Blame the web manager

Oct 21, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

The PPP won the elections matter before the CCJ, and that is official. I can understand that the Hon. Attorney General (AG) got a tad carried away in his overflowing joy, but to make his frenzied reaction via social media a capital offense is taking things too far. As much as I think the AG belongs in a secure environment, there should be some understanding of what is involved in things elections in this country.

He did jump the gun with the premature sharing of his ecstasy before the whole world, and though the chief legal officer of this land has been less of the law, and more of party politics, I recommend that he be given a break, and all this sanctimonious handwringing come to a halt. Indeed, he deserves more than a slap on the wrist, but what is the CCJ going to do? Order that he be detained at Piarco International and that he be placed in chains? Although that particular scene does have the picturesque about it, plus some additional inspirations that are all overdue, I say let’s leave the big man alone. Enough with the lecturing, scolding, and pontificating for dumb social media audiences, and the dumber who thrive on likes and whatever else they have for adrenalin surges in that barren wilderness.

Where I do have a problem, though, is with what reportedly came out of the Solicitor General’s or AG’s office. There was an apology, what I interpret to be a profuse and appropriately contrite one, but it must be understood that nowadays apologies do not have any substance to them. They are merely for the record, and have the utility of manifesting humbling expression, while extending the show of hypocrisy and artful deviousness some more. The concern with the apology was that it was not a clean one, a thoroughly fulsome one, and for which I think the AG should be called to the carpet and then rolled in it. To lay the blame on some poor, wretched Facebook page administrator is really the pits, the lowest of the low. But then again, I should know better, for look at who we are dealing with, either at the individual level or the political group that is sick to the core of its rotted soul. I regret not managing my own expectations better. The reflexive in the PPP, be it government or party, is always to blame developments on the other guy or something else.

Since the PNC hands look clean on this one, a pass is given. And now that COVID-19 is on the wane, that also is off limits. So, I guess the little guy (administrator) was a suitable enough sacrifice for the angry gods at the CCJ. It would have been much more preferable for the Hon. AG to step forward himself and take it on his own chin. Quite frankly, I don’t think that the big chief is made of this kind of stuff, so I am wasting time. Meanwhile, Guyana meanders some more, but there is nothing better to expect when we get caught up in the excitements of filing petitions, petition adjudication, and social media celebration. Did somebody say we found oil, world class reserves of a superior grade of it? Well, not by the fevered reactions of those who lead the way here in Guyana. Let’s move on people, to other things, the real things. Like how the foreigners rob this nation, while we are preoccupied and consumed with the usual foolishness, dead ends, and deadbeats.

Sincerely,
GHK Lall

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