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Originally posted by Communicator:

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Originally posted by Communicator:
Baseman,

You keep defending Jagdeo as not being like Mugabe, and while you may have a small point, the larger picture to look at is: precedent! We had a dictator or at least an autocrat in Guyana already. We know because we lived through it.

Once you see signs of a dictator lurking, you have a responsibiulity to start making noise. You cannot make noise and expect help if and when the dictator becomes a crushing monster bearing down on you.

No dictator starts out by telling people that he plans to become a dictator. It is people with discerning minds who pick up these things early on and start agitating. But when folks like you keep saying Jagdeo is not like Mugabe or Burnham or Hoyte, you are looking at the later stages of the game plan from the vantage point of the early stages and making your erroneous distinction.

For me, I'm looking at the entire process in retrospect and saying the man is walking down the same road as Burnham. He has not gotten to the later stages, but he is on his way. If he is not stopped now, it may be too late for most who are too busy to pay attention, or like you, unwilling or unable to be perceptive and discerning.

Where there is smoke, there is a likelihood that there is fire or some sort of burning taking place. I can only hope you are not seeing smoke and thinking it is dust or else you'll become charred.

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Originally posted by politikalamity:

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Originally posted by Communicator:

Big difference:

The PPP has been democratically elected every time, the PNC were not.

To become a Dictator one needs to have the majority support of his race or tribe in the security force(s), the PPP does not have that.

I do not know how long the CNS should be of the air or if they should be off at all, however, if there were rules governing the way they should operate then they need to follow the rules or else pay the penalty.

Re-broadcasting an inflammatory statement even after being advised that the rules were being broken is unacceptable – if that was done.

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Originally posted by Mara:

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Originally posted by politikalamity:
Re-broadcasting an inflammatory statement even after being advised that the rules were being broken is unacceptable – if that was done.

Polit,

If in fact that was the case , then I fully agree with you - everyone should abide the rules

However it is my understanding that there was no rebroadcast of the offending segment after the ABC wrote to CNS advising him of the infraction. Sharma immediately profferred a public apology and assured the ABC that there would be no further rebroadcast of the offending article. They accepted his apology, and also accepted his explanation that the rebroadcast prior to the ABC letter, was done by the program manager without his explicit knowledge. The ABC letter & reprimand, and Sharma's apology should have put a lid on the issue. However the President was not satisfied with that, and in his wisdom - perhaps more like a petulant child, decide to have a second kick at the can. There is absolutely no evidence that this Advisory body made any recomendation to the " Compitent Authority", in this case the President, as Min. Of Information for any further action in the matter. That, in my humble opinion is akin to double jepordy in a court of law. Further, the President, being the person to whom the offensive statements were directed, should exercise the wisdom, restraint and political astuteness to recuse himself from any sanctioning body. Common decency and protocol should accept nothing less in a democracy.

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Originally posted by Gupta:
Dictator: a person exercising absolute power, esp. a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in a government.

Dictatorship: A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc


These definitions fits Jagdeo and the PPP Government

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Originally posted by Gupta:
Yes, 52% of the the people elected this dictator and dictatorship PPP government. Sadly, the 48% who voted against and even the 52% of voted for the corrupt government have NO say until next elections on how the country is governed.

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Originally posted by Gupta:
Yes, 52% of the the people elected this dictator and dictatorship PPP government. Sadly, the 48% who voted against and even the 52% of voted for the corrupt government have NO say until next elections on how the country is governed.

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Originally posted by politikalamity:

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Originally posted by Communicator:

To become a Dictator one needs to have the majority support of his race or tribe in the security force(s), the PPP does not have that.

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Originally posted by Ramakant_p:

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Originally posted by Gupta:
Dictator: a person exercising absolute power, esp. a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in a government.

Dictatorship: A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc


These definitions fits Jagdeo and the PPP Government

The people elected him, twice..

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Originally posted by caribj:

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Originally posted by politikalamity:

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Originally posted by Communicator:

To become a Dictator one needs to have the majority support of his race or tribe in the security force(s), the PPP does not have that.

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1. What is this "inflammatory statement". Do you want to know or do you accept what the PPP says?

2. The PPP now controls the GDF. They had a majoer shake up llast year. The top echelon of the GDF and the PNC objected. NOTHING HAPPENED. Now many AfroGuyanese allege persecution at teh hands of the joint forces even a pastor in Linden who had his family harrassed, his property destroyed, no apologies or compensation. And of course no charges brought.

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Originally posted by Terry Ishmael:
Gouveia is a PPP man?