“Patent fascism and a veritable product of fascist thinking”

Apr 11, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Those words above are the description Randy Persaud used in a letter to KN last Wednesday to judge a column of mine for last Sunday. Persaud says my article, “The East Indian mind, the East Indian conscience and Guyana’s tragedy,” is the result of my fascist thinking and he calls my evaluation of the East Indian reluctance to denounce elected dictatorship in Guyana “patent fascism.” Now obviously what comes into play here is the writer and the politician. Persaud (what work does he do in this country for Mr. Jagdeo and why does he refuse to announce his job title; sounds fascist to me?) obviously feels that there is a fascist way of looking at things. By this he means the thinker. Why don’t we move from the fascist thinker to the fascist doer?
If I am a fascist thinker in Guyana, are there fascist doers. Can we examine the record? We must start by stating that Persaud’s objection to last Sunday’s essay is that it borders on racial incitement against East Indians (he sounds a lot like Ravi Dev). Well if there are those who write along lines of ethnic prejudice, what about those who actually practice racial discrimination? What can that lead to?
The writer, I concede, can influence people to act. The doer on the other hand comes into direct confrontation with his victims because he is doing harm to them. So can we look at the fascist doer now? Remember we are doing so in the context of Randy Persaud’s criticism of my last Sunday’s piece.
The Government has virtually crippled a post-secondary educational institution whose beneficiaries are almost all African Guyanese. The Critchlow Labour College essentially served the purpose of social elevation of African Guyanese who didn’t have a glorious record at the CXC level. How does that policy stand up against my KN article for last Sunday? Which one should be considered most dangerous in the realm of creating ethnic vexations?
Randy does read the Freddie Kissoon Column; that is for sure. Therefore, he must have read my reference to fascist behaviour of Nazi officials in the classic movie; “Night of the Generals” that I wrote about last week. The plot is about the sexual voracity of the Nazi generals and how they carried on their predatory libidinousness without prosecution.
Doesn’t that fascist moment in history remind you of your own country at the moment Randy (assuming that you don’t have citizenship or nationality of another land)? A party apparatchik is asked by a poor mother to drop her daughter off after attending a festivity in the name of Papa Cheddi. The party general takes the underage girl to his home and ravishes her just as in the movie. And the law couldn’t touch him.
There is more to come about sexual fascism in your Government, Randy. Another apparatchik beats up a teenager with his gun in the mistaken belief that the young man was sexing up the general’s sweet woman. Blows rained down on the youth and bullets flew into the air. This general does this kind of things often then goes to the bar to relax. This is the identical behaviour in the movie. I could go on Randy but by now you would have discovered the concept of sexual fascism as practiced by members of the political elites.
What would you call the five years imprisonment of Mark Benshop without a conviction? Was that fascism? What would you call the assassination of Ronald Waddell? Was that fascism? What would you call the alliance between a deadly and murderous drug trafficker and the most powerful apparatchiks? Was that fascism? What would you call the complete transformation of the public service where at the top of the pyramid, one ethnic group has been replaced by another ethnic community? Was that fascism?
What would you call the shameless give-away of state resources to one particular section of our population to the point where nothing is left for other race groups to collect? Was that fascism? What would you call the nauseating reduction of the state-owned Chronicle to one of the worst rags since newspapers were invented where the most uncivilized attacks are made against critics of the Government? Is that fascism Randy?
Let me close by saying this Randy, and you can huff and puff as much as you want because I will repeat it anyway at any forum in the world – even the fascist rulers of Germany and Italy had certain moral guidelines. In the Government of Guyana today, there aren’t any.

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