I am voting for Clement Rohee to be President of Guyana

Apr 01, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Aah! I caught you! That title had you running to read this article. You forgot. You certainly forgot that today is April Fool’s Day. No, I was not serious. It is an April Fool’s joke.
They say never say never in life. But I would never vote for a Clement Rohee or a Ralph Ramkarran to run the country that I plan to spend the rest of my life in.
That is my opinion. I am sure you have your choice. I am entitled to my selections. I do not know what I could do to prove to those who know me and read me when I say that I never voted for the PPP since I began voting.
That is the truth. I gave a description of my voting pattern in a response to a public request from Tacuma Ogenseye. I know deep down in the tunnels of my mind, I have been true to my conscience and to the integrity of my personal philosophy in that I do not have to live with the guilt that I have been unfair to my country in that my vote helped to put the most unimaginative group of politicians anywhere in the world in charge of Guyana.
I wrote a few months ago, and I will repeat that judgement here; after seeing what the PPP has done to this country for eighteen years, I believe we are dealing with evil. I am applying the word evil in the sense used by the great anti-fascist philosopher, Hannah Arendt.
I have declared several times that it is my academic conviction that any objective assessment of the use of power by the PPP since 1992 makes this regime the most undemocratic since the Caricom family members got Independence in the sixties. There is something evil that has overtaken the most powerful policy-makers in both the PPP as a party and the Government of Guyana.
The standard explanation is that as power gets intoxicating, its possessor loses sense of time, space and place.
Power then becomes destructive. It destroys logic, rationality and conscience. This prototype of power is strongly applicable to the rule of the PPP especially the approach of Bharrat Jagdeo. The theory of political behaviour that applies to the Guyana Government is elected dictatorship and elected fascism.
The categories take in Putin’s Russia and Chavez’s Venezuela as the worst offenders. But there is Guatemala, Egypt, Pakistan among others where dictators have legitimately come to power.
The moral degeneracy of the PPP Government is perhaps where the evil lies. No group of leaders, no matter how authoritarian in their instincts and policies, should completely abandon the moral compass.
There is today in Guyana, a regime that has no moral architecture on which its conduct rests.
There is a complete absence of moral guidelines in the administering of political office in Guyana. It is an extremely horrible characteristic of a cabal that has lost all the threads of ethical decency. And tragically for Guyana, it gets worse everyday. Let’s get back to voting choices.
On my parent’s grave, I swear I have never voted for the PPP. I first voted in 1985. It was for the WPA.
The WPA got my vote in 1992 and 1997. I gave the Amerindian people my vote with TUF in 2001. I sent my ballot to the AFC in 2006. This voting pattern has been of deep mental comfort to me.
My only relation with the PPP Government was a six-month stint I took with Moses Nagamootoo in 1999. The contract was for one year but I reduced it to six months because that was all the time I needed. My task was to reinvent political television opening up democratic space for those affected by policy-makers.
Moses Nagamootoo was a gentleman to work with. He did not attempt to influence my work through political interference.
Let me conclude with a little fact that has not been mentioned often in this column. I only published it once. During the PCD talks, I represented the WPA along with others. I was frank and brutal with the PPP in the PCD. The PPP’s double standards were truly sickening. It appeared the PPP wanted me out.
One Sunday morning, Dr. Joshua Ramsammy and Tacuma Ogunseye appeared at my home and asked me for the sake of fraternity between the WPA and PPP, that I should stand down from the PCD. I know Ogunseye would not deny that fact.
Some of us knew a long time ago about the nature of the PPP.

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