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I believe David Ramnarine will be chosen in the future for a bigger job

May 28, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
In 2003, in the run-up to the Iraq War, one man stood up to the lies and myths coming out of the White House and the Pentagon. General Eric Shinseki, Army Chief of Staff, told Congress that a war in Iraq and its aftermath would require several hundred thousand troops and
would take at least ten years. Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz his superiors — attacked Shinseki. His superiors forced him to retire. In 2008, President Obama said Shinseki was right about the war and chose him to head Veteran Administration.
Like Shinseki, Assistant Commissioner David Ramnarine was stripped of his Commander posting for standing up to his superiors. Like Shinseki, I believe David Ramnarine will be chosen in the future for a bigger job. I personally, would recommend that he immediately leave the Guyana Police Force.
In times like these, Guyana could use a leader like him who has integrity, compassion, courage, and good morals. I have never met David Ramnarine, but from what I read about him in the newspaper, I like him. He sounds like he is a great leader, and he cares more about the men and women he supervises than himself.
He makes sure that his subordinates are taken care of. Most of them have only good things to say about him. When his officers were not provided money for food during the election, he stood up for them by going public to fight for their cause.
Even though he knew it may cause him his job, which it did. He doesn’t care about protecting his job. He cares more about protecting the police officers he supervises. That is the mark of a great leader and man. I believe the people of Guyana need a person like David Ramnarine to be their leader.
I enlisted in the United States military because part of the spirit and the culture of the U.S. military is the creed that you don’t leave anyone behind—whether injured, captured, or dead. David Ramnarine wouldn’t leave any of his officers behind.
He reminds me of some of the leaders that I met while serving for 25 years in the United States military. These leaders cared about their soldiers, and they were willing to die for the men and women that they supervised. With leaders like that, three times I volunteered to go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Because I always knew that if I was ever captured, they would risked their lives to rescue me. Even if I was dead, they would come to get my body to take it back to my family.
With leaders like that, who wouldn’t want to go to war knowing that your leaders had your back. David Ramnarine sounds like he is such a leader, and I would be willing to let him lead me into war any day.
Even though, I have never met the man, I feel a close connection to him because there are not a lot of leaders like him in the world and especially not in Guyana.
In my opinion, David Ramnarine is a revolutionary leader, and the people of Guyana could use a revolutionary leader to make the country a better place to live. May God bless Assistant Police Commission David Ramnarine and may God bless Guyana.
Anthony Pantlitz

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