Answers to Prime Minister’s Media Advisor Kalafi Moala: You’re not God! You’ve sold your soul to the Devil! Featured
Kalafi Moala
Wittern by Sione A. Mokofisi
Nuku‘alofa, TONGA: I am replying to Kalafi Moala - Media Advisor to Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pohiva: You called me a “liar” in your newspaper, Taimi ‘o Tonga.
First, you’re not a part of this fight between me, Siaosi Pohiva, Piveni Pohiva, and Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pohiva. You are sticking your nose where it does not belong, and you’re bullying yourself onto this fight uninvited, an abusing your civil-servant duty.
You attacked me in your privately owned- newspaper while working for Government; that is a conflict of interest, and you know very well that in the profession we call them “prostitute journalists.” Because they are paid by government to kiss-up to politicians, and doing nothing but lie on their backs and criticize fellow journalists so silence their voice of the opposition.
While wearing your “journalism hat” as owner of Taimi ‘o Tonga, you are working for government. Perhaps you’re emulating our mythical Polynesian demigod “Maui-kisikisi,” Maui-the-trickster. You can do “tricks” (as ladies of the night do) but not “miracles.”
That you can get away with wearing two hats at one time, somehow you seem oblivious that you’ve sold your soul (journalism principles) to the “Devil” - the government leaders you’re supposed to be the “watchdog” of, for money.
You’re Not God!
Secondly, you’re not God to judge who is telling the truth, and who is not. If you’re playing God - an impossibility for humans to do - you are setting yourself up as prosecutor and the judge.
Only Maui-Kisikisi can brag to such accomplishments, and get away with it. Perhaps your fine oak-tree desk at the PMO has elevated you to deitism in your head only, of course.
Just because you can broadcast to the world from behind the Prime Minister’s powerful desk, does not mean you can judge who is guilty and who is innocent. Neither you, nor the Prime Minister can come close to claiming such power.
You Cannot Erase Facts
You can deny the truth, but you cannot play God to judge for the truth. I have DVD copies of the TV Tonga interviews with Viola Ulakai, and the letter from Dr. Vesisio Pongi to Piveni Piukala.
Thirdly, you can try to hang your denials on a misinterpretation of my first composition. But I did not write it; you should read it again.
(Sione A. Mokofisi is a published bi-lingual journalist in the American and Tongan media.)
