Granger is either suffering from selective amnesia or his hypocrisy is being flagrantly neglected
PRESIDENTIAL candidate for the Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR) Mr.  David Granger seems very pretentious.
Last Friday, when he sought to lash back at President Bharat Jagdeo, for his Babu John address, he must have been forgetful, or uncaring in his remarks.
At the Babu John ceremony, which annually commemorates Dr. Cheddi Jagan’s death anniversary, the Guyanese leader appealed to the nation to be cognizant of the fact that David Granger is someone with “blood on his hands,” and who was associated with a repressive period in Guyana’s history, characterized by rigged elections and food bans.
But Granger, at his party’s weekly news conference, retorted, and not only disagreed, but sought to lay at the PPP’s feet the very sins committed by the PNC, during its reign of terror leading up to 1992.
When Granger offered that ‘death-squads’ is a PPP ting’, he came over as quite silly. How can one, more so, a major henchman of the PNC, mention ‘death squads’ and not remember, and explain the ‘kick-down-the door’ era, the dread at the sight of the army’s trucks, showing up at local business entities (collecting rations), the slaying of Dr. Walter Rodney, and the murder of Vincent Teekah, etc. The litany can be further stretched, but the forgoing more than suffice.
Another amnesiac act of this parvenu is that of forgetting the milieu of the last election. In the history of Guyana, there has never been such calm and hope pervading the local atmosphere, both physically and politically.
One can ask Mr. Granger, if there were ‘break-ups’ and ‘threats, against any political party, since the post-1992 period, during election campaigns. In fact, the safe way to go pre-1992 was to sit still and ignore the PNC. So entrenched in evil were the leaders, that their impunity became the mores of Guyana. But there is more.
Mr. Granger should be the last and the least to attack President Jagdeo and the PPP. Can anyone forget about the Hope Estate phenomenon that was perpetrated by the PNC? Can anyone forgive the PNC for this psychologically diabolical era in Guyana? And what about  the ‘line-ups’  for basic food items such as cooking oil? Alas, the list does not end here!
When Freddie Kissooon seeks to treat with levity the banning of flour and split peas by Mr. LFS Burnham, he is being asinine. He suggests that there be no bitterness by any group, since the ban affected all equally.
Even if that is so (and it was not), the act was most impish. Of course, this opened the flood gates for illegal trading/business across Guyana. Instantly, members of the police force and GDF became rich.
Fishing boats became vessels for split peas and flour, and the price escalated from a ‘few cents’ to ‘many dollars.’ Come on, Mr. Holy/Innocent.
Explain how one can seek to cast aspersions regarding illegalities against the PPP. Also point out to the public, which president in Guyana has ever had as much national appeal as Mr. Jagdeo has been enjoying.
For sure (and one can do a survey), even though many Guyanese may hate the Jagdeo administration, there is no fear in them. Again, the accusations of the likes of Mr. Granger, the bloviations of Mr. Kissoon, and the existence of the Stabroek News and Kaieteur News convincingly prove this. Yet there is another issue.
Mr. Granger seems the antithesis of a historian. How come the Jones Town massacre never came up? One can only conjecture that his aim, apart from distorting history, is to seek to vitiate the PPP.
In so doing, he seems to think that the PNC will be ameliorated. This kind of sophistry never worked, and it never will. One should dare him to check and compare his constituency with that of the man he now seeks to besmirch. One can also ferret out the legal records and see if and when, during the PNC’s tenure, there were cases of law officers being brought to face the judiciary and answer for their misdemeanours.
One hopes that the PPP continues to remind the nation of the miasmic pre- 1992 era in Guyana.
And how about these for closures: Mr. Granger and others should ask if and when, under the PNC’s regime, there were programmes like ‘Plain Talk,’ the fulminations of an irascible, puerile, disrespectful and verbose Freddie Kissoon given air, and the provocative, incendiary and infantile behaviour of a Mark Benschop tolerated? The case is rested.