Honouring…Walter

Today, the surviving geriatric, self-styled “Rodneyites” from the WPA – all four of them!! – are rehabilitating the dictator “Fat Boy” Burnham for his “progressive” foreign policy, his “socialist” nationalisations, and his regional outlook!! While “honouring” Walter Rodney on the 46th anniversary of his assassination!!! Well, today your Eyewitness will let the great man speak on Burnham in his own words – uttered just before Burnham snuffed out his life in a hired assassination!!
“The Burnham dictatorship has masked and camouflaged itself. It would prefer that its vices be hidden from the public. Why is this? Men in the past have boasted of being dictators…like Idi Amin. (But) the world has come to shun racist regimes…and all dictatorial Governments. This climate of international opinion offers the first explanation as to why the Burnham dictatorship prefers to remain disguised.
“The Burnham dictatorship presents itself as its own opposite… as a democracy… like Hitler, who subverted German bourgeois democracy in the 1930s. Burnham has taken a similar road to power – subverting the democratic system of which he was part in 1953. Hitler had a mad wish to rule the world. For this reason, he is generally described as a megalomaniac. Hitler’s megalomania was backed by the powerful German economy and the might of the German army. Burnham’s megalomania is closer to comedy and farce. It takes the form of wearing a general’s uniform and hoping that the army will conquer his own people.
“Like all classic dictatorships, that which exists in Guyana has fostered the cult of the personality. The minority PNC regime has used all manner of tricks and gimmicks to make the “Comrade Leader” appear to be a demigod. (Like) on the exercise books of school children, the face of the reigning English Monarch was simply replaced by that of the Prime Minister. (There is also) the highly personalised nature of the dictatorship. The dictator and his cronies make it their business to hire and fire. The state control over the economy was the main weapon used to keep people in line. (or) who to prosecute in the courts…
“Burnham encourages around himself individuals who are weak or corrupt because he then exercises vicious control over them…On the international scene, Burnham could never be a powerful force. But he has proved crafty and cunning in achieving his ends within Guyana. An old woman at Bourda shouted at a recent political meeting that ‘Burnham mek Satan cry!’
“The Burnham dictatorship crept up upon Guyanese people like a thief in the night. His violations of human rights were frequent, but they were sufficiently gradual that many persons did not realise what was going on until it was too late.”
And then Burnham had Rodney assassinated! And ensured his party’s extinction!!

…the contract
Some PPP haters wanna have their (oil) cake and eat it too!! Some have made common cause with the woke crowd in the WEIRD world – Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Demented!! – for us to “save the earth” by leaving our oil under the Atlantic!! Yup!! The world presently produces 100 million barrels daily – of which we’re straining to get to ONE million per day – and by holding it back, we’ll save Earth from vaporising into a supernova!!
Another branch is hauling the Government over the coals for bringing the associated gas ashore to fuel generators, fertiliser plants and data centres – for the same reason!! An offshoot is honing in on what they see as a contradiction in the Government saying the gas is “free” while Exxon says it’s deducting the cost of the pipeline from the cost of oil!! Where’s the contradiction?? The gas is ours up to a porthole in the FPSO!
Exxon paid for the pipeline to bring it ashore – and gotta be paid!!

…our Indigenous Peoples
The Government’s nomination of Carolyn Rodrigues for the UNGA’s Secretary General post must be seen for what it is!! Not just an honour for her dedicated service to our country – but an honour to our Indigenous Peoples!!