A dead “superstar” displays his corpse in front of the US Embassy

Jan 18, 2009 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Do you ever think for a moment that the Israeli Cabinet, Government and Parliament would still tolerate much less accept one of its Ministers who was denied any type of visa by the US Embassy?

Do you ever think for a moment the Israeli Cabinet, Government and Parliament would tolerate much less accept a Minister’s undertaking to drop off a friend’s under-aged daughter to her home but instead took her to his house and attempted to have forceful sex with her?

Do you ever think for a moment the Israeli Cabinet, Government and Parliament would accept a Minister who constantly fights at cheap-status rumshops and when he beats up people the police protect him rather than his victims?

Do you ever think for a moment that in Israel a Ministerial Advisor is caught in an illegal export business and is retained in his job? Do you ever think for a moment that the Police Commissioner’s integrity could be damaged by the withdrawal of any type of American visa and the Government and Parliament not demand an inquiry?

Do you know that in Israel, a police investigation found the most politically powerful person in the land, the Prime Minister, liable to be investigated for corruption?

So last week you had a spectacle that is beyond description of members of the ruling party (the party that makes policies for the country) picketing the US Embassy on Israeli atrocities against the Palestinian people.

The two issues – the picket exercise and Israel’s use of violence – have to be separated. What Israel is doing in Gaza cannot and must not be tolerated by the peoples of the world but moral criteria come in.

The entire PPP leadership is not morally fit to protest such violence for two reasons. One is that this is one of the world’s most corrupt regimes. What moral authority does the PPP leadership have to ask Guyanese to condemn the war in Gaza? Let others do that not the PPP.

Secondly, the PPP has no moral standing from which to preach to the Guyanese people, the US Embassy and others. Here is a Government that calls the brutal torture of suspects in custody “roughing up.” These accused were beaten, burned and had bones broken in their bodies and in the face of compelling evidence, a Government that subscribes to international laws against torture refers to this illegal use of terrible force as, “a roughing up.”

The spectacle gets more sickening when you think that one of the Ministers that used that term told me that he was interested in becoming the President of this country.

The cruelty of this ruling party mirrors those of the Israeli soldiers in Gaza when another Minister told the press that he is too busy with other things to answer questions about torture.

Are these the people whose hypocritical presence you want to be part of in a picket line against violence? These are the very people that are/were associated with nocturnal gunmen between 2002 and 2004 that went about killing dozens of people in extra-judicial fashion without giving them a trial many of whom were probably innocent.

We are still to hear what was spoken when Oliver Hinckson met two lawyers whom the Office of the President said were acting on their own and not as official emissaries of Mr. Jagdeo. Mr. Hinckson, one would like to think, has taken that conversation to the US, British and Canadian Embassies in Georgetown, the UN people stationed here and to the Caricom Secretariat. So why did they stage the demonstration in front of the US Embassy?

Because the PPP knows that its legacy, credibility, image and history have been destroyed by 16 years of relentlessly heartless policies that have ruined Guyana.

All its supporters and all the Guyanese people who offered it their goodwill on winning the election in 1992 have not even an ounce of respect, courtesy and admiration left for these hypocrites that paraded their double standards outside of the US Embassy.

Let us end on a funny note. Last year, Clement Rohee told the Speaker that if he denies him his right to speak in Parliament, “we” (the word he used) would take our protest outside. Who would have protested with Rohee – Gail, Jagdeo, Mrs. Jagan, Robert? Even the Speaker may have joined Rohee outside.

If the PPP had joined Rohee’s protest, it would have become the biggest joke since humour was discovered. The dead superstar is going to try again.

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