Randy Persaud responds to Lincoln Lewis

Aug 22, 2009 Letters

Dear Mr. Lewis,
Many thanks for your response to my call for you and your supporters to demand a transparent vote at the 16th Biennial Congress of the PNC. I appreciate your time, but would have been much happier had you addressed the question I posed.
Will you sir, demand that the PNC hold a free and fair election? I only make this request because of your constant agitation for transparency, accountability, fairness, and democratic governance. Am I to understand that your demands are simply for narrowly defined political purposes against the current administration?
I am shocked to hear that there is no freedom of speech in Guyana. I am actually in Guyana and can tell you I see protestors every day expressing their right to free speech. You cannot, however, expect to engage in stage-managed protests (three men and a dozen journalists) without the proper permits. You can’t do that in the United States, even under President Obama.
I should also let you know that I have been to many protests in Washington D.C. where I saw, with my own eyes, protesters beaten with batons to the point where they were bloodied.
I have the photographs to prove this. Further, at some of the IMF/World Bank events, protesters were arrested en masse, and many were taken away and jailed. The intelligence services routinely infiltrated protest groups and on some occasions the leaders were ‘taken-in’ the night before a major protest.
I also recommend that you take a careful look at the media in Guyana. You know from experience that Kaieteur News reports even the most insignificant things you and your colleagues do and say. Few politicians in the world have access to the media that you and your two other colleagues enjoy in Guyana. Simply put, you can get almost anything in print (with photos) within 24, if not less. You know this to be true.
Finally, like you, I am a great admirer of Cuffy, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and President Obama.
I am surprised that you did not mention Nelson Mandela. The one thing that stands out with all of these heroes of freedom is that they never depended on wild distortions of reality.
Mr. Lewis – today is the last day for you to go over to Sophia and demand of the PNC what you were demanding of the PPP when you were standing in that trench. Please do so before the balloting begins – officially that is.
Dr. Randy Persaud

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