A GOVERNMENT OF LIES AND DECEPTIONS NOW PROVIDES A NEW PUZZLE

GARRY MANUA

APPRECIATE THE REFUGEES" ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN

The day Peter O'Neill started soliciting church support for him taking over as Minister of Gaming so that he could "reduce the number of pokies in PNG" - and then used his power so that he and his cronies Melides and Cragnolini could take over the pokies industry and insure that pokies money would flow into their pockets - that was the moment we knew that we had an exceptionally devious Prime Minister who was likely to run an exceptionally devious government full of lies, tricks and deceptions. 

We weren't wrong with that prediction. We're told we need infrastructure, which we do. What we didn't know is that the big push to get billions in foreign loans to build infrastructure was also the open gateway to kick back literally tens of millions of kina into corrupt private pockets. We were told that former DPM, and totally corrupt Chris Haiveta was appointed as new High Commissioner to Australia because he was well qualified.

What we didn't know at the time was that Haiveta was one of the critical witnesses at George's bar at Airways who saw Peter O'Neill sign the memo authorising the massive and corrupt government K70 million payment to Paul Paraka. Haiveta argued strongly against the PM signing that authorisation. O'Neill was drunk as usual (he learned from that experience and others to lay off the bottle) and ignored the advise. 

When the whole story blew out into the open (and of course were told that these were totally appropriate legal fees), Haiveta found himself in a brilliant position to blackmail the PM into giving him a comfortable job living in Australia, and the PM saw this as a perfect opportunity to get rid of a witness that could bring him down. 

This is just a highlight review of some of the remarkable deceptions put upon us citizens, with the politicians quite smug that they'll succeed in us believing every word they tell us, while the shadier reality goes on behind closed doors. Now we have the "be nice to refugees" ads. They're running much too often for a cash strapped government. Who's paying for these ads and why? Of course we'll immediately assume the Australians are in back of this and maybe they are. But whatever it is, the O'Neill government is complicit in the propaganda campaign. We can also safely assume that the directions are coming straight from the top because no government department is taking credit (and they always do!) for these adverts. 

Peter O'Neill rarely gets involved pushing anything unless he's going to personally benefit from it. If this propaganda campaign was being paid for by the Australians and relates to the Manus camp refugees, what would O'Neill get out of that? Nothing that we know of. Besides, we all know that if you want to get secret kickbacks and other payments, the Australians, with their national very low levels of corruption, are just about the last people (apart from Mal Varitmos, allegedly!) to make a corrupt deal with. Shady Asian businessmen are a far better prospect to work out kickback and similar deals. 

There is also the constant focus on Papuan refugees in this propaganda campaign. Why that? There have been indigenous Papuan refugees with us for years in PNG and they suffer very little ill feeling. The general feeling is that they are one of us. Why spend tens of thousands of kina running adverts promoting us to do what we're already doing? It doesn't make sense!

What does make sense in explaining these mysterious propaganda adverts? Do you have any evidence that you can offer for public consideration and discussion?

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