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Prorogation Equals Dictatorship

Nov 17, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
What a short distance the PPP has traveled from decrying all over the world about the evils of the “Burnham Constitution”, getting President Jimmy Carter to pressure President Desmond Hoyte to hold free and fair elections resulting in his ouster and the PPP’s assent to office, to where Guyana stands today on the precipice of becoming a failed state. How ironic that yesterday’s oppressed have now become today’s oppressors.
All pretense of being the president of all of Guyana was stripped bare when Mr. Ramotar and the PPP realized that their tenuous hold on power would have vanished had the no-confidence vote against the minority government allowed to proceed in parliament.
Only the willfully ignorant and those feeding at the trough of government corruption and depravity will refuse to admit that the PPP has ceded the moral authority to govern Guyana.
There can be no more equivocation about the rectitude of the PPP as the long tired comparison to Burnham’s PNC no longer holds a scintilla of evidence of the difference between these two anachronistic parties that have taken turns in under developing Guyana.
The fact that Guyana remains a country deeply stratified and dived by race after almost fifty years of independence is reinforced by a badly compromised attorney general who views Guyana through the narrow prism of an East Indian caste system.
Make no mistake, Guyana’s constitution remains the biggest obstacle to national unity and it is now clear that the PPP was never opposed to this obscenely flawed document but was opposed to the ethnicity of the person who crafted it and wielded the powers contained therein.
This is borne out by the fact that after gaining power, they never scrapped it but tinkered with the edges and are now cloaked in it to cling to power as the monumentally inept puppet President Ramotar doing the bidding of his master Jagdeo to strangle the voice of the majority by proroguing parliament.
Even more stunning is the combined opposition not being able to predict this outcome and be ready on day one with a plan in place to counter the president’s undemocratic act.
Recently, Stabroek News cartoonist Paul Harris depicted the PPP government as Hannibal Lechter and the population as the lamb in an ode to the movie Silence of the Lambs.
A truer comparison cannot be found where the people behaving as “sheeple” uncaring about their own interest, spoke volumes about the current circumstance and the inexorable day of reckoning along the lines of Tunisia.
If history serves as a guide, it’s only a matter of time until ministers and others who became overnight millionaires along with their supporters suffer the same fate.
Nigel Jason

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