MASTER WILLY ROLLS AGAIN

Sep 19, 2008 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

Remember Master Willy who had a roll in the mud? Well, there is a new Master Willy in the media.
His name is Uncle Freddie and does he love a tumble in the mud.
Ravi Dev made a silly mistake when he tried to engage the professor in mud-slinging. When it comes to muck, Uncle Freddie is a master.
He muddied Ravi Dev on Wednesday. But he knew he could not dare attempt that with the Peeper yesterday. So he was more circumspect and despite his repeated threat not to reply to anonymous writers, he tried to debunk the fact that one of the main reasons why he is so bitter towards the PPP is because of the appointment of someone at the University of Guyana who he does not like.
He says this is not the case at all. He does not deny that there is bitterness over the appointment. He says that he does not have a problem with the person but with the process. Go roll in the mud again, Uncle Freddie!
He has always had a problem with personalities at the University of Guyana. When he entered the university as a lecturer, he was opposed to the then Vice Chancellor.
During one protest strike, he was arrested for trying to light tyres across the road. He wrote bad things against the gentleman.
Hoyte eventually replaced the man but his new choice did not find favour with Uncle Freddie. He was at odds with the new Vice Chancellor Denis Craig and continued his criticisms of the man and the university.
He kept calling on the PPP Government to do something and when they finally did something he was a happy man because they appointed someone that he was initially pleased with.
However, when it became clear that he, Uncle Freddie, would not also have things his way with the new man, this new appointee also came under the hammer from Uncle Freddie.
To make things worse, the PPP appointed another person to succeed the new man. And this choice irritated Uncle Freddie who saw the PPP as the worst government ever for doing so.
He would want, however, for us to believe that it was not the persons that he was against, but the manner of their appointments. Well, how does he explain that he was trying to get Cheddi Jagan to do the very thing that he was opposed to?
He personally confessed in this newspaper that he tried to get Cheddi to hand-pick someone to take over as Vice Chancellor. Yet this mud-slinging analyst wants us to believe that it is the process that bothers him.
He also wants us to believe that the Peeper sees a great deal of bad things happening in Guyana but does not wish for him to speak out. This is vintage Uncle Freddie. When he is not daubing mud, he is engaging in mischief.
This column has never argued that he should not point out the bad things that are happening in Guyana. This column has been doing a great deal of this and perhaps it needs to be asked why on certain matters Uncle Freddie has been very silent.
Was he convinced that there was a need for him to be silent on these issues?
No, the issue is not one of silence, the issue of one of balance and objectivity. He keeps harping about elected dictatorship and he uses Zakaria as his theoretical construct. Yet Zakaria made a distinction between democracy and constitutional liberalism. The whole purpose of Zakaria’s article was to argue that one does not guarantee the other.
He attacks Cheddi Jagan as someone who was a failure and a poor leader. He forgot what he wrote in the past about Cheddi. Does he need to be reminded about what he wrote?
Similarly, he said that Hoyte as President did magnificent things. Well that was not his position when he was a columnist for the Stabroek News. Uncle Freddie was one of the fiercest critics of Hoyte describing his rule as that of a destructive hurricane.
Perhaps he needs to be reminded about those things so that he can explain his amazing evolution to where he is today.
No one is seeking to deny him the right to criticize others and the government. But it must not be self- serving and he must maintain some semblance of objectivity and balance otherwise he will become a discredited writer and this is not what anyone would wish to see of someone who is obviously extremely brilliant.
I insist that the problem he faces is the harbouring of thoughts of bitterness because of how the PPP has treated him. He has to understand how to deal with those problems and to move on because there is nothing that destroys a human being more than harbouring of hurts.

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