Dear Editor,
The political scenario that exists today is no ordinary competition among two political leaders, but an articulate activity that the ordinary citizen can understand. There is one leader, a former president, who wants to live up to the reputation of being a ‘bully’, and the other leader, a military man trained in the military tactics of the rules of engagement.
There was the long drawn out calls for ‘elections now’. There were the various protests by Bharrat’s followers, one of which escalated to the extent of surrounding the vehicle of a female minister of government. Had David Granger acceded to the harassment and calls for ‘elections now’, he knew that he would have been ‘neturalised’ which is a military disgrace.

Granger did not bring out his ‘party people’ to confront the protestors (and he has them) because it would not have been a nice confrontation, but what he did was use the system of our political constitution to have the last laugh. He was not ‘bullied’, but the military man, Granger, out witted the civilian caretaker opposition leader. He not did not fall for the plot of political confrontation where Bharrat would have gained much leverage by shouting – ‘they assaulted my peaceful protestors’ – but from the protestors’ behaviour that Thursday at Pegasus, all the PNC voters have come back home and will no longer say we are not voting. Bharrat you have reunited the PNC/AFC flock and you still have to wait until March 2 for election. Bharrat you have played right in the hands of someone who is not accepted as an article politician but someone who has been trained in the military art of neutralising his opponents.

To you reading this missive, I am at present not aligned to any political party but here are my views as someone who has been on the frontline of Guyana’s politics for 65 years. Bharrat you have been neutralized, Guyanese old soldiers never die but just fade out. David Granger is not going to fade away for just now.

Regards,
Murtland ‘Slugger’ Williams