PPP supported parliamentary unity back then, but not now

Dec 21, 2012 Letters

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Dear Editor,
When Jagan’s PPP proposed shared governance and national unity government to Burnham’s PNC, was the PPP and PNC ‘wan” (one and the same)?
This ridiculous attempt to paint the AFC and the PNC as one single entity that the PPP ethnic provocateurs continue to peddle to the people of this country has to be one of the most stupid attempts at trying to fool people.
It insults the intelligence of the PPP’s own constituency.
People know that even the most bitter enemies must agree on some issues if they confront the same evil. Jagan’s PPP offered support to Burnham’s PNC during the times when Venezuela illegally ramped up its territorial annexation rhetoric because Jagan knew that the PNC and PPP had to stand together to defend this land.
Even when the Venezuelans were not fooling around trying to claim our territory, Jagan proposed shared governance and a national unity government to Burnham and the PNC. Several high ranking PPP officials, some of them are probably holding power now, approached and held secret talks with the PNC to this end. Now, these miscreants conveniently forget their history.
They were in favour of merging the PPP and the PNC, which would have destroyed this country by creating a one-party state run by incompetent communist and socialist dictators. Just imagine a government of the Burnhams, Jagans, Corbins, Rohees, Greenidges, Jagdeos and Grangers. We would not have had a free and fair election to this day.
The government would have had fifty ministers and the banditry would have left this country further down the economic hole than Haiti.
When the PPP suggested joining the PNC dictatorship, many of these same rogues trying to spread bigotry and the PPP supporters who backed them religiously had no problem holding hands with the dictators or their own becoming co-dictators.
It was the PPP which approached the PNC to become joint dictators and despots. It was all about power and nothing else. How could PPP supporters who had no problem with two unelected parties joining forces in a common dictatorship then now have a problem with a democratically elected majority opposition joining forces not for totalitarianism or despotism but for the defence of democracy, justice, fairness and the rights of the people?
We have those who had no difficulty with the PPP trying to get the PNC to share illegally obtained power with it because the PPP knew even if it got a shared government, there would never be any future elections.
Yet those same supporters have a problem with an opposition coming together, not all the time but when necessary, not for power but to fight corruption, injustice, inequity and incompetence.
The real problem with this country is not just racism but the hypocrisy that accompanies that racism. When the PPP tried to be ‘wan’ (one) with the PNC, there were no cries from PPP supporters against it even if it was one of the most dastardly acts ever contemplated in this country’s history, an act that would have further enslaved the PPP’s own constituency to perpetual dictatorship.
But today when the AFC stands up with the PNC/APNU and demands answers on a $13 million taxi expenditure by a PPP ministry or asks for answers on where taxpayers’ money is being invested in a dubious hotel project or demands responses on a plethora of corruption issues, some put on their hypocrisy coat and forget their history of willingness to bow down to dictatorship to get power and get in on the leaking soup.
The gang-running, and ruining, the PPP cannot fool people. When the AFC stood up to the backroom deal between the PNC/APNU and the PPP on Linden which then caused the PNC/APNU to backtrack on the matter, was the AFC ‘wan’ with the PNC/APNU?
PPP supporters must ask themselves if they want to be played and conned by these jokers who are trying to think for them. If a man steals millions from a government media house and it is now public knowledge, should the AFC refuse to cooperate with the PNC/APNU when the latter launches a Parliamentary investigation into the matter? Should the AFC support the PPP when it covers up theft from the treasury simply because the PNC/APNU is launching an enquiry into the matter?
Should a party shed its decency, integrity, honor and duty to the people just to avoid being linked to a party that is doing the right thing? What kind of bloody country do we really want if we want our opposition to be divided on matters of corruption just to avoid the racially nasty tag the party in government may try to establish by linking the opposition parties together?
Should the AFC side with the PPP when its officials steal, plunder and pillage the national coffers just so it does not appear to be ‘wan’ with the PNC/APNU which is pursuing this corruption? This dirty racist angle to our politics will haunt us.
The beasts that try to illustrate two parties as the same on racial grounds are trying to destroy this country. They are trying to weaken the voice of the opposition to unite when necessary to confront universally accepted evils like gross corruption.
They are trying to protect their turf so that they could continue to rape this country while the opposition divides itself because it does not want to appear to be ‘wan’.
If the AFC stands apart from the PNC/APNU and vice versa on corruption, inequality, unfairness, incompetence, malpractice and immorality, this bunch of Ali Babas who have bullied the PPP away from its supporters get to continue their merry ways of making off with the people’s patrimony.
People should stop and think carefully about what this message from the PPP is trying to do.
M. Maxwell

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