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The pain of forgetting the mistakes of the past

Mar 11, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
I am responding to a letter written by one Balwant Persaud if he exists. The reason I question that he exists is that no party would have such a person within its ranks making these largely unsubstantiated and embarrassing charges against a party which he/she supports and presumably loves.
I do agree that some sort of poll ought to have been conducted to determine how such a coalition will be received by the public. The standing ovation APNU/AFC got at the National Park on Mash Day tells me that this coalition is now massively supported by the public, in addition to the very large crowd [some say 500 persons] which turned out to the launching of the coalition at the Pegasus despite poor advertising was for me eye an opener.
The people, it seems, have by their actions, spoken. I don’t need a poll now to tell me that this was the right thing to do.
As for the coalition aggravating racial politics and division, I do not see Persaud’s argument at all. It’s very opaque and obscure since I see this coalition as the first time that we have seen any attempt in this country to mend the racial division which has existed since independence and I congratulate the parties for overcoming the difficulties of doing it.
Persaud tells us that we must “Study the past and you will know the future.” I have to say that I have never heard this saying before, but if we study the past we will find that Sir Winston Churchill when Prime Minister of England during World War II, made a pact with Stalin to fight the greater evil of Hitler. He was highly criticised in the British House of Commons,since up to then Stalin had been perceived by the British and indeed Churchill and the US president Roosevelt as evil.
When faced with the criticism Churchill responded that  he would make a favourable comment in the House of Commons about anyone willing to help him fight the devil [Hitler]
The quote I know is, “Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it” Guyana is what it is today, due to racial strife. And this racial strife has thrown up the PPP of today, a huge pack of thieves who are incompetent to service the nation and unwilling to obey the laws of our country since they believe that they are above it.
Name withheld

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