We The People volunteers at the Grand Bahama launch on February 26th at the Regency Theatre. Photo: The Bahamas Weekly

Freeport, Grand Bahama Island - We the People (WTP) organizers were extremely impressed with the showing at their launch of WTP on February 26th at the Regency Theatre in Grand Bahama as a significant number of persons attended from all walks of life from Freeport community.  75 percent of those in attendance registered on the spot and others registered afterward on line.

Welcoming the audience and introducing the organization was Philip Simon, WTP Executive Director. A prayer was offered by Bishop Arnold Pinder. Introducing WTP's Chairman and Atlantis senior vice president and popular radio personality , Ed Fields was Grand Bahama attorney, Veronica Grant.

"The enthusiasm expressed by those that attended the Grand Bahama launched further inspires We The People to continue promoting this very important idea. We are greatly encouraged about the possibilities resultant from more and more Bahamians engaging in the process of collectively participating in the development of our Bahamas. In this regard WTP's second city launch was tremendously successful," said We The People Chairman, Ed Fields.

Executive Director of We The People, Philip Simon speaks to the Grand Bahama audience. Photo: The Bahamas Weekly

Persons can obtain more information, and join, on their website:
www.wethepeople.org

A young Sunland Baptist Academy student joins We The People at the Grand Bahama launch on February 26th. Photo: The Bahamas Weekly

The registration table at the Grand Bahama launch of We The People. Photo: The Bahamas Weekly

Students of Sunland Baptist Academy attend the We The People Launch in Grand Bahama. In center is Christine Fields. Photo: The Bahamas Weekly

"We The People is an idea, not the answer," said Ed Fields, Chairman of We The People at the Grand Bahama Launch on February 26th, 2011 at the Regency Theatre. Photo: The Bahamas Weekly

The following are remarks made by WTP Chairman, Ed Fields at the Grand Bahama Launch:

    My Fellow Bahamians.  I would like first of all to thank you all for welcoming us to Grand Bahama. We promised we would come in short order and we did and we could not have done it without the assistance of many of you in the room this evening. We hope that you will listen to what “We The People” has to say this evening and going forward, because we genuinely believe that we can bring about a process for change that will include all those that wish to contribute to a better Bahamas. FOR THE SKEPTICS, “WE THE PEOPLE” IS AN IDEA NOT AN ANSWER. THIS IS NOT ABOUT RANK, RECOGNITION OR REWARD FOR ANY ONE INDIVIDUAL AND HOPEFULLY THE CLOSING PARAGRAPH OF MY ADDRESS WILL CLEARLY DISPEL THAT CONCERN.

Ed Fields, Chairman of We The People used numerous illustrations to get his points across. Photo: The Bahamas Weekly

       FOR FAR TOO LONG, IN THIS COUNTRY AND IN OTHERS, THE COLLECTIVE HAS LOOKED TO THE INDIVIDUAL OR A SMALL GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS TO DETERMINE THEIR DESTINIES. EVEN UNDER SOCIALISTS REGIMES WHERE EVERY INDIVIDUAL WAS SUPPOSED TO BE EQUAL, A SELECT GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS DICTATED THE FATE OF THE MASSES. IT IS IN THIS REGARD THAT “WE THE PEOPLE” SEEKS TO CHANGE THAT MODEL. SO IN ESSENCE “WE THE PEOPLE” IS NOT ABOUT A POLITICAL CHANGE, BUT A PHILOSOPHICAL CHANGE, A SOCIOLOGICAL CHANGE, A PSYCHOLOGICAL CHANGE. IF WE WERE TO APPLY THIS TO A PRIVATE SECTOR ENTITY, WE WOULD REFER TO IT AS ORGANIZATIONAL RESTRUCTURING. EVERY NOW AND AGAIN, SUCH A PHILOSOPHICAL SHIFT HAPPENS AND ITS EFFECT CAN LAST FOR CENTURIES. THESE SHIFTS COME ABOUT, WHEN THE EXISTING MODEL NO LONGER FUNCTIONS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE COLLECTIVE. IT IS NOT A WHOLESALE CONDEMNATION OF THE STATUS QUO, BUT A NECESSARY RECOGNITION THAT AN ADAPTATION IS REQUIRED. IT IS THIS ADAPTIVE QUALITY THAT LENDS TO THE SURVIVAL OF THE COLLECTIVE. HISTORY SHOWS THAT THOSE THAT COULD NOT CHANGE PERISHED. INDEED MANY NATIONS ARE CAUGHT IN A QUAGMIRE, THAT IF NOT RESOLVED COULD HAVE SERIOUS RAMIFICATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THEIR VERY EXISTENCE. A GLOOMY PICTURE FOR MANY.

