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Apr 04, 2021 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
Concerned citizens have shared almost the same conversation with me. It goes like this: the political players can be vindictive. I am appreciative about the reminder, for I know well of the PPP, and mostly of its Vice President, whose well-earned record is of a mean machine. Here is where I stand.
In the throes of last year’s elections, a couple of tempered and well-intentioned PPP supporters, I would call them insiders, told me that the PPP has changed, that its leaders (and none more than the VP) recognise that there must be change: party and leaders must change their sick mentalities, their corrupt ways, their ugly approaches. I asked, ‘what about the big man’ (meaning the VP), how does he react to that, where does he stand on those grave deficits? The response was that they are working on him and that it requires time. In turn, I told a couple of people to their faces: good luck with that; as I didn’t see that going anywhere. I think that the last eight months have proven me right on all counts, and in the worst ways possible. I suspect that this is only a start, which is made incalculably worse by the utter frailty, of an all but non-existent opposition.
Editor, I say this and in the clearest terms: I am responsible for me. The PPP government, from the President and Vice President to the rest are responsible for what they do, and how they go about their works. It can be works for the common good (which is not happening, despite all the noise); or it can be works of more evils (which is more satisfying to the PPP’s leadership). If the evils are their expression and execution of democratic governance, then they have a choice: still the voices, pens and spirits that stand against them and which call them out frankly, but fairly. There I stand, which is my understanding of what democracy is all about. Should the political opposition be a part of the perversities that are present and will unfold in this society, then I regret that also, but must stay the course chosen, given the surety of touch that follows strong belief system.
If the Americans, who were so vigorous in their postures and pressures for electoral democracy and democratic governorship, become silent condoning partners in Guyana’s domestic dirtiness, then it would not be the first time; and it is considered part of that loaded and cocked euphemism called collateral damage. Again, I say let it be, for there are some things, many things, of which I have zero expectations. My absorptions of what democracy and its abstract freedoms are about include one that I prioritise and prize the most: that would be freedom of conscience. If I have neither, then who am I? Just another opportunist? One more charlatan? Another traitor to beliefs and blessings?
I would rather not. I just can’t. The chips falls where they do.
Sincerely,
GHK Lall
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