Waiting for…

…the result
How to write about what is going on with these elections? That’s the challenge posed to your Eyewitness as matters become increasingly surreal. Well, he’s tried Kafka and his allegory of the fella who wakes up one morning in the body of a cockroach. How the heck does he navigate his way in a world that’s out of joint to what he is – literally!!  How do WE deal with a world where some 2220 SOPs are tabulated from 9 Regions to everyone’s satisfaction – but in Reg 4, after some 400+ SOPs are also counted OK, when everyone takes a break and returns after waking up the next morning – everything has changed!! Have we all become cockroaches, or was it the RO who suddenly decides to do his own thing??
Another perspective your Eyewitness thinks, that might give us a perspective on what’s unfolding is a genre of plays called “Theatre of the Absurd” (TotA) – exemplified by one called “Waiting for Godot”.  TotA is: “A form of drama that emphasises the absurdity of human existence by employing disjointed, repetitious, and meaningless dialogue, purposeless and confusing situations, and plots that lack realistic or logical development.”
Think of what we’ve been witnessing since the counting froze at the Reg 4 Counting Centre at Ashmin’s on March 4. “Disjointed”? What could be more disjointed than the counting before and after they were Mingoed?? “Repetitious”? How many times can you go to court on matters that “require no gloss”?? “Show your SOPs and I’ll show you mine” says the law – but then Mingo refuses to show you his, and the Court has to be brought in not once but umpteenth times??
“Meaningless dialogue”?? What can be more meaningless than a Caretaker President answering every question about the blatant rigging being perpetuated to return him to office, with a coy “I will uphold the Constitution”?? “Purposeless and confusing situations”?? The confusing situations abound. Appeal Court Justice Gregory certainly confused PM Rowley of T&T when she based her judgement on a news release on Caricom’s role rather than the agreement which she had in her possession! In our case, however, the “purposelessness” is absent: the theatre of the absurd enactment is all about pissing on the Guyanese people to get back Granger into power!
But in the end, however, the plot of the PNC play “lacks realistic or logical development”. Does Granger, who’s been exposed to the US modus operandi in protecting its interest in the western Hemisphere, really believe they’ll let him thumb his nose at them and get away with it??
Having served under Burnham who did get away with it, he forgets that “Dis time na lang time”!!

…the Rodneyite response
More than anyone else from the WPA, David Hinds has insisted on defining his praxis as “Rodneyite”. He resents those who insist that Rodney wouldn’t have “tied bundle with the PNC” – as the WPA did in 2011. Even though he admitted on numerous occasions that the PNC treated its so-called “coalition partners” like dirt and made unilateral decisions, he insists that Rodney would’ve also defended the union.
In his most recent defence, he outraged most by proposing that the solution to the PNC’s shameless rigging is to scrap the elections, the ballot boxes burnt (yes, burnt!) and Granger be installed to lead an “interim government” that’ll include some from the PPP. But your Eyewitness was intrigued by another statement where Hinds says a “cabal” wants to reinstate the PPP into office using “democratic rhetoric”: “Since there’s no dictatorial PNC to justify their “democracy crusade”, they had to create one.”
So, it was a PPP “cabal” that marginalised Indian Guyanese in the Cabinet and Govt boards? Or fired 7000 mostly Indian-Guyanese sugar workers?
Or is rigging elections??

…a COVID-19 plan
The news that Britain’s PM Boris Johnson, is now in an ICU to deal with serious COVID-19 complications might finally bring home to the dilettante PNC that “all might be consumed”.

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