Freddie Kissoon column...Responsibility and propaganda: The “Fine Man” story

Freddie Kissoon column…Responsibility and propaganda: The “Fine Man” story

Sep 03, 2008 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

There are several persons that write under the sobriquet, Peeping Tom, and the ones that heap praise on the PPP are the more jejune ones. Their arguments are extremely illogical.
I will reply to one of the Peeping Toms that continuously seek to distort the brilliant writings of Dr. Fareed Zakaria who theorized that there are countries where free and fair elections did not bring about freedom but resulted in what he calls “elected autocracy.”
It is clear that the PPP is afraid of the Zakaria theory but its spokesperson in the name of Peeping Tom is doing a poor job in trying to shake off the application of Zakaria to the PPP Government. More on that later.
Let us look at yesterday’s Peeping Tom; no doubt one of the PPP boys that write under that name. This particular Peeping Tom would like me to congratulate the police and the Government for bringing the “Fine Man” evil to an end. My task as an opinion-maker is to analyze phenomena with the specific intention of looking for multi-causal factors and investigating if traditionally held explanations are vulnerable to unfolding, contradictory evidence. That is the responsibility of a social commentator and an academic. The role of a propagandist comes easily to anonymous columnists who do not want to be identified.
The point of my essay on “Fine Man” yesterday was to ask several questions. The most demanding of these inquiries is whether there is another gang out there. Citizens of this country have a right to know about every aspect of the crime situation. This nation would be devastated if we, in the media, tell them that the violent orgy is over then another bestial rampage occurs. Think of what it will do to the psychology of the Guyanese people. More importantly, there is the fact that meticulous inquiry has left some nagging questions about the ubiquity of Rawlins.
Now, there could be one violent cabal that was led by Rawlins before his death. The trouble with that observation is that it encounters a logical series of events that contradict it. Let us attempt to use logics in the legendary adventures of “Fine Man” to see if we can arrive at multi-causal explanations.
First, it is only one source that we get the theory that “Fine Man” is the leader of a murderous gang, and that is the police. How do we know this? Is it possible that because he was infamous and the police knew about him they automatically branded him the leader? Could there be men without police records that have made use of Rawlins’ killing machine but the two groupings have different agenda?
Secondly, and I will be brief here because I don’t want to repeat the contents of yesterday’s column, what experience did a relatively young man like Rawlins have in terms of Guyana’s geography that he could manoeuvre himself militarily all over Guyana and do it with fantastic success?
The operations Rawlins was supposed to have led involved participants who behaved as if they had military training. Could it be that Rawlins was just another figure in the squad but the police kept identifying him?
Thirdly, when does insurgency meet criminality? Two ministers and an academic who is close to the Government have openly said that the Government is facing an insurgency, meaning the gunmen have a political agenda. Clement Rohee, Gail Teixeira and Dr. Randy Persaud have made this claim. There is some evidence to support this. Gunmen went near to the US Embassy and shot up the sentry outpost at the headquarters of the police. The people who attacked Lusignan chose a certain group of victims only, meaning that they intended to make a political statement.
Thirdly, there has been no account so far as to how much money was taken from “Sash” Sawh’s home after he was killed. The police have clearly put down the attack as robbery. Why would robbers take time to stack bodies on top of each other? Why not just go in, take what you have and kill.
How many cases in history throughout the world, robbers go in a home, kill the occupants and before they do so, they demand that they lie on top of each other?
Now assuming there is an insurgency, what qualities of leadership Rawlins possesses to cause him to be given the headship role?
Finally, when gunmen attacked a 10th rate rum-shop in Mon Repos and killed two customers, ballistics evidence pointed to “Fine Man.” Such petty robberies for such a high-profile criminal who stacked up a vast amount of wealth in many attacks? Does this make sense? Again I ask: could there be more than one gang?

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