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PPP hooliganism
Editorial…
Kaieteur News- It could be said with authority that the PPP is showing its true colors. It is that red rage that shows itself during peaceful interaction with villagers in parts of Guyana. To some degree that red rage is an extension of the party General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo’s Thursday afternoon brawls that he calls press conferences. What reared its ugly head in Lima Sands and Letter Kenny possessed all the signs of orchestrated political brawls. By the present standard, the only ones allowed to turn up across Guyana are those in PPP red. Others who dare to do so, whether for reasons political or philanthropical, are subjected to a barrage of objection and hostility. Guyanese are seeing the old PPP finally showing its new face. It is one deformed by anger and hate, a face that tries to mask its desperation. The PPP’s face exhibited at Lima Sands and Letter Kenny is the face of fear.
The ruling party has had every opportunity to manifest that it was about clean governance. It failed on most occasions, and Guyanese are fed up, with some of the party’s old faithful being among the disgruntled. This is distressing to the party’s leadership. Instead of seizing opportunities to clean up its act and showing Guyanese what it can deliver, there is the belief in the PPP hierarchy that the remedy is to shout down those who want better for citizens. PPP leaders have been poor students of history. The more that the poor and needy are oppressed, the more they will resent those responsible and find them objectionable. Frequently, the point made by this publication is change ways for the better, and citizens will change their disgusted attitudes directed at the ruling party. Efforts to show the PPP the error of its ways have been met with leadership foulness, which in turn fuels the hooliganism of its more reckless supports to new lows. PPP supporters on social media have converted it to a warzone. Guyanese were able to see this for themselves in the PPP hooligan squadron coming out in force in Lima Sands and Letter Kenny. When that is the standard of the governing party, then the level of discourse and exchange in this country just collapsed into the outhouse. The leadership becomes walking examples of the vulgar and outrageous, with riotous supporters following in their sinister shadow.
For a long time, the ruling party has managed to keep its hooliganism a secret, with the blame for street mayhem easily transferred to others. The veil has now been pulled back, so its secret is out in the open. In the manner of any long hidden crime, there is a mixture of surprise and horror at many levels in Guyanese society. The time for disbelief is over, when the hooliganism displayed in one county is repeated in another. Time will tell how far and how low, i.e., how much like a maddened mob its people will be. The year is still young, but the ugliness and grimness of elections in Guyana are as old as crime itself. Like most Guyanese, we hope that the baseline has not been set, from which matters could flare into the unknown and the uncontrolled.
Questions that arise include: how much more of the same hooliganism from the PPP can Guyanese expect? Will such be worse, meaning a descent into sharp violence, considering the desperation of the party leadership? Will the national law enforcement apparatus stir from its slumber and spring into action, bearing in mind that the law should be applied without fear and favor to all? The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has been a study in disinterest and noninvolvement, as though it has been muzzled and ordered to be on a go-slow due to who is involved. We wonder that if the shoes of the hooligans were on the feet of others, if the GPF would have been so indifferent. The last thing that the GPF, if it still has regard for its own professionalism, would want is to be seen as condoning political hooliganism from the PPP, Guyana’s governing party. When hooliganism is resorted to, it provides evidence that the PPP has run out of room and options.
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