Intellectual fraud of the worst kind

Dec 15, 2009 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

If Ravi Dev thinks that he can ingratiate himself with the PPP or Mr. Jagdeo because his political career has ignominiously crashed by using me, and I will remain silent then he is deluding himself. Like his friend Vishnu Bisram, Dev has been exposed for what he is – a subtle pro-Indian propagandist for the PPP trying hard (but comically) to come across as an independent commentator.
Bisram has finally been unmasked. The Stabroek News and the Kaieteur News refused to carry his latest fictional polls as news items and Bisram had to send in his stuff to the letter pages of both papers.
No one takes Dev seriously today because his comments have become indistinguishable from those of the PPP leadership. But Dev’s case still needs confronting because he commits intellectual fraud and passes it off as social analysis.
Last Sunday, he was at it again. The same stuck record – Kissoon and others are attacking the PPP by preaching hate. Each time he devotes a column to me, I will respond with my column. Here goes.
There is nothing new in his Sunday piece. His essay last Sunday is a repetition of the previous Sunday ramblings. I cannot think of any new point he added but I feel it is my moral duty to respond each time his focus bears down on me. What I will do here is to continue my exposure of this man whose propaganda to me appears more comical than dangerous.
That is the pitfall people like Dev cannot avoid. If you are going to spin for the PPP you are bound to end up looking stupid and foolish because the PPP Government and the Jagdeo Presidency are incompetent blunderers that have alienated their own supporters. How can you spin for a Government that is happy to retain in a very high capacity, a man who solicits sex from an underage boy?
How can you spin for a Government that is happy to preside over a country in 2009 that cannot administer the water, sewage and electricity systems after 17 years in power?
There was however one dimension of Dev’s Sunday column that highlights the extreme intellectual dishonesty in this man’s commentary. He wrote; “Today there are calls for an inquiry into alleged linkages between the government and a drug dealer…the new discourse has no questions as to why, if true, a government with viable armed forces needed to go down that route.”
This is intellectual fraud of the worst kind. Before we rebut Dev’s low propaganda, it needs to be said that his choice of the word, “alleged” tells a lot of the mentality of Dev. There are no alleged linkages between the government and a drug dealer but a graphic, factual relationship between Roger Khan and important members of the Government of Guyana that has been proven in an American court of law.
So Dev wants to know why the government had control over its armed forces but had to resort to Roger Khan. You see the subtle racism of Dev here. Get one thing straight. For Dev, the African dominated public sector is racist against the PPP Government. Dev refuses to see that it is the other way round.
So what he does by asking the question is to imply that the Black security forces didn’t support the PPP Government thus the embrace of Roger Khan. A more objective analysis would reveal that when the PPP came to power in 1992, the enemy was the public sector. The public sector was thus ripe for diminution or what is commonly known as marginalisation.
Two sections of the public service had to be de-Africanised and de-funded – Customs and Excise and the security forces. This policy in fact began with Cheddi Jagan himself and taken to horrible, sickening and semi-fascist levels by Mr. Jagdeo. I need not dwell on the distinction between Jagan and Jagdeo in terms of tolerance for the other side.
When the Mash Day escape occurred, the year was 2002, nine years after the PPP came to power. In that time, Customs officers who worked with the PNC were unceremoniously kicked out. The police and army were de-funded and demoralised. Both institutions were neglected and for two fundamental reasons – they were African-dominated and were perceived to be sympathetic to the PNC.
The Special Branch of the police force was virtually wiped out. This was wanton practice of racism that a racist thinker like Dev would never acknowledge. For Dev, the only racist government this country produced was the PNC.
When Buxton broke out, the police force had nothing to fight it with and there was no motive to fight.

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