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Oct 30, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

I wrote several pieces recently on the different candidates for PNC leader. I only did so, because a PNC leader, whoever it ends up being, could be a step closer, to being Guyana’s leader. To repeat a prior position, however the PNC goes about its leadership business is its business, but whomsoever the leader turns out to be is Guyana’s business, thus mine, too.
Now, it came to my attention that one of the contestants took umbrage to my commentary on the merits and demerits of his candidacy. That is his right, but it is what he resorted to that got my attention. The candidate retorted that he could give a damn about what people like me have to say, and then the self-satisfying coup de grace: he is a PPP man delivering a PPP script. In another writing I must help fellow citizens on the fine art of the nuanced putdown, through using the broad repertoire of the English Language, and not these puerilities intended as disparagements. Now, I focus on that aspect about a PPP man giving voice to a PPP script.
What I wrote must have disturbed a nerve. But to call someone who has been smeared by vile PPP leadership and their slavish henchmen is a bridge too far. It is of someone who has nothing to clutch at, but straws. All looks pathetic with such futile posturing and pawing. And to say that I am articulating a PPP script has to take the cake, and the whole baker shop, too. For I am yet to encounter a PPP scribe or other human conduit, who appreciates the grandeur and majesty of the English Language to explore it and utilise it to the fullest. This is despite their schooling in deceptive commie propaganda, and the coaching they get from American Madison Avenue types, thanks to the scurrilous partnership with Exxon, et al.
Having said that, I find myself in a most peculiar place. It confirms that, indeed, no man is an island. But, in my instance, I have transformed into something altogether unimaginable, where I am not one thing or the other, but a combination of them. It is where I am not a UFO, or a resident alien, but one who has mutated into a universal floating onshore and offshore phantom figure of unprecedented proportions. I say this because the PPP took first jump and declared me a PNC apologist; then, a PNC candidate for leader denounces me as a PPP agent; next, some Guyanese damn me for being Venezuelan (mortal enemy); the Venezuelans, for their part, declare me to be an overt American spy; and some upset Americans conclude that I am a member of the Taliban. I must consult with Taliban leadership to get their assessment of this unaccounted-for soldier. Yes, Guyana’s politics has made Guyanese, from top to bottom, this mad, with foreigners joining in the frenzies. And all the while, with yours truly caught in the centrifugal upheavals.

Sincerely,
GHK Lall

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