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Sep 22, 2009 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
The WPA had President Burnham in profound mental confusion. A regular pamphlet, “Yamvine,” was put out detailing information about security matters that only could come from top insiders in the army.
Burnham felt that Yamvine was printed by the WPA. The WPA got tremendous procurements of confidential occurrences inside the Burnham regime because Walter Rodney was such a respected human being.
Without Rodney, state secrets would have still come WPA’s way because the PNC Government in those days was seen by citizens as an oppressive regime. It is the same with the PPP today. The PPP is an unpopular government that has literally sank to the bottom of an ocean of horrible scandals.
Mr. Jagdeo cannot be that myopic not to know that there are bags full of confidential information on his Government lying somewhere in the offices of the Kaieteur News, Prime News, Stabroek News and Capitol News. People pass on information to the media on this despised regime all the time.
One of the revelations making the rounds is that the PPP is waiting for a street demonstration of the “mo fyaah, slo fyaah’ type to unleash a devastatingly winnable stratagem. Once the energies are released, there will be physical attacks on innocent female Indians by agent provocateurs. You can bring Mandela to oppose the PPP in the 2011 election and the PPP will win.
Here is a waterproof example. A Guyanese, Rakesh Rampertab, living in the US wrote an elegant letter about old politicians moving off the scene and he included the PPP boys too.
He sounded like someone who had the potential as an East Indian of divorcing himself from ethnic politics. Then lo and behold! Strangely, a peaceful picket by Messrs Mark Benschop, Norris Witter and Lincoln Lewis ended in arrest followed by a vocally loud protest outside the Brickdam Police Station.
Days later, the Ministry of Health was burnt down and Minister Clement Rohee made the announcement that the police knew the intellectual authors of the attack. Then Rakesh Rampertab migrated from the potential I saw in him. He wrote in an exchange with me that there are persons in Guyana that are waging low-level warfare on the legal government. The PPP had converted Rampertab.
Was he in Guyana, no doubt he would vote for the PPP because the enemies are at the gate waiting to transform its low level campaign to open warfare.
Rupert Roopnarine told the media earlier this month that the combined opposition will document the government’s association with Roger Khan but will eschew demonstrative action in the streets because the PPP has successfully criminalised street protests. Indeed they have.
Put numbers out there tomorrow and a few Indians will be robbed and beaten and the Chronicle will scream race attacks.
The Chronicle and Guyana Times for that day will outsell the Kaieteur News and the Stabroek News by millions in the Corentyne. The presses for both of these Government mouthpieces may break down because millions of copies will have to be printed.
This is the reality of politics in Guyana today. It is sad, tragic, pessimistic and depressing but it reflects the loss of values in Guyana since the fifties. One man who insisted on invisibility in the streets long before Roopnarine made his famous remark is Khemraj Ramjattan.
Earlier this year, we met while jogging on the seawall. Ramjattan was adamant, inflexible and agitated. He said the AFC is not going out into the streets because it is going to play into the hands of the PPP. I come to the most important section of this article.
Some of us have got solid information that once the “mo fyah, slo fyaah” thing is lit again, there is a plan to derail it by attacks on Indian women.
I would say that I trust my source on this one. He is too well placed and he has served the democracy movement well over the past few years by the inside details he has passed to us.
As for me, I regard him as a friend because I have known him a long time.
I would advise the PNC, AFC, WPA, Red Thread, ACDA, TUC, GPSU, GHRA; stay off the streets in relation to protestations of human rights violations by the Government of Guyana. Stick to nightly vigils and small daytime protests at selected locations. Tell your people to keep the decibels very low, and stick within the guidelines of decent behaviour.
Do not accept volunteers that will make the numbers grow too large. Stay away from marches for sure. There is evil waiting to consume your spirits and with it, the soul of this tragic nation.
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