Each day Guyanese wake up to the same uncertain future

Sep 17, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
Once again the cloak and dagger theatrics are playing out before our very eyes. The accusations, denials, schemes and counter schemes are familiar to us now, the pattern may change, but the fabric remains the same.
Unfortunately Guyana has been relegated to the ridiculous perversities of conscienceless men, those elected officials whose mandate it is to serve all the citizens of this land and not violate our constitutional rights, have constantly trampled these rights underfoot.
The government must be blamed for perpetuating misapprehensions and feelings of alienation as they steamroll over all and sundry with their inflexible policies and the continued exclusion of those opposed to some of them. The opposition on the other hand have lost their focus and have been rendered ineffective in their efforts to hold this Government accountable.
Over the years they have consistently failed to represent the people adequately and have been constantly reduced to an ineffective placard bearing rabble.
In the midst of all this are the citizens, the recipients of their ill-timed and miscalculated stone hurling, the wounds from which either go unnoticed or are deliberately ignored.
Each day the people of this country wake up to the same uncertain future as the steamrolling iron beast (the government) rolls on unapologetically and the placard bearing rabble (the opposition) stabs at it with their useless cardboard placards. Where are we headed?
There are some amongst us who are prepared to achieve their ambitions and fulfill their greed for power and riches at any cost.
Whether it is supplying guns and ammunition to misguide youths to perpetrate their senseless murderous acts or the illegal constitution and financing of a group of deadly phantom extra judicial killers, love and life – perhaps the most important blessings granted to man by God – is relegated to the mud of the gutter.
The revelations from the Brooklyn Courtroom are shameful. Neither the Government nor Opposition can deny culpability for the treacherous activities of either the ‘Taliban’ or ‘Phantom Killers’ to the satisfaction of all those who are witnessing these sordid disclosures.
The weight of the evidence will not diminish with time, the weight of the evidence is damning for all of us. We know that our politicians are definitely suffering from complete mental deterioration when they remain unmoved and unfeeling as conspiracies to commit murder are hatched, political opponents are slain; perceived enemies are decapitate; babies are murdered in their sleep and also when they shrug their shoulders uncaringly at the disappearance of more than two hundred young men presumably murdered by a group of phantom extra judicial killers.
What is even more appalling is the silence that shrouds this nation in the face of these corrupt activities. Have we become such a Godless and immoral people that we cannot even recognise Satan’s handiwork?
We need to take cognizance of the chorus of the old Gospel Hymn that warns, “If we forget God Satan will rule, if we forget God our nation is doomed.”
What has happened to the moral conscience of those good men and women in Guyana? Why they are seemingly silent in these desperate times is anyone’s guess.
Surely the old adage, “the only thing necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing,” is creating nightmares for those good folk, who are witnessing the rapid deterioration of the moral fabric of this nation.
If we continue to ignore or treat as insignificant the obvious ills visited upon this nation we will be laying the foundation for greater ills to be meted out.
Out of this deep and pervasive realisation grows anxiety, fear and a dismal outlook for this nation’s future.
When will we become matured and proud enough as a people to embrace and live out the National Motto on our Coat-of-Arms – One People, One Nation, One Destiny.
If we continue to allow acts of hatred to enslave us to the pits of hell we will burn there forever and these encouraging words from President Obama, “our most significant and important achievement will be when we have implemented and made democracy inescapable as a fact, comprehensible as a process, all-embracing as a concept,” will never be realised in our country.
C. Graham

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