{"id":241515,"date":"2003-02-19T12:36:52","date_gmt":"2003-02-19T17:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/02\/bahamian-woman-blames-us-for-bahamas-failures"},"modified":"2003-02-19T12:36:52","modified_gmt":"2003-02-19T17:36:52","slug":"bahamian-woman-blames-us-for-bahamas-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/02\/bahamian-woman-blames-us-for-bahamas-failures","title":{"rendered":"Bahamian Woman Blames US for Bahamas Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a long winded, rambling tirade, an angry Bahamian woman, Ms. Phillipa Russell, says Bahamians &#8220;have no idea of the exent of US mischief.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>\nCalling last years&#8217; attempt to ammend the constitution of the Bahamas, to include gender equality, an &#8220;ungodly proposal&#8221;, Ms. Russell goes on to say that the overburdoned Bahamian court system is due to extradition requests from the United States. <\/p>\n<p>\nComparing the legal systems of the Bahamas and the United States, Ms Russell reminds readers that the Bahamian system is one where the accused is &#8220;innocent until proven guilty,&#8221; implying that the US has some other system. <\/p>\n<p>\nIn what appears, to some, to be a veiled endorsement of Osama bin Ladin, the editorial states that Mr. bin Ladin was &#8220;provoked&#8221; into his attack on the US because of their &#8220;reckless assaults upon other societies.&#8221;  She also warns Bahamians that they &#8220;MUST&#8221; defend themselves against the &#8220;Big Brother strong arm tactics&#8221; of the present US Ambassador.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bahamian woman, in an editorial in the Nassau Guardian, has blasted the United States and Ambassador Richard Blankenship for everything wrong with the Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}