Paradora’s Box
“Slo’ fiah, mo’ fiah” seems to be on its way back. The PNC’s track record of violence to force an administration not their own on its knees seems to be re-surfacing.

`The spurious, scurrilous claims on which the PNC leader (a misnomer, if ever I heard one) has based his threats of once more destabilizing the peace in the nation should be taken very seriously by the administration and the citizenry of the land.

From the days of the X-13 plan of Burnham’s, to Hoyte’s “slo fiah, mo fiah,” to Corbin’s street protests, including in front of the Office of the President, to PNC’s unending support of violent criminals, who wantonly slaughtered innocents – even children, and members of the police force, to the “armed resistance,” Hurricane PNC has periodically devastated this land of a largely peace-loving people, who only ask to be allowed to pursue their lives in harmonious co-existence with their fellow-Guyanese.

But their acrimonious utterances and vicious actions, with a great amount of support of malcontents who feel that the world should revolve around them, and if it does not, then woe betide their opponents, along with constant appeal to their perceived “kith and kin” in the joint forces, as well as the Guyana Criminal Rights Association, may be a warning of things to come, a warning the administration should do well to heed, because those who forget the portents of threats based on our history may very well suffer the consequences, along with the entire nation.

With the direct link, evidenced by Oliver Hinckson, Gibson and some other past and present members of the joint services, one wonders to what extent Corbin and his violence-prone elements have support from those who are supposed to guard the peace of the nation, because he seems to be speaking with assurance when he practically openly threatens this government and this nation with civil unrest and a coup to topple our constitutionally-elected Government.

Corbin’s utterances are treasonous and one wonders if, in his bid to regain some degree of credibility, his desperate attempt to hold on to the support of the dwindling PNC membership is not based on some degree of truth – strange as it may seem to equate that word with the PNC leadership.

While our country and our President are grappling with real challenges that threaten our survival as a nation; and even Planet Earth, Hurricane PNC is determined to derail our gains over the past years since the restoration of democracy in the land and threaten the momentum of growth and goodwill in the nation.

So what else is new?

But are we, as Guyanese, going to allow a handful of power-hungry persons, who have caused us much agony as a nation in the past, and who have, time and again, betrayed the people of this nation, so much power in our lives, to the extent that they can once more call down on our heads “slo’fiah, mo’ fiah?”

If the answer is yes, then Corbin’s not so veiled threat to spread murder and mayhem in the land would obviously fructify; but before you answer that yes, first read Cleveland Hamilton’s “Whom are you going to shoot, soldier, cop?’ written in the height of PNC’s dominance in the nation, and then decide if the ensuing conflagration would not consume “….your nen-nen, your sissy, your mother, your father, your children.”

At the behest of dishonoured, discredited leaders, whom are you going to shoot, soldier, cop?