    THE BAHAMAS HOWEVER, REEKS OF POSITIVE POTENTIAL. WE ARE RELATIVELY SMALL IN NUMBER, WE HAVE THE CAPACITY TO MIGRATE NATIONALLY FROM ISLAND TO ISLAND, AND WE SEEM TO BE ON THE CUSP OF AN INFRASTRUCTURAL RENAISSANCE. BUT WE ARE MISSING ONE INGREDIENT. RECOGNITION OF THIS MISSING INGREDIENT IS NOT A REVELATION. IT HAS BEEN STATED IN MANY QUARTERS FOR MANY YEARS, BUT FOR THE MOST PART OUR PROSPERITY HAS ALLOWED FOR THE MISSING INGREDIENT TO BE IGNORED AND UNADDRESSED. THAT INGREDIENT MY FRIENDS IS OUR MINDSET. OUR MINDSET AT EVERY LEVEL; IN EVERY SECTOR; AND IN EVERY CITIZEN. IT IS INDEED OUR INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE THOUGHT PROCESS THAT NEEDS RESTRUCTURING.

       OUR ABILITY TO MERCEDESIZE, YURMANIZE, SATELITIZE, AND MANSIONIZE HAS LEFT A VOID.  OURS IS NOT ABOUT A COMMON CAUSE, BUT INDVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT. THE BENEFITS OF THE LARGESSE OF AN ECONOMY WE DO NOT CONTROL BUT REAP FROM, HAS LEFT US BEREFT OF THE CAPACITY TO RECOGNIZE THAT WE ARE NOT THINKING ABOUT OUR DESTINY, BUT INSTEAD OUR DESTINY IS FOR THE MOST PART EXTRANEOUSLY DETERMINED. IN OUR BAHAMAS HOWEVER ALL IS NOT LOST. THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS HAS RESULTED IN MAJOR REFLECTION AND INTROSPECTION. GIVEN THE CURRENT ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY, WE HAVE COME CLOSER MORE THAN EVER TO REALIZE THAT ECONOMIES ON AUTOMATIC PILOT ARE NOT SELF SUSTAINING.

       DURING THE PRELIMINARY GATHERINGS OF SOME OF THE FIRST THIRTY, (THAT IS THE FIRST THIRTY MEMBERS OF WTP), ONE OF THE GROUP STATED, “IN ORDER FOR THE BAHAMAS TO REVERSE THE COURSE IT IS ON, IT IS INCUMBENT THAT WE LOOK AT EVERY SINGLE SYSTEM THAT IS IN PLACE WITH A VIEW TO REVAMPING IT”. I THINK TO DIFFERENT DEGREES WE CAN ALL AGREE ON THAT. SOME EXAMPLES OF THIS HAVE ALREADY TAKEN PLACE OR ARE TAKING PLACE. BUT BEYOND THAT ENDEAVOUR MUST BE AN EVEN GREATER UNDERTAKING AND THAT IS THAT OUR BAHAMAS MUST BE COMMITTED TO THE PROCESS OF CHANGE.

       FOR MOST HUMAN BEINGS, CORPORATIONS OR NATIONS, CHANGE IS AN ITINERANT OCCURRENCE, IT IS INTERMITTENT AT BEST, FORCED ON US BY NEGATIVE STIMULI, SUCH AS RECESSIONS, LOSS OF KEY PERSONNEL, MARKET SHIFTS, TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES, ETC.

