Peter O’Neill Secretly Making Changes To Peacefully Establish a One Party State in Papua New Guinea
One world government starts country by country by putting one party governments into place. The collapse of communism in most of the world during the 1980s greatly set back the one world government direction. However, the movement has become reinvigorated and now focuses on subtle ways, targeting smaller countries less noticed by the world. There is a growing body of information that points Peter O’Neill taking steps that will make PNC into a CPC (Communist Party of China) type political party that will become the only political structure in PNG allowed to govern.
Taking advantage of the power new roads and other infrastructure development have to gain the political loyalty of Papua New Guineans - Today more and more Papua New Guineans are choosing development and infrastructure first. It is less important to them what system of government PNG has. Those who lived in the former communist countries in Eastern Europe would shake their heads at our strange attitude towards freedom and democracy. Since we have always enjoyed a large degree of freedom we have no idea how our lives would be under a dictatorship. Even so, most Papua New Guineans do not speak out against what our government does anyway and so would feel nothing has changed under a dictatorship. Dictators only hurt those who speak out against them. They leave alone the silent ones.
Why democracies originated - Democracies came about on Planet Earth, starting first with the United States of America, because people grew tired of being killed, beaten, bossed, enslaved, and otherwise told what to do by a single person who served as their King, Queen, Emperor, Czar, Duke, Duchess or whatever. The power these dictators had was only possible because of the land and resources they owned. Through land and resources they could control the people. The situation in Europe many centuries ago was that of poor farmers working on what was their ancestor’s land. The land no longer belonged to their family and no longer did they work for their own benefit. Instead, they worked on the land that used to be theirs, with most of the benefits of their hard work going to the dictator’s benefit, not their own. They got toea in pay if they were paid anything.
These early dictators became powerful through land and wars to take over more land and resources. As their power grew, they became more corrupted and meaner to their own people. Finally some people began to revolt and that’s how democracies came onto this planet Earth.
Dictatorship has never existed in PNG, even before Europeans- Thank God Australia set up a democratic structure instead of a bigman dictatorial structure for Papua New Guinea as they could have easily done. A bigman system works very well in small village communities where everyone lives next to each other and can keep the big man in check. Our traditional bigman system was not a dictatorship in any real sense. The people moved when the bigman demanded it, but the bigman rarely made a decision without strong consultation and actually listening to his own people and their views.
Anyone who equates the dictatorial tendencies of today’s PNG leaders, especially Peter O’Neill, with the traditional bigman system, is not looking at the whole picture in how traditional leadership worked.
Critical components of a democracy - With democracies came newfound freedom and escape from tyranny of kings and emperors. However democracies only function when there are checks and balances built into the governing system. In other words, no one can have absolute control over anything. People must have control over each other at different levels, with the different controls being clearly stated in the national constitution and underlying laws.
On the negative side, having checks and balances means that nothing can be accomplished quickly. On the good side, it means that no single person or few persons get control over an entire government. The more than 200 year history of democracies such as the United States, France, UK etc. shows clearly that slower progress and development is not a bad thing. The important thing is that the democratic system of government remain no matter what. Freedom always ends up being considered more important than money, that much history has shown us as people have lost their freedom and struggled to regain it.
PETER O’NEILL’S STRATEGY TO QUIETLY END DEMOCRACY IN PNG
1. Attract other government MPs to join PNC - Peter O’Neill is moving slowly but surely to a one party state in PNG. Once he has that in place, it becomes a last simple step for him to appoint himself as dictator, being head of the party. Even after he steps down, he goes down in history as the founder of PNG’s only allowed governing party, the PNC. The best piece of evidence that Peter O’Neill is creating a one party government is not the fact that he has more than 90 out of 111 MPs in his government. Instead, it has been his party’s secret and continuing efforts to recruit MPs in his government who are members of other political parties who are already part of government. They are being attracted to join the PNC.
Why would Peter O’Neill do this when those MPs are already part of his government and vote for any laws he wants to pass in parliament? The reason is that Peter O’Neill wants more than their support He wants his whole government to be made up of PNC members. He had a recent setback with expulsion of Don Polye’s THE party from government, but O’Neill was able to take away many THE MPs anyway, leaving THE party head Don Polye with very few remaining MPs. Peter O’Neill has not lost sight of his longer term goal and continues to take things one step at a time.
