E Tatau Lava na iai se Itu Agai i le Palemene

E Tatau lava na iai se Itu Agai i le Palemene.


Tusia: Meripa Olive Weir


E tu’itu’i atu pea lo’u nei sui Samoa ona ua toe o se ana ona soloia lea o le Palemene a e sauni Samoa mo ana Palota Lautele ia Mati 2011. O ni mo’omo’oga e molimoli atu i e o le a palota ma filifili ni Sui mo le Palemene i le tausaga fou…alolofa ma IA TAUTUANA SE TATOU ITU AGAI. Po o le Tautua po o le Samoa Party po o le PASS o le mea taua o le sili atu i le 10 le fuainumera o ni sui Faipule e fia maua e maua ai se tatou Itu Agai.

Samoa e, ai lava fo’i se lelei a e i’u ane le Palota i le 2011, ua sefulu le Tautua, sefulu le Samoa Party, sefulu le PASS, Sefulu-lima HRPP, lua sui tuto’atasi (Independents), ma le lua masani mai sui Tuto’atasi (Individual voters). E matua tulaga temokarasi lava si o tatou atunu’u a e emo ane le tatou ata i ni fa’ai’uga fa’apea.

O lona uiga e matua’i galulue malosi uma itu e su’e se fuainumera e maua i se tu’ufa’atasiga (coalition) e ‘avea ma Malo ma maua ai mase itu Agai mo le 2011 i le 2016. A fa’apea se tulaga e o’o iai faiga palota i Samoa, e matua’i o’u vivi’i i le Atua i lana Pule fa’amalumalu ma lana Pule fa’asoa, ua le faia ni o tatou loto a o lona finagalo.

Samoa, o se itu’aiga fa’ai’uga fa’apea e mafai ai fo’i ona tatou fa’apea ane “ua matua kerisiano ma temokarasi faiga palota i Samoa” O i lava fo’i, e le pine a e maua le ta’ita’iga mo le atunu’u i ni auala e fa’amamaina ai ana aitalafu ma toe fa’aolaola ai atina’e o ona laufanua (i itu ‘ese’ese uma lava) e ona lava tagata.

E! pe o ‘ita ea o fai sa ta miti. E! a o ‘ita ‘ea ua mafatia. E! ta te musu i o’o mai i Samoa pulega fa’a’ole’ole mai fafo ua a’afia ai atunu’u i lea itu ma lea itu o le lalolagi. Tatou te maua ni a’oa’oga mai nai tagata o si motu o Boukenivili, po o le atunu’u Aferika o Tanasania, ia po o le atunu’u i Amerika i Saute o Bolivia. O luga o le mafatia ma le alofa i le lumana’i na tula’i ai ma le le fefe, a e fa’alagolago i le malosi mai le Atua mo suiga mana’omia i ia fo’i atunu’u.

Samoa, fa’afetai e le i o’o mai i Samoa faiga palota e fa’aaogaina ai masini komuputa. Ua molimau atunu’u e pei o Initia lata mai nei, e mafai lava e latou e iai le malamalama fa’apitoa ona fa’aseseina ni fa’ai’uga o faiga palota. Aue le fa’aSatani ina malosi!

Ia, Samoa, ua o’o mai fo’i le fa’aSatani i faiga palota i motu o le Pasefika. Ia ta te matamuli e tusitusi lo ta lima leaga o le Pasefika e kerisiano. E le taitai ona talia ni tupe e fesoasoani i ana faiga-palota. O uiga ia mai fafo i atunu’u e iloa su’e auala e fa’atele ai ana ‘oa ma ‘oloa.

Samoa e, o lau fa’a kerisiano lava o le a maua ai se tatou Itu Agai mo le isi lima tausaga.O la’u tatalo, ia alofa Le Atua is fa’atamao’aigaina e o le a palota mo sou finagalo autasi mo si o matou atunu’u o Samoa. Soifua.

After 17 days post election Julia Gillard is PM

Congratulations to the Independent MPs for recommending the Gillard Government as the legitimate Government with the help of Independents and Greens to govern Australia for the next three years.
So we in Australia will see more scrutinized, more open and more accountable and more equitable policy and legislation formation.
The outcome revealed yesterday has endorsed that DEMOCRACY is alive and well in Australia. A much more inclusive and participatory political process.

Congratulations to Julia Gillard.

Manuia lau malaga Asiata

Today we mourn the passing of Dr Asiata Sale'imoa Va'ai. His mother Fotu Va'ai and my father Vavae Toma are brother and sister. So my memory of Asiata is someone who is always there at the family gatherings of the Toma-Aeoainuu families from Sato'alepai and Sapapali'i. He was there when my mother passed away. He was there when my brother Toma passed away. He was there when my father Vavae passed away.
I also had the opportunity to have a meal and a few laughs with Asiata and his children when him and Sina were undertaking studies at the Australian National University. I was attending a Nursing conference in Canberra.
Then we caught up a couple of times, when he attended the wedding of his niece Luthera McNeeley to Owen Johnston in Brisbane and again when he was in Brisbane to talk about his then newly published book - Samoa Fa'amatai and the Rule of Law. At the time I had also completed my own compilation - Tusitusiga o le Talalelei e Vavae Toma, and so we did a "free exchange".
Last, I want to say that whilst it is only at a few occasions that I ccme in contact with Asiata, it seemed like he was there every time I come across the writings of many many scholars who have referred and found useful his writings on Samoa-Fa'amatai and the rule of Law.
Alu ia. Ia manuia lau malaga. Alofa atu ia Fotu,Va'ai, Vavae, Fo'i, Toma ma i latou uma o fa'atalitali mai i le "fanua lafulemu" ua saunia e lo tatou Matai alofa. Tofa Asiata.

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