Sunday, October 30, 2011

Letter: Self serving statements of Mr. Manning

When Mr. Manning distanced himself from mongrel and pot hound behaviour promising not to run after every car that passed, the first thought that crossed my mind was that he was yet prepared to urinate on the PP leadership and institutions as he indeed has during his periods of “silence”. 

It did not cross my mind then that he was speaking very carefully in his now exposed power run for returned leadership.

Mr. Manning has used sarcasm with deftness, speaking piously of fealty to his leader while simultaneously denigrating his penchant for barking at phantoms. 

It is well established that the once famed Rottweiler was considered by Mr. Manning to be a raging bull who brooked no dissent to his views. Having spayed the Rott effectively in the august Parliament, the revived Mr. Manning now sees him as a pot hound and a mongrel and hopes that these epithets are transferred in the public mind to the current leader.

Not that Dr. Rowley has done anything to burnish his leadership image by his frequent cause célèbre forays against the PPG on the most frivolous matters, trying to run around parked cars barking frenziedly. On that ground one must say “Touché” to Mr. Manning. But by this remark Mr. Manning winkingly gives the lie to his assurance of loyalty.

The gravitas Mr. Manning hopes to bestow on his grand re-entry to take up selective issues as a high breed bloodhound is patently false as he never missed an opportunity to add yeast to molehills against the PM hoping for mountains. 

Were it not for the marked firmness of Speaker Wade, Mr. Manning would have capitalized on his former self-exaltation and abused Parliamentary privilege at every opportunity. Bluntly, he has been held in check by a tight rein.

By his new public utterances in the style of His Grace soon retiring who withheld frequent comment for that reason, Mr. Manning hopes to infuse weightiness into his future pronouncements effectively mounting his challenge for a chance at another 100 days without a Waterloo in sight. 

His Elba has become intolerable, and his ambition fuelled by malcontents agitating against the rowdy leader of diminished regard. Without doubt he has received some assurance of schismatic support.

Another of the remarkable self serving statements of Mr. Manning at the watershed press conference was the plea of his humanity which is imperfect and subject to err. Firstly, this sudden epiphany contradicts his autocratic record that functioned under imagined divine instructions far removed from fallibility. Even his infamous church project was commissioned with unerring certainty and prophetic license.

But if Mr. Manning now pleads human fallibility and by it exculpation, why is this mitigating attribute not extended to present office holders who are doing their best by bare unaided human efforts?

Mr. Manning has carefully garbed his wolverine characteristics in sheep’s clothing in an effort to rebrand himself as a humble servant without ambition. Our nation must shout “Wolf! Wolf!”, and take out the cudgels to defend the sheepfold as the present PNM flock’s shepherd is somewhere chasing phantom cars.

There are many who would willingly return this country to PNM rule out of sheer frenzied hatred of the present administration for reasons beyond admission. We live in an age when social networks can operate with disastrous effect beyond media capability and mischief has no inhibition.

The first overt step of Mr. Manning has to be recognized for its grand purpose. His opposition to the SoE is dangerously significant – he is hoping to neutralize the gains in national security only to discredit the administration, and to reestablish criminal hegemony, and his driving imperative is to escape prosecution and jail as so resoundingly promised.

Sando East should demand his immediate resignation and call for a bye election. Why tolerate his presence for the rest of the term and thereby facilitate his personal ambition against the national good? His supporting PNM cadre is clearly working against the majority rank and file membership which has no interest in Mr. Manning’s return.

And lastly, the ambivalent media should recall its loyalty and at the very least permit public commentary on this clear and present danger now manifest, if it cannot itself expose Mr. Manning’s secret agenda highlighted by his rejuvenated hair.

MFRahman.

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Our family at home in Toronto 2008

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