Randy’s crusade against the AFC

Sep 29, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
I have read Dr. Randy Persaud’s letters in the press prior to the 2006 elections always debating Dr. David Hinds and company.
His arguments and presentations were brilliant – and I became, shall I say, his fan. I met him in New York at a meeting (organised by Vishnu Dutt) two weeks after the Lusignan massacre. After the meeting the whole group attended a rally at the Liberty Avenue Square to denounce the massacre. Randy spoke at the meeting. After the meeting I invited him to my house for coffee and talks. He was like my new-found God.
What has happened since then? Randy resigned his University job and returned to Guyana to do what? To work with ‘Goebel’s Propaganda Ministry’; this was a real let down. Unsuitable work for a man we all held in such high esteem.
(1) His letter titled: AFC in a pickle (published a few weeks ago).
The basic idea of this letter is tell Indian people that AFC has joined hands with the PNCR. Uppermost in the minds of Indians is to vote in a bloc (no splitting) to guarantee that PNC never returns to office. Randy’s simple idea is to scare the hell out of the Indians and get them to place AFC in the same dog house as the PNCR. This is real low-ball politics. Infra dig for this former American University professor.
The basis of this attack on AFC that Randy is now turning into a crusade is the vilest and most outrageous thing any propaganda officer can do. Two parties with different philosophies can indeed end up in the same picket line against a common cause. What is so wrong with that?
(2) Randy, if PNC is such a vile, hated party, how come Dr. Jagan offered critical support and joined with the PNC in promoting some common causes, i.e. nationalising bauxite and sugar. Jagan rallied the nation and says we must stand united to prevent the possibility of the “imperialists and neo-colonialists” dividing us – so as to ensure the success of the nationalisation programme and to build “socialism”.
Now Randy says Jagan would never have marched with the PNC, if PNC had rigged its own election. What nonsense is this? PNC rigging the national elections (1968, 1973, 1978, 1985) is less of crime than rigging its own election?
Randy, you are scraping the barrel to invent arguments to confuse the Indian population. You, as a former University professor must know this is gutter politics. This job assigned to you is totally unsuitable for a man of your standing.
(3) Randy wrote: “…the claim that the AFC is a multiracial party is sheer poppycock”.
Randy the party you work for is an ethnic party. I challenge you to prove that the PPP does not have an unwritten rule that only an Indian can be its leader. Also I challenge you to prove that the PPP support is not drawn almost exclusively (more than 95%) from Indians. Under any set of criteria the PPP cannot ever be considered a multiracial party. And, by the same criteria the AFC does have a valid claim to being the only genuine multiracial party.
Mike Persaud

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