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Nov 30, 2014 Letters
Dear Editor,
I have for years discussed the elements of the death of Walter Rodney, with both WPA and PNC friends and based on those discussions, expressed in the advent of this recent ‘Inquiry’; why would the WPA once again allow the PPP to use them as convenient political cannon fodder in an enquiry that can yield only speculations, psychologically viewing that era from a current point of view. I have asked the question on why spend so much money on a mock Inquiry, that can only be titled; the most expensive vaudeville show, at the expense of Walter Rodney’s memory; which can invoke no facts, but a sinister outpouring of speculation, a spurting of old venom, some needed spotlight for the ‘shirt buttons’ and just plain corner rum shop and beer garden ‘gaff’. Even a known con man was resurrected to jump aboard, another had spiritual premonitions and yet another whose ego compelled him to dabble from cult to this and that political party, had his fantastic say. Was it just a desperate attempt to demonize Forbes Burnham, or to create a distraction for the population from the abysmal nature of the PPP reign of twenty years? Who has denied the even more meaningful investigation tabled by the leader of the opposition into causes, sources and events between 2000 to 2010 where hundreds of people died, and the culpability of the PPP into opening Guyana to be a Narcotic infected state would be easily proven. A profound inquiry where many prominent Guyanese in business and the legal profession, would be held accountable in various ways. This was beaten down; there would be no inquiry for the Jagdeo-Roger Khan era. At least, not yet.
Most of the Ideological PPP is gone; today, there are just crooks and petty tyrants, as the NBS case has demonstrated. But even more disturbing is the fact that many of the people who proceeded to give so called ‘evidence’ are actually aware of the truths surrounding Rodney’s death, and are aware of the futility of what they’re participating in. All that I have written in this overview is known to them. For the young public to begin to understand why this inquiry is a Vaudeville Show, one has to time travel, flashback to the social environment of the Burnham-Cheddie Jagan -Walter Rodney era.
Walter Rodney
Son of the soil leader of the WPA, I met this brother, read his books, argued at Bourda Market with him over socialism/communism, which I thought was good, as it addressed the alienation of the poor, against a class system populated by rich but lesser talents. But Communism had also allowed lazy Party followers undeserved benefits. Today we witness the same; most of the PPP’s Politburo affords standards of living beyond what their talents, education or skills permit them to have on nature’s level playing field. Walter Rodney presided over a paradoxical contingent, comprised of middleclass Guyanese who despised Burnham’s grass root extensions, but, strange enough, gathered around Walter, but not necessary his Ideals. Walter was Commandant; Operations Commander and Officer in Charge of his field unit, all at once. This gave me the intuitive perception that this man had tremendous trust issues with his colleagues.
The explosion
From what the explosion did not do to his body, it was obvious that it was located in a bag under the front seat of his car, between his legs. Was Walter an explosive expert? Or a brother driven by a cause, that fell victim to an ‘unfortunate accident.’ Because it would seem that the heat of the vehicle ignited the explosion that killed Walter, and not the volumes of mumbo jumbo belched out at the enquiry.
APNU
The opposition leader David Granger was objectively correct to seek to terminate this fallacy, but Politics destroys nations, because most of the people involved in politics in Guyana are not governed by objectivity, but by facades and contrived perceptions. Some are just plain sycophants. So APNU was persuaded not to do so. Freddie Kissoon resisted participation from the inception, because he honestly recognized the Showbiz that would pretend to be an Enquiry.
The Commissioners
Both the PPP’S Seenath Jairam and Sir Richard Cheltenham are disposed to have contentions against Burnham that transcend Walter Rodney’s death. Collectively, the commissioners must understand that most Guyanese are not fooled, nor do we take you seriously as professionals, your compliance to rip this nation off in this political Vaudeville saddens and angers us.
Had you volunteered free of cost, this part of the letter would not have been written. The public would have presumed that you shared a misguided belief in shining a light at this stage, while aware that the crucial actors in this tragedy are dead, jeopardizing fact finding on that single incident of that troubled period, would have been considered. That you are well paid in a Nation of mismanagement and misfeasance in every sector, with obviously dysfunctional officials like our Attorney General and a doting Cabinet most of them aware of their limitations and compromised status. With a President, confused and unsure of, in whose interests he should act; the nation, or the deviants of his political cult. Thus, the Commissioners however, do remind us, that we have not lost the [our] privateering legacy of Old Tortuga.
Barrington Braithwaite
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