The Mugabe of the South Pacific.

Vice Air Field Marshal of the Fleet Voreqe Bainimarama Dada has taken another step along the path that will lead him to the retirement home for insane dictators eventually.

There is nothing going on that we haven’t seen before time and again, including the rest of the world sitting back and bloody well watching, while a democracy turns into stagnant backwater of corruption and terror under the control of one maniac.

Worse, we have people who are cheerleaders for this tyrant, because the government he overthrew was “corrupt”. Hardly a distinction in this part of the world, is it.

The story carries the headline “Fiji bans Helen Clark”. With the usual ego-centric socialist “it’s all about me” approach to news, it leaves the real story to the last couple of lines, and is virtually an afterthought.

It also names those who are banned from leaving.

The list included trade union officials, civil rights activists, politicians and businessmen.

Oh yeah, this looks good for democracy alright.

In 1945 we were digging up mass graves in island jungles, and shooting Japanese soldiers and sailors. It didn’t bring back one single person.

Bananarama is on the path to making people who are a problem to him dissapear. Are we really going to sit here and wait untill Bananarama dies of old age, and we go digging in the Fijian jungle before Fiji gets democracy again?

You’re damn right we are.

Anything else is in the “too hard” basket for Clark’s “benign strategic environment”.