Dear Sir,
WHAT do our teachers say to the nation’s students at a time like this? What do parents tell their children that explains the lawlessness displayed in Parliament recently?
Would that explanation simply be: ‘Oh, politics is a nasty business and that disgraceful behaviour is to be expected’?

No, that could never be the explanation if we consider ourselves to be a civilised society. In civilised societies, politicians take the opportunity that they are given to serve their constituents very seriously and they make every effort possible to set the example of decency, integrity, honesty, morality, incorruptibility, etc.

Since the age of the Neo-PPP (after the era of Cheddi), the behavioural landscape in PPP politics has shifted away from honour, integrity, morality etc. and has taken on a dark, lawless and shameless character. Political power for Jagdeo and his sorry associates is the cherished end and it doesn’t matter what means they employ to achieve that prize.

We are all too familiar with the sick examples of Jagdeo’s numerous ‘cuss down’ episodes and his extra-judicial, corrupt and other unlawful aptness. And we see that behaviour mirrored in the behaviour of his associates, as if lawlessness and shamelessness are somehow a New Age form of political strategy.

That strategy, novel and innovative as it may be, has no hope of succeeding here in Guyana. We see Manichand’s tears and hear her false claims of police assault and abuse, and we pity her for her high intellect but her susceptibility to Jagdeo’s lead, as we pity all the other brilliant but sorry associates of this broken man. Yes, it is true that the PPP has some very bright young and not-so- young members (and some dull young and not-so-young ones as well) and Guyana is left in a state of wonder as to how these people could consciously continue to sin their political souls behind Jagdeo’s flawed, failed and forlorn political philosophy.

The president set a wonderful example a few weeks ago when the PPP attempted to disrupt his address to Parliament, by remaining oblivious to their terrible behaviour and completing his address there and to all Guyana.

Where would we be if the situation were reversed and the leader of the PPP was disrupted in that manner? That is an imponderable that can never be calculated, because of the despicable record of behaviour that the PPP has accumulated to date.

ANONYMOUS