Dear Sir,

Majority rules. With regard to the recent protest based on seemingly distorted motives, thank you to those who stood up to those promoting unpalatable approaches.

Thank you, Mr Editor, for your frank Saturday editorial. Thank you to Venous Memari, of the Centre for Justice, for unbiased legal insights to put the incident into perspective. Thank you, Bob Stewart for your letter expounding upon Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, which correlates with the protest. Thank you, Michael Dunkley, with whom I am not personally acquainted, for your demonstrated admirable spirit and for serving in a constant line of fire for the good of our country.

Not because I align myself with the One Bermuda Alliance, as I am not politically inclined in any sense, but I do appreciate intelligent, sober, gracious, non-caustic, unpretentious and genuine caring, and sincerity and integrity in anyone — especially in a leader.

Heaven forbid we get the Progressive Labour Party, with their bitter and militant mindsets, back into power.

Thank you to the Bermuda Police Service for not being intimidated by the distorted guise of a peaceful protest and for doing your job to uphold laws and the rights of the otherwise silent majority, of which I am a part.

The majority who realise there is more than one way to approach an issue ... understanding that not always will everyone agree with decisions made by those responsible or elected to do so ... accepting it does not always have to be “our” way to be an acceptable way worth trying for the best outcome since, beyond applying wisdom and qualified assessments, no one can really project for the perfect outcome ... appreciating that errors may be made by those as fallible as I, and if so, we must simply move on and restore, revive, revamp or readdress in whatever ways necessary.

It is really not the end of the world and usually merely about materialistic issues, which will all one day come to naught anyway ... and ultimately, the majority who don’t have an axe to grind but simply desire a peaceful community where bitterness, bullheadedness, nastiness, and strife does not abound every time a minority group doesn’t like a decision, plan or approach, especially when they really don’t have a sound or tried and trusted better one that will please “everyone”.

I do not accept that this constitutes a naivety which pines for utopia, nor do I expect everyone to think as I do, which gets back to that premise of a peaceful coexistence.

Let’s not allow the minority with a chip on their shoulder, or those who simply march behind wherever the Progressive Labour Party banner leads, to turn our previously touted paradise homeland into a mobsters’ den, bullying the system to get their own way when they don’t like someone else’s decision. I am a born and bred black Bermudian, almost senior, Berkeleyite who is part of the silent majority that was not blocking the parliamentary process — and I have rights, too.

SANDRA SMITH