In Paris freedom lives, in Guyana is it dead

Oct 22, 2013 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

The opposition parties, human rights groups and others should tape the clips of what is happening in Paris and show them to the university and high school students in Guyana.
When you see what has taken place in Paris, you know that despite the setbacks to freedom in many parts of the world people will always be free because humans will never accept oppression.
If people agree to live in slavery on their own will then that choice should be acknowledged because it is a choice freely made.
But for every slave who voluntarily surrenders his/her freedom there are untold numbers that will lay down their lives for the right of others to live in a world where the human being is recognized for what humans essentially are and should be – free people.
To see what thousands and thousands of young people did in France last week gives this world hope that humans will never return to primitive times. I watched those wonderful youths of France in angry action and I knew in my heart that even if hell holes like Guyana choose to remain primitive slave camps, there are people the world over that will not accept indignities thrown upon them.
The lesson to be learnt in the streets of Paris is that some humans are inferior beings than others and if you choose to accept your inferiority then you have chosen slavery over freedom.
What happened in Paris last week? A gypsy family applied for refugee status five years ago. The case concluded last week. They lost. The police turned up with warrants at the home and one member of the family was missing.
She was a fifteen-year-old who was at school. Then the unthinkable happened. The parents were made to identify their daughter’s school. The girl was removed from her school in full view of her classmates and placed in a police car then deported with the rest of her family to Kosovo. The youths and students of Paris would have none of this State abuse.
One hundred and seventy-one schools were shut down. Pitched battles ensued between the demonstrators and police.
The viewer of the action could not miss the gender imbalance in the protest. From my thinking, I saw more female demonstrators in the crowds. You had to listen to the words that came out of their mouths.
They were all saying that even if the court ruled against the student, no schoolgirl should be so humiliated in France. The French President quickly implied that the girl could re-enter France to continue her studies.
If there were no rage, would the French President have uttered those encouraging words? Contrast this with the world as we know it in Guyana. A policeman was openly filmed beating a mother and her son while they protested a concession to a mining company. Not one Guyanese organization staged a protest walk.
The Guyana Institute of Historical Research held its annual conference in June and the women’s arm of the PNC and PPP addressed the gathering.
At question time, I asked both presenters to offer a comment on what happened to that mother and son. Both women refused to do so. And for logical reason. Now something may be wrong yet logical.
It was logical for these two women to decline comment because they live in a society where freedom, justice and dignity are not deeply respected values.
How then can you expect them to condemn what the policeman did? Two former Guyanese judges agreed with their Caribbean counterparts to award US$15,000 each to the families of two men shot dead by police in a peaceful protest in Linden last year.
Another family was awarded US$10,000. And this society accepted that. And for logical reason. Unlike France where human life is precious and worth fighting for, in Guyana life has no value and that is the norm the present generation has come to accept.
Let me end with a question that pops up often in columns of mine that reflect on philosophy and the human condition. I have repeatedly asked on this page; is the white race genetically superior to non-white civilization? Is European civilization superior to non-western cultures? The question is not hard to answer.
Take a look at how white people approach the loss of freedom and juxtapose it with your own country Guyana. You can find the answer to my question by going to You Tube and look at the French students in beautiful revolt. Genes and race make a subject worth studying.
PS. On Friday, I saw a clip of protestors against austerity in Italy, literally chasing away the riot police.

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