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Feb 09, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
Before reading the article “Ramotar urges army to remain professional at the upcoming polls”, I could not help but notice that he was wearing his dark shades and wondered why those in the leadership of the PPP always adorn dark shades in public. Is it that they do not want the citizens to look at them in the eye or they would like to feel that everything is still green.
President Ramotar’s silly season has already begun. He speaks to the senior officers as if they are children. First he says to them that they are entitled to vote, mark you, not that they have a constitutional right but an entitlement.
Further, he went on to say that the GDF are not allowed to participate in acts of political militancy, but that the PPP would be returned to power with a majority in the National Assembly. Therefore in the same speech he is telling then not to be militant and partisan and all will be well.
He also told them that certain behaviors must not be allowed to fester in the society, even though the PPP government remains the canker of these behaviors which includes intolerance and racism. If this is not the height of hypocrisy what is?
The PPP is the only group in Guyana that has been working overtime to diminish the stature of the men and women in the Guyana Defense Force.
They have repeatedly accused the army of being in collusion with the PNC. Shyam Nokta, reporting at the last PPP Congress, expressed concern about the number of retired soldiers in the PNC and the fact that the Ex GDF association supported APNU. In most other countries former army officers are praised and respected when they run for office. To the PPP this is an impediment; you should serve and go home.
The PPP has continued to stir racial prejudice in their meetings, they have allowed an entire editorial of the Guyana Chronicle to fan the ugly flames of racism. Just a week ago, the Honorable Junior Minister Bishop Edghill expressed, through a PPP front organization, what has become the bedrock philosophy of the PPP, that Afro Guyanese will kill and maim Indo Guyanese without conscience.
As a Bishop he missed the opportunity to heal a horrible wound.  Statements like the one offered by Bishop Edghill, that the slaying of eleven people in Lusignan is a race hate crime (SN 2/2/2015), according to PPP thinking is not creating fear, it is not “subjected gutter politics or worse.” According to President Ramotar, it’s just PPP politics. And they want the army to stand by and let it continue.
The army is the protector and defender of the nation state and if any force either external or internal threatens to destroy the nation state, they have a duty and responsibility to defend it. Their duty is not to defend the President or government or opposition parties but to “cherish and defend forever the state that gives us birth”.
President Ramotar can now dispose of his dark shades, for in the distance, night falls.
Keith Branch

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