@Former Member posted:

Granger leaving tarnished legacy to Guyana and the Caribbean.

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The Brigadier in his Labyrinth

Jul 18, 2020 Editorial 0 Comments

In his literary masterpiece fictionalizing the final months of the life of Simon Bolivar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez takes us on at times harrowing journey of the famed and fading liberator of South America into irrelevance, obscurity and exile. This portraiture of Bolivar at his decline is antithetical to the iconography that remains, the renowned generalissimo either standing erect or astride a rampant steed, in the form of innumerable statues and illustrations.

For this sad portrayal of the man who liberated much of the continent from Spanish colonial occupation, Marquez would spend many months of research, and many more of sheer imagination, resulting in one of foremost interrogations of power and its loss.

Guyanese today need not engage in so much effort. The country is presented today with a real time spectacle of the decline of a previously historical leader into what will be recorded as one of the most tarnished legacies in regional political history. When Brigadier David Granger was elected to office in 2015, it was hailed – and rightfully so – as an historical achievement.

Entering national politics late in life, at least formally, Granger was able to emerge at the head of not just one but two coalitions. The initial coalition, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) was perhaps more in tune with George Bush’s Iraq invasion ‘Coalition of the Willing’ in that it was made up of fairly insignificant players around a central satellite. Still, the inclusion of Walter Rodney’s Working People Alliance with Forbes Burnham’s People’s National Congress could be seen as a good sign for the possibilities of national reconciliation – we, after all, can only make peace with our enemies.

When the Cummingsburg Accord was signed on Valentine’s Day of 2015, between APNU and the Alliance For Change (AFC), a certain hope was kindled that the politics of hegemony, of ethnic domination, would give way to the politics or partnership, of equity, of integration and of reconciliation. Guyanese were told that “It is time” and enough believed it and so this invested in it, both hopes and votes.

What happened in the past five years will be the subject of a great deal of historical interrogation for some time to come. For the purposes of this editorial, it would be enough to examine where we are at this present moment under the rule of the Brigadier.

Another South American literary giant, Borges, who notably lived under the autocracy of another dictator, General Juan Peron, said once in a speech that:

“Dictatorships breed oppression, dictatorships breed servility, dictatorships breed cruelty; more loathsome still is the fact that they breed idiocy. Bellboys babbling orders, portraits of caudillos, prearranged cheers or insults, walls covered with names, unanimous ceremonies, mere discipline usurping the place of clear thinking.”

And that is where we are in Guyana today. Intermixed within the creeping oppression upon the will of the people and the cruelty of an increasingly crushing economic circumstance, we have the absurd fiasco, what has been rightfully referred to as a political circus, of the incessant babbling of low-tier coalition operatives online; the leering and increasingly eerie and ironic billboards of the caudillo proclaiming with Orwellian simplicity and irony, “Honesty Integrity Decency”.

In the middle of a record-breaking electoral process, artificially prolonged by subterfuge, temporizing and brazen attempts at cheating conducted by a machinery headed by David Granger himself, we are seeing the real time portrait-creating of a lesser Bolivar. Like Bolivar, the once historically popular Brigadier has suffered a remarkable descent in personal reputation in a very short time, most notably – as the national recount shows – losing his first incumbent election by 25,000 votes.

• Regionally and internationally, once celebrated as a refreshing change to his predecessors in the PPP, Granger’s entire government has achieved the remarkable feat of uniting CARICOM, the OAS, the Commonwealth, the European Union, and the UN, in addition to our key Western allies against him. It is unprecedented in this country’s history, even during both the excesses of Burnham and the excesses of Jagdeo, that the entire executive government of Guyana, or most of them, would be subject to visa sanctions from the United States.

In the next week, Guyana faces censure not only from the OAS but CARICOM as well. From a mortar of lies, of flaunting of the constitution, of the very corruption he vowed to fight against, of impunity and of sheer obstinacy when it comes to relinquishing power, the Brigadier has built himself a labyrinth from which it is apparently impossible to emerge. In the days to come, the rest of the country, including those few of his closest remaining allies who are still untainted, need to decide whether they will remain in it with him.