       THEREIN LIES THE NECESSITY FOR A PHILOSOPHICAL AND AGAIN TO SOME EXTENT A PSYCHOLOGICAL SHIFT. THIS IS ESPECIALLY SO AT THE LEADERSHIP LEVELS IN OUR COMMUNITY. IN ADDITION TO REVISITING, REVIEWING AND REVAMPING ALL OF OUR SYSTEMS, IT IS NECESSARY FOR THE CONSISTENT PROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR BAHAMAS AND ITS PEOPLE, THAT WE ARE COMMITTED TO THE VERY PROCESS OF CHANGE. CHANGE MUST BECOME THE ACCEPTABLE NORM. NO MATTER WHAT SUCCESS WE HAVE, OUR EFFORTS SHOULD BE COMMITTED TO CONTINUAL REVIEW OF THOSE SYSTEMS IN A MANNER THAT ALLOWS FOR CHANGE, WITHOUT THE FEAR OF CHANGE IN AND OF ITSELF, PREVENTING CHANGE AS NEEDED. THE ABSENCE OF ADOPTING THIS PHILOSOPHICAL SHIFT WILL LEAD TO WHAT WE NOW ENDURE - QUANTIFIABLE, INSUFFERABLE INACTION. WE ARE ESSENTIALLY PARALYZED BY OUR FEAR OF CHANGE, HENCE CHANGE IS NOT HAPPENING AT THE RATE IT SHOULD BE OR NEEDS TO BE AND SUBSEQUENTLY OUR QUALITY OF LIFE IS IMPACTED EXPONENTIALLY.

       FOR THAT PHILOSOPHICAL SHIFT TO HAPPEN HOWEVER THERE IS ANOTHER CRITICAL INGREDIENT THAT HAS TO BE ADDRESSED; OUR ENGAGEMENT, OR LACK THEREOF. CHANGE CAN NOT HAPPEN IF ONLY A FEW OF US ARE ENGAGED IN THE PROCESS AND HENCE “WE THE PEOPLE” IS STRUCTURED TO ENCOURAGE FIRST AND FOREMOST; ENGAGEMENT. FROM THIS WILL SPRING THE IDEAS THAT WILL BUILD OUR NATION AND THAT WHICH WILL LEND TO IMPROVING AND MAINTAINING AN ACCEPTABLE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR MORE OF OUR PEOPLE.

     

"Our single qualification for joining We The People is this; All people who love the Bahamas" said Chairman Ed Fields of We The People. Photo: The Bahamas Weekly

IN THE WEEKS, MONTHS AND YEARS TO COME, YOU WILL SEE THE ANNOUNCEMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND EXECUTION OF SOME OF THE IDEAS THAT HAVE ALREADY COME FORWARD. AND THE NUMBER OF IDEAS BEING FORWARDED INCREASE EVERYDAY. AND WON’T IT BE A GLORIOUS THING WHEN WE CAN BOAST OF THE BAHAMAS LEADING THE WAY WITH RESPECT TO HOW WE PARTICIPATE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF OUR COUNTRY. IT IS AS SIMPLE AS THAT.

       HOW SIMPLE, WELL LETS LOOK AT THAT. LOOK AT THE BRAIN POWER IN THIS ROOM. HOW IS IT BEING UTILIZED. IF YOU WANT, I CAN GO FROM PERSON TO PERSON, AND ASSIGN THEM TO A TEAM. THERE ARE THOSE THAT WOULD BE ON ONE COLOR’S TEAM AND OTHERS WHO ARE ON ANOTHER COLOR’S TEAM. IN FACT WE ARE SO ORIENTED, THAT MANY OF US CAN NOT FATHOM THE OCCURRENCE OF AN ORGANIZATION THAT IS SOME HOW NOT EITHER ALIGNED WITH ONE TEAM OR THE OTHER OR THAT IT IS NOT SEEKING TO ESTABLISH ITSELF AS THE TEAM.

