Every long rope has an end!!!By Michael BenjaminHow many times have we heard the phrase ‘A promise is a comfort to a fool?’An excerpt from a rendition of the late Gregory Isaacs goes, ‘Promise that you’ll be always by my side; but in the end I found out you took me for a ride; Now I know a promise is a comfort to a fool.”Such sentiments are epitomized when one basks in the words of that tune and juxtaposes them to the many promises of politicians on the elections trail, belching out their rhetoric and issuing glorious promises in the lead up to national and regional elections scheduled for November 28 next.While the elections period, often referred to as ‘silly season’ is a brutally fought contest between all political parties, two dominant political units have ruled the roost for the past 48 years and their activities in the run up to elections have been the focus.Notwithstanding this,China NFL Jerseys, the Alliance For Change (AFC) has made an impact on the electorate and seems to be among those to haul in some meaningful support.A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) comprises a cross section of the political parties and, as the name suggests, is selling a national unity card to a nation direly in need of such. These political groups are engaged in ‘no holds barred’ rivalry that if not monitored, could get out of hand precipitating violence among the races and heightening tensions to the point of triggering civil war.As such, law abiding citizens agitate for the intervention of civil society to foster peace and harmony during this crucial transitional period.The media will obviously join civil society and GECOM’s Media Monitoring Unit (MMU) in denouncing the types of behaviour that compromise the peaceful environment so essential to this period. Indeed, the stakes are high and one cannot take for granted the obtuse disposition of certain sections of society that could compromise the tranquility of the process.Someone once said that it is the tree with the juicy fruits that attracts the bricks from those desirous of procuring the said fruit. Consequently, one can use this analogy as the yardstick to ignore the abrasive remarks thrown at this newspaper during the crazy campaign period.Politicians are not saints and one would expect them to belch out rhetoric even as they attempt to denigrate their opponents. Notwithstanding this,Cheap NFL Jerseys, one must also be wary of those politicians who arrogantly dismiss the intellectual capacity of the electorate and spout adverse rhetoric under the guise of rehashing past hurts when in fact they are merely triggering acrimony that could balloon into raging civil warfare.It is said that he who forgets to remember the past is condemned to repeat it. Consequently, Guyanese must not forget to remember the agony of living within these 83,Stitched Jerseys,000 square miles in fear as marauding bandits invade their homes and carted off their hard earned property while leaving their loved ones maimed or dead.One must not also, forget the long lines outside the American, Canadian and British Embassies as Guyanese sought to flee the madness and better their lives and those of their children.Those that made it into ‘the Land of Plenty’ should not arrogantly nor mercilessly ignore the plight of their fellow countrymen and women and should do everything within their power to create the kind of environment that fosters the requisite changes for all to benefit regardless of race or creed.Who was it that said that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely? Over the years, Guyanese have witnessed abrasive actions of government figures that paled in comparison to the excesses of Papa Doc and Baby Doc of Haiti and those of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi of Iraq and Libya respectively. Such interventions by the aggrieved should sound the alarm bells and warn local despots of the retaliatory disposition of the affected.That these two despots received their just due must inspire the electorate to agitate for similar actions for those local politicians guilty of similar transgressions.Over the years, Government officials were fingered in corruption, malfeasance, nepotism, extra judicial killings and the sordid list goes on. Anyone who lived through the period of mass murders and assassinations that permeated the land after the infamous 1992 jailbreak would have been extremely delighted when opposition politicians agitated for an inquiry into the circumstances that characterized that dreadful era so that the issue could be put to rest once and for all.That the ruling politicians curtailed the terms of reference and made a sham of the process was noted and must not go unpunished. The Roger Khan revelations in the USA courts should cause every Guyanese to hang their head in shame.Consequently, the arrogance of

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