The PNC’s bullying tactics know no boundaries
DEAR EDITOR,
They say a picture is worth a thousand words and that’s exactly what happened when I looked at the pictures of the PNC protest action in the Senedd. It was a contemptible demonstration of utter lawlessness in immeasurable proportions that one must stop and give a long sick sigh. At first, I really wanted to disprove what I was really seeing, thinking probably that my vision was failing me a bit or whether the videographer was just being histrionic or something of the nature that. But closer scrutiny of the video revealed just what was portrayed there, a senior opposition senator rating the police barrier and kicking the officer in the head during the process.
This was an understandable act judging her of any caliber and if I assaulted the officer in such a shameful way, I would have arrested that senator and charged him immediately. But this is not the case, where the opposition is now demanding an apology from the police for its foolish, vile actions! So why is the Opposition so prominent? We will investigate this.
Now, you have to realize where this person is from. It was a re-enactment of an age-old dogma of the party where they claim ownership and control of the armed forces and as such, they can do whatever pleases them. Desmond Hoyte reiterated, “The police and the army are my love and my relationship.” Therefore, whether it was an accident that he kicked the officer, which is not relevant to the debate, could have broadly scaled the barrier and faced the legislator from the known point of view of the “kith and kin” theory . Apparently the senator knew full well that he could commit such atrocities and get rid of it.
So while the party is infused in that bullying and thuggish manner, their mindless friends hold out for their comrade in an endless series of excuses. PNC Apologists claim that the PPP / C while in opposition has done many things so the senator should get a free pass on this one. The shallow excuse “the things the PPP / C did”, we have not yet been told, so I quickly formulated the following scenario.
Let us change roles and place Bharrat Jagdeo on the spot and depict him scaling a police barricade and accidentally kicking that one officer? Would that officer be so cautious about it, or more still, would the PNC receive that kind of display from Jagdeo? I don’t think so. So, if we cannot face that folly from Jagdeo, why should we accept it from any senator?
Respectfully presented,
Neil Adams