Home Letters It is a dangerous thing when you try to rewrite history
Dear Editor,
It is a dangerous thing when you try to rewrite history. The facts are there to prove you wrong, I repeat, it is a dangerous and embarrassing thing to even try to distort the indisputable facts of yesteryear when the truth stares you in the face at every turn. The evidence of what I am about to discuss, is too numerous to mention, however, I shall highlight some of those that are of glaring importance.
To begin with Burnham’s lies and innuendoes were furnished to the colonial super power masters, Britain and the USA. This led to the incarceration of Cheddi and his wife. The autocrat (I hope Dr. Ramcharran is taking keen note of that word) con-artist, Burnham, caused the imprisonment of his political rivals, with the false hope that he could, (a) Illegally silence Cheddi and (b) Cheat the PPP of the right to office and government. That plan did not materialise, however, what it actually did, was to strengthen the People’s resolve to vote for a leader and a party of their choice, what Burnham thought would have been an unfair advantage for him, later turned out to be a blessing for Cheddi.
Violence is another hallmark of the PNC, when in power they used this strategy to hush, if not, permanently silence those who dare to oppose them. Those who were bold enough to speak ended up in the nether world, Dr. Walter Rodney paid that ultimate price for opposing Burnham’s dictatorship.
Today, the pathetic members of The WPA are burdened with the horrible task of putting that ghost to rest, they would want us to wish away the mention of the term “He was murdered” by the very same party that they are now in bed with. So, the anger that often erupts from David Hinds, Ogunseye and others is grossly misdirected, what they need to do is temper that negative energy used against the government and do some quiet introspection.
Another area they would want us to rewrite the history books, is the horrible record of their management of the economy, could you fathom the thought of Guyana being the poorest nation in the western hemisphere? Well, the truth of the matter is we were, in real terms, below Haiti!
We now move on to the all-inclusive, all-pervasive trademark of the party, rigging, it’s all happening right here in a place called Guyana, that is, the fraudulent way elections were held by the PNC. It speaks to the fact that there were ghost electors and multiple voting, a system where the winning party in this case, the PNC, gets more votes than the population of that country. So, to hear that same party calling for the” sanitising of the electoral list” they must first come to grips with the real fact of sanitising their minds of the thought that rigging could be resurrected, that system is dead and would remain dead.
The PPP/C is not divine nor is it faultless, but hear me and hear me well, wherever those anomalies exist, the party actively investigates it with the aim of rectifying it. On the other hand, the PNC is the proud promoter of corruption and defends it to the hilt; they revel in that mire.
In closing I leave this message, that party which dwells on the high moral platform of honesty and transparency, would earn the respect of its citizens, they will earn their vote by sheer merit and not by force.
Respectfully,
Neil Adams