Who should I vote for today?

Nov 28, 2011 Letters

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Dear Editor,
Mr. Seeram stated some facts accurately but misguidedly positioned them as substantiation of his political opinion.
Unfortunately, Mr. Seeram’s selection of facts reflects his clear bias. His opinion therefore becomes absurd from an intellectual point of view.
Principles, culture, truthfulness, honest in public affairs, trustworthiness, hope, discrimination, domination against objective critics, animosity against those who have differing views are essential factors in formulating any social, human related opinion.
Mentioning the fact that more Guyanese today have access to ownership of homes and house lots, without associating that with the social and material cost of acquisition and long term maintenance is absolute clumsiness in the intellectual arena.
We need not go into details here as a few simple analogies will help bring home the point. Let us look at a man who has a nice family and his kids doing well in school and who has been feeding, clothing and providing for his family and friends well. His friends shower praises upon him.
We later find out that this man was associated with drug traffickers, extortion (tax –vat) from poor workers, sending people to kill out other people (phantom gang), running secret operations at his job without disclosing to his company his real motive. This man was using this “dishonest” money feed his family, friends and pay off helpers in crimes.
The question to Mr. Seeram is, “Is such a person or party of persons Good, Bad or Ugly?” From a social, political and economic point of view, such a person is extremely harmful, does more harm than good and should be eliminated as quickly as possible from human society for the following reasons:
1) Guyana is a secular state with three major world religions as it pillar. The culture of the entire population does not condone dishonesty regardless of how the booty is distributed.
2) Trustworthiness is a given and to compromise it is worthy of death or serious punishment as prescribed in all the religious records available to mankind.
3) If building houses and ownership of house lots were measuring rods for success, then the bullies, bigger and stronger (like in ancient times) would kill the poor and weak and snatch their house lots and houses, or give them drugs to smoke, poisoning them and their children and future generations and grab big pradovilles, SUVs, Pension Packages, entice and grab young girls and boys for pleasure, construct big hotels, take from the poor and distribute to sons, daughters, wives, brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews friends and chosen individuals.
4) The long term social effect is detrimental not only to the helpless poor and victims of such atrocities, but to the very beneficiaries of these types of criminal behavior. The enriched beneficiaries will become dependent on forced or cheap easy labor force for their continued existence. The limitations (they will reach their mark one day) will expire and the people around them will start to revolt in their own little way. Some may resort to petty theft, petty crimes, poisoning the blasted scamps quietly when they get a chance, and take personal revenge against the perpetrators of sinister criminal activities concealed as political activities.
5) The high social and economic cost of the acquisition of house lots and a few minor improvements in infrastructure is not justifiable. In total, Guyanese have lost more under Jagdeo’s government than they have gained. The gutter-rat disgraceful behavior of Jagdeo alone has taken Guyanese beyond international image demise. Jagdeo has permanently disfigured the image of Guyanese worldwide. It will now be a painstaking effort to undo his damage done to all Guyanese. Guyanese must turn their anger on Jagdeo. Jagdeo has done a great injustice to all Guyanese and must never be forgiven. Jagdeo’s crimes against the Guyanese people are unforgivable. Mr. Seeram should review his position taking into consideration some of the points herein mentioned.
Mr. Seeram seems to believe that a person should be ridiculed for peeing himself up as a kid or daubing caca all over his face during childhood period and that such a person has no right to change that perception others remember.
Well, in a free society, wide and sensible people make decisions often. Political circumstances change, the environment change, hence the conditions warranting decisions update. Guyanese politicians are not happy about people changing decisions because this does not favor them and may endanger their pockets and life-style.
Mr. Seeram is certainly one from that dormant era. He is stuck in the filth and seems helpless enough not to want to escape. I commend Mr. Seeram for his bravery in explaining his plight in writing because in so doing he deserves the assistance contained in this short response.
Please do not take this personal, but there are thousands of Seerams out there who can benefit from this response. I only endeavor to be of some enlightenment, notwithstanding the risk of having to keep within the limitations of a newspaper article.
However, this subject and related topics can only be adequately discussed in extensive articles and lectures. I beg forgiveness of the readers as I only briefly touched on some important points and could not elaborate more in this article. We are all learning from each other and that is how my article and Mr. Seeram’s should be seen. We are not the ultimate authority. God is and science our helper.
Let Moses Nagamootoo, Khemraj Ramjattan, Rafael Trotman, Van West Charles, Joseph Hamilton, Phillip Bynoe, Freedie Kissoon, Mark Benshop, Rajendra Bessessar, Rupert Roopnarine, Clive Thomas and other Guyanese exercise their right to choose which party they want to support. We have no right to chastise them for their choice.
However, if their previous or current activities are culpable then let us all with the full force of the all the laws of the country, religions and morality chastise them. Judge them for their deeds and not their ignorance or the clothes they wear, but where they got them from and whose resources are used in their acquisition.
And let this be our over-riding measuring rod for all human beings, especially Guyanese politicians in today’s Guyana. Ask Jagdeo and other PPP government officials and PNC officials to disclose the sources of their acquisition of big ‘pradvillas’, vehicles, bank accounts, investments.
Ladies and gentlemen – the sensible and obvious thing to do is called “COMPARE AND CONTRAST” – all human beings do this all the time as such is the greatness of God’s gift to each human person. We all have a sense to judge good from bad.
Jotis Singh

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