TO understand what is going on in Linden, one must understand the psychological basis for the belligerency of Lindeners and the opposition leaders.

Why don’t Lindeners want to wait on the report and feedback of the CARICOM Commission of Inquiry on how best to resolve the issue of the unfair subsidisation of electricity and the death of three people?

A similar situation in Trinidad, between the insurrectionists black Muslim leader Mr. Abu Bakr (aka Lennox Phillip) has found him sermonising his followers to demand by force monies from the government and citizens of Trinidad and Tobago (New trial for Bakr, Trinidad Express, 16th Aug., 2012). The government of Trinidad currently has charged Mr. Bakr for sedition and inciting violence and he is awaiting trial.

Mr. Abu Bakr (goaded his mainly black congregation that all Muslims must pay Zakaat to him and his group and they have the right to even use force to collect Zakaat from other Muslims. In the past, the rebel leader had used force to topple the Trinidad government (July 27, 1990) to enforce his demands. While he had also forcefully occupied government lands, demanding legal ownership.

Armed with such a similar attitude of entitlement, Lindeners were prepared to violently demand that the Guyana government spend its revenues on them, even if the government was forced to impose burdens on other hard-working people by increasing their taxes. Getting free handouts, without working for it cannot be a justifiable or an acceptable cry for “justice.”

The AFC and a few other opposition activists wrongfully taught Lindeners to believe that subsidised electricity rates were really their “entitlement” to which right they were endowed by God.
Lindeners attitudes were based on the erroneous belief that Guyana’s resources belong to them, because of slavery and its despicable history.  Such a tenuous belief concluded that their emancipation from slavery, because it was a priority divine right of entitlement,therefore completely justifies subsidised electricity to them from the rest of Guyanese. Most importantly, Lindeners want the PPP/C government to continue enforcing such unfairness without consideration for the
rest of Guyanese and the country’s development.

In Trinidad and Tobago Mr. Bakr harangued his followers to feel that the natural resources of the country belong to them.  In seeking to justify his demands, he claimed the natural resources belonged to them since it came from God. Mr. Bakr informed his followers that they are poor, because they allowed other people to exploit the resources of Trinidad and Tobago to get rich and they were too stupid for not doing something about it, he advised the use of force for “black economic goals” as a balance between the black economy and the non-black capitalist thieves.

Amazingly, Mr. Bakr never “incited”‘ or educated his followers on how to work harder, make an honest living, nor did he explain that it takes hard work, sweat and massive investments of people’s hard-earned monies to develop any country’s natural wealth.

While the black-dominated PNM ruled Trinidad for some 50 unbroken years, getting massive revenues, it also dished out lavish subsidies for its mainly black supporters. How different is this to what is occurring In Linden and why shouldn’t all Guyanese have the same equal entitlements?  Obviously, Lindeners have an unjustifiable sense of entitlement for freeness (Mr. Forbes Burnham’s phraseology) from the rest of hard-working Guyanese.

This dispute over Linden’s divine entitlement will play itself out again many more times to tragic epic proportions in much future socio-political battles in Guyana. It is a foregone conclusion that opposition leaders will encourage their followers to use ‘Linden-like’ resistance and violence to achieve their goals and destabilise the country and government.

Activists such as Mr. Dr David Hinds, Mr Frederick Kissoon, and Mr Tacuma Ogunseye, Mr. Barrington Braithwaite and Mr. Lincoln Lewis (too silent lately) are the “opposition agents” of death and destruction. They will try their best to create mayhem and an unstable environment that will cause instability among Guyana’s black communities fuelling hate and chaos. The objective will be to encourage the PNC seasoned predominantly black GDF to remove the PPP/C government, supposedly, in the name of saving the country from instability.

Quite aware that they cannot win a free and fair election, the opposition parties will attempt to create the conditions for a military coup to get political power.

My suggestions to the PPP/C government is to hurriedly implement decentralisation, and allow every community to govern themselves with their own resources and bureaucracies.