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The status quo will not change when we remove one side of the equation and retain the other

Oct 31, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
In the swift aftermath of the Attorney General’s threats of extermination against a frontline media house owner and icon who has led the charge against the despotic PPP regime, the PPP has offered cover to one of its own, I also recognize the AFC’s on the button response and its call for the head of an Attorney General who has crossed the line. Yet again we must observe and await the APNU’s reactionary conduct which must be timed as we await their study of this atrocity and the framing of a strategic statement. How callous of the APNU leadership to not be on the ball when a deadly threat is made against a leading stalwart of the press.
Is this not malice aforethought and the rapid descent of a nation now besiege by the callous highhandedness of a regime no longer restraint by the rule of nomocracy and the bulwarks of civil society, but who now wraps itself in the reverse, in an apparent recognition that the stars are no longer lined up to light it’s continued survival.
As we pause to examine how we arrive at this port, we must face the truth and recognize its reasoning. The malaise in our dear land of Guyana did not happen overnight, it resulted from a regiment of tacit cooperation, tolerance, complicity, incompetence or all of the above, in a game of survival politics played out on the peace loving Guyanese people more so, over the last 15 years.
While we confront and attack this construct in a sweep for change, we must be fair to ourselves to name and number the architects and those who cooperated with them, and who are no lesser evil, as we pursue a newness to reclaim our nation and its people from the abyss.
Our nation can only move forward if we as a people hold our leaders on both sides of the divide, accountable. To do so we must first reject the divisive politics of hate and the superiority of one ethnic grouping over the other. We must reject those who seek Indo Guyanese hegemony equally as we recognize those on the other side who forward the same thinking with their Afro centric superior philosophy while our other ethnic communities are left outside the fence. In a land of ethnic diversity, ethnic harmony must be the only theme.
The politics of government establishes a construct that postures a ruling regime on the one hand and a political opposition on the other. The latter is task with holding the former accountable for its stewardship. The task of ‘we the people’ is to ensure we hold both sides to account. That is evidently not the case as we view a transparent labeling of the ruling PPP regime ( and rightly so) whereas an attempt which must be called out as sinister, by some who seek to convey immunity from accountability to the opposition leadership. This posturing must be rejected.
Guyana’s future is contingent on the Guyanese people seeking newness by first relieving themselves of the burden of the status quo, then giving the government of the state to our next generation. The status quo will not change when we remove one side of the equation and retain the other, both must go. Any other invective is a prescription for more of the same, the arrogance is already transparent.
John S. Talbot

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