…the PNC power grab?
In the end, all societies are moral propositions. We really can’t just be folks in a common locale and call ourselves a “society” – if we don’t share some basic values. We’ll just be a mass of humanity with everybody doing their own thing!! It’ll be like driving on the road. Some of us can’t just wake up one morning and decide that we’ll start driving on the right side, can we? It’ll just end up in chaos, not to mention mayhem!! And if you think about it, isn’t this where the PNC has brought us??
We really can’t pussyfoot around the issue any longer: can we really survive as a country with the PNC?? Now your Eyewitness knows democracy isn’t about Government by unanimity. That’s for those jokers who’re pushing the “shared executive” pipe dream and pretending that the PNC will ever share power with anyone! Yeah right! When they control every State institution in sight?!!
Democracy, as practised in the modern world, is intrinsically and inherently partisan. So, for the arrangement to work, we’ve got to share some overarching commitment to some basic rules of the game, based on the aforementioned values and beliefs, etc, to stick together. Elections are one of those rules – a pretty fundamental rule at that. What it does is to replicate the original notion of democracy when everyone gathered in the Greek city square and made decisions facing their society.
Elections serve to link us as citizens of our polity and in a deep sense, offer us an opportunity to affirm our commitment to that polity. But when you have a party like the PNC, which refuses to follow the same rules that allowed them to win in 2015 and now squat in government and dares the entire world to get them out when they lose, the fundamental moral sinews holding together are being ripped asunder. How can we ever trust the PNC to keep even the simplest undertaking??
There’s been a lot of calls for sanctions by the international community to be imposed on Granger, the PNC and the rest of the rigging cabal. Nothing wrong with this. But your Eyewitness believes it’s time for reasonable supporters of the PNC to stand up and draw a line in the sand against where their leaders are taking them. Surely, this latest outrage for the PNC to proceed to the Courts when the GECOM Chair is merely following the directions of the highest Court in the land is the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back.
The commitment to the society is one that transcends that to a party.
Especially when that party, the PNC, is anti-national.
…the Sanctimonious Gangster
From the moment Granger accepted the rigged elections at the 2011 PNC Congress to pip Carl Greenidge by 12 votes – even forcing Aubrey Norton and his Linden crew to walk out in disgust – how could any impartial observer not conclude this man was a dissembler whose sanctimonious demeanour was a façade? Trouble was presaged!!
But some folks fell for his slick schtick of dropping on his knees at the drop of a hat. If they’d committed as many sins against the nation as Granger, they’d be fervently praying for forgiveness too!! Coming back to the imperative that a community’s gotta be grounded on some shared morality, Granger has shown he’s completely devoid of any such moorings.
Arriving to the matter at hand, Granger must’ve insisted at least a hundred times since the elections of March 2 that he’d accept whatever declaration the Chairwoman of GECOM made.
But now that she’s ready, he runs to the Court once again. When a man cannot even keep his word, he’s not a man.
Just a nasty piece of work!!
…another trip to the CCJ??
In our parliamentary democracy, the judiciary’s the last bulwark against a dictatorship, since the President controls the Executive and Legislature.
In the next few weeks, we’ll have another opportunity to judge their leanings!
