WHAT pomposity! “If the President fails to act, then the people of Guyana will have to take the necessary steps and … the entire Government should be asked to resign.” 

This is one of the recent utterances of David Granger, a man of utter temerity who has a history of acting with impunity.
Let me revisit the notorious 1973 slaying of the two Berbicians at the No. 64 Village Polling Station, during the elections of 1973. Granger was in the leadership of the army at that time, and therefore he still bears responsibility for the horrific act of the murder by army ranks of the two ballot box martyrs.
We need to remember (and inform the public too), that post-April 1970 saw Burnham subverting the Guyana Defence Force and making it into an entity totally subservient to himself. That was when he wickedly launched the Army “Education Corps,” so as to have a set of henchmen to do his bidding. One of his leading abettors at this juncture was David Granger, a fanatical member and leader in this Education Corps.
In Burnham’s owns words, we have a synopsis of what was the invidious mindset behind this operation was.
“I do not share with the British the concept that the Army is separate and distinct from everything else and loyal to the Government of the day. As Prime Minister, I expect you to be loyal to this Government … (and) as far as I am concerned, I don’t want any abstract loyalty.”
David Granger is from this school of thought.
I recall the PNC and its perceived collaboration with Bouterse’s son, who according to revelations from WikiLeaks,  supplied high-powered weapons to criminal elements holed up in Buxton, during the 2002-2006 crime wave sprees. Where was Granger in all of this? Here is a man who all the time was pandering to criminality, but is now making accusations against and sending threats to the PPP/C Government about crimes.
His very accusation (and APNU’s by extension) is most criminally laced: “If the President fails to act, then the people of Guyana will have to take the necessary steps.” Joseph Harmon embodied the same kind of thinking, saying, “APNU is giving the President an opportunity to do what is right (and) “If they fail to act, then the APNU will have no choice but to act in favour of the people and act on what is right.”
By implication, this is very violent talk; it is tantamount to giving the PPP/C an ultimatum, and if not acceded to, Granger and Harmon are effectively saying that President Ramotar and his Government will pay a heavy price.
Let us put violence as something that APNU, particularly David Granger, will resort to. It is like the only thing available.  As mentioned before, there is the proclivity for violence, as was evident in the notorious 1973 slaying, of the two Berbicians at the No. 64 Village Polling Station during the elections of 1973.
Now we come to this ‘mixing and meddling’ with Dino, who is now in jail, awaiting sentencing; it is something worth consideration.
I go back to the recent Wikileaked cable from then US Ambassador to Guyana, Roland Bullen, who noted that “Desi Bouterse’s son, Dino, organised a Surinamese soccer team trip to Buxton, a few years ago. It is believed that the team bus carried weapons to Buxton, and the local contact was Joseph Harmon.
Later, the said Dino entered a plea deal with federal prosecutors for a possible lower sentence in his trial in New York. His plea deal came after he was arrested by US authorities in Panama on drugs, weapons and terrorism charges.
Dino appeared in court in 2013 and admitted that in “In 2013, (he) knowingly provided a false Surinamese passport to a person (he) believed to be associated with Hezbollah, an organization (he) knew to be designated as a terrorist organization by the United States.” Dino, 42, also once served prison time in Suriname for weapons theft (but was named the commander of the country’s Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) when his father became President).
I come now to last year, and proffer another case in point, showing the kind of person David Granger really is. The Opposition Leader had the Facebook picture of him and gunman Kevin Fields removed after Fields was killed during a robbery. The picture told volumes as regards the kind of associates this man Granger has around him.
I want to know of whom we should really be afraid. I want to know why civil organisations and legal bodies are not asking that David Granger and his cohorts be investigated. Shame on those who are condoning the intent of APNU! Should I add the utterance of Carl Greenidge? He wanted the President to take cognisance of King Charles. Why? King Charles was beheaded. Yet so many ‘good’ people did not rebuke him; and Carl Greenidge is basically promising to kill President Ramotar.

JUSTIN CARMICHAEL