The warped logic and reasoning of Mohammed borders on idiocy

Mar 17, 2011 Letters

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Dear Editor,
I have just finished reading a letter (Kaieteur News, 16-03-11) written by someone purportedly named Sultan Mohamed in which the writer is extremely critical of both SN and Brigadier David Granger. Mr. Mohamed, whoever he is, has a right to his opinion.
What he does not have a right to, is creating his own facts. The warped logic and reasoning powers of this man (or woman), borders on lunacy and idiocy.
Below is a quotation from Mohamed’s letter that is not only offensive but probably borders on libel.
How could anyone who is capable of penning such an article, arrive at the wild accusations and conclusions highlighted in bold print:
“In fact Mr. Granger was not only a high ranking major in rank of the GDF, but he was also the Political and Military Liaison of the army to Prime Minister Forbes Burnham.
Mr. Granger had to have known and participated, indeed had paramount responsibilities for dealing with the ballot boxes fiasco in 1973 as part of his political duties.
The massive scale of the GDF’s logistical operations to retrieve ballot boxes was extremely complicated to have been left to last minute implementation. It had to have been preplanned.
Mr. Granger’s responsibility was therefore not insignificant in his geographical deployment location at Timehri airport.
It allowed him to fly to any part of the country as the emergency situation required. Yet SN wants us to believe that a skilled soldier who was promoted as the eventual boss of the army chose his base of operations at Timehri without strategic calculation and absolves him by a shroud of ignorance.
That’s like saying that since Mr. Burnham was stationed in Georgetown during the elections he had no jurisdictional responsibility for Linden ipso facto, Berbice as well. Wouldn’t that be a fantasy?”
That quoted portion of Mr. Mohamed’s letter is so replete with insinuations, innuendos, speculation and downright libel, that one has to wonder whether the writer has half a brain.
What is the basis for the assertion that “Mr. Granger had to have known and participated, or had responsibilities for dealing with the ballot box fiasco as part of his political duties?”
In fact, has it been established at all that Mr. Granger was indeed the Political and Military Liaison (sic) to the then Prime Minister? If so, what did that have to do with any election rigging – real or imagined?
Even if there were massive, complicated, pre-planned logistical operations on behalf of the GDF, what does that have to do with the Brigadier?
Wouldn’t the person charged with the responsibility of dealing with ballot boxes for rigging purposes be based at army headquarters where it is alleged the transfers took place?
At the time of the 1973 elections, Mr. Granger was not the head of the army. How then could Mr. Mohamed compare or equate Granger’s situation to that of Burnham who was then Prime Minister of the state of Guyana – Linden, Berbice and every other inch of our 83,000 square miles?
Mr. Editor, it is obvious that the PPP and its hangers-on, apologists, fanatics and sycophantic supporters are mortally afraid of Brigadier David Granger. They can no longer use the age-old scare tactics of guilty-by-association so cleverly pinned to Corbin et al.
David Granger, disciplinarian, brilliant scholar, family man, humanitarian, and inclusionist that he is, poses a colossal threat and headache to Bharrat Jagdeo and the PPP.
Granger was intelligent enough to recognise that in democracies such as ours, there is little hope for a third party. He therefore looked at what was available and again brilliantly recognised that there was nothing to be gained from an alliance with the current band of hoodlums and morally bereft bandits that currently pass for government. It is to his credit that as a newcomer to the political arena, he was able to mount a formidable campaign and defeat well-known persons with a previous track record in politics and government.
That is what scares the daylights out of Jagdeo and his cronies. Their fear is that “if he can do it at Party level, he may very well be able to do it at national level.”
David Granger is much, much younger than were Cheddi and Janet Jagan when they assumed the reins of leadership of this country but his age is now an issue. The PPP at that time were oblivious to the benefits of youth.
Never has a candidate been subjected to the level of vitriol and mischief that has been heaped on David Granger since his accession to the candidacy of the PNC. And there’s more to come. All I can say to the good gentleman is: be the strong contender I know you to be. Reach out to everyone and be the leader of all of Guyana and not some.
Restore some much-needed discipline and pride to our country. Let us break the cycle of racial politics and division. That is what the constitution demands of its Leader. Be the good soldier that you are. Lead as you have always done – from the front, never behind.
Michael Persaud

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