Mr. Rampertab is avoiding debate on the authoritarian nature of the ‘new blood’ in Guyana

Sep 20, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
I offer here a reply to Mr. Rakesh Rampertab,’s letter, “Until the opposition can offer a detailed plan to Indian voters they cannot compete”, (SN, September 4).
This is in response to my comments on his political thoughts of August 15, (see my letter of Aug 26, Kaieteur News). I am surprised that Mr. Rampertab has sent in his observations again because in his last letter prior to the one identified here, he decided not to write again.
Well he has penned another reply. And it is disappointing. I put three questions to him over the past month that we have exchanged political opinions. The least he could have done was to attempt to answer.
First, I solicited the view of what he thought of the ‘new blood’ in politics, like Mr. Jagdeo, Robert Persaud and company as compared to the ‘old blood’ that he wants to see move off the scene.
My contention is that this new blood maybe worst than what we saw in the eighties. Secondly, I inquired as to what he thinks about the exercise of power the past few years as compared with the eighties, when he said he observed his generation’s involvement in the struggle for democracy. Thirdly, Mr. Rampertab boldly announced that there are some persons in Guyana waging low-level warfare against the legal government. I wanted to know more of this, so I requested information on this particular pronouncement
I live in Guyana, Mr. Rampertab does not, but he sees the existence of low-level warfare going on in this land. I am definitely curious to see an outline from him on this process of violence he has witnessed here or heard about occurring here.
Irritatingly, Mr. Rampertab, avoided even a modicum of sentences in answering those three questions. There was absolutely no response. Instead Mr. Rampertab treated us to a neat description of his personal involvement in the campaign of Barack Obama. I am not sure what the relevance was of his voluminous outpouring on his Obama thing.
But this I can tell Mr. Rampertab; for someone who acquired the political consciousness to see and understand the phenomenon of Barak Obama and his multi-racial fulcrums, one would have thought that Rampertab would have been willing to wax lyrical on race discrimination, ethnic-driven policies and elected dictatorship in Guyana
Instead what do we have? An inspired Obama campaigner who thinks it is best not to carry on a debate on the authoritarian nature of the ‘new blood’ in Guyana, then changes his mind, but persist with a passionate avoidance of a discussion of concepts that Mr. Rampertab himself introduced in his exchange with me, like the existence of low-level warfare in Guyana.
I am tempted to ask; what has this gentleman learnt from his involvement with the campaign of this great, historical, unique politician, Barack Obama?
As for the title of Mr. Rampertab’s letter, he should know that the defeat of the PPP becomes increasingly possible when East Indians denounce them for their excesses, corruptibilities, venalities, tyrannies and unbelievable incompetence as what the African Guyanese did to an African government (the PNC) in the eighties when, he Rampertab said he was around to witness this unfolding of multi-racial solidarity.
Mr. Rampertab should join other East Indians like Professor Bertie Ramcharran, attorney Arif Bulkan, Dr. Janet Bulkan, Dr. Tarron Khemraj and write more on the nature of elected dictatorship than just composing one line that says that it is the truth that the Jagdeo regime is corrupt and incompetent. I suspect we are not going to see this kind of political viewpoints from this gentleman. I may be wrong, but my instincts are strongly telling me that when it comes to Guyanese politics, Mr. Rampertab is willing to conveniently forget his romantic period in politics when he knocked on people’s door in white neighbourhoods in the US asking them to vote for a Black American President. And this is because of the prison the PPP long ago, under Cheddi Jagan, built for people like him. In other words, Mr. Rampertab sees Guyanese politics in terms of race. Come home Rampertab and knock on the doors of East Indians in the Corentyne and ask them to vote out the disaster Guyanese have been living with the past 17 years. Don’t worry, you would not be alone. Many of us, East Indians will be by your side
Frederick Kissoon

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