Opposition could use Linden-like situation to achieve their goals

Sep 10, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
To understand what is going on in LINDEN, one must understand the psychological basis for the belligerent behavior of Lindeners. Why don’t Lindeners want to wait on the reports and assessments by the government’s commission on how best to resolve the issue on ‘subsidization of electricity’ to Linden?
There is a similar situation in Trinidad, between the Black Muslim leader ABU BAKAR and the Trinidad government. In Trinidad, the case that is unfolding between the government of Trinidad and ABU BAKR is based on Mr. Abu Bakar’s sermon to his followers to demand by force, monies from the government. The government of Trinidad has brought charges against Mr. Abu Bakar for sedition and inciting violence.
In plain English, Mr. Abu Bakar told his mainly Afro congregation that all Muslims must pay ZAKAT (MONEY/TAX) to him and his followers. Mr. Abu Bakar said his followers have the right to use force to collect this Zakat/Tax from other Muslims. In the past, Mr. Abu Bakar had shown he was willing to use force against the government to have his way. He had occupied government lands and demanded to be given legal ownership.
In Abu’s sermon, he also told his followers that the natural resources of TRINIDAD belongs
to them, because those resources belong to GOD. He told his followers, they are poor, because they allow other people to exploit the resources of Trinidad to get rich. Abu told his followers, they are too stupid for not doing something about it. Mr. Abu wants his congregation to use some form of force or belligerent behavior to achieve his vision of “black economic goals” or a balance between the black economy and the non-Black capitalist thieves.
Amazingly, Mr. Abu Bakar never ‘incited’ or educated his people how to make an honest living, nor explain to his followers that it takes hard labour, massive investments of people’s hard earned money to develop Trinidad’s natural resources.
In Trinidad, the government got massive revenues, and spent wastefully on subsidies for those people, who have a sense of Entitlement to Free giveaways from the government of Trinidad, and hardworking members of the society. ‘Armed’ with this attitude of ‘ENTITLEMENT,’ these people are prepared to violently demand the government spend its’ revenues on them, even if the government have to burden harden working people with increase taxes. Getting free handouts, without working, is their universal cry for justice.
Now lets’ compare the Linden and in the Abu cases. The Lindeners were taught to believe that the Subsidised electricity is really their Entitlement endowed by their God. Their attitudes are based on the erroneous belief that Guyana’s resources belong to them because of their slave history.
Their emancipation from slavery gave them a divine Right of Entitlement. Therefore, subsidized electricity, which practically free, is NOT a Subsidy, but a Divine Entitlement. This fight over divine entitlement in the Linden saga will play itself out many times more to epic proportions in many future socio-political battles in Guyana. We must expect that opposition leaders will encourage their followers to use ‘Linden- like’ uprisings to achieve their goals and to de-stabilize the government.
My suggestions to the PPPC government are to choose decentralization and allow every community to govern themselves through their own bureaucracies.
Vassan I. Ramracha

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