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Apr 08, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
In Guyana, nothing that comes out of the mouths of those who have state power shocks the Guyanese people. In comparison to any other government in the world right now, the ruling cabal in this land has mouthed off the most morally and ethically repugnant statements and calmly go about their business only to shout out more offensive expletives.
A nation of sheep reads these miasmic outpourings and cuddle up under their beds scared to death that Dracula might come for them.
Who leads the pack? That is a difficult effort. Is it Mr. Jagdeo? Rohee? Or Charles Ramson? The President said that when he wants intelligence on the opposition he doesn’t need to have a security agency.
He can send an underling to a rum shop. That was funny indeed. And a lot of Guyanese missed the hilarity in that utterance.
If you travel to all the rum shops in Demerara you will find more members of the ruling elites than people from the business community or the opposition parties. If you want to know the secrets of the Government of Guyana just go to any rum shop, day or night, and you will know what the next move is from the Government.
My friend who was once the spouse of a PPP leader told me at Nathoo’s Bar on Pike Street, Kitty, this powerful PPP prince, drunk to the world, shouted out that Roger Khan is a Guyanese hero. I wonder how “Sash Sawh’s brother-in-law would relate to that
This reference to Mr. Jagdeo’s statement is child’s play in comparison to the emanations of Clement Rohee and Charles Ramson. The latter would be more under the microscope when it comes to language because he is the chief law officer of the State.
It doesn’t appear that anyone is in charge of the Ministers of the Cabinet because they can coin the most embarrassing notes, the kind of which would lead to peremptory dismissal in democratic polities. One wonders if Charles Ramson’s American visa was under review when he made the most unspeakable pronouncement for an Attorney-General. And to make matters worse, those words came out of his mouth while he was speaking in his capacity as Attorney-General.
I have written about this twice before and it should be repeated non-stop. This descent into fascist semantics sets this government apart from all other administrations in the history of the British West Indies.
Speaking at a press conference on the Leslie Ramsammy/Roger Khan saga, Ramson told the young journalists that when he heard about all the things being attributed in the media to a certain Minister of the Government he thought it was he, Ramson, that they meant because he, Ramson, is the sort of person that would engage in the kind of activities Ramsammy is being accused of.
Times like these we miss the fatherly politics of morality paraded upon this nation by elder statesman, Eusi Kwayana. Each time Ramson chose to speak in Parliament, Eusi would have walked out.
If you think that was the last of Ramson’s act of putting his foot in his mouth because someone pulled him in a corner and said to him, “An Attorney-General don’t say those thing,” then you are wrong. This newspaper, in its April 1 edition, quotes Mr. Ramson as saying that the “end justified the means.” Ramson was justifying the violation of CARICOM’s Common External Tariff by the Guyana Government through the importation of extra-regional cement because according to Ramson, it resulted in the fall of cement price.
Ramson is not trained in philosophy as far as I know so he would not have read deep into the moral meaning of that observation but as a lawyer he must have come across the ethical pitfall in that statement. The end cannot justify the means. This is fascist language.
It would appear that Mr. Ramson unfortunately doesn’t check up on the things President Obama is doing. He should. Obama is a great, wise man. He has ordered the abolition of torture of prisoners. This got Dick Cheney mad because Cheney asserted that the end justified the means because some of the Guantenamo prisoners talked after they were tortured and America got information on future terrorist acts.
Ramson knows fully well what he, Ramson, meant though. Remember the Government used a drug trafficker to fight gunmen in Buxton. So the end result was that the guns from Buxton were silenced. In this case the end will not justify the means.
The American Government is going to hand down indictments of big, big politicians soon.
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