No ballot box needed?

Aug 10, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,

Reporter, Bert Wilkinson, writing for the IPS news service (Aug 4th), says Guyana is being run by a “Hindu-led” PPP government. He did not say how he arrived at this conclusion.

Apparently the PPP can be either a godless communist political party or a religiously led Hindu one; it all depends on what role of the poor victim you are trying to play at the moment.

In his analysis piece, Mr. Wilkinson quoted Mr. Elvin McDavid, a “political scientist”, as saying the government has “created the conditions for its removal.”

No mentioned is made that Mr. McDavid is a former senior political adviser to Forbes Burnham, who ran one of the most ruinous political dictatorships in the Caribbean; that of the illegal PNC regime which has since been trying all sorts of desperate schemes to restore itself to power.

Wilkinson also reported that opposition political activists are “quietly” instigating President Barack Obama’s US administration to interfere in Guyana’s domestic politics or as he puts it, “to take action against those in power”.

He did not clarify if such attempts started during the Bush administration and if there has been any success since Obama became President.

Mr. Wilkinson pointed out that the current PNC leader, Mr. Robert Corbin, has warned the elected government to “pay attention to events in Honduras” where a coup recently took place.

Along with the leaders of the rest of the world, President Obama has refused to recognise the de-facto government of Honduras, and has taken steps to oppose it.

Mr. Corbin would do well to note that Obama has declared that the activities in Honduras are “illegal” and it would set a “terrible precedent” unless it is reversed.

Presently, in Washington, Congressional Aides are working to restore the ousted Honduran leader to the presidency which most observers believe will happen soon.

Clearly, those who have been trying “by hook or by crook” to remove the properly elected government of Guyana think that, at last, a useable scheme is unfolding in the Brooklyn trial of an American lawyer and the Guyanese gangster testifying against him.

Apparently, they believe a stratagem of a gangster’s improvable allegations coupled with their attempts at inciting Barack Obama, will produce “conditions” here that will do away with the people’s use of a ballot box.

Justin de Freitas

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