The 1980 Guyana Constitution is Illegal

Mar 13, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
The Constitution of ones country is sacred and paramount and ought to, should be and must be … upheld, observed and supported in every way by all its subjects.
It is treasonous to defy your country’s constitution for it represents the “The Holy Grail of everything Guyanese”.
The current document that is presented to us as a Constitution was promulgated through a referendum in 1978 that was massively fraudulent.
We as Guyanese, all know the truth of that exercise to get the consent, rejection in that vote for the House/Mouse in 1978..The nation did not entertain the proposal by the PNC/Burnham undemocratic regime to perpetuate themselves upon the Guyanese nation.
We were already living under the “Declaration of Sophia” and the “Paramountcy of the Party” which in itself were the products of very fraudulent elections in 1968 and 1973. But that was not sufficient for the ruling regime at the time. It wanted absolute, undiluted power over Guyana.
Not only did I not try to exercise my franchise for the very first time in my life in Guyana but I actively organised bottom house meetings, some with over three hundred villagers present, in the Williamsburg/Hampshire villages on the Corentyne against the referendum.
The turnout {in support of that Referendum} was a paltry 10 percent. That was a resounding national, public rejection.
Therefore anything emanating from that exercise would be unlawful, illegal and hence, null and void.
Thus, the current Guyana Constitution of 1980 is unlawful, illegal, null and void and ought to, should be and must be resisted, rejected and dismissed forthwith by all decent minded Guyanese.
This constitution represents the “Chalice of Indignities” in the life and existence of Guyanese both at home and in the diaspora.
Our mantra from now on should be: Out of evil cometh evil; The Referendum of 1978 was rejected and therefore its handmaiden, the 1980 Constitution, is rejected.
Anything stemming from that illegal constitution is illegal, as is the Presidency of Guyana.
I have actively opposed all its presidents (the current 1980 constitution) from Forbes Burnham, Desmond Hoyte, Cheddi Jagan, Samuel Hinds, Janet Jagan, Bharrat Jagdeo and now Donald Ramotar!
Our Independence constitution of 1966 is our legal and lawful constitution!
I am prepared to suffer the consequences of my patriotic, principled position and stance.
One man of courage makes a majority…Andrew Jackson.
Lionel Peters

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