{"id":42322,"date":"2017-11-10T10:47:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/?p=42322"},"modified":"2017-11-10T10:47:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:47:59","slug":"disingenuous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/disingenuous\/","title":{"rendered":"Disingenuous\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026excusing the GECOM Chair<br \/>\nAs your Eyewitness has been saying, the one silver lining in this dark cloud of Prezzie\u2019s unilateral appointment of (Chief?) Justice Patterson has been to suss out those who\u2019ve been playing the one-love game, even as they pushed their agenda. Now, don\u2019t get your Eyewitness wrong, he has absolutely no problem with any kind of agenda; his problem is with those who aren\u2019t straight up about it \u2014 and in the process, bend a lot of na\u00efve minds!<br \/>\nTake Rear Admiral Gary Best, who everyone thought had gone PPP when it was discovered he\u2019d gotten a lot (a whole lot!!) at Pradoville II. But there he was: hired along with his cohort of Armed Forces brass as an adviser to Prezzie, causing a LOT of heads to be scratched! Was it the special bonding of those long barrack nights, or was it political affinities long hidden?<br \/>\nWell, now we know, after the man (now armed with a law degree) finely parsed Art 161 (2) to claim Prezzie was in the right when he made the aforementioned, much protested appointment.<br \/>\nBest claimed Prezzie could do whatever he wanted \u201cif the Leader of the Opposition fails to submit a list as provided for\u2026\u201d Now, nothing wrong there\u2026that\u2019s what Art 161 (2) says. But Best interpreted the clause to say Presidential unilateralism kicks in, not if \u201cthe Leader of the Opposition fails to submit a list\u201d \u2014 as even Prezzie assumed when he accepted further lists from Jagdeo \u2014 but if a \u201cnot unacceptable\u201d list hadn\u2019t been submitted!! He saw all of that in the \u2018as provided for\u201d!! Probably saw it from the REAR!! So, if we go by Best, the Opposition Leader has one shot at the cherry\u2026and then it\u2019s all Prezzie\u2019s sole prerogative to reject the list and pick his Judge!<br \/>\nBut if Best is a lawyer, he\u2019d know that even if he were mechanistically interpreting the LETTER of the law in a strictly positivist sense, he was making a fool of the law. Is 1992 so far back that he\u2019s forgotten the clear INTENT of the newly inserted Article 161 (2) \u2014 to infuse wider legitimacy into the GECOM Chair? This isn\u2019t even venturing into a normative perspective of the law \u2013 hell!\u2026that was done when the legislators PASSED the law!!<br \/>\nBut what was surprising was an African-rights activist calling the above positivist sophistry \u201cbrilliant\u201d. So, is he accepting the Brits\u2019 position that since slavery was allowed by the law before 1834, it was OK? So why are we claiming reparations for acts done legally?<br \/>\nThose who would push the intent of Art 161 (1) under the bus can\u2019t have it both ways.<br \/>\n\u2026and lame SOCU excuse<br \/>\nIt took about a year after the infamous high-speed tailing from the NICIL HQ \u2014 which turned deadly for a poor soldier boy ordered on a wild (paper) goose chase \u2014 to ascertain that SOCU was a police unit, and so falls under Public Security Minister Ramjattan. That had to be clarified because he hadn\u2019t the foggiest notion that SOCU was trailing NICIL files when its remit was summarised by its name \u2013 Special ORGANISED CRIME Unit!<br \/>\nNow your Eyewitness always thought \u201corganised\u201d crime was committed by gangs engaged in bootlegging, procuring (girls), drugs etc. So he wasn\u2019t surprised SOCU\u2019s case against New GMC\u2019s head and his deputy was thrown out by the Judge. Is a manager and his assistant approving payments (even if it were true) ORGANISED CRIME? They\u2019re a gang?<br \/>\nNow this occurred right after the DPP had stated that SOCU\u2019s investigators were preparing piss-poor cases. But rather than Ramjattan explaining what happened, it was the Cabinet Secretary who claimed SOCU still doesn\u2019t have enough investigators.<br \/>\nMaybe Ramjattan knows there\u2019s no case?<br \/>\n\u2026Police COI<br \/>\nAfter all that\u2019s been going on, your Eyewitness believes the elaborate one-man Inquiry into the police handling of the so-called \u201cassassination plot\u201d was just a ploy.<br \/>\nSome army-type old men have already been selected to run the Force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026excusing the GECOM Chair As your Eyewitness has been saying, the one silver lining in this dark cloud of Prezzie\u2019s unilateral appointment of (Chief?) Justice Patterson has been to suss out those who\u2019ve been playing the one-love game, even as they pushed their agenda. Now, don\u2019t get your Eyewitness wrong, he has absolutely no problem with any kind of agenda; his problem is with those who aren\u2019t straight up about it \u2014 and in the process, bend a lot of na\u00efve minds! Take Rear Admiral Gary Best, who everyone thought&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eyewitness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42323,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42322\/revisions\/42323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}