Do the Southern “delegates” preach peace or confer conflict?

Dear Editor,
Georgia, USA is well known for many popular reasons. Ailing at the current age of 99, the approaching centurion Jimmy Carter, former US President, was born in Plains, Georgia. He assisted in laying the foundation for Guyana to regain democracy with the election and administration of the PPP/C in 1992, from the dictatorship of the devious PNC 28 continuous years of reign of totalitarianism.
History has proven that the PNC rigged elections in order to retain power. 1992 was the turning point with a free and free election through the assiduous and courageous efforts of the Carter Centre input.
Jimmy Carter endured much aggravation at the unscrupulous hands of the bullish PNC, but he relentlessly fought the tyrants with the help of the U.S., to overcome the militarized PNC, who finally succumbed to the results of the election, showing the PPP/C as the winner.
Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. His Prize motivation: “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” This was at the time when the President of the United States of America, George. W. Bush, was planning a war on Iraq in the fall of 2002.
Today we have a masked Georgian who wants to participate in the wages of sin by interrupting the peace Guyanese are enjoying!
Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia. His “I Have a Dream” speech still resonates with the world as advocates clamour for reparation for some only at the expense of others. Named Man of the Year by Times Magazine in 1963, he was the youngest man to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1964. His motivation: “for his non-violent struggle for civil rights for the Afro-American population.”
Influenced by the teachings of Gandhi’s “Truth and Non-Violence”, MLK preached and practised non-violent civil disobedience to racial segregation. In Guyana, while many hide behind closed doors but profess MLK’s teachings, they silently confess to what they do not possess. The current visiting Georgian should take a page from this teacher and adopt the responsibility of not distorting facts.
MLK warned, “We have allowed the means by which we live to outdistance the ends for which we live.” This advice is so relevant for the PNC to penetrate to those who prefer to propagate propaganda, rather than to live within a means with patience and work diligently in order to progress towards prosperity.
A delegation of “Find-outers” (no, not the English characters from the famous Enid Blyton’s series “The Five Find-Outers”) arrived in the country from the South of the USA, including the State of Georgia. In Blyton’s series, the Find-Outers probed, pronged and proved to be positive producers in their village, while being peaceful and progressive in providing help to the Police. Can the same be said of our visiting friends from out South? A foregone conclusion was scripted as the players enacted a well-directed scene, plagued by authored planning. They avoided Baracara as if the place was full of cobras.
Every day, there is an accident of some sort in Guyana. Coincidentally, with the visit from the “Fact Finders,” Customs found a cache of firearms and ammunition in a barrel at the GNIC Wharf last Friday. The Guyana Police Force is investigating this matter, and a 56-year-old man from Atlanta, Georgia is wanted in connection with this issue. Strange, but true, the State of Georgia holds different prominence.
Only last month, a large amount of ammunition was found in an abandoned building at Mocha, East Bank Demerara. Also, earlier in October, another large number of arms and ammunition were found on examination of a barrel at the Laparkan shipping bond at Timehri. This barrel was shipped by a man residing in the Bronx, New York, from a shipping company located in Brooklyn. A manager employed by the said shipping company attempted to clear the barrel. Why would a man living in the Bronx, where shipping companies are located, travel all the way to Brooklyn, bypassing Queens where numerous shipping companies are also located, to ship a barrel?
This is a very suspicious story, with unrevealing ramifications to date. It will be noted that Brooklyn houses a man wanted by the Guyana Police Force. He is well known for being anti-Government and spreading racism. Will the “Fact Finders” try to find out the facts on this individual, as to why he is wanted by the Police? Will they assist the Police in executing justice?
Will those Americans seek information from their fellow Americans from the US Embassy for clarification or confirmation? Will they question in their fact-finding why Caricom, the OAS, the Commonwealth and the UN have never accused the current Guyana Government of discrimination? Will they question why the President of Guyana, Dr. Irfaan Ali, is so much loved and admired by all the heads of governments throughout the world?
If there is inequality, prejudice, and apartheid existing in Guyana and engineered by the Government, will those belonging to that elected, selected, self-appointed or pin-pointed group with a veiled motive find out why so many investors are anxiously coming to this country, wanting the friendship of this Government and eager to set up business, including African States?
Jimmy Carter and Martin Luther King Jr. are Southerners, and they lived and breathed peace during their active days. Do the visiting “delegates” from the South preach peace or confer conflict?

Yours respectively,
Jai Lall