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Sep 13, 2009 Letters
Dear Editor,
Ravi Dev’s recent article “Ballots not Bullets” is quite worrying and frightening. He is asking the PNCR and AFC to use electoral means to defeat the PPP at the next elections by obtaining Amerindian and Indian votes.
While this advice may be sound in theory, I am quite amazed that he is ignoring a fundamental fact of life: Neither the PNCR nor AFC or any combined opposition will defeat the PPP electorally – at least not in 2011.
So non-supporters of the PPP, go like sheep to the slaughter at the next 2011 elections for this is where your salvation lies….you beasts of burden, you noble savages. “Bear thy chafe” and suffer as non-beings in the State of Guyana for the next seven years, at least. Turn the other cheek.
Ravi, you yourself are aware that history has said this is not reality.
The sad reality is that the vast majority of PPP supporters will not allow themselves to vote for any other Party. Regardless of the Jagdeo Government being a ‘rogue’ government that uses extra-judicial killings, torture and marginalisation as constitutional tools to destroy non-supporters in Guyana and to “keep them in their place”.
If Indians did not vote for Desmond Hoyte who was very pro-Indian and who engaged the REFORM to bring about fundamental change in the PNC….why would they vote for the PNC or AFC now.
Ravi has also made the argument in his article that Amerindians have no conscience; they are mendicant and will vote, not out of principle…..but for the biggest spender. Is this what our Amerindian brothers and sisters are? Non-beings to sell their human dignity to the highest bidders, whether they are murders, thieves or not?
The Roger Khan case shows government involvement in extrajudicial killings, with impunity. No matter what is denied, the evidence exists both in writing and through the evidence of three individuals.
The Guyana Constitution clearly enshrines the right of life in Guyana for all citizens. Those Guyanese who were brutally murdered did not have that right. The many who were tortured did not have that right, even though Guyana is a signatory to international conventions against torture.
The many daily human rights abuses in Guyana by this Government indicate that people are living in a “modern day electoral slavery”. Roger Khan is a hero. President Jagdeo is a hero.
He is now being touted for a third (constitutionally illegal) term even though he should be impeached for seven different reasons.
Impeachment, removal of President Jagdeo and the Constitutional appointment of Prime Minister Samuel Hinds to the Presidency will go a far way in correcting the benign racism and “constitutional evil” that he has endured, through treat or coercion, making him to step down not once but twice from his legal right to be President of Guyana. This he did for both Janet Jagan and Bharrat Jagdeo.
I consider Ravi Dev a friend even though I have not seen him in three years. During his push for integration of the Security Forces, which I agreed with, I asked Ravi a fundamental question: “since it was our colonial masters who created this physical security imbalance in the forces, then shouldn’t Africans also be integrated into the economy given it was these same colonial masters who excluded them from economic security?”
In reality, while Indians have been empowered economically (from indentureship) and more recently with the aid of Mother India and Cheddi Jagan’s overseas trips, isn’t it a moral imperative that these two twin imbalances be addressed so both the Indian security Dilemma and the African Security Dilemma be given equity of solution?
Ravi Dev knows only mad men and mad women would go to an election that imprisons them into slavery, marginalisation, state justified extra judicial killings, state assisted racism and economic insignificance. The LCDS, for example, ignores the economic reality of Africans in Guyana. There have been over 100 consultations in Amerindian communities but none in African communities. But we are “One Nation, One People, One Destiny”.
The PNC and AFC need to be put on notice that unless they fight for constitutional change before the next elections….2011 will become what all elections have been in the past…” a matter of life and death”.
Thoreau once said “men should not obey evil or unjust laws”. Martin Luther King Jr. agreed with him.
Ravi has over the last few years, since his speech at Waddell’s death, sadly joined the ranks of Vishnu Bisram (“indentureship is the same as slavery”) , Anil Nandilall (“We came as Beggars and now we are Kings”), Prem Misir (“there is no marginalisation of Africans”) and President Jagdeo (“if the PNC were to win, they would give guns to criminals to kill Indians”)…….men no individuals….who want to destroy Africans in Guyana using the anti-human rights Westminster (West Monster) system.
I strongly suggest these individuals search their souls or read history and know Africans will always fight slavery. Or fully understand Malcolm X’s speech in 1964: “The Ballot or the Bullet”. The truth will set you free. The Army is in disarray. The Guyana Police Force is in disarray. Anarchy reigns. I wonder who will protect whom in the nasty days of electioneering in 2011
The Business community has the most to lose but they are afraid to do what is right. As President Obama recently stated “they are on the wrong side of history”. Wise up.
Evil doesn’t last forever and as Martin Luther King said: “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it”.
Wise up Guyana. When a government can purposefully ignore its Constitution, the same constitution that empowers it through an election and gives it legitimacy, then that government has no right to rule anymore. When a government can kill its citizens with impunity it has become a ‘pariah’ state.
Eric Phillips
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