These people have certainly gone beyond the boundary

Feb 12, 2020 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

I was in the village of Eccles, East Bank Demerara, over the weekend and heard from more than one resident, that at a PPP/Civic Rally in the said community, speaker after speaker, attacked the Coalition for allegedly mismanaging our country.
In the nature of things, that is the right and expectation of political parties during an election campaign.
I have no difficulty with such spirited rhetoric, but when the PPP speakers, as they did at Eccles, attempt to diminish the role I played in the social and political development of Guyana, they have certainly gone beyond the boundary.
One speaker even went so far to say that as Former Prime Minister, who on several occasions carried out the duties of President, that person, ought not to be in receipt of a pension.
Everywhere in the civilised world, individuals who served at a high level of Government are granted a pension. The danger of such reckless utterances is that our young people, and those who are voting for the first time, may be influenced by such one-sided and unjustified statements made in public.
Young voters and those with short memories, listening to what was said at Eccles may ignore the mayhem and madness engineered by the PPP whenever they were in Government.
It is clear that the PPP speakers on the campaign trail have adopted the philosophy of Paul Joseph Goebbels, Adolph Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda during the horrible Nazi regime in Germany, who believed that if you repeat the most absurd and inaccurate of statements, often enough, it will soon be accepted as gospel truth.
Today, our greatest challenge is for citizens to withstand the aggressive crusaders who are re-writing history and have become experts on oil and gas, all intended to besmirch the character of our President and the leadership of the Coalition.
Hamilton Green

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