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The slide into totalitarianism
December 20, 2015 By GuyanaTimes
The insouciance with which the A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) coalition Government was willing to shove what was essentially a “counter terrorism” Bill through Parliament, shocked even some of their most fervent supporters. But the fears aroused about possibly circumscribing the fundamental rights of citizens to “protect” them, should not have: from the time it became clear that a David Granger Administration would be front loaded and top heavy with ex-military stalwarts, that disposition was inevitable.
The military, after all, is trained to “protect” the populace and while in its traditional theatre of operations that protection is confined to battles against “the enemy”, even then it is accepted that “collateral damage” to the civilian populace will occur. Hence, the hundreds of thousands of civilians killed in Iraq and millions displaced in Syria because tyrants must be removed and weapons of mass destruction removed.
When those military men (and they are almost always men) slide into Government, it is almost impossible for them to completely eliminate that mindset. While not a soldier, Forbes Burnham, as did Hitler and Mussolini and a host of dictators installed into office through the ballot box, donned a General’s uniform, expanded the military by a factor greater 150 per cent and insisted that he would “mould the destiny” of the Guyanese people whether they liked it or not. It was for “their own good”.
David Granger was a key Lieutenant of Burnham in the drive to transform Guyanese society in the image conjured up back in the 1960’s and 70’s. He was in charge of the ideological “reorientation” of the Army. As soon as he assumed office, the peremptory “rectification” of what he considered to be variances from the “true” path began: the renaming of the International Convention Centre was just a portent of things to come.
The splitting and renaming of the “Ministry of Home Affairs” into “Ministry of National Security” and the “Ministry of Citizenship”, is not as innocuous as it might seem. In the world that 9/11 ushered us into, there is a special meaning to the term “national security”. The Ministry of Citizenship would now become the vehicle for not only tabulating “Guyanese citizens” but for also deciding who could have those rights and who could have them stripped. Now, it might just be ensuring that “foreigners” do not enter illegally, but very insidiously, it can slide into citizen stripped of their rights for being “anti-national”. All for the protection of the Guyanese people.
The operations of the Ministry of National Security are even more crucial to the creation of the post 9/11 “National Security State” to protect “the people” against “terrorism”. “Security”, rather than the old fashioned “welfare” grounded in a solid economy, becomes the prime imperative of the state. Democratic rights will “unfortunately” have to be “sacrificed” on the altar of security.
Many have raised their voices against the arbitrary decision to make the details of bank accounts of private citizens available to the Guyana Revenue Authority, and to the US. The latter ostensibly because, the law is supposed to apply only to “American Citizens” but as has been conceded by the Government, this is actually unenforceable. Since Guyana permits Guyanese to hold dual citizenship: who will decide whether the account is actually that of the US identity?
But this is only the beginning of the surveillance that will become ubiquitous, for “our good”. As was pointed out recently in an article in The Atlantic, “Vanishingly few individuals have the desire to carry out a terrorist attack, but virtually everyone has the means to do so. If the goal is to be zero terrorist attacks, there is a certain logic in attempting to conduct surveillance on literally everyone on earth.”
The Opposition People’s Progressive Party was joined by a wide swathe of Guyanese individuals and institutions in opposing the precipitate “counter-terrorism” Bill that has the possibility for infringing on rights of Guyanese and the Government. There is hope to stop the totalitarian juggernauth.

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"Many have raised their voices against the arbitrary decision to make the details of bank accounts of private citizens available to the Guyana Revenue Authority, and to the US."

PPP tiefman and they money laundering famblys and associates in US are in a terrible position . . . they worried shitless about the new reporting requirements on foreign bank accounts knowing that Uncle Sam can now easily cross check

heh heh heh

FM

Why should the President of a country fail to recognize that suicide cannot be combatted and instead declare that it is too complex to deal with ?

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"Many have raised their voices against the arbitrary decision to make the details of bank accounts of private citizens available to the Guyana Revenue Authority, and to the US."

PPP tiefman and they money laundering famblys and associates in US are in a terrible position . . . they worried shitless about the new reporting requirements on foreign bank accounts knowing that Uncle Sam can now easily cross check

heh heh heh

FM

Why should a government give itself a 50 Percent Pay increase which translates to BILLIONS while ordinary get 5 Percent ?

Why does this racist government refuse to pay Indo Sugar workers a Christmas Bonus ?

Are Indo Sugar Workers not Guyanese too ?

This is racism by a bunch of fat AFC/PNC fat Pigs:

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How come this AFC/PNC government has no economic plan while the economy enters a period of Economic depression ?

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How come this government has no plan to combat crime while crime increased by 21 Percent since this Government too over ?

