A call for insurrection cannot be ignored (Part One)

Jul 16, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
Guyana has a long and painful history of outside interference that has drastically altered the political, social and economic landscape of our beautiful country.
Guyanese are still suffering from the adverse effects of this. The continuous division of our people along racial lines, and the struggle for prosperity in a country with abundance natural resources, can be directly linked to outside intervention from Governments that feel they know what’s best for us.
I was amused while reading a letter from a close friend, Mr. Hamilton Green, Mayor of Georgetown, as he took a shot at Kaieteur News columnist Peeping Tom, for agreeing with the Administration, that the US Ambassador, Dr. Brent Hardt crossed the ‘Red Line’.
In his letter, “When it comes to ‘interference’ the PPP are the Task Masters”, Hammie gave several examples of ‘interference’ over the years, to justify the US Ambassador’s meddling in our domestic affairs.
He wrote, “(In the) 1980s, PPP turned to Caricom to interfere, and cross the red line, and even accused Caricom leaders of being soft on Burnham. (Then in the) 1990s, the PPP with Desmond Hoyte’s naïveté, secured the interference of US President Jimmy Carter who even persuaded Desmond Hoyte to violate our Constitution by denying Guyanese overseas the opportunity to vote in the National Elections…
“In fact the Ambassador broke no rule, violated no protocol; he simply did what we all should, that is, move in line when the light turns to Green. He must be congratulated for expressing the views that every patriot should express.”
While Hammie’s knowledge of history is truly commendable, he cannot be trusted to give an honest, unbiased account of our political history in public, for fear of evoking the wrath of the PNC/APNU and his political base. For a former Prime Minister to declare, “In fact the Ambassador broke no rule, violated no protocol,” is downright dishonest and unpatriotic like all the others who chastised the Acting Foreign Affairs Minister for standing up to outside aggression.
The biggest mistake Desmond Hoyte has ever made, according to Hammie, was to agree with Cheddi Jagan to allow former US President Jimmy Carter and his team to observe the 1992 General Elections. He expressed this opinion with the full knowledge that the PNC has never won a General Election in Guyana without rigging the votes. He knew the odds of the PNC, now calling themselves APNU, winning a free and fair election here is either slim or none.
But I wish my friend had done some research on CIA and British Intelligence declassified documents, that clearly reveal how these ‘great democracies’ collaborate to deny the constitutional rights of citizens of other countries that they are opposed to ideologically. The former PNC Leaders, Forbes Burnham and Desmond Hoyte were beneficiaries of this policy. (To be continued).
Harry Gill

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