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Sep 09, 2011 Letters

 

Dear Editor,
Will those decent, morally upright and fair-minded PPP supporters still vote PPP after these damaging Wikileaks cables?
This is the moment of truth for PPP supporters. No PPP supporter can read the Wikileaks cables and not feel a sense of heavy shame. at least for those who are decent, fair-minded, morally responsible, believe in doing the right thing and see wrong for wrong and right for right.
No matter how much burying of one’s head in the sand, these Wikileaks cables are heavy and chilling stuff. The statements are not coming from the PNC or the AFC or C.N. Sharma. They are coming from foreigners; from people who do not care about getting political power in Guyana.
This is coming from people who are fearful about drugs making its way from Guyana into the veins of their children. These are the very people who restored power to the PPP in 1992. So when they speak we should listen, for these are the same embassies where Guyanese, including PPP supporters, line up in the hot sun for visas to run from this paradise.
The scalding claims from these cables depict Jagdeo as a weak leader on crime. It also shows him as morally suspect when it comes to tough decisions and driven by his own misguided vision, flawed self-belief, a Machiavellian view of power and a rush to quick judgement and rash decision-making.
Reading these cables, I get the sense of a leader who lacks the intellectual depth to tackle problems from a holistic perspective, one who cannot see the forest for the trees and whose concern with his own personal aggrandisement seems to overpower the ability to fix problems.
It is difficult for the PPP under Bharrat Jagdeo to separate itself from the mass of information coming from these US cables. The PPP’s weakness on crime and the deep sense of apathy and inertia on fighting the drug trade is evident from these cables.
The Americans claim that Roger Luncheon who is Bharrat Jagdeo’s right hand man (Donald Ramotar may have taken that title now) allegedly preferred sanctions to prosecution against drug lords. Perhaps forcing the drug lords to donate some food to the Dharm Shala is the kind of sanction Luncheon was contemplating.
The Americans went to President Jagdeo and delivered a message from the DEA (the Drug Enforcement Agency) that alleged that Henry Greene benefited from the drug trade. The President wanted evidence. The Americans said no. The Americans revoked Greene’s visa. President Jagdeo appointed Henry Greene.
No other world leader would have appointed Greene, not because there was evidence against Greene but because of public relations, imagery, citizenry expectations, public demands of the police, the sunken credibility of the police force at the time, the serious aspersions and suspicions the public had of the police’s links to crime and the potential loss of funding for a promised DEA office and a gun tracing unit in addition to millions of US dollars for future anti-crime aid.
Now, the US said Roger Khan, self-confessed drug trafficker serving time in a US jail, proposed a sitting Minister of the PPP government in Leslie Ramsammy as a mediator between him and the US government.
This recurring weakness on fighting drugs has meant that crime has flourished and with it terror, intimidation, fear and helplessness.
Decent-minded PPP supporters are at a moral crossroads. The good men and women of the PPP are standing at the fork in the road. They know the PNC cannot ever win an election again so the PNC is not the problem. This election is a moral referendum by PPP voters on the leadership of the PPP.
The PPP has encouraged a climate of lawlessness. Guyana has become a drug-nation and a narco-state. Criminality is now commonplace.
For 28 years most of one set of people lost their moral compass and turned a blind eye to the egregiousness of a nation being taken down a path to its own slaughter. We all paid a heavy and brutal price. Will we do the same all over again?
M. Maxwell

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