Election rigging is serious business, and is neither tolerable nor accommodable

Dear Editor,
Fellow Guyanese: ladies and gentlemen of the jury, it is time to face facts, if not ourselves, and own up to harsh realities. Election rigging is serious business, and members of the international community will not tolerate or accommodate this business. They will not be a “partner in crime”, and no amount of tongue twisting will fool them.
They will provide the opportunity for redemption, but will ultimately draw the line and pull the plug. They are the big brother and sister to the oppressed and depressed.
Figures do not lie, like the tongues in the mouths of evil-minded people, destined to create chaos and confusion by deliberately twisting and mixing, mincing and switching words, with deceiving voices flowing from crooked throats.
We have unfortunately been the victims of so many white-collar crimes committed by personnel in the hierarchy posing as representatives of the people of Guyana. From secret arrangements to hidden agreements, from lavish payoffs to perks unimaginable, the selected few enjoying the privileges that allowed them to soar the sky and mix with the international and national corporate world, where wheels and deals are solicited over cocktails and meeting rooms become the play fields and the wining and dining rooms.
A number of Guyanese have no stretch of an imagination as to what is involved in that arena, but can only express an opinion based on flimsy hearsay. But the well-read students, intelligent Guyanese, intellectuals, the experienced ones, others who have been there and done that, those in high society and those involved in running governmental affairs can acquiesce with this scenario.
Once acquiring a taste for finesse and magnitude, the finer things in life, the feel of power and importance, the limelight and spotlight, the centre of attraction, the media’s pursuit, it becomes extremely difficult to resist these extravaganzas, and the temptation to join forces with the devil in order to remain in prominence and retain these spin-offs becomes irresistible, if not impossible.
Not only do the stakes become too high, but the element of danger creeps in also, compounding the risk factor with reimbursements and insecurity. No brick is left unturned, nothing is overlooked, and taking chance is not inclusive in the formula to protect the integrity of the character and the maintenance of the position.
The individual will pursue any cause to defy any opposition that dares deny the continuity of such benefits; and instill any form of incapacitation, whether legally or illegally, by foul or fair means, directly or indirectly, without fear or hesitation, and not worrying about cost or damage, nor the relationship of the opponent. Now the foot has sunk too deep in the mud; rooted, seeded, and can only bear sour fruits.
A bitter past has glaringly reflected the unpleasant transparency of an established paper trail of many such guilty individuals, all of them sporting an immunity and not brought to face the law because of a corrupted administration, the farcical policing, and the loopholes of the judicial system. Truth and honesty remain as words only in the vocabulary, to be taunted with mimicry and tainted with lies and insincerity, defended by masked faces and denied by hypocrites, much to the impoverished helplessness of many a befooled die-hard.
History, if recorded timely, completely and accurately by the authenticated authority, will showcase abominable atrocities that the keeper of logistics will clarify with innumerable statistics to document volumes in quality and quantity beyond the question of a doubt, but ones that future generations will find difficult to comprehend and impossible to accept the fact that such inappropriateness was allowed to transpire and accepted by those in control by turning a blind eye.
Fraud and deceits conjectured the order of the day and became the mantra for the villainous syndicate. Who stands to gain, and who sits to lose in this merry-go-round of time, money and opportunity? The rich always get richer and the poor never fail to succumb in getting poorer. The middleman sticks around to play the cards correctly, and either suffers or prospers; and others join the gravy train, but for short distances.
The game of politics and economics always effectively affects the sociological lives of the community, and leaves psychological scars that can prove to be quite detrimental to the physiology of many families and their home circles.
But greed for personal gain always satisfies the aims and objectives of the miscreants, addicted to a reputation for name and fame, regardless of the cost, at the expense of those handicapped in limitations and in denial of awareness. Many facts and diverse information are either diversified to the upper echelons only, or kept in abeyance for as long as possible, or discretely revealed on a perpetual basis slowly and in piecemeal. Its significance is either lost or it’s too late to strategically counter with enquiries and appropriate actions.
As this saga plays out in Guyana, the drama continues to spill on the election opera stage, where the actors are leading the managers into a trauma and the audience is in a dilemma, prolonging a recount result in a panorama punctuated with many a comma.
The original script was written in a dogma that carried a punch line knocking you out to fall in a coma, dancing to the whims of a Madonna and some begging this mamma to spare them anymore diarrhoea, to allow the proceedings of a court aura to unfold, before it will be too late to visit Africa, India, Europe, America or Canada; and then there will be time left only to realize nirvana. Many will be praying for the intervention of Allah, Krishna, Christ, Rama, Buddha and Dalai Lama to persuade the administrators to follow the principles of Obama, who was influenced by the concepts of Gandhi and Martin Luther King and the teachings of the Bible, Quran and the Gita. Before you can change into a nightgown or pajama, there surfaces another melodrama that seriously questions the necessity for a psychodrama.
Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List” was released on Dec. 15th,1993, starring Liam Neeson and Ben Kingsley, winning 7 Academy Awards. On Wednesday, as the clouds momentarily cleared, the Eagles landed softly and suddenly to present the “Swindler’s List” to the birthday party “Swashbuckler’s List.” Mind you, “the good” are on the Schindler’s List; “the bad” are on the “Swashbuckler’s List”, and “the ugly” are on the “Swindler’s List.” What list are you on?
The necessary groundwork has been laid, and it is now up to the concerned party to wake up, take a moment, make the call to comment if they will repent, make a statement in abatement, or indicate in an acknowledgement if they remain a client to represent the caretaker president in any of his delinquent engagement. With the free compliment of the US Embassy, unlike GECOM’s detriment, your argument will receive fair treatment, judgement will be given a quick and credible assessment, because it is independent and transparent.

Respectfully,
Jai Lall