Sexual offence, continuing disrespect and the success of fascism in Guyana

May 10, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

It takes just commonsense, not erudite learning, exceptional intellectual talent, mental acumen, but simple commonsense to know that if you do not protect your dignity, show respect to yourself and behave as if you are serious about protecting your values, then your children, relatives, friends colleagues at work and students (if you are a teacher) are not going to approach you with respect and in fact seek to dismiss the value of you as a human being.

This is a sociological law. It is as old as time itself. The average human being knows that. A simple example should suffice. A CEO gets his employees to buy liquor for him. He sends his senior officers to the market to buy dog food for him. e askHe He asks the chief accountant to wash his car.

And the pattern goes on. At some stage in the relationship, that CEO is going to demand the most humiliating task of his underlings because he feels he can manipulate and exploit them because they have no self-worth and they display their self-erasure for him to see. I have been working at the University of Guyana for 24 years and I saw how Guyana’s intellectuals were reduced to floor cloth by their boss who treated them like dirt because they themselves behaved like that.

It is the same with a nation and its government. The PNC, AFC and GAP are yet to realize that the presidency and the PPP Government have no respect for them, think they are a gullible lot and have become flippant about the existence of the opposition and other stakeholders.

A good example of the cause of the pomposity of power is the opposition’s attitude to Parliament. The Government drifts from one egregious scandal to the next.

These perversities would topple any government even if done in an Arab autocracy, a military dictatorship or a communist oligarchy but in Guyana, politics’ most uncivilized moments pass into history, forgotten and the power monsters continue to ride tall in their saddle.

And why? Because the combined opposition, like little Pavlovian puppies, creep into Parliament where they become Shakespearian clowns and the kings do not notice them because the kings know once they ring the bell the next day, the Pavlovian animals will return. It is the same with other stakeholders including the business community.

The Government announces its low carbon nonsense, and they rally around the little dictators. The Government announces one of its big wigs got an international award and these stakeholders are tripping over each other to offer congratulatory messages. The little fascists laugh at them and take more latitude and fascism marches on.

The disrespect never ends. There is a new announcement. The little fascists will be seeking nation-wide consultations on sexual offences. And when the announcement came, you could have imagined the glee on the faces of the little dictators.

You could have imagined the words; “Stupid people, they will come to the table when we want them; they will always come to the table.” It is as pathetic as that. One feels deeply sorry for the younger folks of this nation; they have no one to lead them. So sexual offence is the new bad word in Guyana. It is a monstrous crime devouring this nation. We have to save Guyana so the exigency of calling nation-wide consultancies must be immediate.

In a country where in a New York courtroom evidence emerged that a government was tied up with a notorious drug trafficker who may have been involved with the murder of a Minister, there is no consultation with stakeholders. In a country where proof, hard proof is available that billions of public money is being stolen by powerful politicians (and logical deduction points to banks in Switzerland and other countries), there is no consultation with stakeholders.

In a country where the restructuring of the police force is a demand by every citizen, there is no consultation with stakeholders. In a country where feces, decomposing animals, poisonous rubbish dot the landscape of the capital city, there is no consultation with stakeholders.

This very “democratic, generous” Government that loves to consult its citizens, sees nothing wrong with having one radio station, sees nothing wrong with its refusal to have a Freedom of Information Act. But it is in a hurry to engage Guyanese constituencies on the urgency of discussing sexual offences. And the Pavlovian puppies will line up to be consulted. What do these people’s children think of them as human beings; I mean the stakeholders? Come election 2010, I rather vote for a donkey if he is running.

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