       LET US FOR A MINUTE EXAMINE WHAT MANY SEE AS THE STANDARD TO BE EMULATED WITH RESPECT TO PARTY POLITICS. THAT BEING, THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. LOST TO MOST OF US IS THE REALIZATION THAT “DEMOCRACY” AS INTENDED BY THE FOUNDING FRAMERS OF THE U.S CONSTITUTION WAS THAT THE CONSTITUTION DID NOT, SPECIFY A PLACE IN THE CONSTITUTION FOR PARTY POLITICS,” ACCORDING TO GERALD LEONARD IN HIS BOOK “THE INVENTION OF PARTY POLITICS” THE CONGRESS WAS SIMPLY A GATHERING FOR STATES TO BE REPRESENTED AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL. THE CONSTITUTION ITSELF WAS BORN OUT OF THE UNIFIED DESIRE TO RID CITIZENS OF A TYRANT AND TO PREVENT SUCH TYRANNY IN THE FUTURE. INDEED, ACCORDING TO LEONARD, IT WAS A CONSTITUTION AGAINST PARTIES, AND MANY CONDEMNED FORMED OPPOSITION AS DESTRUCTIVE OF THE PUBLIC GOOD AND FATAL TO PUBLIC PEACE. DOES THAT STATE OF AFFAIRS SOUND FAMILIAR?

       BUT AS IS INEVITABLE, THE GATHERING OF HUMAN BEINGS WILL LEAD TO DISSENT AND DIVISION. HENCE CATHOLICISM LEADING TO ANGLICANISM, OR LUTHERANISM, OR METHODISM. FEDERALISM LEADING TO REPUBLICANISM, UBP-ISM LEAD TO PLP-ISM AND THEN TO FNM-ISM AND TO THIRD PARTY-ISM. IT CAN GO ON FOR EVER, UNTIL ONE DAY YOU GET TO A POINT WHERE THE LATEST DERIVATIVE OF ANY ISM, IS SOLELY BASED ON EGO AND PERSONALITY, AS OPPOSED TO A BONA FIDE OBJECTIVE THAT WAS NOT BEING MET. AND THEN MY FRIENDS WE FIND OUR SELVES LOST IN A CRUSADE STARTED CENTURIES AGO WITH THE NEWEST CRUSADERS NOT KNOWING WHAT THEY ARE FIGHTING FOR. ULTIMATELY WE GET TO A POINT WHERE IT BECOMES INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT TO RECRUIT CRUSADERS FOR OUTDATED AND IRRELEVANT CAUSES.

       THE IRONY IS THAT WE HAVE COME TO ACCEPT THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM AS A NECESSITY OF DEMOCRACY AS OPPOSED TO WHAT IT WAS INTENDED TO BE: OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE AND BY THE PEOPLE. NOT OF ONE PARTY FOR THEIR PEOPLE AND OPPOSED TO ANY OTHER.

       ON THE OTHER-HAND, WE DO NOT USE THIS MODEL IN ANY OTHER SUCCESSFUL ENTITY IN OUR LIVES. AS BUSINESS MEN DO WE USE A MODEL WHERE WE WOULD CREATE TWO OPPOSING MANAGEMENT TEAMS, ONE IN PLACE AND ONE LURKING TO TAKE CHARGE? WE MAKE THE BEST USE OF ALL OF OUR HUMAN CAPITAL AND PREPARE FOR SEAMLESS TRANSITION.  MR. LEONARD’S ANALYSIS IS DESERVED OF REFLECTION IN THIS REGARD.

       THE GRIDLOCK CAUSED BY PARTY POLITICS IS NOT ONLY DESTRUCTIVE, IT IS IRRATIONALLY DESTRUCTIVE. I HAVE OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS COME TO KNOW SOMEONE AND NOW CONSIDER THEM TO BE A FRIEND (I DON’T KNOW IF THEY FEEL THE SAME WAY, BUT I WILL GO ON THE ASSERTION THAT THE SENTIMENT IS MUTUAL). WHILE I DO NOT CONSIDER MYSELF TO BE A CARD CARRYING, CONVENTION GOING MEMBER OF ANY POLITICAL PARTY, MY PAST OPEN SUPPORT FOR ONE OF THE TEAMS VERSUS THE OTHER, IS OPPOSITE TO THE POLITICS OF MY NEW FRIEND. ONE DAY WHILE ENGAGED IN A CONVERSATION RELATED TO THE COMMON WELFARE OF OUR CHILDREN, IN MID SENTENCE I QUERIED, “WHY ARE WE OPPOSED TO EACH OTHER?” NOT ENTIRELY SURPRISING, BUT REVEALING, THE ANSWER TO THE IRRATIONAL NATURE OF OUR OPPOSITION, WAS “I DON’T KNOW’. MORE IMPORTANTLY, SHE NOR I DID NOT KNOW, BECAUSE THERE WERE NO PHILOSOPHICAL, SOCIAL, CULTURAL OR ECONOMIC FOUNDATION TO OUR BEING ON “DIFFERENT” TEAMS, OTHER THAN EMOTIONAL, FAMILY TIES OR OTHER BASELESS REASONS.

