\u2026 Soylent Green<\/p>\n
In 1944, George Orwell wrote about what life would be in the ultimate totalitarian state. He called it \u201c1984\u201d, the year he predicted that state would come into being \u2013 in the then \u201cfuture\u201d. For us Guyanese, of course, who were said to be \u201cpolitically precocious\u201d, Burnham established his totalitarian Dictatorship by 1974, when he made his (in)famous \u201cDeclaration of Sophia\u201d: the PNC was paramount over the state!!
\nAround that same time there was another movie made, \u201cSoylent Green\u201d, also set in the future \u2013 that future being 2022. Yep, dear reader, you\u2019 re just a few years away from the future! And what a future!! By then, matters had gone real downhill since \u201c1984\u201d and folks couldn\u2019t even get fresh food to eat. It was all manufactured \u2013 the most nutritious being \u201cSoylent Green\u201d. While the name suggested mundane origins \u2013 \u201csoy\u201d and \u201clent\u201d \u2013 from \u201clentils\u201d \u2013 it was actually made from human flesh! That\u2019s the d\u00e9nouement of totalitarianism \u2013 we\u2019re going to end up literally eating each other!!
\nNow after your Eyewitness heard about President Granger firing another 400 sugar workers (after the first 1700 at Wales) and at the same time painting every official structure \u201cGreen\u201d, all he could do was paraphrase Pogo\u2019s famous remark, \u201cI have seen the future \u2013 and it is the PNC!\u201d Both of these actions spring from the totalitarian impulses of the PNC \u2013 which Granger openly declared will be remade in his Founder-Leader\u2019s image.
\nAnd don\u2019t for one moment think the slaughter of innocents in the sugar industry \u2013 which has only just begun \u2013 isn\u2019t President Granger\u2019s doings. Agri Minister correctly said \u201cwasn\u2019t me!\u201d but he pointed to Minister Jordan, who pointed to \u201cNICIL\u201d, which in turn pointed to the mysterious, anonymous, \u201cSpecial Purpose Unit\u201d. But when that Unit is finally given a face, it will say, \u201cThe President gave the order!\u201d And had done so since before the 2015 campaign.
\nBurnham had said his co-op experiment would continue even though there was one Guyanese left standing. And it\u2019s clear President Granger takes his master\u2019s voice, literally. And the Soylent Green? Maybe it\u2019s not made from the flesh of the sugar workers being thrown into the streets, but it has to be the distillation of the green bile folks in the PNC have for those who oppose them.
\nIt also represents the psychological drive of the totalitarian leader to not only rule absolutely, but to insist that the people know it. Especially those of the sugar workers\u2019 ilk.
\nGreen is the PNC\u2019s colour and by painting buildings representing State power green, this symbolises the State and the PNC are coterminous.
\nPNC uber alles!!
\n\u2026the Exxon contract
\nFinally, after stonewalling the Guyanese people for over a year with all kinds of \u201ccock and bull\u201d stories, the PNC Government says they\u2019ll release the Exxon contract later this month. So what\u2019s changed from before? Santa Claus coming to town? With a \u201cHo! Ho! Ho!\u201d Trotman\u2019s gonna whip out the contract from his red briefcase?
\nWhat\u2019s going on? Chris Ram insists there was a \u201cBonus\u201d of US$20 million paid by Exxon that the Government has been hiding. Now, bonuses in the oil and gas industry are as common as ice cream and come in \u201cdifferent flavours: signature bonus, discovery bonus, first oil sales, production bonus,\u201d says Wiki. But the Government denied the bonus payment \u2013 so how will it defend the truth \u2013 soon to be out?
\nThe Government spokesman\u2019s conveniently let slip that they WON\u2019T be paying the legal fees \u2013 if the Border Controversy is sent to the World Court \u2013from any Exxon bonus!!!
\nSo they were hiding the US$20 million for our national good!! Sure and Santa rides a sleigh!!
\n\u2026the forgiven taxes
\nDelinquent taxpayers will have the interest written off, if they cough up in the early part of next year.
\nThe Opposition Leader says to look at those lining up at the trough! Friends with benefits!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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