Angry and anguished questions generated by a one-year-old dictatorship

Aug 27, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

What sort of government turns on its public servants? What calibre of leader of a country presides over a nation in which its police are called in to remove unvaccinated citizens from their place of employment? Where in these modern times one ethnic group is completely and deliberately shut out of the banqueting hall of economic festivities of their country? Where in progressive democracies anywhere in this world, hospitals are denied drugs to treat citizens because of the people’s non-cooperation with oppressive policies?
Are we wrong in registering a statement of fact that the Guyanese people are living under a one-year-old dictatorship that will not relent but will grow stronger, if not stopped in its tracks. How do we treat with the evil manifestation of a dictatorial regime?
Guyana must be able to breathe the fresh air of freedom, justice and equality. We must not wait a year before elections to exert ourselves vigorously in holding this corrupt administration accountable. Neither must we fail to consider all options before us (nonviolent) in retaliation to political, social and economic oppression.
Where on earth can one argue against the concept of MY BODY, MY CHOICE? Why must our babies be subject to forced vaccination when we are yet to determine the safety of vaccines available to us? Approximately 25 years in the struggle and I have never called on the people of our nation to have a violent revolution, but my heart will not hold up to another bout of the state violence and the murders of men, women and children that had gone with it during the 23 years of PPP rule. Never again!
Look at where we are at currently and the conversation we are engaged in across the nation. Shouldn’t the conversation be how we enjoy the untold wealth of our country? Shouldn’t we be raising our heads proudly as recipients of the bountiful spoils our nation possess or must we prepare ourselves for the legacy of poverty, divisions and civil war while one percent of our countrymen and women become stinking rich and America runs off with our wealth?
RESIST! RESIST! RESIST!

Norman K. Browne
Social/Political Activist

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