Why the coalition failed was because the AFC is comprised or rejects from the PPP and PNC.  They are a bunch of inept nincompoops. They have no idea how to run a country. Granger should have built his party with the reformers as the PPP did with the CIVICS. It would have been a better 5 years for him.

@Ramakant-P posted:

Why the coalition failed was because the AFC is comprised or rejects from the PPP and PNC.  They are a bunch of inept nincompoops. They have no idea how to run a country. Granger should have built his party with the reformers as the PPP did with the CIVICS. It would have been a better 5 years for him.

chupidness

@Totaram posted:

chupidness

You are a nincompoop.  You are a PPP reject.  You never post anything constructive.  All you do is abuse people on this GNI. I have counted over a hundred times when you proved yourself to be a complete Jackass.

You could ask Django.

@sachin_05 posted:

The Brigadier in his Labyrinth

Jul 18, 2020 Editorial 0 Comments

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In his literary masterpiece fictionalizing the final months of the life of Simon Bolivar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez takes us on at times harrowing journey of the famed and fading liberator of South America into irrelevance, obscurity and exile. This portraiture of Bolivar at his decline is antithetical to the iconography that remains, the renowned generalissimo either standing erect or astride a rampant steed, in the form of innumerable statues and illustrations.

For this sad portrayal of the man who liberated much of the continent from Spanish colonial occupation, Marquez would spend many months of research, and many more of sheer imagination, resulting in one of foremost interrogations of power and its loss.

Guyanese today need not engage in so much effort. The country is presented today with a real time spectacle of the decline of a previously historical leader into what will be recorded as one of the most tarnished legacies in regional political history. When Brigadier David Granger was elected to office in 2015, it was hailed – and rightfully so – as an historical achievement.

Entering national politics late in life, at least formally, Granger was able to emerge at the head of not just one but two coalitions. The initial coalition, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) was perhaps more in tune with George Bush’s Iraq invasion ‘Coalition of the Willing’ in that it was made up of fairly insignificant players around a central satellite. Still, the inclusion of Walter Rodney’s Working People Alliance with Forbes Burnham’s People’s National Congress could be seen as a good sign for the possibilities of national reconciliation – we, after all, can only make peace with our enemies.

When the Cummingsburg Accord was signed on Valentine’s Day of 2015, between APNU and the Alliance For Change (AFC), a certain hope was kindled that the politics of hegemony, of ethnic domination, would give way to the politics or partnership, of equity, of integration and of reconciliation. Guyanese were told that “It is time” and enough believed it and so this invested in it, both hopes and votes.

What happened in the past five years will be the subject of a great deal of historical interrogation for some time to come. For the purposes of this editorial, it would be enough to examine where we are at this present moment under the rule of the Brigadier.

Another South American literary giant, Borges, who notably lived under the autocracy of another dictator, General Juan Peron, said once in a speech that:

“Dictatorships breed oppression, dictatorships breed servility, dictatorships breed cruelty; more loathsome still is the fact that they breed idiocy. Bellboys babbling orders, portraits of caudillos, prearranged cheers or insults, walls covered with names, unanimous ceremonies, mere discipline usurping the place of clear thinking.”

And that is where we are in Guyana today. Intermixed within the creeping oppression upon the will of the people and the cruelty of an increasingly crushing economic circumstance, we have the absurd fiasco, what has been rightfully referred to as a political circus, of the incessant babbling of low-tier coalition operatives online; the leering and increasingly eerie and ironic billboards of the caudillo proclaiming with Orwellian simplicity and irony, “Honesty Integrity Decency”.

In the middle of a record-breaking electoral process, artificially prolonged by subterfuge, temporizing and brazen attempts at cheating conducted by a machinery headed by David Granger himself, we are seeing the real time portrait-creating of a lesser Bolivar. Like Bolivar, the once historically popular Brigadier has suffered a remarkable descent in personal reputation in a very short time, most notably – as the national recount shows – losing his first incumbent election by 25,000 votes.

