To speak about free and fair elections now in Guyana has to be a travesty, the apex of dishonesty. Somehow leaders and ministers in the PPP Government are still selling free and fair elections unheedingly. Integrity or dishonesty, mere hypocrisy or what should be rank felony, Guyanese get the freedom to choose. If that freedom still exists, and the luxury is still universally theirs. Perhaps, the esteemed attorney general can do the honors.
I have several other jobs for the honorable Attorney General, Mr. Anil Nandall. It is rather unsightly for an attorney general to lower himself so thoughtlessly that the campaign trail is taken to with relish. He belongs in Chambers, for there’s still a government in place. Reconsider, sir. He could also urge his comrades to rethink their strategy of staying silent on vulgar American intrusions (interfering, meddling, destabilizing [are the terms in vogue]), while using American weapons in the fight a fearsome contender. To refresh Mr. Nandlall’s clogged head, it’s about who is wanted (by the US) and who could be taken away (by the US). If the PPP has to resort to such lowlife tactics, then it has nothing going for it. Nothing for strategy. Nothing for credibility. Nothing for its own dignity, integrity, and decency.
For free and fair fell overboard, when the US actively participates with the PPP in attempts to gut an underdog, the new dog on the block. Looks like he has taken over most of it. Mohamed! Mohamed! Mohamed! This is what the first one must have heard, and it felt like, in Mecca and Medina. Fair play and a level playing field (sorry for playing the field, the redundancy), who can say that, Mr. AG? Who can claim that high bar? The PPP Government, and PPP leaders like Jagdeo and Nandlall should still have a little something left in them. Enough to insist to the Americans, thanks for the helping hand, but no thanks. Because the PPP wants to win fairly, and because it doesn’t fear anyone. So, when a party leader runs out to the campaign trail and rejoices over US developments (probably incited by the PPP) relative to Mohamed and extradition, it signals that he has nothing. It confirms also the kind of government that the PPP is. It instigates a foreign government (US) to do its dirty work, and then uses that (the veiled verbiage of extradition) as a club to bludgeon a threatening political contender.
What about the will of the people, Dr. Bharrat, and Sir Anil, from the realm of national cowardice now adding to national shame? Is this how elections are contested in this country nowadays? Is this what the US supports? It seems to me that this is the PPP’s version of elections rigging. Boobytrap the paths of elections, with US devices, and still project the verbal thuggery that the field is level and the play is fair. Jagdeo walks with his 10-ton American dragon and he calls that free and fair, while he engages in a firefight from behind the bushes. Yeah, cowards live to fight many a day. They should use those to tell the people about all the good that the PPP did for them.
Point to all the gifts of the PPP in the last five years, and they mean nothing, because what the PPP delivered was next to nothing, a canvas of the gruesome. Jagdeo can promise heaven and forever now, but now far fewer Guyanese believe him. Because he surrendered parts of his mind, then other parts of his anatomy, when he refused to fight for the poor, and what is right for Guyana. Now he makes himself into a cartoon character with his one-dimensional campaign battle song. Mohamed! Mohamed! Mohamed! It must be the croons from a rare broken record of Mohamed Rafi’s, or the lyrics of Indian songwriting maestro, Nazir Hussain.
A government, a party, a leadership so deh baad and hard up that all it has is Mohamed! Mohamed! Mohamed! It’s the Battle Hymn of One Guyana. One that still needs blood transfusions from the USA. When the US was condoning Burnham’s rigging, it was Down with America. Down with Capitalism! Down with the CIA! From the PPP, not I, Excellency Nicole Dee. Fifty years later, the US is again recruited to do the heavy lifting and dirty work for a government that is in power. This one will stoop to any level to stay in power. From my perspective, the PPP pretends that it is a government in a democracy, but it’s really a set of goons starring in a jackass jamboree. The US should know better. But the PPP Government is so pathetic, that it’s SOS couldn’t be ignored. Mohamed! Mohamed! Azruddin, extradition! Government and gangsters at work.
