A look into Vincent Alexander’s proposal: giving prisoners the right to vote?

Dear Editor,
Vincent Alexander, and by extension the political party which he represents, is making the grand proposal for the electoral body to issue an order for prisoners who are incarcerated to be given the privilege of voting. I do not know if I had missed the point somehow or if I am not getting it right, but I shall repeat: Vincent Alexander, the PNC Commissioner, is trumpeting the call for incarcerated criminals to be given the chance to vote. If this is not the epitome of lawlessness, then what is?
Vincent Alexander is not stupid, nor is he suffering from a mental illness; that has been ruled out. So, we can safely conclude that he is of a sound mind when he uttered those words. This spurs us to ask the following question: what was on Alexander’s mind when he made that statement, or simply put, what was his motive for making that request?
Our questioning leads us to a PNC age-old strategy, that is, making inordinate requests just before elections, then turning again and blaming the PPP/C for bringing it into law, as was the case in their piloting of the “Voting only by Identification Card (ID Card) in an election. This was handcrafted by the PNC, yet when they lost the election, they in turn blamed their loss on the very same law they instituted.
The intellectual author behind the PNC rigging machinery is now demanding that prisoners be given the same rights as ordinary citizens to vote. Now, two fundamental facts loom large before us: (a) this was never done anywhere in the civilised world and certainly wouldn’t be allowed here; once you become an incarcerated prisoner, you can no longer claim equal status as a free person; you have been incarcerated, which means you are separated from certain rights and privileges as a free person would have. No more can you claim total freedom as the ordinary man.
But in Vincent’s crooked mind, he would have calculated that a sizeable percentage of the prisoners are of a certain ethnicity, that is, a similar ethnicity to his; hence, he opines that they could be potential votes for his party here.
The second aspect here is hidden in his corrupt mind, where the opportunity to create chaos and mayhem in Guyana seems a sure thing to happen, as it was in the situation when there was that prison break that brought death and uncertainty to the minds of our citizens. If you are reading it carefully, I see Alexander wanting to bring back that reign of terror in our country. There is no guarantee that prisoners would not make a dash for it, as they mix and meddle with civilians. When that occurs, one can imagine the fear and foreboding in the minds of the general public out there. Fresh on our minds would be the infamous Fineman days and the murderous assault he mounted on innocent people; even the police were not spared the violence! We are wary of this situation occurring again, so we say a blunt no to Vincent Alexander and that diabolical scheme of his.
They tried that reign of terror in the Adriana drowning case, which that party turned into a political campaign slogan, claiming that the little girl was murdered when autopsy reports, four to be exact, confirmed that she died by drowning. But the PNC and their supporters ran with the lie that she was sacrificed by the PPP/C party in a satanic ritual death. Though they were proven wrong four times over, yet to this day they persist with that Voodoo ritual story, hoping to gain some political traction.
Finally, it shows how desperate the PNC are in their bid to regain power; they are using all the illegal means at their disposal. Using the street talk, Guyana is too quiet, so let us stir up trouble that has the ripple effect of throwing the election in doubt. The creation of violence and foreboding is one of them. Do they want us to return to the 2015 Crum-Ewing death attack scenario? Are they laying down the groundwork of this death wish situation again?

Respectfully,
Neil Adams