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Oh my! Fascism killed the robots!

Jul 02, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

There are two impediments I have in executing my function as a daily commentator. One is that I cannot wait until the day unfolds to see what drama is emerging so I can write on it. I send my stuff to the editor very early in the morning because I live in moral fear of blackouts.
I used to wait until sun goes down then pen my column. But blackouts left me with some terrible frustrations.
On countless occasions, the editor would call to remind me of the nearing deadline. I am not ready because of blackouts and I end up looking for available computers all over the place since UG does not provide its lecturers with individual computers.
This is indeed an exasperating situation from which there is no way out. How can I wait until 17:00 hours to compose my article only to find that there is blackout?
The second dilemma is that most of the times I settle in my mind on the topic I will pursue only to find I am sidetracked by the non-stop flow of political madness and sociological asininities from the Government of Guyana.
I had a long night at my workplace on Wednesday evening. I came home and typed my essay on the role of the courts in stemming the tide of fascism in Guyana. Then early Thursday morning, I collected the papers at the gate (I only buy and read KN and SN; Guyana Times is pro-government and the Chronicle is miasma) and read that the tyrants killed some robots that recently appeared in Georgetown.
I thought the vicious, violent murder of the robots has catastrophic consequences for Guyana thus my article here today. The asininities of this Government have no limits. These people are so terribly foolish that they do not deserve to be in charge of a boy scouts’ outfit muchless a Caribbean country. It is as if they are out to prove that their fascist brand name is more totalitarianistic than previous European models.
First, the robots’ space was permitted by the City Council. Secondly, the robots were put there to advertise a fantastic service that GT&T will provide to the people of Guyana. Thirdly, why massacre the robots when they had only one more day to spend on earth?
The Government had to be stupid to decimate the robots when in less than 24 hours after the attack on them they were going to be laid to rest by their owners anyway. Or is it possible that the perverted and brutish little dictators cannot help themselves.
Driven by fascist logic, these tyrants can only exercise power in a fascist way. There are four dimensions to the extirpation of the robots that need elaboration. One is that the fascists intend to cripple the City Council. The violent death of the robots was to send a message to the City Council that it doesn’t have any jurisdiction over Georgetown.
Secondly, the fascists are not worried about elections. Commonsense will tell any politician that as elections draw near, politicians share out generosities and amenities. In Guyana, the incumbents distribute bullyism.  Thirdly, the continuing exercise of naked, absolute power by the elected dictators of this land has a logic to it. Ironically as elections draw closer, the PPP and the Government of Guyana want the nation to sink deeper in fear so that any attempt at democratic movement before the elections will not be contemplated. The logic of this is all over the place. The attempt to prevent an academic conference; the banning of a minibus from the Patentia public road because it transported protestors to Georgetown; the failed confiscation of a truck that brought demonstrators including school children to Brickdam; the incessant attacks on Kaieteur News; the recent cyberspace poisoning of the Stabroek News webpage; the CANU harassment of Dr. David Hinds at the airport; the abysmal failure to terrorize this writer and Peter Ramsaroop; the state media propaganda to instigate divisions among the AFC leadership. Fourthly, the assassination of the robots may be a vindictive act against GT&T.
The sad thing about this country is that the elected fascists have succeeded to some extent. All these displays of fascism enumerated above will have a negative effect on those who feel inclined to denounce tyranny and paramountcy of the party in Guyana. It should not be.
As Dr. David Hinds wrote in this paper yesterday, “we’ve been this way before.” Guyanese must understand that fear will drive us deeper into despair, a chasm we never went into in the seventies and eighties. The time to stand up is now.

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