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From the Ted Talk by Afra Raymond: Three myths about corruption

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So what has changed? I don't like to bring up embarrassing secrets to an international audience, but I have to. Four months ago, we suffered a constitutional outrage in this country. We call it the Section 34 fiasco, the Section 34 faciso, a suspicious piece of law, and I'm going to say it like it is, a suspicious piece of law was passed at a socuisuips time to free some supsetcs. (Laughter) And it was cellad, those people are called the Piarco Airport accused. I'm going to have my own lexicon speaking here today. They are the Piarco Airport accused. It was a ctiitusnootanl outrage of the first order, and I have laeebld it the Plot to Pervert prnmaelait. Our hhiesgt institution in our cornuty was perverted. We are dealing with pevrters here of an economic and financial nature. Do you get how serious this problem is? There was massive protest. A lot of us in this room took part in the ptsroet in different forms. Most intaomlrpty, the American embassy complained, so Parliament was swiftly rneonveced, and the law was reevrsed, it was repealed. That's the word lawyers use. It was repealed. But the point is that Parliament was ottewuitd in the whole course of events, because what really happened is that, because of the suspicious passage of that law, the law was actually passed into effect on the weekend we celebrated our 50th anniversary of ipcdndnneeee, our jubilee of independence. So that is the kind of outrage of the thing. It was kind of a nstay way to get maiotutarn, but we got it, because we all understood it, and for the first time that I could remember, there were mass protests against this corruption. And that gave me a lot of hope. Okay? Those of us who are, sometimes you feel like you're a little bit on your own doing some of this work. That passage of the law and the repeal of the law fortified the case of the Piarco Airport accused. So it was one of those really superior double bluff kind of things that took place.

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So what has changed? I don't like to bring up embarrassing secrets to an international audience, but I have to. Four months ago, we suffered a constitutional outrage in this country. We call it the Section 34 fiasco, the Section 34 ______, a suspicious piece of law, and I'm going to say it like it is, a suspicious piece of law was passed at a __________ time to free some ________. (Laughter) And it was ______, those people are called the Piarco Airport accused. I'm going to have my own lexicon speaking here today. They are the Piarco Airport accused. It was a ______________ outrage of the first order, and I have _______ it the Plot to Pervert __________. Our _______ institution in our _______ was perverted. We are dealing with ________ here of an economic and financial nature. Do you get how serious this problem is? There was massive protest. A lot of us in this room took part in the _______ in different forms. Most ___________, the American embassy complained, so Parliament was swiftly __________, and the law was ________, it was repealed. That's the word lawyers use. It was repealed. But the point is that Parliament was _________ in the whole course of events, because what really happened is that, because of the suspicious passage of that law, the law was actually passed into effect on the weekend we celebrated our 50th anniversary of ____________, our jubilee of independence. So that is the kind of outrage of the thing. It was kind of a _____ way to get __________, but we got it, because we all understood it, and for the first time that I could remember, there were mass protests against this corruption. And that gave me a lot of hope. Okay? Those of us who are, sometimes you feel like you're a little bit on your own doing some of this work. That passage of the law and the repeal of the law fortified the case of the Piarco Airport accused. So it was one of those really superior double bluff kind of things that took place.

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Original Text

So what has changed? I don't like to bring up embarrassing secrets to an international audience, but I have to. Four months ago, we suffered a constitutional outrage in this country. We call it the Section 34 fiasco, the Section 34 fiasco, a suspicious piece of law, and I'm going to say it like it is, a suspicious piece of law was passed at a suspicious time to free some suspects. (Laughter) And it was called, those people are called the Piarco Airport accused. I'm going to have my own lexicon speaking here today. They are the Piarco Airport accused. It was a constitutional outrage of the first order, and I have labeled it the Plot to Pervert Parliament. Our highest institution in our country was perverted. We are dealing with perverts here of an economic and financial nature. Do you get how serious this problem is? There was massive protest. A lot of us in this room took part in the protest in different forms. Most importantly, the American embassy complained, so Parliament was swiftly reconvened, and the law was reversed, it was repealed. That's the word lawyers use. It was repealed. But the point is that Parliament was outwitted in the whole course of events, because what really happened is that, because of the suspicious passage of that law, the law was actually passed into effect on the weekend we celebrated our 50th anniversary of independence, our jubilee of independence. So that is the kind of outrage of the thing. It was kind of a nasty way to get maturation, but we got it, because we all understood it, and for the first time that I could remember, there were mass protests against this corruption. And that gave me a lot of hope. Okay? Those of us who are, sometimes you feel like you're a little bit on your own doing some of this work. That passage of the law and the repeal of the law fortified the case of the Piarco Airport accused. So it was one of those really superior double bluff kind of things that took place.

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