       AND SO HERE IS WHERE “OUR” BAHAMAS FINDS ITSELF. THE QUESTION BEFORE US IS WHAT ARE WE WILLING TO DO TO FOR “THEIR” BAHAMAS. THE BAHAMAS THAT WILL BE LEFT TO GENERATIONS TO COME.

       IN MY MIND THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE. FOREGOING THE NEED TO CALL ON THE TYPICAL HISTORICALLY PLAYED OUT ACTS OF REVOLUTION, COUPS OR CIVIL WAR; WE MERELY NEED TO MENTALLY ABANDON THE SHACKLES AND CAGES OF OUR PHILOSOPHICAL STATUS QUO. WE WILL FIND THEY ARE UNLOCKED. I AM NOT UNDER ANY DELUSION THAT THE SYSTEM CAN BE SIMILARLY, OR FOR THAT MATTER SUMMARILY DISMANTLED AND ABANDONED, BUT THROUGH A WILLINGNESS TO COMMIT OURSELVES TO A NEW WAY OF THINKING, WHICH BY THE WAY IS FREE OF CHARGE, WE CAN BEGIN TO REFURBISH THE SYSTEM OVER TIME. LIKE ALL REFURBISHMENT, IT IS PAINSTAKING AND TIME CONSUMING AND WE DON’T KNOW WHAT WE WILL UNCOVER IN THE PROCESS, BUT IT IS ACTION THAT RESULTS IN RENEWAL AND RESTORATION AND THAT IS WHY WE PROCEED. WHAT WE ARE WITNESSING IN OUR COMMUNITY TO DAY IS AN ABSENCE OF ACTION THAT CAN ONLY LEAD TO DESTRUCTION AND DETERIORATION.

       THIS IS THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT ROLE OF “WE THE PEOPLE” TO INCITE NOT ANGER, BUT ENGAGEMENT, TO ENCOURAGE INNOVATION AND ALTERNATE THINKING, NOT COMPLAINING AND BLAMING, TO ELEVATE THE WELFARE AND QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL AS OPPOSED TO THE PROMOTION OF SINGULAR SUCCESS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE MANY. IN THIS EFFORT EVERY SINGLE CITIZEN MUST COME TO ACCEPT A BALANCE BETWEEN HIS OR HER NEEDS AND THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY TO COME TO REALIZE THAT IF THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY ARE MET, INDIVIDUAL GROWTH IS MORE POSSIBLE FOR MORE PEOPLE.

