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I detect a totalitarian state, with only occasional objecting pockets

Apr 06, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

The more I observe this country, the more I see a state heading downhill. I commend sleek PPP leaders for their covert operations, but then that would be a party to the immensity of the ugly tyrannies present, where nothing is for society, and everything is for me, family and crony. I enlighten.

Topping the list of the handiworks directly traceable to manipulative PPP leadership is the state of the opposition. It is helpless, both to itself and Guyanese. I discern that it is largely self-created. But, I believe that there was material assistance from the PPP to reduce the PNC+AFC to its present undeniable state of malaise and virtual impotence. It has subtracted from the PPP’s profiteering, and passed on to citizens of this country with much damage done. From a PPP leadership perspective, it is worth every cent spent.

With opposition out, another bulwark relentlessly surrounded and quietly neutralized is the Fourth Estate. There is nuanced stranglehold on the media, through encircling government and party influences on existing channels and incoming outlets, most new practitioners. One of its own (previously falling foul of the law) is establishing a press residence here. It perplexes that in a crowded field for a tiny audience such daring entrepreneurship is considered; somebody has money to burn: potentially huge losses are not concerning. To that add the growing brigade of cyber comrades parroting party line and mindlessly accommodating PPP leadership machinations: no hard questions, no pushback, no probing. The terrain surrounding Stabroek News, Kaieteur News, and Demerara Waves tightens suffocatingly: staffers lured, barriers erected, continuity impaired. Control the messages, overpower audience. Total mind control is the ultimate objective. We are North Koreans.

Then, there is what is charitably called civil society. To say that it is almost completely compromised is an understatement, so low it has fallen. Its overlapping sectors-mainly private, spasmodically professional, heavily social, and widely spiritual-have tarnished themselves through love of money, failure of principle, craven cult leadership prostration, and in thorough distancing from the ethical and national. The gods and holy grails of most of the membership of those bodies are access and endless acquisitions of assets; they sell themselves openly for PPP silver. They hang themselves publicly for the thirty pieces thrown their way: a contract, a job, a project, any piece of the action. Betrayal is cheap. Whither honor, when civil society is trussed like a pig?

In not insignificant swathes, the Guyanese Judiciary is the epitome of perceived untrustworthiness. Don’t take my representation for it. Other than from the top, many truth seekers founder before influence and environment; less of majesty of the law and more of prevailing passions and prejudices. The Guyana Police is at the government’s beck and call, manipulated accordingly. The public service is infiltrated and infested -big game hunting for czars and comrades to oversee rackets. Politicized is the word.

I detect a totalitarian state, with only occasional objecting pockets. Guyanese bow before it. I am a heretic.
Yours truly,

GHK Lall

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