Too much… protesting

It wasn’t of any surprise that the WIN people didn’t take too kindly to the remarks of Speaker Nadir when he explained his thinking on l’affaire Sanction Man!! What else can they do when they know Sanction Man knows and the world knows they were suckered in to look the other way for one thing and one thing only – cold cash!! Or as some would have it – filthy lucre!! Accepting that what Speaker Nadir said has merit would’ve been tantamount to them publicly flagellating themselves for their cynical hypocrisy!
For 28 years we’ve had to bear the shame of conceding we’d been ruled by an election rigger by the name of Burnham. And in case anyone thought folks had forgotten the cross we had to bear, when one of his protégés tried to repeat his dastardly deed, he was mockingly dubbed a “sanctimonious gangster”!! So, from where your Eyewitness sits, he’s convinced that Speaker Mansur – who’s been in the political arena since he was in short pants decades ago – was concerned about the “stain” that would be placed on the country he loves and which he’s served for so many years! It would be like that Scarlet Letter “A” which the adulterer Hester Prynne had to wear in public to signal her sin!! But what has Guyana done for all of us to be scorned for the sins of Sanction Man??
So, the intervention of Sanction Man’s Daady was even more expected!! After all, wasn’t it he who actually started breaking the law even before Sanction Man was born – and Sanction Man just fell into the criminal life like a duck to water?? Come to think of it, his petulant outburst against Speaker Nadir might have been precipitated by his guilt in creating the evil empire where bribery and thuggery are the default positions!! So, what did the Daady say? Firstly, he was hysterical that the Speaker compared his son with the infamous Columbian narco-smuggler Pablo Escobar!! But why? He said all his son did was evade taxes! Imagine that!!
The fact of the matter was both of them were smugglers into the US!! While Sanction Man Daady might want us to believe smuggling cocaine is more evil than smuggling gold… Has he forgotten why Venezuelan gold – which they smuggle – is called “blood gold”??
And that the same folks who smuggle gold also smuggle cocaine?? The first facilitating the second??!!

…old premises
Your Eyewitness wasn’t really taken aback by the Western diplomats requesting a meeting with Speaker Nadir after he chided them for what they claimed was a “late” convening of Parliament. Actually, it was within the four-month window that’s constitutionally permitted! And all that their calls revealed was they’d fallen for Sanction Man’s well-greased (with tax-purloined funds!) PR machinery and chicanery!!! Your Eyewitness is certain Speaker Nadir would’ve disabused them of the error of their presumptions!
The other elephant that would’ve been in the room was Speaker Nadir’s knowledge that even as they were meeting, the premises of the old “rules-based” order had been thrown out of the windows by President Trump.
As Canada’s PM complained at Davos, the “middle order” nations gotta adjust!!

…gold smuggling
Surely, it’s not a coincidence that the countries of the Guyana Shield just held a joint operation to clamp down on cross-border mining!
Sanction Man was a big player in the scam!!