“Samoa is founded on God?”

Since Samoa become independent it has been founded on God. Today this foundation is rocking and very unstable. The Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi has clubbed through a new legislation to allow 2 Casino Licenses in Samoa.

Samoans not worthy!

The prime minister have decided to only allow people to gamble that has a foreign passport. This means that he consider his own people not good enough to take care of their money and all the risks connected to gambling.

The talk is about the filthy rich people that will come and spend their money in the casinos as they are too bored with beaches and culture and need something else to do.

This sounds like really clever strategies to build a solid future for a country???

What about Samoans with dual citizenship?

It is well known that many Samoans have dual citizenship which will allow them to gamble in Samoa. The prime minister has no problem with that as he means that they need a break before they go home again. The fact is that many or most people in higher positions in Samoa have dual citizenship although they are not living abroad.

I guess that we will have two classes of people in Samoa in the future:

• The Normal People and
• The Casino People

What else will follow the casino future?  What about drugs and prostitution?

I hope they will build the casino on a big rock so people can jump effortlessly after loosing all their money. This is actually a good business opportunity for the funeral services in Samoa.

Mats Loefkvist   www.samoa-experience.com