• Regionally and internationally, once celebrated as a refreshing change to his predecessors in the PPP, Granger’s entire government has achieved the remarkable feat of uniting CARICOM, the OAS, the Commonwealth, the European Union, and the UN, in addition to our key Western allies against him. It is unprecedented in this country’s history, even during both the excesses of Burnham and the excesses of Jagdeo, that the entire executive government of Guyana, or most of them, would be subject to visa sanctions from the United States.

In the next week, Guyana faces censure not only from the OAS but CARICOM as well. From a mortar of lies, of flaunting of the constitution, of the very corruption he vowed to fight against, of impunity and of sheer obstinacy when it comes to relinquishing power, the Brigadier has built himself a labyrinth from which it is apparently impossible to emerge. In the days to come, the rest of the country, including those few of his closest remaining allies who are still untainted, need to decide whether they will remain in it with him.

 

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The Brigadier is resisting a cheating, conniving , slimy bunch of crooks .  

I wanted a change. I read, with great sadness of a very poor man, alone he stood, opposite the Atorney General's Office. Picketing in rain and the glaring sun asking for justice. His civil rights it seemed were trampled upon. Anil Nandall drove passed him so many times, ignored him. And these are the people today clamoring about the people civil rights. Contempt for the poor man has no boundaries in Guyana, it is no different under the PPP or the PNC, Granger, Jagdeo or Nandlall.

I felt for the man and his plight, he had a voice but those who governed rendered him voiceless.

I supported any change, even the corrupted AFC. When they joined the APNU, Granger emerged with a unifying voice of all Guyanese. I saw him speak of a new Guyana. I sat about six feet away from him and heard his words very clear. And many would come to believe him.

He became President and slowly his deviousness oozed out of him, one day at a time. The man lied in the presence of God. That is being bold and contemptable. Complete and utter disespect for the Almighty.

His inaguration speech praised those had done great wrong for Guyana. That instant, he was left to the wiles of devil for the devil makes liards of men. His doom was created by him. I knew from that instant, he was also wrong for Guyana just as predecessors.    

I think Granger made a fatal mistake by quickly rendering the AFC powerless after the 2015 elections. Had the AFC continued to demonstrate strength and leadership rather than becoming another arm of the PNC, their supporters may have stood by them in 2020. But maybe Granger sincerely thought that the rigging machine he was putting in place would be sufficient in 2020 even without the AFC support. He was already confident enough in 2018 when he had the AFC compete independently in the 2018 LGE. But he didn't expect a successful passage of any NCM to derail him. Since December 2018, he has had to watch his grand vile plan unravel before his eyes and today, even his once regaled reputation is in tatters.

@Totaram posted:

chupidness

@seignet posted:

I wanted a change. I read, with great sadness of a very poor man, alone he stood, opposite the Atorney General's Office. Picketing in rain and the glaring sun asking for justice. His civil rights it seemed were trampled upon. Anil Nandall drove passed him so many times, ignored him. And these are the people today clamoring about the people civil rights. Contempt for the poor man has no boundaries in Guyana, it is no different under the PPP or the PNC, Granger, Jagdeo or Nandlall.

I felt for the man and his plight, he had a voice but those who governed rendered him voiceless.

I supported any change, even the corrupted AFC. When they joined the APNU, Granger emerged with a unifying voice of all Guyanese. I saw him speak of a new Guyana. I sat about six feet away from him and heard his words very clear. And many would come to believe him.

He became President and slowly his deviousness oozed out of him, one day at a time. The man lied in the presence of God. That is being bold and contemptable. Complete and utter disespect for the Almighty.

His inaguration speech praised those had done great wrong for Guyana. That instant, he was left to the wiles of devil for the devil makes liards of men. His doom was created by him. I knew from that instant, he was also wrong for Guyana just as predecessors.    

