Vexed Bermoothes

The BBC is reporting:

In a highly unusual move, a senior US official said Washington opted to keep details of the deal from London until the last minute to enable Britain to deny all knowledge of the deal and thus avoid China’s anger.

You can read this in several ways – one view is that Dr. Brown was looking for an angle to push the independence agenda with the UK.  Another view is that Dr. Brown got played way out of his league:

• The US knew they had an anti-UK zealot with a huge ego and hunger for attention and exploited it.  They offload a few Uighurs, create plausible deniability for their real ally (the UK), and leave Ewart to deal with the mess he’s created.
• Or they really don’t give a rats ass and are just shoving Uighurs in any tin pot country that will take ‘em, screw the consequences.

Dr. Brown doesn’t come out looking very good.  He told Parliament today that he did not tell his Cabinet and he did not tell the Governor because he knows to keep his mouth shut for top secret info!

It reminds me of that scam here a few years ago, when an overseas private detective convinced an expat accountant that he was being recruited as a UK secret agent, and should quietly leak all sorts of highly sensitive information, sssh don’t tell a soul. It was a tremendous embarrassment all round when  it was found out how easily impressed our so-called experts were, and willing to violate their positions of responsibility.

Picture this scenario:  “a little thank you call from the President and Ewart’s singing Yankee Doodle all around the Cabinet Office and getting Glenn to send a write up to the Howard alumni mag.”

Even if you don’t believe that Dr. Brown was used, it is undeniable that his little games with the Constitution have badly undermined the Rule of Law in Bermuda.

This fuss is not really about the uighurs.  It’s about the consistently murky and inappropriate behaviour of our political leadership.

Don’t stop the carnival.