The AFC’s Enmore councillor’s threat of a ‘bloodbath’ if their witch-hunt of the NDC chairman does not generate the outcome desired by that miniscule party underlines the annihilation of hope for peace in the nation. That they have joined with persons who have been linked to the death of innocent persons indicates a willingness to take Guyana back to the days of darkness when criminality reigned supreme, because man’s inhumanity to man knows no boundaries, nor loyalties to kith, kin, or country; but only to the id and the ego – and the egomaniacs proliferate; and history resounds with the cries of their victims.
But where is the voice of reason? Because that silent voice in nations is as guilty of the blood of the innocent as much as the fingers that pulled triggers and the architects who create blueprints for massacre and mayhem in nations.
Evil cannot propagate, perpetuate, nor serve in any way as a catalyst for outcomes of good, for its very definition encapsulates every consequence of destruction, so how could those who plan, propose, and orchestrate the deaths of Guyana’s peoples be harbingers of anything good for this nation?  Which patriotic, caring leader would take his country down this path, which almost obliterated the cohesiveness of Guyana’s nationhood in the ‘60s’ and set this nation’s economic and social progress on a downward spiral that graphed this once-prosperous nation on the same levels as Haiti?
Guyana is God’s own country but, as in the Garden of Eden, the devil resides within; and it has its serpentine coils wrapped firmly around this nation, slowly injecting its venomous brew into the national psyche and social structures because, like Satan, it wants domination and control and power over God’s creations.
Some, like Eve, are easily seduced by the promises of easy-come prosperity, forgetting that the outcome of that seduction was the loss of Paradise, and that when the PNC controlled Guyana they transformed this Paradise into a veritable hell. Perhaps the citizenry being seduced by PNC/APNU and AFC promises crave a return to those days.
The issue of power-sharing has become a focal point whereby opposition supporters are prepared to go to ultimate extremes for a few egomaniacs to gain administrative leverage in this country; never mind that when they had total power they used it to destroy rather than build.
Full administrative control has always eluded the PPP/C. Rampaging corruption and ineptitude have prevailed even after general elections of l992, thanks to the destabilizing strategies of the PNC and its traditional allies – both overt and covert:  Overtly the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU), and the Transport Union, all of which oppose every system the government attempts to implement towards restoring an orderly administrative structure in the Public Service.
Covertly?  Well, the discerning can judge for themselves, using past history with the House of Israel, the missing weapons, the glorifying of “Blackie” and others of his ilk as a barometer, and if one does not condone their methods for their acquisition of greater power and align with their concept of “kith and kin” and prefer to align with systems promoting national good, then they are called traitors.  Witness attacks on Bishop Juan Edghill, Father Gilbert, former Police Commissioner Henry Greene, and other like-minded, progressive-thinking citizens of this land.
Members of Guyana’s security services: young  men who are duty-bound to protect this nation were slaughtered indiscriminately – to what avail?  Men, women, and even children, living simple lives, were butchered even as they slept in the sanctuary of their homes.
This new call for a ‘bloodbath’, as reported in this newspaper yesterday, portends evil afoot, which has traditionally earmarked opposition strategies to force the government to concede to power-hungry demands. This call did not emerge out of a vacuum but is a secretly-discussed strategy unwittingly coming to light.
The one-vote/one-seat majority negated the necessity for recourse to the ‘bloodbath’ strategy, but if that ‘leverage’ is vitiated in the court, then maybe the opposition’s plan ‘B’, which seems to be a ‘bloodbath’ as unwittingly revealed by the AFC councillor, may be the opposition’s next best option.