IT takes great testicular fortitude, which the males throughout both opposition camps seemingly lack, to defend the territorial integrity of one’s country; and that against an envoy of what has been described as the most powerful nation on earth.
The males in the PPP/C leadership have, time and again, proven their virility in standing up to adversaries who try to be contemptuous of Guyana’s sovereignty — as Dr. Cheddi Jagan did against the might of the superpowers and the dictatorship to lead this country out of the bondage of servility, oppression and undemocratic synergies; and again, subsequent to democracy being restored to this nation in 1992, when he spat in the eye of the IMF and their Hoyte-driven draconian conditionalities – which were literally and figuratively emptying the much-depleted rice pots of the Guyanese nation — by telling the powerful IMF to put their conditions where the sun ‘does not shine’, and he restored bargaining power to the formerly toothless poodles (under the PNC regime) that the labour movement had been reduced to, while he simultaneously lifted the freeze on public servants’ wages.
Again, when former President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo led his lone fight against the powerful European nations to guard the nation’s sovereignty and wrest conditions more beneficial not only to Guyana, but to the entire CARICOM bloc of nations, with his demands for a re-constructed EPA; as well as his several instances of guarding the sanctity of Guyana’s territory even while he formed bi-partisan and multi-national linkages and alliances with formerly adversarial neighbouring states, among a multiplicity of history-making achievements for this country’s glory.
And President Donald Ramotar’s unrelenting refusal to succumb to opposition blackmail and put the nation at risk, even as they held, and continue to hold, this country hostage to the FATF-imposed sanctions.
Conversely, the opposition – jointly and severally — have historically sold this nation to foreign interlopers for their personal fortunes and enhanced self-aggrandizement, as they have recently done, and continue to do, by sucking up to the foreign saboteurs of national peace and socio-economic development who covet the natural resources that Guyana has in abundance, especially our rainforests and potential for oil discovery.
The males in the PPP have always stood resolute in the face of threats to Guyana’s social and geo-political demographics; while opposition elements have, conversely, through the corridors of our history, sold Guyana and the rights of her citizens, beginning with Burnham, to foreign interlopers for the figurative ‘thirty pieces of silver.’
The collective male opposition leaders have historically demonstrated that they are afraid of real women – time and again; women who are not afraid to deal with issues with courage, determination, and forthright speech in defence of home, country and fellow citizens, without buckling, which the males in the opposition always do because of lack of testicular resilience, which makes them collapse in the face of aggression by anyone who violates Guyana’s social and geo-political spaces.
Hoyte’s attacks, using voodoo conspiracies (pun intended) against Mrs. Janet Jagan’s presidency, and this most recent fusillade of invectives against Minister Priya Manickchand clearly illustrates the use of a poisonous tongue as a weapon of necessary choice against strong females by male opposition leaders, because they lack the necessary wherewithal to stand up like men and defend country, home and fellow citizens, and buckle at crucial times.
And that is the main reason why they cannot support strong women, because their testicular fortitude disintegrates at threatening situations; so they resort and revert to verbal abuse and character assassination in efforts to bring women to their knees in front of them, because they cannot stand up to the tasks that necessitate strength and staying power.
That is why Minister Priya Manickchand is being lambasted today, and that is why she was heckled during her gutsy demolition of a violator of her country; because while she recognized the danger of confronting and verbally demolishing a representative of a great superpower, she also had the cojones to tell him, in no uncertain terms, that her home, country, and the integrity of Guyana’s spaces are not open to being compromised; while the opposition males tried and are still trying to bring her to her knees – in face-saving attempts, because they all collapsed in the face of aggression.