Why is Ramjattan still in charge of fighting crime ?

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Cobra posted:

Is this Amna Ali, Minister of Social Cohesion? How can a fat pig run an office to paint black on Indian faces?   

PNC fat Pigs are not capable of even running a cake shop.

FM
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dis yugee banna decide he gon overwhelm the BB with colorful banners, nuff repetitious hollering and ting

lol

carry on estupido . . . is nice to know yuh tank empty

FM
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AFC/PNC lied to Guyanese about corruption. They cannot even prove any of their lies. They kicked the youths of Guyana side and appointed a bunch of fat Pigs.

AFC/PNC cannot prove any of their lies and fabrication, they lied to Guyanese.

They lied that the treasury was empty and moments later gave themselves Billions in increases for their incompetence.

 

FM
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dis yugee banna decide he gon overwhelm the BB with colorful banners, nuff repetitious hollering and ting

lol

carry on estupido . . . is nice to know yuh tank empty

The banna tryin hard hard fo get he community rank to the top, he now ranking at #5. He thinks postin shyte would do it.

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yuji22 posted:

Why should contracts in the hundred of millions be awarded to contractors go untendered ?

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the irony of you screaming ethnic cleansing, while simultaneously bellowing about Indians getting huge contract awards reveals the true simpleton that you are.

FM
yuji22 posted:

The slide into totalitarianism
December 20, 2015 By GuyanaTimes
The insouciance with which the A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) coalition Government was willing to shove what was essentially a “counter terrorism” Bill through Parliament, shocked even some of their most fervent supporters. But the fears aroused about possibly circumscribing the fundamental rights of citizens to “protect” them, should not have: from the time it became clear that a David Granger Administration would be front loaded and top heavy with ex-military stalwarts, that disposition was inevitable.
The military, after all, is trained to “protect” the populace and while in its traditional theatre of operations that protection is confined to battles against “the enemy”, even then it is accepted that “collateral damage” to the civilian populace will occur. Hence, the hundreds of thousands of civilians killed in Iraq and millions displaced in Syria because tyrants must be removed and weapons of mass destruction removed.
When those military men (and they are almost always men) slide into Government, it is almost impossible for them to completely eliminate that mindset. While not a soldier, Forbes Burnham, as did Hitler and Mussolini and a host of dictators installed into office through the ballot box, donned a General’s uniform, expanded the military by a factor greater 150 per cent and insisted that he would “mould the destiny” of the Guyanese people whether they liked it or not. It was for “their own good”.
David Granger was a key Lieutenant of Burnham in the drive to transform Guyanese society in the image conjured up back in the 1960’s and 70’s. He was in charge of the ideological “reorientation” of the Army. As soon as he assumed office, the peremptory “rectification” of what he considered to be variances from the “true” path began: the renaming of the International Convention Centre was just a portent of things to come.
The splitting and renaming of the “Ministry of Home Affairs” into “Ministry of National Security” and the “Ministry of Citizenship”, is not as innocuous as it might seem. In the world that 9/11 ushered us into, there is a special meaning to the term “national security”. The Ministry of Citizenship would now become the vehicle for not only tabulating “Guyanese citizens” but for also deciding who could have those rights and who could have them stripped. Now, it might just be ensuring that “foreigners” do not enter illegally, but very insidiously, it can slide into citizen stripped of their rights for being “anti-national”. All for the protection of the Guyanese people.
The operations of the Ministry of National Security are even more crucial to the creation of the post 9/11 “National Security State” to protect “the people” against “terrorism”. “Security”, rather than the old fashioned “welfare” grounded in a solid economy, becomes the prime imperative of the state. Democratic rights will “unfortunately” have to be “sacrificed” on the altar of security.
Many have raised their voices against the arbitrary decision to make the details of bank accounts of private citizens available to the Guyana Revenue Authority, and to the US. The latter ostensibly because, the law is supposed to apply only to “American Citizens” but as has been conceded by the Government, this is actually unenforceable. Since Guyana permits Guyanese to hold dual citizenship: who will decide whether the account is actually that of the US identity?
But this is only the beginning of the surveillance that will become ubiquitous, for “our good”. As was pointed out recently in an article in The Atlantic, “Vanishingly few individuals have the desire to carry out a terrorist attack, but virtually everyone has the means to do so. If the goal is to be zero terrorist attacks, there is a certain logic in attempting to conduct surveillance on literally everyone on earth.”
The Opposition People’s Progressive Party was joined by a wide swathe of Guyanese individuals and institutions in opposing the precipitate “counter-terrorism” Bill that has the possibility for infringing on rights of Guyanese and the Government. There is hope to stop the totalitarian juggernauth.

