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Amerindians should beware of what the PPP did in Linden

Aug 27, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
The PPP is on the warpath of vindictiveness. Linden rejected the PPP in the November 2011 election. The vindictive PPP decided to punish Linden by raising electricity rates on a community with massive unemployment.
Lindeners responded that they wanted a gradual increase in rates. The PPP refused. Then there was disaster when savage force was used against unarmed protesters. This is an omen for Amerindian communities. The PPP has politically trapped Amerindians within their own communities.
It is almost like an Amerindian cannot take a bath without some influence, interference and manipulation by the hired political hacks of the PPP. Amerindians were used by the PPP to get its hands on the money from Norway. The returns to Amerindians have not only been marginal but have been dictated not by genuine Amerindian needs including the need for greater autonomy and less governmental interference but by PPP politicians who decide what to dispense to Amerindians and only gives that which they feel is most politically beneficial to the PPP.
The intent is to create a dependency syndrome, where a proud people who are immensely self-sufficient now have to grovel and beg in order to survive. It is no wonder Amerindians are leaving their ancestral lands in droves to escape this new enslavement.
They have been enslaved for far too long by invaders. The PPP believes that giving trinkets to Amerindians will allow it to psychologically control these proud people. It backfired in the last election and will backfire even more spectacularly in any snap poll the PPP calls.
The PPP tried to use the Linden protests to drive a wedge between Amerindians and the opposition. Amerindians know better. They have tuned out the PPP a long time now.
They know that Linden is a template of what the PPP will do to them. Amerindians know the reason why the PPP folded on Linden and know its capitulation came because it was vindictive, intellectually shallow, arrogant and wrong.
The PPP’s cruelty and arrogance on Linden, and not Lindeners standing up for their rights, caused hardships for Amerindians when their communities were cut off during the protest.
Amerindians must take heed for there are troubling winds blowing into their heartland. Right now, there is an agenda to take their lands.
This is a grave threat to Amerindians. Amerindians will be given token gifts of trinkets like outboard engines to distract them from the aspersion of their lands and the rich minerals under it.
The wealth in Amerindian lands is enough to buy all the outboard engines and solar panels and the other trinkets in the world. It is the ticket to Amerindian prosperity.
The way Lindeners fought for their right to theirs should be a wakeup call to the Amerindian people. It should be an inspiration.
This band of bandits controlling the PPP want Amerindians to return to their corrupt and disreputable party because they want to call a snap election to gain maximum power to slash and burn this country. Amerindians cannot allow this to occur.
They cannot be used in this fashion. Take the trinkets and still reject the crooks and charlatans. Continue to reject the PPP at the polls. Giving the PPP your votes will be equivalent to giving away your lands.
Linden is a template of how a marginalised, dominated and disregarded community can resist and win against corrupt and indecent government. Amerindians should take heed.
M. Maxwell

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