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Feb 17, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
Civil Society should walk the talk by which they seek to become empowered.  APNU rejected the PSC’s written request to observe the Public Accounts Committee at work.  The entire APNU/AFC opposition and even the Speaker also disallowed the Finance Minister from reading a PSC letter in the National Assembly which was requesting the AML to be expeditiously approved.
The APNU-AFC opposition reaction to the Honourable Chief Justice ruling on the budget is one of disarray and confusion.  “Politicians like to panic, they need activity. It is their substitute for achievement” — Sir Humphrey Appleby .
Now a cascading coup is being advocated by Mr Tony Vieira (KN 2-12-14) but which may end up destroying more than Guyana’s democracy. How prophetic was HL Mencken’s observation that “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, (so) all of them imaginary couldn’t be more poignant”?
Was the AFC_APNU’s denial of the PSC rights unjustified?  Is it really a constitutional violation of the “people’s sovereignty” like Mr.  Eusi Kwayana’s pleads?  Let civil society step up to the plate now.  Unless “all are equal but some are  more equal than others” (George Orwell’s 1984), all the usual suspects, can boldly go where none have gone before with a “civil society” challenge in court.
Isn’t ‘the principle the same for all, regardless…or are some in the PNC/APNU/AFC opposition indeed more equal than others?  For baksheesh (a little extra) with this garlic pork, their court challenge can throw in Presidential violation of English common laws.
Mr Eusi Kwayana’s affirmation that “Sovereignty belongs to the people who exercise it through their representatives and the democratic organs established by or under this constitution” was quoted from the Guyana constitution and offered in disagreement with the Honourable Chief Justice’s decision on the budget.
That Mr. Kwayana’s  opinion is based on a tiny part of the highest law of the land has significantly escaped poignant focus that it originated from within the constitution itself, not outside it.  Is Mr. Kwayana correct? “Virtually all reasonable laws are obeyed, not because they are the law, but because reasonable people would do that anyway. If you obey a law simply because it is the law, that’s a pretty likely sign that it shouldn’t be a law.”
Ignore for the moment which party enshrined and empowered Presidential prerogatives in the 1980 constitution as law.  Expecting the President to uphold the constitution after taking an oath to defend it and then subsequently signing a bill considered to be violating the highest law of the land is unquestionably a premeditative criminal violation.
Right now “we are a country of laws not men” as second US President John Adams so astutely affirmed.  Where do we go from here if the laws of a democratic country must become violated by those who seek election to create chaos and make more laws which they themselves do not obey?
Sultan Mohamed

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