I can tell you plainly that I felt used by the PPP because I helped with MY HARD EARNED CASH TO PUT THEM IN POWER IN 1992. THEY CONNED MANY OF US WITH HIS PROMISE OF AN INCLUSIVE GOVERNMENT CHEDDI SAID WOULD HAVE INCLUDED ALL PROGRESSIVE FORCES WHO WERE CHAMPIONING THE CAUSE FOR DEMOCRACY AGAINST THE PNC.

Which is why now, I am involved with my time and my money in a number of programs in Guyana which would deepen democracy from merely electoral ‘democracy’ to a democracy which is defined by leadership, accountability and respect for our constitutional institutions (no matter who is in government). A kind of payback to the folks back home whom I helped to finance their continued oppression and demise, and as a form of therapy for me.

The challenges faced by many like myself who are engaged in programs to enlighten and empower my brothers and sisters at home in their civic responsibilities and human and constitutional rights are hamstrung by a general fear of the PPP President and his cabal unleashing their fury on them and because of hypocrites in the diaspora who continue to delude in the fact that Guyana is a democracy under the PPP. Ask the many your family back in Guyana about their fear. Ask businessmen and persons of means in Guyana who donotes money to worthwhile programs why they insist that they do not want recognition for their good and noble deeds. They would tell you that they fear the tax man will be sent to check on their books and whether they paid full duties on their imports and VAT. Of course we know that many don’t and they don’t want to jeapordise their way of survival in business in Guyana. Then there is evidence of known criminals meanacing people who speak out against the atrocities of this government and the police cannot seem to get any way beyond a load of diatribe from the press officer. I really do admire Ramjattan, yuh know, (it was easier for Trotman, the PNC is a ‘toothless tiger’) for his bravery, fairness and selflessness and I do hope he will be richly rewarded for his committment to true democracy…he got kicked out of his own party for being a maverick, a noncomfirmist to the PPP brand of ‘democracy’ unlike poor Moses who got kicked out because he refused to face the reality of what his beloved PPP had become..

Shouldn’t you Evan Thomas have fought the PNC, Burnham and Hoyte – to bring back true democracy?

If you yourself Evan Thomas would not fight for “true democracy” then you are a hypocrite.

The real question is who is the perpetrator driving this vendetta? He must be a small man with a small mind. But somehow he got the power to execute the vendetta.

Let it be said, sometimes, even such a powerful person with such immense power falls from grace and suffers ignominy.