Fiji Leaks Gift to Fiji: THE GHAI CONSTITUTION: Fijileaks delivers Professor Yash Ghai's "Xmas Gift" to Fiji

By VICTOR LAL
Special Guest Contributor


MERRY XMAS, FIJI!

I will be releasing the detailed "Explanatory Report" later in the day; meanwhile celebrate our triumph over secrecy, and remember the immortal words of Winston Churchill:

"You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken - unspeakable! - fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse - a little tiny mouse! - of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic." 

I say with Ralph Waldo Emerson to Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum:

“Every burned book ...[Ghai's constitutional booklet].. enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.”  

Read the Draft Constitution in full, download it, and distribute it to every person in Fiji and beyond her shores! God bless the coup and cyclone victims!

Comic Relief: Shazzer goes to the Burning Constitution Beach Party

 Darling Grubby,

You missed the best Beach party on Saturday Night. It was a combined services party with the police and army in attendance. We had the biggest bonfire made up of 600 copies of the new constitution. Funnily enough they had nothing to light it with so I got out my trusted lighter and it was me that set fire to all waste paper. I felt so honored it was me who destroyed Fiji’s hopes for a democratic future.

We had a really good dinner all cooked over the constitutional bonfire.

Menu
Regime Pawns a la Yash Ghai
Christina Murray Cod
Ika Vakatale
Naandan Bread.

To finish off The Police Commissioner Novalorhere opened up the evidence room and we got Peni MoreDrugsPlease to roll joints all evening with that famous branded Fijiian Made Marijuana.

What a night Grubby.

Madam Nazihat von Shameondtme was there making fun of the draft constitution. She said “Yash Ghai has completely lost the plot. The Pacific’s longest serving dictator’s needs a constitution that empowers him and his cronies. It does not need a constitution with all that human rights and legal bull shit. I know these things because I am Fiji’s highest paid legal brain.” She went on to say. “My own constitution will be put forward to the Constituent Aiyarselickers and they will rubber stamp it as ordered by me, their chairman.” With that she marched off muttering under her breath that sand was not good for her jack boots.

The Glorious Leader Frankly Bananas also said a few words about freeing Fiji from colonial Slavery.

“The Frankly Bananas Regime will end all colonial ties with England. The first step was to remove the Queen’s head from the currency. The next step will be the removal of English as the official language of the Bananas Republic. It will be replaced by a new language more suited to a 1,000 year dictatorship. To make it easier on the people of Fiji the changes will be brought in over 5 years.

In the first year, 's' will replace the soft 'c'. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard 'c' will be dropped in favour of 'k'. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome 'ph' will be replaced with 'f'. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

The regime will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent 'e' in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing 'th' with 'z' and 'w' with 'v'.

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou' and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of an enslavd Fiji vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking Deutche like gud Nazis.”

Grubby can we be German study partners in the New Year?

Got to dash.

Hugs and Kisses

Shazzer

This is to inform the public that this letter is a piece of fiction. However, some of the people and events mentioned are real.

I apologize to all Germans for the abuse of their language and the Nazi references. But it seems as if burning books is only one of many steps undertaken by Frankly Bananas to turn Fiji into a hated dictatorship

Aiyarse will not take a Christmas holiday this year. He will be in the office drawing up extradition papers to bring Yash Ghai back from Hong Kong to Fiji

Fiji draft constitution to be published on website very soon

Posted at 01:54 on 24 December, 2012 UTC

A member of Fiji’s Constitution Commission, Peni Moore, says the country’s draft constitution will be available on the Commission’s website very soon.

The commission’s chairperson, Professor Yash Ghai, handed the draft to Fiji’s President on Friday before leaving the country this morning.

He had earlier expressed disappointment the Fiji regime had scrapped the Commission’s job of getting public feedback on its proposals to be debated next year in the Constituent Assembly.

Ms Moore says 599 hard copies of the draft constitution are now at the office of the interim Prime Minister Commodore Frank Bainimarama.

    “And I’m actually recommending that people ask the Prime Minister’s office whether they can get copies. We were advised those copies would be used for the Constituent Assembly but we don’t assume there will be that many (needed for the CA), so it would be nice if people could access it.”

Peni Moore says the commssion’s explanatory report on the draft will also be published on the web.

Secrecy over Fiji constitution a worry - Labour

Updated at 10:17 pm on 24 December 2012

The Fiji Labour Party says secrecy over the country's draft constitution will affect the document's credibility.

This follows the Constitution Commission's cancellation of a meeting at the weekend after its chairman Professor Yash Ghai presented the draft to Fiji's president on Friday.

The party's leader Mahendra Chaudhry says the briefing for political parties and NGOs was cancelled under pressure from the regime and the people of Fiji and their mandated leaders are being shut out of the constitution process.

The meeting had been postponed from earlier in the week because of Cyclone Evan.

But a member of the commission, Peni Moore, says they weren't intimidated into cancelling the meeting but simply told their job was over.

The document is next month to come under the scrutiny of the Constituent Assembly yet to be appointed by the regime. Fiji's Labour Party says it fears that debate is likely to be carefully orchestrated.