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individual believes he is greater than the political movement and
that his desires supersede the need for victory again and again
at the polls in Trinbago over the PNM.
I told him leading into the 2000 general election to charge two
United National Congress (UNC) cabinet ministers for corruption
and defeat a rudderless PNM.
The political imperatives of 2000 demanded such testicular fortitude
to ensure the sustainability of our political movement that we built
from the United Labour Front (ULF) in 1976 to the UNC of 1995.
He failed to grasp the mettle and today the anti-PNM movement is
dead and buried and never to be resurrected under the banner of
the UNC.
What those around the individual can never admit to themselves is
that the election winning machinery died in December 2001, never
to rise again, not even with huge doses of Viagra.
They are, therefore, into self-delusion and have reached the lowest
low in politics, as they are now believing their lies and are acting
upon their lies, highly reminiscent of Napoleon and Hitler in their
last days.
They pose no threat to the hegemony of the PNM and they must now
wait for the Prime Minister to call the general election date for
them to be consigned to the La Basse of Trinbagonian history.
Who is your leader?
In their self-delusion, everyone is an effective Political Leader
capable of defeating the PNM at the next general election.
The daughter of the one found guilty, the model school minister,
the overcrowding-the-stadium man, the anti-corruption tabanca man
and a host of low-level “go-fors” see themselves in
their growing estrangement from political reality as viable leaders
of a political movement to defeat the PNM at the next general election.
Blood is on the water and a vacancy exists for a maximum Political
Leader of the blighted remnant of the UNC, but whenever the guilty
one is given bail he is going to set in train the final actions
to shatter the remnant of the UNC forever, thereby doing his best
to consign the supporters of the UNC to the wilderness of opposition
politics for a long time in the future.
For, if the one found guilty cannot be an MP, Political Leader and
Leader of the Opposition, then no one else would be, for the UNC
is his party and his alone to do with it what he pleases.
The legacy of the one found guilty is one that stands alone in the
history of post-colonial Trinbago for singular failure to place
the desires of the individual in subservience to the strategic needs
of the political movement.
Eric Williams insisted that his greatest gift to Trinbago was the
PNM. Great is the PNM and it shall prevail and Williams gave of
himself to ensure it did prevail.
Likewise, George Chambers ensured that the PNM prevailed when he
removed himself as Political Leader following the defeat of the
PNM at the 1986 general elections.
The one found guilty refused firstly to do what was necessary to
ensure political hegemony in 2000, and secondly to do what was necessary
to ensure the sustainability of the UNC as the premier anti-PNM
movement in Trinbago in the early 21st Century by removing himself
from the leadership of the party and as Leader of the Opposition
after the debacles of 2000, 2001 and 2002.
The one found guilty has likened himself to Chairman Mao ZeDong
of China, but Mao is long gone and the Communist Party of China
today still reigns supreme in China.
What then is the legacy that the one found guilty has left behind?
A legacy of self-centredness to the point where it defeats the very
goals the individual repeatedly articulated in public.
It is then a legacy of deception where politics has a morality of
its own.
It is a legacy where you use people for your own narrow personal
ends and discard them as rubbish when you have used them up and
have no further use for them.
It is a legacy without obligation and gratitude.
It is then a legacy with no UNC that is great and no UNC that shall
prevail.
It is a legacy with nothing left to posterity with no political
hegemony assured across time.
It is a legacy where you have repeated the strategic blunders of
your political ancestors and dared to commit greater blunders.
You came on the political scene with Hindus consigned to the opposition
benches and you have returned them to the political wilderness in
the era of globalisation and the Internet.
You are worse than Bhadase Maraj and Rudranath Capildeo.
You are now history and the Lion House you promised to dismantle
brick by brick still stands.
Check your karma.
The landmark judgement of Monday April 24, 2006 was, therefore,
karmic, and on that moment of delivery a blight was removed from
my soul/persona for I stand guilty of being part of the team in
successive general elections that worked to have the electorate
of Trinbago vote the one found guilty into power as the PM of Trinbago
and for that I have and continue to pay dearly.
But on April 24, relief was forthcoming as I am now absolved; the
account is paid in full. |
