Fascist torture: The culprits are the political bosses of the police force

Nov 03, 2009 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

We, the people of Guyana are letting horrible things happen to us that never occurred under the Burnham regime. The answer for this tragic state of affairs entails a long intellectual discussion which cannot be provided here because of space constraints.

At some point this nation has to take a stand. I am satisfied with my own praxis. I go out in the heat of the sun and I hold my placard in front of my stomach. Mark Benschop and Lincoln Lewis should be applauded for their consistency.

We need to be joined by others. The Hitlerite torture of that little boy so graphically carried by this newspaper should now galvanize the people of Guyana to create here and now the first Velvet Revolution in the English-speaking Caribbean.

There cannot be any doubt about it– the PPP Government has lost its will to govern. It is steeped in brutality and more tyranny is to follow. Let us start first by asking for an all-embracing government before we reach the next election.

If the political bosses refuse that civilized request then we, the people of Guyana must take it to the next stage – peaceful confrontation of a sustained nature for the eventual achievement of the Velvet Revolution.

As the abomination against the fascist torture of the little 14-year-old mounts and reaches the shores of other territories, we, the nation of Guyana must keep in perspective who are to be blamed for this manifestation of fascist torture.

The political directions to the police force have reached sickening levels never seen before in this country. Here is a comparison with an incident from a long time ago.

A well known trade unionist was arrested by the police for possession of drugs. He got a message to Prime Minister Burnham. Burnham ordered one of his aides to investigate.

The official returned and told Burnham that it wasn’t marijuana involved but cocaine. Burnham then told his aide to finish with the matter and let the law take its course.

That trade unionist is still around in Guyana. Under the PPP, the edicts of the political bosses to the police force are so barefaced that we have been reduced to a caricature of what a banana republic is.

Senior reporter from this newspaper, Dale Andrews, and I investigated claims of money being paid for Canadian student visas to a man with close ties to a Muslim organization, which in turn has close ties to the political bosses. We interviewed people who showed us receipts.

We went to Eve Leary and made contacts with families that were being questioned by the CID detectives. We showed one senior rank the evidence we had but in the end the police refused to charge this man. Instead someone with a political attachment to the opposition parties and who had a clash with a certain minister was placed before the courts for the fraud.

A businessman tried to defraud one of the most important organizations in civil society. He met with a certain overseas insurance official at the Pegasus where he presented bogus papers. The fraud was burst wide open by the two independent dailies. One of the businessman’s partners was charged but not him, even though the foreign insurance official gave a written statement to the police, which ought to be in the office of the DPP in which he openly stated that the Guyanese businessman was part of the fraudulent scheme.

As it turned out, the businessman, like the immigration scam artist, has a close working relation with a certain Muslim outfit in North Georgetown in close proximity to a place that I love so much and spend a lot time frequenting.

A policeman told this writer that he gave a written statement in which he saw a top Presidential personnel drive his car into a crowd of opposition protestors in East La Penitence. An injured woman was taken to the hospital. This man was not charged.

On the lower East Coast, a Minister beat up a young lad over a woman, then had the police detain the guy. The victim turned out to be the one that was arrested. In all these episodes cited here, the police took direction from their political bosses.

The time is coming very son, when the political bosses will tell the police to ignore the orders of the court if that hasn’t been done as yet. It is against this background one must understand the rise of Nazi torture by the security forces. Interestingly, the Americans have taken away the visa of a Kenyan Minister for corruption.

It is time for visas in Guyana to be revoked. Right now!