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There is at least one Guyanese who finds interventions by the U.S. irritating
DEAR EDITOR,
Let me establish emphatically for the record that my love for Guyana can only be equaled, never surpassed, and this was since I attained the stage of puberty (I am now in the fourth quarter). Let me also state for the public record that I hold no political affiliation and see no useful reason to change this status quo.
While my fulminations will not change anything, I wish to draw to the attention of the US Embassy that I find its repudiation of the Guyanese government, in relation to its recognition of Brother Abdul Kadir, to be both repugnant and hypocritical.
The embassy should let the public know that after 17 years of waging genocide against the Afghan people, its government is now in talks with the Taliban who they have labelled terrorist. What a lovely moral platform from which to pontificate.
Since the embassy is in a lecturing mode, it would be interesting to have an explanation to the Guyanese people of the following;
How come Freddy Lugo and his band of terrorists, after downing the Cubana flight out of Barbados (with several Guyanese students aboard) were able to find safe refuge in Miami, despite international calls for their extradition?
How come Nelson Mandela, the global icon, subsequently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, was listed as a terrorist at the US State Department, a status that was hurriedly and shamelessly erased after he was invited to the US on the occasion of his 90th birth anniversary.
The embassy would do well to access the testimony of George Galloway, the former British MP, to the US Senate Sub-Committee on the Oil for Food Programme (YouTube). As a matter of fact, this should be prime material for all those inclined to accept the false narrative of these people.
I applaud the Peeping Tom column (Kaieteur News, Monday April 29) for having the guts to opine on what every Guyanese should know. That Abdul Kadir was entrapped by a self-serving drug pusher in the employ of a self-serving so-called foreign policy.
I find it utterly disgusting to read about these people and their pontifications. Take the so-called State Department pronouncements on Guyana’s judiciary system. This perfect US system has spawned the greatest volume of people incarcerated on the face of the earth. At the core of this corrupt disgrace is the privatization of the prison system, a process driven by the wanton incarceration of African Americans and to a lesser extent other minorities. I leave the rationale to logical progression.
In closing, I wish to let America know that there is at least one Guyanese who finds its interventions irritating.
The pen has been lifted and the ink is dry.
Sincerely
Abdul Rahim-Forde
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