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Dear Editor
I would like to have a response from the US Ambassador to Guyana to this letter. The US Supreme Court ruled that Texas and 17 other states do not have legal standing in the way Michigan and 3 other states carry out their elections. This was in response to President Donald Trump trying to change the votes in those states in his favour. The US Constitution Article 1, Section 4, Clause 1 gave the right to carry out the elections as each state sees fit. The 10th and 12th Amendments gave the states the power for electors to vote for the president in each state through the electoral college.
I have searched very diligently to find the Article or amendment in that document that gave the power to decide how Guyana runs its election. I found nothing. I could not even find Guyana in that document. I therefore would like to know where the US government got its legal standing to decide how Guyana runs its election. They cannot tell their states how to do their elections, but they somehow have the power to tell Guyana to “use the recount”, a very tainted result. They are the democracy gods and yet they have a loser going to every court trying to undo the safest election in that country. They however bullied GECOM’s officers into accepting a tainted recount. I dare anyone to prove that the recount was not tainted. I just need a simple answer. Are missing poll books for approximately 4% of the votes a tainted result when one party won with about that percentage. If that is not tainted, every election since the beginning of time is the safest and fairest.
I am scratching my head trying to understand what else gave them that power. Is it God? I think I have some thoughts on that. They wanted a puppet government. This is a historical behaviour of that country. Added to that is the power of white privilege and anti-black racism. After all, African Americans are not real citizens. The American constitution states that African Americans are 3/5 of a person. In those days they did not use that word African, but it was quite explicit that it was the slaves who were these 3/5 persons. Now, some may say that the reconstruction amendments changed that. That is nonsense. The African is still treated as 3/5 of a person. Ask the families of dead people from police brutality.
Ms. ambassador, do you think that the Guyana ambassador to your country could tell Trump to step aside or concede? Your pompous bigotry would force you to say no. Can the Guyana ambassador ask the heads of the FBI, NSA, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, etc. to meet to address post-election unrest? You would say that it would be absurd. Then, why did you see fit to visit the head of the army and police in Guyana before the election? You have the gall. It is as I said before “white privilege and bigotry”.
Ms. Ambassador, you have great knowledge of “democracy” as displayed by your arrogance in Guyana. Are you able to see “democracy” in your country? The election in your country was the safest and fairest in history. Do you think that Trump should concede? Where is your indignation? What happened to your wings? You were flying high in Guyana applying pressure to GECOM to declare the tainted results. Your boss is also trying to get tainted results in your country by throwing away valid votes. It is the modus operandi of Trump and his minions. Why are you quiet now? Trump lost the election in both the electoral college and popular vote convincingly. There are no missing poll books significant enough to overturn the results. Yet, you, Trump, and Pompeo insisted that the election was fraudulent. You said it tacitly. You were quite vocal in Guyana where you have no legal standing but in your own country as a citizen, you are quiet. Why is it so? Do you not know democracy or is democracy situational? In the case of a solid win in the USA, you support the loser as the winner. I am not surprised. You have also supported the loser in Guyana as the winner. At least, you are consistent. The only problem is that your “democracy” has a different meaning in a different situation. That is what is called hypocrisy. I also would like to know what your other members of the diplomatic corps have to say. The Canadian, EU and British ambassadors are also silent. They know how to apply pressure to a small poor country but are quiet in the face of Trump, an obvious undemocratic person trying to overthrow a legitimate election.
Finally, the USA had its agenda and it used you and the weight of the US government to threaten GECOM to use tainted results. I repeat. The results are tainted. There are 47 missing poll books. These have the equivalent of 3,000,000 votes in the USA. Please explain to everyone how is that a fair election. Trump went to court for 367 votes that were not recorded in any poll book. What would have happened if there were 3,000,000? Your courts would not accept that as fair. There would have been new elections. Guyana needs a new election. The results are not in keeping with democratic norms.
Regards
E.O. Cromwell
