An Aussie herd instinct seems to be against Belden Namah. Whatever he does becomes the fruit for further negative comment.
One silly critic is even offended by his orange shirt he wore on the chair carry. Another claimed Namah was gay. Please click:
In defence of Belden Namah & his leadership
NAMAH CARRIED HIGH
Perhaps Australians are afraid he would put Papua New Guinea first in any dispute.
He did that as a second lieutenant against the Sandline mercenaries and was gaoled with other junior officers.
Like his superior officers Singirok and Enuma, he was one officer who saw that mercenary soldiers cause unnecessary bloodshed.
People of Bougainville had already suffered too much.
There may well be a covert campaign of Australians to destabilize Namah on the political scene.
Who advised the Indonesians of the flight across Indonesian air space?
Who leaked the report about alleged conduct of Namah in the casino?
The issue has died. All the casino needed to do was produce the security video tape.
There was a hidden motive a year later. No witness has come forward - just anonymous statements and a faceless name.
Now we find the rocking chair expatriates on the Jackson blog PNG Attitude giving vent to hate mail against Namah.
The implication is that Namah should be rejected by voters because the Australian rocking chair brigade does not like him.
They seem like the old men in the Muppets.
Belden Namah is presenting himself as Prime Minister material. Politics is the school of hard knocks.
He wanted to postpone the elections to fix the electoral rolls.
But people were too worried that this was the start of a dictatorship.
What if his intentions were honourable? His opposition to Sandline was surely of the highest order.
He was surely a scapegoat. Other explanations exist but history is judged by results.
Namah would undoubtedly crack down on corruption including paedophilia and illegal entry.
He would call a spade a spade. He will certainly never be an Australian Uncle Tom.
Australians must get rid of him.
The elections are not over yet.
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One silly critic is even offended by his orange shirt he wore on the chair carry. Another claimed Namah was gay. Please click:
In defence of Belden Namah & his leadership
NAMAH CARRIED HIGH
Perhaps Australians are afraid he would put Papua New Guinea first in any dispute.
He did that as a second lieutenant against the Sandline mercenaries and was gaoled with other junior officers.
Like his superior officers Singirok and Enuma, he was one officer who saw that mercenary soldiers cause unnecessary bloodshed.
People of Bougainville had already suffered too much.
There may well be a covert campaign of Australians to destabilize Namah on the political scene.
Who advised the Indonesians of the flight across Indonesian air space?
Who leaked the report about alleged conduct of Namah in the casino?
The issue has died. All the casino needed to do was produce the security video tape.
There was a hidden motive a year later. No witness has come forward - just anonymous statements and a faceless name.
Now we find the rocking chair expatriates on the Jackson blog PNG Attitude giving vent to hate mail against Namah.
The implication is that Namah should be rejected by voters because the Australian rocking chair brigade does not like him.
They seem like the old men in the Muppets.
Belden Namah is presenting himself as Prime Minister material. Politics is the school of hard knocks.
He wanted to postpone the elections to fix the electoral rolls.
But people were too worried that this was the start of a dictatorship.
What if his intentions were honourable? His opposition to Sandline was surely of the highest order.
He was surely a scapegoat. Other explanations exist but history is judged by results.
Namah would undoubtedly crack down on corruption including paedophilia and illegal entry.
He would call a spade a spade. He will certainly never be an Australian Uncle Tom.
Australians must get rid of him.
The elections are not over yet.
*************
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Leonard, you must be seriously deluded if you think "Fiji is doing fine" under the military dictatorship.
Still, maybe you're right about him offering some positives. Belden Namah for PNG's first gay PM!
We look what voters will offer.
There are some goodies in BN and his leadership especially when we look at the late Bernard Narakobi's Melanesian Ways thinking.
Yet, we also have to bare in mind that PNG has a high levels of political fluidity; sooner or later we will be praising and singing, 'Long Live BN'.
I often hear people claiming that PNG is the 'land of the unexpected' and the truth is that many are admiring BN as they talk about the Fiji's current politics where they are saying that Fiji is doing fine under the military regime. The West was wrong!
The future of this state is unpredictable, the way things are going as the haves and have nots gap keeps widening.
Is there a 'wooden spoon' award being offered among the Croc prizes?
Well, yes, 'he uses his own money'. That is apparent.
Where has 'his own money' come from? He must have access to millions of kina. Gambling? Where?
In comments from bloggers both for and against BN, I've not seen anyone mention the source of his wealth.
This is really hilarious. I think that KJ should place this under the "horror" section for the Crocodile Prize.
B. Namah - plays the fool in a Sydney Casino with heaps of money, is on a Falcon 900 jet in Indonesian airspace, wears delightful orange Hawaiian shirts, gets carried in a "litter" befitting Gaius Julius Caesar - nay make that Nero and his harp!As for comparing this fellow to the squashbuckling Bob Hawke, no way. Bob may have looked a bit funny in his very colourful jacket when Australia won the America's Cup and his subsequent comments but he did become a very good PM.
This Belden Namah, no comparison.
I nominate Simon's efforts to win the prize in the Crocodile Competition.
I think Keith is pulling our legs by posting this.
It's done the rounds of various PNG blogs and shows that the PNG Party is getting a bit better at PR.
Onya Keith!
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Nothing wrong with the odd contrarian view, is there? I can hear you all nodding vigorous agreement with me - KJ
Bob Hawke cleaned up his act, maybe Belden Namah can do the same.
On another matter, in the early stages of this year's Crocodile Competition we made several unsuccessful attempts to get the PNG government interested.
We did this both through correspondence and personally.
Quite a few people made positive noises but at the end of it all nothing eventuated.
This now seems doubly surprising given Belden Namah's patriotism outlined in this article. We thought he was aware of our efforts but perhaps it slipped the minds of his advisors.
With apologies to the Christians among us and based on this article shouldn't someone be making plans for Namah's crucifixion and resurrection after the elections?
Ask the people in the West Sepik if he has shown any interest in their development.
Where did all the money go from the discraceful logging operations that not only destroyed the rainforest but left the people with a polluted river system? Who allowed this discraceful operation in the first place?
I have my suspicions and so have the villagers of Amoi village.
Thanks Simon. I think you'll find in the Bible that there was another group called the Zealots.
This is a joke right? A party political broadcast by a leading supporter of the PNG Party.
Compare this with Susan Merrell's recent analysis of Namah's "leadership qualities".
And his behaviour at Sydney's Star Casino earlier in the year, as exposed by the Sydney Morning Herald.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/the-minister-the-star-and-the-rules-of-the-game-20120313-1uyka.html
Keith, surely there has been a major error in categorizing the above item. It is clearly meant to be an entry in the Crocodile Prize under the "myths and fantasy" section.