He gave terrorists Abdul Kadir and Hamilton Green Guyana's awards, for what, being PNC terrorists.

@Former Member posted:

I think Granger made a fatal mistake by quickly rendering the AFC powerless after the 2015 elections. Had the AFC continued to demonstrate strength and leadership rather than becoming another arm of the PNC, their supporters may have stood by them in 2020. But maybe Granger sincerely thought that the rigging machine he was putting in place would be sufficient in 2020 even without the AFC support. He was already confident enough in 2018 when he had the AFC compete independently in the 2018 LGE. But he didn't expect a successful passage of any NCM to derail him. Since December 2018, he has had to watch his grand vile plan unravel before his eyes and today, even his once regaled reputation is in tatters.

Excellent Observation.

Granger castrated himself by Castrating, demoralizing and raping the AFC. This was his fatal mistake by consolidation power and replacing his coalition partners with an Afrocentric and clueless regime. 

He would have still been in power had the AFC remained strong.

AFC also made a critical mistake by remaining in the coalition and allowing themselves to be raped by Granger and Congress place. They missed a golden opportunity in redeeming themselves. Moses and Ramjattan put their self interest ahead of their party and supporters.

Ramjattan seemed to be headed in the right direction when he clarified that the absolute element in the NCM lied not in the 32, 33 or 34 but rather in the 65. He stated that the 65 Assembly members needed to be present and voted to create an absolute quorum and had any of those been absent the quorum would not have been met.

But just after making that statement he became entangled in whatever deceitful web the PNC were weaving.

@Former Member posted:

Excellent Observation.

Granger castrated himself by Castrating, demoralizing and raping the AFC. This was his fatal mistake by consolidation power and replacing his coalition partners with an Afrocentric and clueless regime. 

He would have still been in power had the AFC remained strong.

AFC also made a critical mistake by remaining in the coalition and allowing themselves to be raped by Granger and Congress place. They missed a golden opportunity in redeeming themselves. Moses and Ramjattan put their self interest ahead of their party and supporters.

This is their mode of operation. They did this to the UF and rigged election until 1991. No one should trust these savage Mugabe negroes.

Burnham, Hoyte and Granger are savages indeed. No respect for the constitution, law, courts, parliament and the will of the people. No surprises here.

@Former Member posted:

I think Granger made a fatal mistake by quickly rendering the AFC powerless after the 2015 elections. Had the AFC continued to demonstrate strength and leadership rather 

In 2016 I warned Caribj about their attitude towards the AFC.  His response was the AFC brought little in terms of votes and got too much anyway. Now look wuh ‘appen. Suh wen yuh haad aaze!

@Ramakant-P posted:

Why the coalition failed was because the AFC is comprised or rejects from the PPP and PNC.  They are a bunch of inept nincompoops. They have no idea how to run a country.

Granger should have built his party with the reformers as the PPP did with the CIVICS.

It would have been a better 5 years for him.

PNCR have had Reformers within the group for ages.

PNCR == PNCReform.

@Former Member posted:

PNCR have had Reformers within the group for ages.

PNCR == PNCReform.

Profound!

@Ramakant-P posted:

You are a nincompoop.  You are a PPP reject.  You never post anything constructive.  All you do is abuse people on this GNI. I have counted over a hundred times when you proved yourself to be a complete Jackass.

You could ask Django.

You are an uber nincompoop.  As a matter of fact you are just poop. And, you have the title of the braying Brampton jackass.

@Former Member posted:

In 2016 I warned Caribj about their attitude towards the AFC.  His response was the AFC brought little in terms of votes and got too much anyway. Now look wuh ‘appen. Suh wen yuh haad aaze!

I agree. The inch that takes you over the finish line before everyone else is not insignificant.

@Totaram posted:

You are an uber nincompoop.  As a matter of fact you are just poop. And, you have the title of the braying Brampton jackass.

This shows how shallow you are.