Dear Editor,
The PNC/APNU have proven themselves that horrible state in politics because they cannot fight a fair fight in clean, fair political combat without violence and intimidation being their main strategy. Whenever they are backed into a corner, they lash out like wounded animals. It started with their founder leader Burnham and was perpetuated by Desmond Hoyte and now David Granger; this is their modus operandi and mantra. Burnham, helped by the external powerhouses at the time, brought Guyana to its knees with those burning of political opponents’ properties, while mercilessly beating and looting their business places.
Insecurity made them more repressive and evil in all that they did, so to hold on to that usurper power they set out on a task of massively rigging every election thereafter.
We are all too familiar with Hoyte’s “slow fiah, mo fiah” and his “kith and kin” jargon as Georgetown and its environs became a towering inferno with those “channa bombs.” The first is a signature statement of the party, while the second solidified their claim to the armed forces that they should not keep the peace, but allow thugs and vile persons to decimate the capital. Drive fear and intimidation into the hearts and minds of the people.
So, fast forward to the Granger era and his own version of PNC repression. He is using force as well as an admixture of what I would call “legal proceedings” to the latest witch-hunting vendetta. It has come in the form of the old with some new tactics, I make mention of SOCU and SARA; these are the newest undercover tools this Granger Government is using to good advantage.
No wonder SOCU and SARA are out in force to incarcerate “all” political opposition they can lay hold of. They are looking hither, thither and yon hauling persons before the courts on trumped-up charges, hoping that one of these charges would stick. But charges are not convictions, and this is a major headache for the administration: how to convict those they have forced the courts to charge.
As the situation worsens in Guyana, we are going to experience more of these coarse, cruel and stupid acts of a desperate regime.
Respectfully,
Neil Adams
