the public wants to hear.
This came off more or less as a favour to the Honourable Leader. A favour to explain why after 16 years as leader of a party he did not groom someone to take over in a peaceful and decent manner.
The absence of such a successor even at this late stage is an indictment against the leadership of the Honourable Leader.
The Honourable Leader said people from the disbanded gangs had ambitions of becoming leaders. Their having such ambitions seem to have been a problem for the Leader, at least that is how it is understood from the interview.
An important question is, what is wrong why the JLP members have taken so long to understand Mr. Seaga's ambitions for HIS party?
One really senses a high dose of megalomania is affecting the Leader's judgement. It certainly seems to be very impaired.
I am etc.,
JAMES DAVIDSON
E-mail: kingshotta@homeviewjamaica.com
Via Go-Jamaica
