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Reply to "Police to charge Lowenfield, Myers, Mingo with ‘conspiracy to defraud electors’"

@seignet posted:

These are three black people who has no trust in any PPP government. They have witnessed and lived through its first 23 years after being back.

Like all revolutions, it takes only one mind. Whose mind was it, Lowenfield, Myers or Mingo. However, the conspiracy was in unision. They are the faces we see and hear of, but anyone attentive to the events would know they were many more involved.

If the PPP is going to hang them for sedition, then they will be martyrs like their kins over the centuries since they were brougt to colonies of Essequibo, Berbice and Demerara.

To heal a nation takes great courage, sad, the PPP lil men and women have little minds. Visionless Indoes.

Your flippant use of the words "revolutions" and "martyrs" try to convey that the actions of Lowenfield et al. were somehow high minded and based in some moral and ethical compass. Well the truth is it was a blatant attempt to subvert the will of the people in order to facilitate a power grab.

An analog for your argument is a case of someone who sets fire to a house because he has a grievance with the home owner. Your solution is to not prosecute the arsonist in order to facilitate the healing between the parties. I am not sure you will support this course of action.

Similarly I don’t think you can heal the nation by ignoring the attempts to subvert the will of the people by rigging the election. Where does it stop? What if you had a bloody coup attempt akin to the Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt in Trinidad in 1990. Do you let that go in order to heal the nation? Or lets consider recent events in the US. Should the US Justice Department ignore the January 6th insurrectionists for the sake of healing the nation?

What was attempted last year wasn’t a minor infraction of election laws it was a blatant coup attempt. Look around the world, the regression of democracies are rarely happening with an armed coup but instead by a thousand cuts over time (Myanmar being the most immediate exception). This is most visibly happening in Hungary and Poland, however you can also look to the US which was supposedly fortified by a system of checks and balances. One recent example was illustrated by Trump’s actions to pressure Georgia’s Secretary of State to “find” him the necessary votes so that he can win (by the way he is now under criminal investigation by the Georgia Attorney General for this action). The Senate failed to convict and remove him from office so Republican state legislatures are now emboldened to pass legislation that gives partisan politicians the right to determine the outcome of an election despite what the vote count says. No different than what Lowenfield and cohorts attempted. Prosecution is necessary to put a stop to the thousand cuts to democracy.

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