Soccer and US issue
Transfer window
IT’S that time of the month when districts try their best to lure players to play for them for the first half of the year.
Football, today, is bread and butter for many players, and they get attracted to districts who offer them a good package, for instance, Suva’s goal scoring hero Sairusi Nalaubu is on the radar of a prominent district in the West while Rewa’s Gabirieli Matanasiga and Nasinu striker Marlon Tahioa have joined Suva and Labasa respectively.
Labasa’s Alzaar Alam, who had limited game time for the Babasiga Lions, will be joining Rewa.
Netani Doli, Jashnit Vikash and Arami Manumanubai will feature for Navua.
Jone Naraba and Ivan Kumar will also be joining Suva.
There are a number of other transfer rumours which should be finalised soon.
It’s all about money, and may the best football district win!
Toso Viti!
RAJNESH ISHWAR LINGAM Nadawa, Nasinu
American democracy
WHILE it may come with a shock seeing the massive clashes the American presidential handover from Trump to Biden is causing — it’s not so surprising.
The thin veneer of “peace at any cost” has Capitol Hill reeling.
What Biden calls “sedition”, Trump totes as “loving loyalty”: demonstrably portrayed are two polar sides of a story.
It looks as if the sacred cow of the 4th amendment, “the right to bear arms”, in USA is come full circle.
It’s the proverbial “high noon shoot out”.
The right to bear arms seems to have come its full circle, back to where it was devised and defended as a democratic right.
Think about it: the very place that is considered the holy grail of American democracy is the heart of Congress.
Recently men drew arms against each other on Capitol Hill, not really new American history.
As William Golding famously said in “The Lord of The Flies”, the thin veneer of civilisation/(USA democracy in thos case), is being exposed. “American democracy” is obviously not the “holy grail” its cracked up to be in the world, but is being shaken to its core by a clash of “the will of the people”.
Human nature loves to hold dear these veneers, polished unreal illusory things, to which it cling too; but the reality is far from the ideals spouted in political speeches, or websites.
Of course, it grates when we see these crumbling before us, because we like illusions.
Yet history proves the ideals of democracy can and do go horribly wrong.
Sacred cows often do crumble. Man’s inhumanity to man is an age old literary theme for a good reason. It’s our inclination.
The civil right to bear arms in the States, a democratic principle many Americans voted for, has come back to its place of origin, on Capitol Hill. Here this amendment was devised, upheld, and now inevitably, it’s come back to expose some ideals about American forms of democracy.
Is that such a bad thing, when it makes us come out of denial about the truth - that many “sacred cows” are not so holy after all?
Why all the disbelief then.
JEAN HATCH
Nabua, Suva