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  • 2 years ago
The Prime Minister commented today during the post Cabinet media conference about foreigners who have been coming to this country, going into specific areas, and making videos posted online.

He noted the case where one such visitor who has been charged with sedition after having posted a series of videos on You tube featuring interviews with alleged gang members
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00:00The Prime Minister commented today during the post-Cabinet media conference about foreigners
00:04who have been coming to this country, going into specific areas and making videos and
00:09posting them online.
00:11He noted the case where one such visitor, who has been charged with sedition after having
00:16posted a series of videos on YouTube featuring interviews with alleged gang members.
00:23The people who are doing that, they're not doing it because they want to help us or they
00:27like us.
00:28They're doing it because it works for them.
00:32They get likes, and the more ridiculous, the more violent, the more shocking, the better
00:39for them.
00:40So they come and do it here.
00:41We are an open society.
00:43We are an open society, open to nationals and open to foreigners who are friendly to
00:48Trinidad and Tobago.
00:49Canadians, United States.
00:50If it wasn't him, it would have been somebody else.
00:53And if the question you want to ask is, how come he could find them and we can't find
00:57them, it's that they make themselves available to him, they don't make themselves available
01:05to the police.
01:06That's the first thing.
01:09The Prime Minister also spoke about the difference between information and evidence.
01:14While being an open society, we are governed by the rule of law, and our laws here permit
01:21certain things.
01:22You have to step very carefully.
01:26Information is not evidence.
01:27In the absence of evidence, you can't arrest people.
01:30And if you do arrest them, they have rights that you have to respect and so on and so
01:34on.
01:35So these are all part of a wider web.
01:38And I don't think the country should be embarrassed or ashamed about it.
01:43I don't think we should try to fight anybody over it.
01:48What we should do is try and learn from it and learn of it and ensure that our security
01:54people find these miscreants, whoever they are, because they are threatening all of us.
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