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Sep 08, 2014 Letters
Dear Sir,
Please allow me some space to address a current topic. Through the press and electronic news, we are being forewarned about the possibility of a merger between the political parties.
Some people already feel that it’s a fait accompli, and that any grandstanding would be just that: grandstanding. They are confident of the Fat lady will sing. Then there are others who have been clamoring for this process for some time. They too are smiling in anticipation of finally getting a piece of the Nation’s cake, and would be in a position to dictate the size of their slice.
Of course we don’t want to leave anyone out, so the politicians have come up with a great name for the Marriage of Convenience; or better still Collaboration. “ A Government of National Unity.” And it’s a fitting name. This present charade is a travesty.
The situation this country finds itself in did not come about because of the intransigence of one political party. No, it did not.
This was the collective effort of sixty five politicians sitting in the Legislature. These people are from three different political parties with whom we the people made a political contract, and they collectively failed to do the job. Or any other job for that matter.
However you look at it they collectively messed up. But is it really their fault? Or should we bear some blame for this chaos? In this country we question the ability of Pilots to fly an aircraft safely; we question Doctors; we question the ability of Teachers to guide our children constructively. We question Umpires and referees. But do we question the ability of our Politicians? When we speak of this or that politician, we do not speak about their ability. We have taken it for granted from a historical perspective that he or she is a politician, therefore they know what they are about. And we have acted and treated them as revered persons anyway.
The dictionary says a politician is “One who is a member of a political party…Or one actively engaged in politics.” Just become a member of a political party and get involved in this thing called politics, and presto, you are a politician. I guess in Guyana it’s like a game; you get into the loop, soon you will be talking on TV, picket twice, then the big house. Your knowledge of this thing call politics is zilch, so is everyone else’s. We have Lawyer/politicians, we have trade unionist /politicians, we have activist/politicians, we have accountants/politicians.
So the question then is how good are these politicians to do political things? How are they going to motivate an ethnically divided and distrustful people. Would they be able to push button A and get button B in return as in development? not the big ticket items.
Do we ask them what they know about community restructuring towards production, and how they will get about it? Do we ask them about their knowledge about infrastructural development? And how they will set it up, and where will they begin? And since it will be one big happy family between the politicians, then the word compromise could well be stricken from their vocabulary.
In the meantime we are being ruled by an oligarchy. All the tenets of Democracy but the system is controlled by a few (read that as treasury). The police get away with brutalizing the citizens, and why? Because of the failure of the State’s Legal System to protect the rights of citizens and punish the perpetrators of violence against civilians. The Army salutes, parades and shake hands. The people, the so many sheep, as they are characterized, sit around waiting for Godot.
Milton Bruce
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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