Belize Progressive Party Calls for ‘Kitchen Sink’ Referendum
This week the Belize Progressive Party (BPP) called for a referendum on multiple issues affecting the country. Party Chairman Paco Smith outlined the issues as: whether or not Belize should take the Guatemala claim to the ICJ, whether or not Belize should sign on to the UN Convention Against Corruption, whether or not Belize should legalize marijuana, and finally “the people’s perspective with regard to the Chief Justice’s ruling on Section 53 of the criminal code.”
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Party officials clarified that these four issues were chosen because “we couldn’t think of anything else to add.” In answering questions they indicated their belief that homosexuality and marijuana smoking are lifestyle choices, the only difference being that no one tries to assault or kill anyone for smoking weed “which is why everyone should choose weed instead of gay sex.”
Party leader Patrick Rogers explained that the Chief Justice made the ruling because Belize has signed UN conventions which govern these same sex issues and so the BPP proposes to have legislators pass laws to recognize the will of the people so that in the future the UN conventions dealing with trivialities such as human rights can be ignored.
The BPP went on to state its belief that Belize should sign the UN Convention Against Corruption so that the government will have no choice but to work to eradicate corruption, at least until legislators pass laws to ignore UN conventions.
When asked why the referendum would cost as much as $300,000 a party member who spoke on condition of anonymity said that they plan to bribe everyone with ‘special’ marijuana fudge to vote according to what is best for the BPP. He added “we like ‘special’ fudge, but we don’t approve of fudgepackers.”