2. Politicise government departments with departmental heads appointed only by Ministers - Peter O’Neill’s latest move is the new proposed law to have Ministers choose departmental heads and this was a secret evil move that seriously undermines a democractic system of checks and balances.
The reason why our constitution was written to prohibit ministers from appointing those underneath them in the various ministries and departments was to ensure necessary checks and balances to maintain a democratic form of government, which mean having departments that were not politicised.
Departmental secretaries were always chosen independent of the minister because they were the truest experts in the activities covered by that ministry. Ministers, on the other hand, often are interested in that area of work but actually know very little about it. They should not be allowed to have full power over a ministry, otherwise all priorities become political priorities focusing on certain districts or provinces, rather than development priorities that focus on the nation as a whole and bringing it forward as a whole by putting each development in the place where it will bring the greatest payoff to the nation as a whole.
In a number of democracies in the world, even the ministers of departments are not active politicians. Two examples are France and the United States, where the appointed Ministers are not active politicians and some have never been elected to any office. For example, Hillary Clinton was not in any elected office when she served as the Secretary (same as a Minister) of State under Obama and Obama has picked people from the opposition political party to be Secretaries although none are currently in an elected office. In Malaysia, Universiti Sains Malaysia vice-chancellor Tan Sri Dr Musa Mohamed was a non-politician who was appointed Minister of Higher Education in 1999. In 2009, another Malaysian nonpolitician, this time from the corporate sector (Datuk Seri Idris Jala) was appointed to a Ministerial position by the Prime Minister.
Peter O’Neill has gone exact opposite of democracy in the changes he is making to our government. He recently sneaked in measures as part of the Public Services (Management) Act to allow Ministers in PNG, who of course are politicians themselves, to play politics at the Secretarial or Department Head level. Now the Minister alone will appoint the departmental heads and secretaries. This means that entire departments will become politicised. Any government workers not on the side of Peter O’Neill and his PNC party can be more easily sacked just like what happens in communist countries.
Not one NGO or other civil society organisation either knew about this radical change towards dictatorship or spoke out against it when it was passed by Parliament in its last sitting in September. It is now law, with one of Peter O’Neill’s top allies and a promoter of dictatorship like government, Puka Temu (a participant in NCD land scams when he was Minister of Lands), leading the way and pushing through the new regulations before announcing them.
The new law has another secret benefit. It allows Peter O’Neill to better control who runs against his PNC party in any further election. Any public servant who chooses to run for office must resign as has always been true. The new change is that no longer are they eligible for automatic reinstatement if they lose, as was true under the old law. Thus, Peter O’Neill can now bring back those public servants who supported him or were candidates under his PNC party, while pushing out his political opponents. In this way he strengthens his power base and allows PNC to reach deep within government, just like the Communist Party of China (CPC) does in everyday Chinese life.
3 – Have a political party appoint each new Prime Minister, instead of MPs in general - Peter O’Neill’s earlier attempt to pass a law through Gelu to have the Prime Minister’s own political party appoint a new Prime Minister in the event that the current Prime Minister had to step down, is a key component of setting up a one party state, where the one party perpetuates itself. Peter O’Neill is trying to make PNC the governing party of PNG.
4 – Displaying superficial changes that fool the people and attract their votes – Much as been talked about Peter O’Neill’s free education scheme which perpetuates and continues to lower PNG education standards by stuffing classrooms with more students under free education. The government has nearly all additional education funding into building new classrooms, not in filling those classrooms with learning materials that would actually improve learning. Rural parents do not understand that their children will leave school having learnt very little.
5 – Buying elections to stay in power –
5a – 2012 Supplementary budget blowout - In its early stages, the political party that wants to take over the entire country must find money enough to buy and fix elections. Peter O’Neill started in this direction with his K500 million supplementary budget just before the election in 2012, in which that entire amount was borrowed at great cost to the national treasury in order to fund the PNC and THE party candidates. Greedy Don Polye was his willing partner, not knowing that Peter O’Neill was using Polye as a pawn and intended to dump him later as PNC was positioned to become PNG’s only allowed governing political party.
5b – DSIP K10 million/year handout money to each MP - Strengthening the DSIP scheme was purposely done to make sure that his MPs especially would have enormous funds from a village perspective to build infrastructure to dazzle the people and gain their loyalty, as well as to further buy the loyalty of his MPs by giving them more ways to misuse public funds for personal benefit.
