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Political gimmickry and mischief are afoot in this election season

Oct 08, 2011 Letters

 

 

DEAR EDITOR,
It is truly amazing the lengths to which despotic rulers will indulge themselves to sanctify their concocted devices of deviousness.
The ills that permeate the land and destroy the people are all demonstrative of the unconscionable disposition of those rulers whose consciences have been lain waste in the dungeon of avarice. How anyone could find comfort in politicians who constantly lie to and deceive: suffer and destroy the very citizens who elected them to serve is, frankly, beyond comprehension.
Those who support and endorse such tyrannical rulership are themselves just as wicked and evil.
Several months ago, Egypt erupted in violent protest over the thirty-year rule of Hosni Mubarak and his underhanded attempts to subvert the political will of the people of Egypt.
That Mubarak wanted his son to succeed him came as no great surprise, how often have we not seen this tenaciousness of those who governed too long. Even King Saul, when faced with the realization that a mere shepherd boy (David) would be appointed in his stead, sought the life of God’s anointed one. The numerousness of such occurrences is replete in political history.
In Libya, another grotesque beast is devouring its people, Muammar Gaddafi; the forty-two year-old tyrannosaur bombed and used heavy artillery on those who have awoken to his treachery and tyranny.
As these protestations continue to reverberate throughout the Middle East, we are mindful of what obtains when enough becomes more than enough.
Corruption, murder, greed, divisiveness and political exclusiveness have tarnished Guyana’s image at home and abroad. Our conscience tells us to denounce injustice, wrongdoing and downright evil, but our allegiance to wickedness compels us to do otherwise. Some men would rather be right in the sight of man than God.
Foolhardiness has brought us untold suffering and tremendous hardship; can we fix this broken thing? The people deserve leadership that delivers fair play, equal rights and justice for all. The children of Israel received their Promised Land overflowing with milk and honey after wandering for forty years in the wilderness.
Guyana’s children have wandered in a wilderness of deprivation for more than forty years and in this their Promised Land they have received a dumpsite overflowing with garbage, in addition to all the ills depraved minds of greedy men can conjure up
How long will this nation’s peoples deceive themselves by beastliness masquerading behind a veneer of genuineness? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
The ravenous beast devouring our rights and livelihood is a subtle, cunning creature, it brushes up against you purring during the daytime but by nightfall its snarling fangs reveal its true nature.
Political gimmickry and mischief are afoot in this election season; please do not be deceived again.
C. Graham

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