PRECEDENT

PRECEDENT:

It is said, “The evil that men do, lives after them.”

Definitely, the Jagans have wronged Guyana innumerable ways. It is not surprising an event to honour them would be celebrated with gyrating music and foul mouth speakers. The Jagans empowered each one of those who were on stage. It is cult worship of the pagan type.

The other five races of people should take serious note of Bharrat Jagdeo’s words.

This nation is cursed by the evil desires of men in power. First, the Jagans and their denial of God in the affairs of Guyana. Then Forbes Burnham and his proclamation of Obeah. Then Jim Jones and his mass murder. And now, we have Jagdeo’s gang. Soon in making the Jagans into gods for their personal use.

Are East Indians, that easily influenced into this cult worship and willing to offer up every other race in Guyana as sacrifice just to empower the hierarchy of the Peoples Progressive Party. 

It is a terrible trend. The Peoples Progressive Party have been charting some reckless maneuvers in their 65 years history.

A voice travelled in that history have much to tell.

A political organization with no administrative capabilities. No structure to its credit. Strong arm tactics. Bullies. No respect for protocol. And definitely, no respect for order. They incite their supporters to break the laws, because they themselves disrespect the laws of the country.

A review of history on the 1953 Suspension of the Constitution will show the recklessness of the PPP government. The leadership realized the power of persuasion they possessed when they incited the sugar workers of Enmore.  And the slaughtered are remembered as the Enmore Martyrs. Homage is paid to those fallen men each year. It is that single event which gave the People’s Progressive Party the momentum. The trade union for which they were determined to have recognized by the Sugar Producers Association was the milestone around the necks of the leadership. After, elected in 1953, the PPP was determined to force the hand of the SPA. Complete disrespect for the Crown, failing the realization of their position as the Queen’s Ministers.  They embarked on a campaign of initiating a Strike Call upon the sugar workers in British Guiana. They neglected the duties of their portfolios for the active campaign against the SPA. They were accused of sabotage. The rhetoric for sugar workers were Soviet laced.     

Disrespect to the Crown meant, object the laws of the Sovereign. It was lawlessness. Is it any wonder, they have matured fully in their destructive ways.

I hope this current brood of PPP supporters remember the ballot box martyrs. Was their blood spilt so that the Jagans would empower an unethical leadership to manage the affairs of the entire country much less their East Indian support base? Since 1992, the precedent had been set for what we are experiencing as a nation at this time of our history.

Death of C.B.  Jagan and the revolving use of Sam Hinds, sets the precedent for all other political alliances to do the same. Placing the country in tremors of racism-fail at governing as a nation in the Twenty-First century. Do East Indians agree to such things? Do they agree to this precedent? Such decisions and acts divide the country and empower evil doers to carry on without scrutiny. 

The PPP supporter said, “Since he gat sense he know only the PPP.” Naturally if that is all he knows, then it will be the PPP he will vote for. I can understand him saying that Nagamoottoo appears to be power drunk. Because that is what the PPP is saying. That is a Precedent that once a person is with the PPP, they can never leave. Even when the PPP is unjust to its supporters. What the PPP supporter said, regardless of how corrupt the PPP is, he is making his children to provide the PPP with a continuous stream of votes. Not only does the PPP supporter delegated himself to mental enslavement, but he also holds the Afro, the Amerinds and every other race into that mental enslavement. He has delegated them to this state of mind, simply by refusing to think of the consequences.  

The Jagans set the precedent for poor governance. Mrs. Jagan became President because a dying C.B. Jagan handed her a note. That single event set the precedent for devious men to seize power in the Peoples Progressive Party and circumvent the rules for leadership selection. They operate without any respect for those who voted against them. The PPP lacks the initiatives to govern as a government for all the people.    

Under the PNC regime, the pillar of justice was completely toppled. In 1992, the country began to experience the role of the justice system in a small way.  A writ was issued to Mrs. Jagan. Her objections to it, was simply to toss it to the wind. That act would set the precedent for the PPP to silently intimidate the Justice System. The laws and lawyers became prejudiced-honest citizens began to lose their lands and properties due to the corruption of the justice system.  

Then, there is the precedent of deliberate false statements. People are saying, Dr. Jagan wanted a National Front Government. Well, the ideal time for him to have done that was in 1992. Instead, he worked to empower a CIVIC movement. The efforts of that alliance disappeared, just as how the PNC overwhelmed TUF. It was never the intentions of the Jagans to have a National Front Government-that is equivalent to making fools of the citizens. Dr, Jagan always spoke about it, but had no intentions of doing it.  A similar false statement, is his words to Nagamootoo of being the leader of the PPP when he should die. He left no written record of his wishes.  Nagamootoo speaks of Cheddie’s efforts to join up with the PNC.  Yet in 1992 after the PPP victory where the winner takes all, he failed to offer the olive branch to the PNC. Now, there is talk that Cheddie would have formed a government with the opposition if faced with the current situation. Perhaps, only a temporary deal. He belaboured the constitution of L.F.S. Burnham but failed to even attempt amendments. His precedent resonated in the Peoples Progressive Party. There was never democratic practices in the Peoples Progressive Party, so how can they administer democracy to the country. Dr. Jagan loved to talk about things he had no intentions of doing. He loved to exhibit his poor life style. Perhaps, he had no dreams to aspire to. How a man who prides his poverty give hope to an Impoverished Nation?

It has not yet happened, when a poor man created employment for his fellow poor.

The Peoples Progressive Party never had a plan for Guyana. The attainment of power was their only goal.  With no plans for progress, the treasury is mismanaged and their responsibilities expected to be fulfilled by foreign entities.

Velutha Kuttapen

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