5c – Nationalisation of Ok Tedi - Peter O’Neill’s nationalisation of Ok Tedi was meant to be a more permanent source of campaign funds for PNC, although Ok Tedi’s profits are now collapsing, leaving the PM with less money than he had hoped for. We can assume that he has not stopped looking for ways to secure the huge amount of money it will take to buy the 2017 election and keep PNC in power. The current DSIP scheme is the foundation.
Projected end result is a dictatorship with Peter O’Neill in charge - The evidence is clear that Peter O’Neill is strengthening his hold over PNG, and strengthening his political party’s hold over the nation and now government departments. He is undoubtedly the most evil Prime Minister our country has ever had.
Modeled after Communist China – 1. Fake emphasis on the people - Peter O’Neill’s People’s National Congress (PNC) party a re-creation of the People’s Republic of China (communist) in which all the words talk about “people” running the show when it is actually nothing but communist political cronies who manipulate elections and support each other to stay in power. Those who work in government departments in communist countries are expected to be members of the one party state, and the recent change in how departmental heads are appointed in the government allows this control to further develop.
2 – Single political party dominance hidden by letting multiple political parties exist that are allowed no power - The Communist Party of China (CPC) is the sole governing party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). It coexists alongside 8 minor political parties that are allowed to participate in the political system. However, they have limited power on a national level and are completely controlled by the CRC. They must accept the "leading role" of the CPC as a condition of being allowed to exist. The PRC political system allows for the participation of some non-communist party members and minor parties in the National People's Congress (NPC), but they are vetted by the CPC.
Although opposition parties are not formally banned in mainland China (the PRC), the CPC maintains control over the political system in several ways. First, they do not allow the people to elect government representatives at a higher level of parliament. The CPC completely controls that process. Because our parliamentary system already prevents people from directly electing our national head (unlike a presidential system), it is relatively easy to add on a higher level of parliament to put PNC firmly in control of the PNG government. Second, the CPC restricts the ability of other parties to raise funds for elections by not allowing them to organise under a corporate status enjoyed by the CPC ruling party. In PNG, Peter O’Neill is already achieving this by finding sources of massive funding, such as Ok Tedi, which can be directed towards PNC candidate campaigns in the future, replacing the role played by the 2012 illegal K500 million supplementary budget. Lastly, the Communist China constitution defines a basic system for governing the country and prohibits any individual or organisation from saboutaging that system (‘socialism’ is the system designated for Communist China. PNC could lead a vote in parliament to change the PNG constitution to define some other form of government which only PNC would be tasked to be the leader of. By strengthening laws against releasing government secrets (as Peter O’Neill wants to do by controlling the social media), treason, subversion and sedition (all of which could be used to lawfully imprison anyone protesting against the Peter O’Neill and his PNC party), Peter O’Neill through his PNC could take firm, legal, permanent control of Papua New Guinea.
Is the Communist Chinese Government helping Peter O’Neill’s plan towards one party state or not? The K6 billion Chinese Bank Exxim loan for infrastructure development allows Peter O’Neill to both show off new infrastructure to buy the hearts of the people for cynical purposes. The massive amount of the loan also allows Peter O’Neill to award kickback money to himself and his political allies. The Chinese make no secret that they would like to take over more of PNG’s natural resources to further their country’s economic development. Having a one party PNC government in PNG would open the door to a relatively easy nationalisation OilSearch and even expelling ExxonMobil once the LNG project is flowing at peak levels. In return, China could forgive the massive Chinese bank loans that PNG is now beginning to struggle to repay with interest, and assist its new sister ally country in much the same way that it now supports North Korea and to much lesser extent, Mongolia and North Vietnam, all communist countries.
A choice between fast economic development without freedom or slower economic development with freedom - Communist China is progressing very rapidly economically, yet hundreds of millions of its people work like slaves with little freedom. That is how the economic progress is coming about. They get paid so little they share little in the results. Millions of smallholders have had their land taken away from them for small compensation so that big businesses could take over the land and further enslave workers.
We are sliding into the danger zone in PNG with Peter O’Neill determined to become another dictator with his political party being the only political party in control. I pray to God every night that we Christian people of this nation will organise ourselves and begin fighting this one party government and intending dictatorship that is Peter O’Neill’s plan for PNG.
