Opposition politics of blackmail and bullyism

THE abuses being hurled at the peaceful Amerindians standing up for their right to survive in the country where their rights should supersede those of all other Guyanese races, given that they first inhabited this slice of earth, bespeak the heartless lack of humanity, and the complete absence of conscience in the leadership of the joint opposition and their motley crew of supporters, obvious rejects from uncivilized society.

The joint opposition’s behaviour in Parliament was replicated on the streets outside the Public Buildings when their supporters launched a vitriolic and scurrilous attack at the hapless Amerindians and NCN/GINA staffers, ordinary Guyanese, some of them supporters of the very opposition parties that were intent on downgrading them into servile status.
Opposition leader David Granger’s denials that the violent and lawless brigade was his Party’s supporters is such a blatant untruth that it speaks to the morality, or lack thereof, of someone who has a similar track record of defending perpetrators of violent acts, even murder, committed against ordinary Guyanese citizens in the opposition’s long history of violent politically-driven frays against the Guyanese nation; and reference is made here to Granger’s defence of the GDF ranks who murdered the Ballot Box Martyrs.
Proof that Granger is once again defending the indefensible is apparent in comparisons of archival photographs that show PNC/APNU activists Kenneth (Six-Head) Chance, and Wayne Maison in earlier violent ‘protests’ directing the mob hurling invectives and threats at the peaceful Amerindian and GINA/NCN protesters outside Parliament earlier this week.
When one takes into account the fact that the entire Amerindian Development Budget that was sheared away was less than half the amount earmarked for free electricity for Lindeners, which was passed without any problem by the joint opposition parliamentary parties, then one realises the absolute vindictive nature of the parliamentary beast.
That is why they can jeer at the poor peaceful Amerindians, because their bully tactics really work, and the government always bends over backwards to please PNC/APNU/AFC at the cost of their own supporters and other citizens.
The in excess of $3B they get for free electricity, so that they do everything, including cooking, is only a small part of what they are getting in terms of their Region; and in a plethora of other wealth-creational opportunities, they are intent on denying other Guyanese, who take care of their infrastructure, unlike opposition supporters who destroy private and public property, including schools that their children have to attend, as well as roads and bridges; and every time they do these destructive things, the government moves immediately to spend more taxpayers’ money to rebuild. It is time the Government says “Enough is enough!” and stop rebuilding infrastructure that opposition protesters destroy, as they have done from time immemorial during their never-ending protests that are really bullyism and blackmail tactics meant to hold the nation to ransom until they get what they want, no matter how it affects the rest of Guyanese communities.
The Linden protest should make the government aware of the dangers inherent in not diverting from their plans to run the IT cable and the road from Brazil through Linden. They need to take into consideration how many more opportunities would be provided to the criminals in the opposition leadership for inveigling their supporters into blackmailing the government through blocking and/or destroying that vital road link, or destruction of the cable.
The PNC/APNU/AFC protester is right. Her placard read, “APNU run things”. Yes, they indeed do! Through their perennial politics of bullyism and blackmail! The X-13 Plan is always re-formulated: In the ‘Buxton uprising’, the ‘slow fiah, mo’ fiah’ and other strategies. But the PNC/APNU/AFC politics of intimidation and violence is ever-extant in Guyana’s volatile socio-political demographics.

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