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An action such as this flaunts in the face of democracy and smacks at principles of fairness

May 02, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
Guyanese continues to be cheated, disrespected and taken for granted by this PPP government, who believes it is all-powerful.
The recent appointment of PPP/C presidential candidate, Donald Ramotar to a position created for him, in Office of the President is the best example of an election massively rigged.
This latest travesty perpetrated by Bharrat Jagdeo, and the PPP on the people of Guyana should solidify our resolve to ensure that this shameless regime is not re-elected in 2011.
With Jagdeo making Ramotar his advisor, just after he bullied Freedom House into making him the PPP/C presidential candidate is a huge ‘eye pass’ and downright criminal act committed on the people.
This is nothing but ‘foisting a specie on a people’. Why aren’t Jagdeo and the PPP/C confident that Ramotar can stand on his own legs? Why do they have to continue to prop up his candidacy with state resources, and now with state office?
First, it was Ramotar being held by the hand and taken on trips, paid for with the people’s money, by Jagdeo.
If Ramotar is a weakling, why did Freedom House allow itself to be bullied by Jagdeo into supporting him? And please drop the talk that in the interest of party unity the other candidates withdrew, they were all bullied.
With the state in which this country is in, Guyana cannot afford a ‘propped up president’. Now, it appears that the ‘trip approach’ is either, not enough, or that Ramotar might be a slow learner so ‘King Bharrat’ decided that he must continue to transgress all decency, ethics and morality to have Ramotar on the government’s payroll.
So defying all principles of democracy and ethics, the PPP/C and Jagdeo barefacedly tell Guyanese that they must pay and sponsor this presidential candidate. They tell us that they will arbitrarily use our taxpaying dollars to pay for Ramotar’s campaign.
All this callous disrespect is done with the thinking of these modern day tyrants, that we the people will not raise our voices against their authoritarian rule. What is worst is that they believe that we are so stupid and wounded by their ‘fear policy’ that we will still vote for them, but the writing is on the wall. The recent New York protest by the PNCR and others, should serve as a reality check for them.
The Harry Gills and others who like to make rigged elections their topic of the month should muster the courage, strip themselves of their fear, and speak out against this massive fraud that has been committed against the people of Guyana.
This appointment is nothing but a ‘huge fraudulent conversion’. An action such as this flaunts in the face of democracy and smacks at principles of fairness. Is this the kind of action we should expect from that ‘1992 return to democracy’ gaff.
The obvious question is why was the position offered to Ramotar after he became the candidate? Are we missing something here? I am taken aback that Donald Ramotar did not think it ethical or appropriate to decline the position offered by his promoter, Bharrat Jagdeo.
This is testimony to the calibre of the individual. This might very well be a case of both blood on the hands, tears on yuh back and robbery on high seas.
Where are those who protested Burnham and the PNC day in day out. Are we too afraid? We shouldn’t be after all this is our new found democracy?
Time to unshackle the fear and vote for change!
Lurlene Nestor

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