The Manicou Report

Good comment from Gospelspy in A Letter to John:

gospelspy said…

If the COP of Winston Dookeran is the Corpse, then Red Beret must be the living dead. Something is definitely wrong in the head under the red beret, it has gone beyond loose screws, and it is outright madness. The logic under the red beret is flawed. How can one call for unity but at the same time spit the oil of vitriol on those with whom you propose to unite? Even worse, is the threat that if you don’t unite I will expose you as some sort of evil person with cocoa in the sun. So why do you want to unite with this person in the first place?

One major tragedy of the present scenario is not so much the fact that Red Beret’s political game plan makes sense to him, (one expects that he makes sense of his delusions), however it is the scattered remnant of supporters who actually applaud his illogical repertoire of hate and love in the same breadth. The majority of this remnant are East Indians who for some reason believe that they owe Red Beret wholesome gratitude for his work as a trade unionist or politician. Some may not like the way he was hounded and persecuted by The Emperor and want him to have a chance to get even. Whatever the reason, these sweet people seem unable to break from the spell of the red beret because they refuse to consider the larger picture.

This larger picture is the fact that the UNC Alliance is unattractive to the majority of those who oppose the PNM in Trinidad and Tobago, the major unattraction being Red Beret himself. Hence, because it’s popularity is zoned into the traditional “sugar cane” seats, the best that the UNC Alliance can do is form part of the opposition. They cannot win any marginal seat. It is only the COP, which has the broad based appeal across all ethnic and other divides of the society that provides the best umbrella under which to capture the government from the PNM to the benefit of all the people of our country.

This is the reason why the unity for which so many desire (including Red Beret) can only bear fruit under the banner of the COP with Winston Dookeran as leader. The irony of Red Beret is that for one who has said that his life struggle has been to unite the people of T&T, is that he can accomplish his life long goal by simply doing nothing, yes simply get out of the way and “Voila” unity. The problem with Red Beret is that the only unity he will accept is the one that he leads and he will smash up anybody who tries to take away the title of Mr. Unity from him.

Nevertheless, despite the efforts of the Red Beret, unity is happening on the ground as there is a quickening momentum of support for the COP coming from all sections of the society. What may well happen is that Red Beret’s party will be reduced to Team UNC Alliance and suffer the same ignorance by the electorate as Ramesh Maharaj’s Team Unity. Now by the way, unless Ramesh Maharaj can explain how he knew to fly his family to Grenada on the eve of the Muslimeem coup of July 1990, he will always be a man I distrust.

For those who have eyes to see and ears to hear, “Winston is de man!”