Dear Editor,
Bharrat Jagdeo is fast descending into buffoonery with campaign rhetoric which is inflammatory, vindictive, petty and callous, and which is only surpassed by its downright illogicality and crass foolishness. Scandalous marketplace ‘cussdowns’ are not working.
Maybe Mr Jagdeo is singing for his US$180,000 per year tax-free pension supper, which will give him more than Barack Obama will ever collect. Even the staunchest PPP supporters are internally shaken by President Jagdeo’s mudslinging routine. It insults their intelligence. It chases out the few remaining youths from the PPP.
Attacking people, inciting fear and pushing entrapment rather than focusing on the issues, problems and policies have backfired.
Arguably the biggest piece of illogical preposterousness uttered by Mr Jagdeo in this campaign has to be his reported claim at Bartica that if APNU wins the election it will give guns to criminals and that if Barticians vote for the opposition, it would create insecurity.
The unbelievability and extravagance of this bombastic nonsense insists upon the question of whether Bharrat Jagdeo has fully, utterly and unequivocally lost his marbles.
Let’s examine the logic of this senselessness reportedly uttered by Jagdeo at Bartica. Firstly, PNC masquerading as APNU cannot ever win a free and fair election in Guyana ever again.
The numbers, the lack of trust, the presence of Robert Corbin and the apathy from its own supporters confirms this fact. So, for Jagdeo to paint a scenario of APNU winning power is to create a falsity and then use it to build fear. It is a rank insult and a poor joke to Barticians. Secondly, if by divine intervention and pure miracle APNU somehow wins its first ever free and fair election on November 28, does it make logical sense for APNU to give guns to criminals so they could terrorize the very people who voted for APNU to win power? It is only in the Alice in Wonderland mind of Bharrat Jagdeo this would happen.
Thirdly, how exactly would APNU arm criminals who are already fully armed with better weaponry than the state armoury?
Roger Khan’s spy equipment was something the police force never had and would never get under a PPP government. The criminals don’t want weapons from the state. They have enough better weaponry, thanks to the largely unchecked drug trafficking
and arms smuggling networks that operate with wanton freedom in a PPP Guyana. Fourthly, the PPP’s weak on crime failures have resulted in the arming of criminals to the hilt. Fifthly, the Bartica massacre occurred because of the criminality, broken rule of law and criminal untouchability under the PPP.
Fineman, the author of the Bartica massacre, lived most of his adult life under this system of raw criminality that existed under the PPP. He was involved in the drug trade that has flourished under the PPP. He lived and led a life of crime without prosecution in a crime safe haven created under the PPP.
People know the truth. Foolish and illogical fear-mongering is an insult to their intelligence.
And they know that APNU ain’t winning anything. A lot of empty and leaking cups and fallen palm trees will be thrown out and burned as rubbish come November 28.
Yours faithfully,
M Maxwell
