What’s up with the NP?

Are we better off now than we were before the 2008 and directly after the elections? Yes we are, whether a few backbiters/backstabbers chooses to accept it or not. We have gained major ground in just 2 ½ years. There is a certain newspaper (let me just say the NP) that dedicates themselves in lashing out weekly at two persons, Even X Hyde and Party Leader Johnny Briceno. While I can share and understand the reason to lash out at Hyde, I don’t understand why any PUP would want to see their party destroyed. We had agreed not to write against the NP, but they have not lived to the real “MEN” agreement.  For the most part, The NP takes pleasure in mocking and disrespecting the leadership of the PUP. In lashing out at the Leader of our party, the NP is also directly attacking and disrespecting us PUPs (the real PUPs) who have chosen to remain faithful to our Party despite the challenges we faced. The NP argues that Johnny is not a good leader because he has not been able to pool everyone under the “big tent.”  I am tempted to say that not only has Johnny been around working hard to restore confidence in us, but I will go as far as to say that everyone who wants to be under the big tent is there. We have chosen to remain under the “blue tent” storming the UDP weather even after some of our own PUP members took us to the gallows in 2008.

There is enough room under the big PUP blue tent, but the main reason some people don’t find themselves under the tent is that they have chosen not to. As Party Leader, Johnny has done everything possible to include as many people as possible in the rebuilding process of our Party. But I honestly believe that some elements want more than just a “special invitation”; they want direct control of the PUP. The just don’t want to be under the big tent, they want to run things under the big tent. I have been a witness to Briceno’s willingness to include as much people in the PUP, but there are those who simply want to see the PUP fail. These same backstabbers are hoping for a leadership challenge at the next Party Convention. They are tainting the current leader as incapable of uniting the party loyalists. Even in San Joaquin, traditionally Lencho’s turf, Briceno was welcomed into the homes of those real PUPs that want to see the party move on.

Then the NP argues that Briceno should be blamed for having the party where it is. May I say that if they are speaking of actual time then we are on the way up to victory, and yes, it is Johnny’s hard work that is paying off.  But if they are referring to the past results of the 2008 fall, then I wonder in which world Silva and his NP staff are living. The fall of the PUP in 2008 falls squarely on the feet of the then leadership of the party. I have no doubt that Said Musa was and continues to be a good man, but he had elements around him that made him look bad. Those same people, because of their greed and corruption, contributed to Musa’s leadership defeat at the polls. Some of them are the same ones currently penning the NP. In the same way that I believe in Musa’s innocence, I strongly believe that some PUPs enjoyed Musa being Prime Minister. In many instances, those people placed in key positions in order to execute the Party’s philosophy turned around and executed their own philosophies, allowing our party to fail. Those actions were not only noticed by our PUP voters but the wider voting population, hence our defeat. Now, because those individuals cannot do as they will in the Party, they see the Leader as a threat.

Knowing our Party Leader well enough, I am tempted to say that Johnny would never kick out anyone from the PUP. Those that feel that they have been kicked out of the Party are because Briceno has taken a stance against corruption. No queremos oportunistas – punto y fin!  No party is perfect; every party has challenges, take a look at the UDP and you will see. Of course there will be character problems, but it is time to look at real issues. There comes a time when whether we like something or not we just simply have to keep moving forward in the interest of our country. Or are we willing to see our Party and its members punish at the mercy of the UDP simply because some people cannot see eye to eye or because an elite crowd want to control the PUP?

So then I beg the question; what is the NP’s real agenda? Is it that those paying the mercenaries to write for the NP are fighting to control the PUP even if it means attacking Briceno’s leadership? Where was the NP when we were taking a licking when Said Musa was our Leader? We are still paying for the faults and misdeeds of the past administration, but did we tear down our party? Sixty years after it was formed, our Party is at a similar cross road, but at the same time our leader is concentrated and focused on garnering public support as we see the rebirth and rebuilding of the Big Blue Machine. It doesn’t matter how you want to turn it; it doesn’t matter how you look at things; and it doesn’t matter whether you like it or not; Hon. Johnny Briceno is our leader and we are moving forward.

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