       EQUALLY IMPORTANT HOWEVER IS THE FACT THAT HISTORY HAS TAUGHT US THAT PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT IS HOLLOW WITH OUT ACCOMPANYING ACTION.  IN THAT VEIN, I AM NOT SO ARROGANT AS TO BELIEVE THAT THESE ASSERTIONS ARE NEW OR EXCLUSIVE TO MY MIND, WHICH I AM SURE MANY WOULD SAY IS SOMEWHAT CONVOLUTED AT TIMES ANYWAY. IN THE BAHAMIAN CONTEXT HOWEVER, “WE THE PEOPLE” IS AN ATTEMPT TO BRING STRUCTURE, SUBSTANCE AND STRATEGY TO PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT. THE ATTEMPT IS UNEXPECTEDLY MET WITH BLANK STARES AND EXPECTED CYNICISM, SIMPLY BECAUSE IT IS A STARTING PLACE, OR AS OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PHIL SIMON PUT IT, A BLANK CANVAS. THE METAPHOR SHOULD NOT ESCAPE US. ARTISTS ARE NOT FEARFUL OF BLANK CANVASES. A BLANK CANVAS EXCITES AN ARTIST. IT REPRESENTS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CREATIVITY, FOR INNOVATION, FOR INCITEFULLNES, FOR A PERSONAL JOURNEY OF GROWTH  FOR THE ARTIST AND THE POSSIBILITY OF ENLIGHTENMENT FOR THOSE THAT HE IS ABLE TO SHARE HIS JOURNEY WITH. THE ARTIST DOES NOT CONCERN HIMSELF WITH THE STATUS QUO. HE OR SHE IS NOT HINDERED BY CRITICISM, NOR ARE THEY RESTRAINED BY EXISTING METHODS. “WE THE PEOPLE” IS AN ATTEMPT FOR ALL OF US TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE CANVAS OF BUILDING A BETTER BAHAMAS. YOUR ENGAGEMENT IN THE PROCESS OF OUR RESTORATION SHOULD BE VOID OF THE FEAR OF CHANGE, BUT FULL OF HOPE AND ANTICIPATION OF WHAT COULD BE. “WE THE PEOPLE “CALL ON ALL CITIZENS TO COMMIT THEMSELVES TO THE PROCESS OF CHANGE. AT THIS TIME IN OUR NATION’S DEVELOPMENT, FAILURE TO DO SO IS NOT AN OPTION. IF THIS SOUNDS ALL TOO FAMILIAR IT IS, BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN. IN THE WORDS OF JOHN F. KENNEDY ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU, BUT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO FOR OUR BAHAMAS.

       BY NOW, SOME, IF NOT ALL OF YOU MAY BE THINKING, “WELL THIS WAS QUITE A HEALTHY DOSE OF IDEALISM.” WELL I WOULD OFFER YOU THIS TO PONDER ON.

       IN ALMOST ALL OF OUR LIFETIMES, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL REALITIES HAVE CHANGED. HOW MANY SLAVES BEFORE 1838 ENVISIONED THE ABOLITION OF THE PRACTICE? WHAT ABOUT ONE MAN ONE VOTE AND UNIVERSAL SUFFERAGE? HOW MANY WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT SUCH AN ACHIEVEMENT WOULD BE POSSIBLE?  WHAT ABOUT MAJORITY RULE? WHAT ABOUT INDEPENDENCE?

       WHAT MAKES US BELIEVE THAT OUR PRESENT SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ORDER IS AT ITS PINNACLE?

       PRIOR TO THOSE SHIFTS, MANY WOULD HAVE PREFERRED THAT THE STATUS QUO STAY INTACT. OTHERS WOULD HAVE TOLERATED AND ACCEPTED IT.  SOME DID NOT. THEY WERE THE ONES THAT MADE THE DIFFERENCE.

FINALLY, I WISH TO LEAVE YOU WITH THIS ILLUSTRATION. CONSIDER THE FLIGHT OF OUR NATIONAL BIRD THE FLAMINGO. IT IS BOTH SYMBOLIC AND ESSENTIAL TO OUR COLLECTIVE POTENTIAL TO SOAR.

THE FLOCK TAKES FLIGHT WHEN ONE AMONGST IT BEGINS TO WALK, THEN OTHERS FOLLOW AND SOON THE SKY IS DARKENED BY THEIR PRESENCE.

IN AUGUST OF 2009, I BEGAN TO WALK AND BEFORE I KNEW IT THERE WERE THIRTY OTHERS ALSO WALKING, AS OF NOVEMBER 16, 2010, THERE ARE NOW OVER 600 IN FLIGHT AND AFTER TONIGHT OTHERS WILL JOIN AND THE “WE THE PEOPLE” FLOCK WILL MULTIPLY AND WE WILL MOVE FORWARD TOGETHER, ONWARD TOGETHER AND UPWARD TOGETHER AND AT THAT POINT THE FIRST TO WALK WILL BE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE REST AS WE ALL ASCEND IN GLORIOUS FLIGHT TOWARD A BETTER BAHAMAS.  

       WE THE PEOPLE IS AN OPEN INVITATION TO ALL WHO LOVE THE BAHAMAS, TO DO SOMETHING.

       THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

Executive Director of We The People, Philip Simon speaks to the Grand Bahama audience. Photo: The Bahamas Weekly