Hoping something will stick

Jul 25, 2008 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
Many commentators are alleging that the current government is some sort of “dictatorship”.
However, it seems to me that such complainers are generally anti-PPP or have links to social groups that oppose the administration.

These folks have been throwing things at the government for years hoping something, anything, will stick.
Other accusers are political party activists who are ashamed of the 28-year absolute and repressive rule of the PNC.

Projecting this guilt to the current government makes them feel better about the nefarious record of their party when it was in power.

Rather than show remorse they find it easier to argue: “Sure we supported a dictatorship. But now so are you.” They ignore the fact that they are lying to themselves in the second part.

But truth is not the objective here; dodging culpability is, and there is nothing like reducing shame by claiming that “everybody’s doing it.”

However, people who have lived through the illegal 28-year despotic rule of the PNC know the difference between the two governments and in the long run efforts to blend history rather than face up to wrong-doing will prove futile. The spin that “nobody’s better because we’re all just as bad” will not stand.

As an aside, Mr. Khalil Mohamed wrote in the Kaieteur News (of July 24) that the limited ban against TV reporter Gordon Moseley should be lifted. Mohamed claims Mr. Moseley was banned from the “the presidential beat”.

I thought it was clear that Moseley was banned from events at the Office of the President but is actually free to cover his “presidential beat” anywhere else he sees fit.

In arguing to withdraw Moseley’s ban Khalil Mohamed cited the much abused catch-phrase: “press freedom”.
Mohamed said: “It should be remembered that Nagamootoo fought for press freedom alongside Ms. Janet Jagan (Mirror), Father Morrison (Catholic Standard), David De Caires (SN), and Rickey Singh (Caribbean Contact).

Wow! – Gordon Moseley’s work linked to that of Guyana’s most respectable journalists; newsmen and woman, all of outstanding national and creditable journalistic achievements.

Is this a deserving association? Some people, I’m sure, must be proud; others, I think, might be feeling slightly insulted by Mohamed’s connection.
Justin de Freitas

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