Who is the writer of this article???

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yuji22 posted:

Guyana is now officially a dictatorship.

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Simple Definition of dictatorship

 
  • : rule by a dictator : rule, control, or leadership by one person with total power

  • : a government or country in which total power is held by a dictator or a small group
  • [ATTN yuji22: APNU+AFC government has the mandate of 50.3% of the electorate. The coalition controls 33 seats in the National Assembly. President Granger + 33 = 34. That is not a small group. Granger doesn't have total power. yuji22 is out of order.]
FM

Why is the Head of the Election defending this PNC dictatorship ?

Why no recount when less than one percent of votes separate the Parties ?

Why did the election commission allow fake SOP ?

Why defend a dictatorship government ?

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yuji22 posted:

Why is the Head of the Election defending this PNC dictatorship ?

Why no recount when less than one percent of votes separate the Parties ?

Why did the election commission allow fake SOP ?

Why defend a dictatorship government ?

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FM
VishMahabir posted:
yuji22 posted:

The slide into totalitarianism
December 20, 2015 By GuyanaTimes
The insouciance with which the A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) coalition Government was willing to shove what was essentially a “counter terrorism” Bill through Parliament, shocked even some of their most fervent supporters. But the fears aroused about possibly circumscribing the fundamental rights of citizens to “protect” them, should not have: from the time it became clear that a David Granger Administration would be front loaded and top heavy with ex-military stalwarts, that disposition was inevitable.
The military, after all, is trained to “protect” the populace and while in its traditional theatre of operations that protection is confined to battles against “the enemy”, even then it is accepted that “collateral damage” to the civilian populace will occur. Hence, the hundreds of thousands of civilians killed in Iraq and millions displaced in Syria because tyrants must be removed and weapons of mass destruction removed.
When those military men (and they are almost always men) slide into Government, it is almost impossible for them to completely eliminate that mindset. While not a soldier, Forbes Burnham, as did Hitler and Mussolini and a host of dictators installed into office through the ballot box, donned a General’s uniform, expanded the military by a factor greater 150 per cent and insisted that he would “mould the destiny” of the Guyanese people whether they liked it or not. It was for “their own good”.
David Granger was a key Lieutenant of Burnham in the drive to transform Guyanese society in the image conjured up back in the 1960’s and 70’s. He was in charge of the ideological “reorientation” of the Army. As soon as he assumed office, the peremptory “rectification” of what he considered to be variances from the “true” path began: the renaming of the International Convention Centre was just a portent of things to come.
The splitting and renaming of the “Ministry of Home Affairs” into “Ministry of National Security” and the “Ministry of Citizenship”, is not as innocuous as it might seem. In the world that 9/11 ushered us into, there is a special meaning to the term “national security”. The Ministry of Citizenship would now become the vehicle for not only tabulating “Guyanese citizens” but for also deciding who could have those rights and who could have them stripped. Now, it might just be ensuring that “foreigners” do not enter illegally, but very insidiously, it can slide into citizen stripped of their rights for being “anti-national”. All for the protection of the Guyanese people.
The operations of the Ministry of National Security are even more crucial to the creation of the post 9/11 “National Security State” to protect “the people” against “terrorism”. “Security”, rather than the old fashioned “welfare” grounded in a solid economy, becomes the prime imperative of the state. Democratic rights will “unfortunately” have to be “sacrificed” on the altar of security.
Many have raised their voices against the arbitrary decision to make the details of bank accounts of private citizens available to the Guyana Revenue Authority, and to the US. The latter ostensibly because, the law is supposed to apply only to “American Citizens” but as has been conceded by the Government, this is actually unenforceable. Since Guyana permits Guyanese to hold dual citizenship: who will decide whether the account is actually that of the US identity?
But this is only the beginning of the surveillance that will become ubiquitous, for “our good”. As was pointed out recently in an article in The Atlantic, “Vanishingly few individuals have the desire to carry out a terrorist attack, but virtually everyone has the means to do so. If the goal is to be zero terrorist attacks, there is a certain logic in attempting to conduct surveillance on literally everyone on earth.”
The Opposition People’s Progressive Party was joined by a wide swathe of Guyanese individuals and institutions in opposing the precipitate “counter-terrorism” Bill that has the possibility for infringing on rights of Guyanese and the Government. There is hope to stop the totalitarian juggernauth.

Who is the writer of this article???

Link:

http://www.guyanatimesgy.com/2...nto-totalitarianism/

FM
 
 
yuji22 posted:

 

Guyana is officially a dictatorship.

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 PPP rigged and lost. The dictators jagdeo and ramotar were kicked to the curb.

 

Mitwah

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