Statements of another mind

Aug 30, 2009 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Each day as the Government of Guyana’s leading decision-makers say the most shocking things that insult the people of this country and damage the psyche of this nation, I think of what lies inside the mind of the human being. I studied Sigmund Freud extensively, but no philosopher from the early Greek period in ancient civilization up to modern times has been able to explain the human mind. What lies inside the psyche of a voter who would see with their own eyes the unsuitability, incompetence and uselessness of a politician and vote to put that person in control over the destiny of their own children.
Is there anything that lacerates the soul of a PPP voter? Shouldn’t there be? Let us examine some statements of powerful leaders in government and then determine if any country, no matter how poor, how unknown in the world, should vote for such politicians. We start with the man who presides over the legal system from the Government side. This is the last man you would expect to openly embrace anything connected with the realm of the illegal. Attorney-General Charles Ramson held a press conference and took a position on the statements coming out of a New York court room that put Health Minister Leslie Ramsammy in a conspiratorial relation with a self-confessed drug trafficker, Roger Khan.
Here are the words of the chief legal officer of the Government of Guyana as quoted in the Stabroek News last Sunday; “Speaking for myself, I know Minister Ramsammy and at one stage I thought they really meant me because it’s more in my kind of character make-up to get involved at that level. I don’t believe Minister Ramsammy would ever get involved in something like that.”
For readers who may not get the context of what Mr. Ramson has said. Let me contextualize his remarks. Before I do that let me say here and now – if PPP supporters can read what this Minister told his press conference and yet vote for his party, the PPP, then modern civilization has failed these people.
Mr. Ramson is saying that it is not in the personality structure of someone like Leslie Ramsammy to get entangled in sordid, illegal dealings with a drug trafficker like Roger Khan. In fact he, Ramson, is the kind of person to do such things, so when he heard that people were talking about a Government Minister being involved with Roger Khan, he Ramson, thought it was him, Ramson, they were talking about. In situations like this, I wish I was making this point on television so I could emulate a television commentator I do admire, Rachel Maddow of MSNBC. She has a way of pressing her point with penetrating effect.
Let us stay on this statement of the Attorney-General and the Minister of Legal Affairs. Mr. Ramson is announcing that his character make-up is of a type that would lead him to do the things that are being alleged against Leslie Ramsammy. What are these things? Engagement with and assistance to a violent drug trafficker. This can only happen in Guyana. In any other country, Mr. Ramson’s Government would have fired him immediately. Mr. Ramson joined the company of Clement Rohee and Robert Persaud. But he carved out his own league with that horrible admission of the type of chemistry his psychological physiology possesses.
Rohee was bad in telling reporters that with all the important things he has to do with his Ministry how they can ask him about torture of suspects by the GDF. Robert Persaud was bad in telling the Guyana Parliament that the torture three accused endured at the hands of army interrogators was just roughing up. But in Ramson’s case he is the worst. He is openly revealing that he has the character traits that would lead him into a situation as what people are saying about Leslie Ramsammy.
How can any Minister be so stupid as to tell the nation through the media that he has it in his personality to get involved in sordid situations as having a relationship, while being a Minister, with a convicted drug dealer? And to crown it all, the man is the Minister of Legal Affairs.
Don’t ask me what President Jagdeo will do with Mr. Ramson. President Jagdeo is more concerned with assessing my character. At a press conference he told his audience that I am a sleaze-ball. Of course I cannot respond in kind because this newspaper or any newspaper will not carry my response. Come to think of it, I know what President Jagdeo will do with Ramson. He will say don’t worry with that article of Freddie; Freddie is a sleaze ball. But I am not a drug trafficker, Mr. President.

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