Rodney COI disclosures are inflicting severe damage PNCR’s image

LIVING outside of Guyana, Mr. Norman Browne is better anchored to good reason to make his case writing in the SN of 7-10 2014 titled  ”Break the anvil of PPP, PNC witchcraft politics.” “Any person with an iota of 

common sense will agree that if you ask, request or beg someone a favour, or for something they have in their possession that may be rightfully yours and he/she finds excuses on more than one occasion not to grant it, then maybe that person has no intention of yielding positively to that request.” Adding to his case, he writes: “First, the
logical thinker must analyse the situation and ask the question, ‘why’?
Why doesn’t he/she want to grant me that favour or return what is rightfully mine? The answers will inevitably spring from the question, why” he says.  The former Lindener does write with a lot of passion and emotional conviction to knock one over. What will enhance such a case are his several additional reasons which can buttress reconciliation of his personal assumption that just to “ask, request or beg someone a favour, or for something they have in their possession that may be rightfully yours” must get priority automatic compliance.
Care must be taken to ensure that those many others among us, perhaps those other Lindeners or others from Parika (Parikstani?) all across Guyana are not subjected to any reverse discrimination due to their support of the status quo. Even Mr. Browne will admit there is a pervasive mind-set that the Government discriminates. In which case a third party, in our case the judiciary by its independence and impartiality is the best way to ensure justice by the rule of law.
Civilisation, with its laws, rules and regulations does not sanction “wrong and strong” especially if everyone were to act with impunity to enforce their individual opinions. It is still the hidden virus most alive and well which we must avoid. In a democracy all Guyanese are still entitled to be provided, evaluate and then sanction or not, all those persuasive excellent reasons which actually conclude and direct that “ownership” of the right of Government is not devolved through “common sense” alone. By abiding patience readers can then await production of the many other overriding reasons that actually
inspires Mr. Browne. In his reminds of a tryst with politics he wrote, “more than 15 years ago, I made a pitch to become the chief citizen of Linden. It was a direct challenge to remove local power from the PPP and PNC and to hand that power to the people through a non-partisan group or organisation.”
For any politician to assert they plan to fight for and then hand over power is certain to be found laughable. Can one Lindener again change that dreaded area’s image and history?
Insistence on one’s democratic rights is most understandable; but all and severally also have the same equal rights to the exclusion of none.
Making a simple claim on the entire body politic does not automatically transfer it because of prior occupancy by a former
favoured tenant. Any inheritances, any associations, any entitlement, any promises or whatever may be beyond reflection other than this response, to affect legitimate transfer and authenticity to secure what is desired, must first become established. Neither the PNC nor PPP possess exclusive ownership of Lindeners to lose them, or otherwise.
Hitching ones wagon to one or the other rather than rejecting them outright does no good for Lindeners. Electricity subsidy to Lindeners continues as legal discrimination against the rest of Guyanese nationwide who get none. It was boldly championed by full riotous PNC/AFC support and needless loss of life even at Agricola. Any justification by which previous tenancy in government in a democracy
becomes automatic conversion into ownership and inheritance of said government to confer and guarantee jurisdictional associative management to the rest of the entire kit and caboodle within, must be unalterably grounded beyond challenge even in law. The previous PNC tenant who overstayed their welcome of four years (1964-1968) remained for another 24 (1968-1992) years and completely destroyed the habitat which is a reminder to all that the 28-year tenant was specifically imposed and only removed by intervention of foreign judges experienced in such matters.
Mr. Browne’s resolve of reclaiming what he feels was unfairly lost by democracy‘s free and fair elections must have however brought much good tidings of comfort and joy to many. Should our Amerindians who invited no one to Guyana to lord it over them reclaim their land? Not only have they been conquered but they are on the short road to cultural extinction. They alone possess immense superior rights to demand all interlopers leave Guyana. Who speaks for them can only be by the precedent Mr. Browne advocates or not. Failure to hold local
government elections in Guyana for some 17 years has apparently
eclipsed fried plantains as a best seller but it cannot be due to its “Made in USA” production label. Nor is it in compliance with established PNC tradition as followed by both Presidents Forbes Burnham’s and Desmond Hoyte’s well-known record of imbibing the usual “Made in USA” shipped “special products.”  It’s horrific details at the Rodney Commission of Inquiry (RCOI) are inflicting a
massacre on the PNC’s image and the local government elections chatter is the counter attack to deflect attention from their sins.
Convinced he is absolutely right by his own common sense reasoning Mr. Browne adamantly reasserts that “I refuse to beg for something that rightfully belongs to me. I refuse to hear your “no”, more than once,
to my request for what is rightfully mine.” For Mr. Browne to toss caution to the wind may open a Pandora volcano of misery for everyone.
Any claim that he assumes as his right also legitimises “outsiders” claims as well. Alcan’s, Demba and Bookers would be most entitled to
totally retrieve their properties which they built and developed in Guyana. The Cheddi Jagan Timehri Airport, long ago Atkinson Airport was
once US property courtesy of Britain to America. They may try but slave descendants, and all others would resist being re-enslaved all over again. Maybe, it’s only overzealous youthfulness which motivates such
assertions made by Mr. Browne. To be fair to him it cannot be assumed that he is setting the stage for British or Americans warships to invade and overrun Guyana as in 1953. The idea of Chinese gunboats sailing up the muddy Demerara River to rescue their laundry mats,
restaurants and fellow Chinese is too much to imagine. Those across the border who actually believe two thirds of Guyana belong to them, ever vigilant, could also become emboldened to make their move while we do our usual brawls. No Guyanese obeah, jahray, jadoo, cumfa or voodoo are any match for such external firepower.
Mr. Browne’s earlier aspiration to be chief citizen of Linden is most commendable. With
sincere advertisement to hand over power and by good fortune’s aid he could elevate himself as the next AFC leader, just for the asking if
they permit. That party’s commitment to “break the anvil of PPP and PNC witchcraft politics and take local power outside of their control
(and significantly continue) taking national power and ridding the country of the two politically destructive entities that gave nothing
but a life of misery for half of a century” is a swansong which still has many fans even as it is on the wane.

SULTAN MOHAMED

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