…nonsense won’t stop
In the old cartoon “Peanuts”, there was a running gag with Lucy holding a football for the hapless Charlie Brown to kick. But at the last second, Lucy whips away the ball and Charlie lands of his butt. No matter how many times she pulls the stunt…Charlie always falls for it, because he’s the kind of fella who always hopes other folks will do the right thing. Well, in Guyana, it’s clear that the PNC and its myrmidons in GECOM really believe that the Guyanese people – including your Eyewitness – are suckers like Charlie Brown.
Yesterday, you could tell from the tone of the piece from yours truly that he felt at last we’d turned the corner to glimpse some daylight at the end of this long tunnel of Stygian darkness. But this being the PNC involved, he did conclude, “even a dead frog has Galvanic twitches”! Meaning that we should expect some kickback from the PNC and its helpers in this elections heist – even when we think they’d arrived at the end of their rope.
And kickback there was!! We’re all the way back to square one, with Lowenfield now doing a Mingo – throwing a wrench so egregiously into the works, all you can say with a hand over your open mouth is, “OMG!!!” Jeez!! All the fella had to do was hand his report according to his constitutionally defined duties – of which the Chairwoman reminded him was just to add up the recount numbers from the ten districts.
But Lowenfield had been given enough time to huddle with his controllers in the PNC for them to launch the latest Hail Mary – go to the Courts for an injunction to stop him from delivering his report!! It looks like there was no one in the High Court to listen to their nonsense, so guess what? They fell back on their always friendly Appellate Court – acting in its original jurisdiction as a constitutional court. And they gave notice to GECOM that an injunction was being sought for the aforementioned Hail Mary!!
And just to make sure we knew who were pulling the strings, the two PNC Commissioners didn’t show up.
So, in any case, even if the Chairwoman had decided to issue a declaration from Lowenfield’s old submission, there wasn’t a quorum!!
…humiliation
What does this nonsense say about us, the Guyanese people?? We don’t have to wonder about the PNC – they’re acting true to form. They say, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me”. But what happens, as with the PNC, they fooled us dozens of time?? It means something is seriously wrong with us – at least with those who support that party.
Now, don’t get your Eyewitness wrong, no political party is above exploiting a situation for its own benefit; but when your party goes out to rig an election so barefacedly, it really shows that it has absolutely no respect for you, its supporters. After all, you’re the ones who have to mix and mingle with other Guyanese every day, and have to defend the nonsense your party is going on with. As Rodney once asked in a similar context back in the day: When a PNC supporter goes home at the end of the day, how does he answer his kids who ask: “Do we support that schupidness, dad?”
…Eye-pass
So what exactly does the PNC think the Court – even an Appeal Court that agreed with them that 33 wasn’t the majority of 65! – would order?
That Lowenfield should act as judge, jury and tabulator to deny the franchise to 275,000 Guyanese?
Blasted eye-pass!
