Dear Editor,
In addition to local action, there would be crushing backlashes from the foreign community for those involved in a fraudulent recount, and we pray that such does not occur. Fraudulent recount and undemocratic actions are against the culture and interests of the international community, and particularly the United States
The Western World, and in particular the United States of America, have, from 1990, invested tens of millions of dollars in the restoration and maintenance of democracy in Guyana, and they have no intention of losing their investment by the re-emergence of fraudulent elections and dictatorship.
The United States had declared the Munroe Doctrine in the 19th century, and in this century, they have established the Democratic Americas Doctrine, whereby all the countries of the Americas would be democracies, making the Americas an oasis of democracy in a confused world.
They have worked very hard for this, expending large resources, and today all the countries are democracies, or are nearly so. They re-established democracy in Guyana more than 20 years ago, and will therefore not allow any group or person to turn back the clock to dictatorship.
In their calm and polite efforts to keep Guyana on the democratic path by asking for the holding of free, fair and transparent elections, they have been subjected to the rudest, boldest-face insults and lies by the few bent on fraud.
They have shown extraordinary patience and restraint, which this group bent on fraud have mistaken for weakness. The time has now come for the greatest and most powerful country on Earth to teach these miscreants a lesson, and make them an example for others who may try to destroy democracy.
These fraudulent operators must know that, despite their braggadocio, they could never defeat the greatest nation on the planet, and they should seize the chance of escaping by abandoning their plans of corrupting and falsifying the recount.
Yours sincerely,
Paul Validum
Ramlochan
