The point about Buxton is that no one is safe. Tomorrow it could be the leader of the REFORM wing of the PNC, Jerome Khan. Mr. Khan is calling for Vincent Alexander to be disciplined by the PNC leadership for saying that out of the aggressive assault on Indians will come something good in the future.
Vincent Alexander, PNC Vice Chairman
It is clear from his insistence that Mr. Khan is under pressure from his constituents to reject Mr. Alexander's perception. But Mr. Alexander's sin is nothing compared to the refusal by many PNC leaders to denounce the unspeakable bombardment by Buxtonian elements on innocent Guyanese.
(See Stabroek News, August 14, 2002.)
Folk
hero, too?
I
WOULD like to thank Barrington Braithwaite for his insightful letter in
yesterday’s Guyana Chronicle, headed `Folk hero?’
While I
do not agree with some of the things in his letter I would like to keep my
response short.
I would
like to say, "We thank God for the Phantom squads that rid Guyana of the
criminal gangs. Without them Indian Guyanese would be suffering rape,
bullying, theft, murder. We hope they would continue their struggle to make
Guyana free from these criminal gangs."
There -
I have said for Indian Guyanese what Ronald Waddell said for African Guyanese.
Am I not a folk hero for you now Barrington Braithwaite? Or is it because
I am not Black?
I dare
him to contradict my words. He can't, because to do so would ridicule his hero
Ronald Waddell (because those were his words, changed slightly).
Some
African Guyanese political leaders/pressure groups say that African Guyanese
are at the bottom of the economic cycle. Well, I say to them -- if they have
money to militarise and buy guns, then they have money to open legitimate
businesses in Guyana.
If you
want change, whether political or economic, then we all need to get together
and work together to bring about that change.
Indian
Guyanese form the majority in Guyana. So it is only a natural process for any
respectable organisation to have a majority of Indian Guyanese in office.
What I
am saying to Barrington Braithwaite, is that first you get the Police Force,
the Army, the public service corps balanced, then we'll look at economic
progress for African Guyanese.
You want
to deal with ethnic insecurity, let’s deal with it.
Another
thing -- where are these African Guyanese `freedom fighters’ getting their
guns from, since they are supposed to be so poor and downtrodden?
SEAN ADAMS
Friday, February 17, 2006
