I WAS in a heated discussion with a PNC Apologist Friend in the USA the other day and immediately the topic of the alleged assassination of Courtney Crum-Ewing came up. He started the conversation by saying: “Is PPP thugs kill de man.” My response to him was, “Can you prove that?”
In my investigative style journalism I began with the word ‘thug’. I told him that the word ‘thug’ is not one that is associated with the PPP/C, ever. From way back when, I know that word to be part and parcel of the PNC. These are people that the Opposition put to “good use” to drive fear and instability in this country. This is tactic used by the Opposition to good advantage since “eons of time,” so, I vehemently refuted this allegation.
I did not go far back as the 1960’s because, in his words “dem youths don’t know about those times.”
But I reminded him of the criminals that used Buxton as their launch pad. I called his attention to the Agricola scene among others. These are recent occurrences which the youths are knowledgeable of.
I scrolled back to the 1990’s and PPP/C Congress held on the Corentyne where members were attacked and violently gunned down. Certainly, the PPP/C did not kill their own people. I reminded him of the confession he made to me about the shooters’ skillful maneuvering of the landscape wherein they took to the sea before disembarking at the coastal village of Lichfield. The shooters evaded the roadblocks as they made their way safely back to Buxton. These assassinations were not conducted by the PPP/C?

Then there was “slo fiah mo fiah” when thugs heeding Hoyte’s call went on a violent rampage. This was a time when most of us feared for our lives, because once you were considered an associate of the PPP/C you and your business is in for a lot of violence.

Linden ‘Blackie’ London, Fineman and others, these are “thugs” who created havoc in society and the response to such actions the PNC defended them to the very end. Fineman was hailed by PNC supporters as a “revolutionary” or another “cuffy” with his ruthless tactics of killing people and his open defiance of law enforcement. The PNC and their supporters openly supported ‘Fineman’ even (allegedly) taunting the policemen saying “they can’t catch Fineman.” This is the horrible past that my friend and the PNC have to face up to.

‘Blackie’ was a criminal, internationally, having committed crimes in numerous Caribbean Countries. He was a fugitive from justice who hurriedly returned to Guyana and joined the PNC’s criminal network where he was welcomed with open arms. But far more important was the fact that at his death (after a shootout with the police) ‘Blackie’ was given a hero’s funeral, his coffin draped with the national flag befitting a national hero. These are glaring facts which show their outright support for thugs.
By this time my friend was totally cornered and out of excuses, his only response was “that is all in the past and we should forget the past.” Like he said I am prepared to forget the past but, when I look at the present composition of the PNC/APNU’s Team I shudder to think if these people are indeed remorseful of the past misdeeds?
APNU’s Team is inundated with retired military men all of whom carry a horrible history. This tells me should they win the next elections it would be a remake of a police state and the rule of force; there is nothing stopping a keen observer from this fact.
I further enlightened him that if you want me to forget the past and begin on a fresh page then why criminals deliberately target businessmen that are mainly of a certain ethnicity? This is an almost daily occurrence, in a constituency that according to them “owned and controlled” by the Opposition. Some of the victims losing their lives as a result of the thieves brazen assault. Some are trailed from the commercial banks, at their homes, in the streets, these crooks are almost everywhere in the urban crime zone.
Once you are a business person you automatically become a target. I asked the question, do you expect those businessmen to forget these things?
Many had to go through the horrible experience of having their hard earned cash violently taken away from them and their business dream collapse in an instant, this is the daily precarious life of the present day businessman. And to add insult to injury, the Opposition either remain silent or make the complicit excuse that “the boys can’t find jobs.”

Our conversation ended abruptly due to the fact that my friend was bereft of ideas and excuses. His repertoire was vapid.

NEIL ADAMS