Dear Editor,
Any person with an iota of common sense will agree that if you ask, request or beg someone a favour or for something they have in their possession that may be rightfully yours and he/she finds excuses on more than one occasion not to grant it, then maybe that person has no intention of yielding positively to that request.
First, the logical thinker must analyse the situation and ask the question, why? Why doesn’t he/she want to grant me that favour or return what is rightfully mine? The answers will inevitably spring from the question, why.
The PPP has failed to hold local government elections in Guyana for 17 years. Why do you think they will have a change of heart if you ask again? I refuse to beg for something that rightfully belongs to me. I refuse to hear your no, more than once, to my request for what is rightfully mine. I would be considered a fool to wait 17 years hoping that someone who does not like me will return my right to self-governance, because he/she saw the light on the road to Damascus.
I will ask only once to be given what is rightfully mine and depending on your answer, I shall move to reclaim it by other means. And reclaim it, I will. No one should ask me again for my thoughts on this imbroglio. I shall urge them to seek leaders with fortitude.
More than 15 years ago, I made a pitch to become the chief citizen of Linden. It was a direct challenge to remove local power from the PPP and PNC and to hand that power to the people through a non-partisan group or organisation.
I am 41 years old, now. Before I was born, Mr Granger and Mr Ramator were in politics. They are now the two political leaders on opposite fences in my country. This is scandalous! I refuse to see several generations later, our young people gripped in the clutches of poverty, served meals of ‘Sun Chapman’ and ‘Ballot box murder victims.’
Break the anvil of PPP and PNC witchcraft politics and take local power outside of their control. This will be the beginning of taking national power and ridding the country of the two politically destructive entities that gave nothing but a life of misery for half of a century.
Yours faithfully,
Norman Browne
