due diligence is what it is commonly referred to……………………..just as a lawyer will attempt to prove their client innocent [even if they know them to be guilty!!!!]

I think Shawn’s big issue comes from not being able to represent clients in private practice in cases against the govt whilst working as a minister, due to conflict of interest. That is where his beef is, the rest is just fluff.

To suggest that race is not part of the facts is to believe that race has not divided us since slaves were brought to this island.

Some naive Americans believed that the election of Obama was confirmation that the US had turned the corner on race relations. The overt bigotry and racist antics of large numbers of Americans put paid to that dreamy and delusional theory. What we see every day on these local blogs/ boards ( from both sides ) confirms that Bermuda is waging its own race war – not as overt but without question, as damaging.

If he had reacted in similar ways under the PLP, he would have been booted out. Under the OBA he was not.

As for implying that the OBA were responsible for raiding his house. That is NONSENSE. the minister does not coordinate immigration investigations…The department of immigration does that.

The OBA love all Bermudians and are working for all Bermudians…they are focused heavily on rescuing this country for us all. A very stressful, and focused job indeed. Perhaps that focus and importance has sometimes resulted in them appearing to be getting on with it without consultation.

Sadly when they tried consultation, they were shouted down by extremist PLP members on a number of occasions.

If you business is failing may be it would be a good idea to see who is calling the shots.

Over the years I have and I am sure you have been their ” Scape Goat” as The Manager look to place blame for their inability to properly conduct them selves on the job, some have even lost their job or have been the subject of unfair dismissal or re structuring simply because the BOSS was incompetent.

Too “Important” for the law to apply in his house. The investigation should have taken place at a house belonging to someone else, should it? Someone “Unimportant”.

You lot are the first to whine if Immigration fail to investigate.
Now look at you. Frikin hypocrites. Idiot.

Let’s say you hire a landscaping company to cut your lawn and trees around your house once a month per annum. You have used this company for the past two years. The majority of the time when they arrive at your house to cut your lawn and trees, you’re not home. So you rarely see and know who is actually carrying out the work.

Unknowingly to you, this company that you use has hired an illegal worker. This illegal worker, over the course of a month, has worked at 10 houses. Out the blue, three immigration officers show up at your house and raid your house based on a suspicion that someone else has hired an illegal worker. Then, you find out, there was a directive to apprehend this illegal worker at your house. Why not at the house of the other 9 clients? Why ONLY at your house? Wouldn’t you think that this action is not normal? Wouldn’t you be a little suspicious?

They don’t show up and question the company, or raid the company to look for hired documents, pay records, or name or address of this illegal worker. Chances are you will find this information at the company that hired the illegal worker, not at Mr. Crockwell’s house.

Remember, they did this all off a suspicion. Quoting Mr. Crockwell, “because of some suspicion that the company may have had an illegal worker on their staff.”

So based on what you are saying, the immigration officers should have shown up and raided all of the houses of the clients that contracted this company to provide cleaning services. This means the houses of CEO of international businesses, the houses of top lawyers, the houses of the elderly. Should the immigration officers really raid the house of the elderly because they contracted a company that hired an illegal worker? Does that seem right? I’ll tell you what would happen. That company would lose a lot of clients, all off a suspicion.

All right. Perhaps ‘thrilled’ was an exaggeration. I’d be irritated at the intrusion if it happened to me, but I would be happy to see immigration doing their job. I would also be curious to find out if the company I had hired was breaking the law.

I’ve yet to figure out why politicians believe themselves to be above the law, and I’m speaking about those on both sides. They’re not, and if anything they should be subject to closer inspection, and more open to it, than the average person

If some body want to throw in the towel it is their perogative.

It is not what what one man thinks it is what all men think.

We elect a body of people having prudence and good judgement to run our country , when things don’t turn out as expected, the opportunity is there to” put it right”. not sit on it !

Now how are we going to do that ? Real easy !

The power of the Vote !

Over the years we have become complacent, we just vote for Mr Nice guy.

You are given a ballot sheet with a bunch of names on it, or applicants wanting a job.

Not good enough !

I want a ballot sheet with which you and I can have some say so ! not tick the box, like we have been doing for…….. just a person.

I want to vote on Progress , Innovation, The Budget, Economy, Expansion, Wages, Taxation, Unity.

I hear the words ” Going Forward” and we are not going anywhere fast.

This island is a place with some very unhappy people, I see it in their faces, as a country we are falling apart.

No body said it was going to be easy.

I am no quitter.

2. Feels he isn’t being listened to. Blames it on the fact that he’s black, as opposed to, as he’s said, his opinions are in opposition to the party line. Hmmm…really?

3. Gets told that, as a member of the Government party he, and those in the firm with him, can’t represent any case against the Government. Certainly Mr Crockwell has heard the phrase “conflict of interest”, hasn’t he? He shouldn’t need to be told about it, and should be fairly embarrassed that it needed to be pointed out to him.

4. Immigration raids property in order to catch a suspected illegal worker in the act. Property happens to be Mr Crockwell’s, and he takes it personally. Why? As A politician he should be thrilled Immigration are doing their jobs. We all want the Immigration to be doing their job so the perpetrators are found out and dealt with, don’t we?

5. I understand Mr Crockwell’s desire to leave the OBA and go independent given that his beliefs and values don’t align with theirs, but to stand alongside the opposition with the cry of ‘they hate me because I’m strong and black, look at how I’m being picked on’ is nothing more than tired rhetoric. They don’t hate you, they’re not picking on you, and your own mindset has made it about skin colour.

6. I doubt I’m the only person who’s heard the rumours about the expected next step in this saga.

You lot can’t your minds up. You whine and complain that Immigration doesn’t protect Bermudian interests, but then when they take action when an illegal worker may be working, you whine about that, apoarently because the owner of the premises regards himself as important.

Blatant hypocrisy.