Nation of unconscionable creatures, dead people and living zombies

Sep 07, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

We just carry on as if nothing happened. Where will it end? Could any one of us in this land, save for the fascists that control the territory, look the wife and mother of the children of Godwin Maxwell in her eyes?
I want to attend the funeral service of Mr. Maxwell. I hope it didn’t go by. I will tell Mrs. Maxwell that as a Guyanese citizen I sympathize with what Guyana has done to her and her children. I will tell her that I will do all that I can to see that the system that pushed her husband to his death is extirpated permanently from this country.
The people of small villages in any country tend to be parochial in their outlook. They don’t know much about laws and they don’t care to. They are hardly concerned with the dynamics of modernization. Godwin Maxwell died from suicide at age 31 in the very village he was born into – Mahaicony.
He came from Calcutta, Mahaicony, and probably never interfaced with modern living of Georgetown, the capital city of his country where everything is centered.
When Mr. Maxwell received the charges from the GRA that he had held a yearly dance in Calcutta and didn’t pay the taxes that were due, he probably had no idea that these were legal matters that will be a minefield for the GRA to prove because they would have to get proof since 1998 of how much money he made at the dances.
Mr. Maxwell felt that some internecine law was about to descend on him and his psychology collapsed and he committed suicide. Someone should have told Mr. Maxwell that the GRA was making an ass of itself, that thousands of Guyanese would have stood by him, embraced him and appeal his case right to the Caribbean Court of Justice where my own case with the President is heading should I lose round one and two in the local courts in Guyana.
Mr. Maxwell didn’t understand how the laws of his country work and in desperation he killed himself leaving two helpless children to face an uncertain future.
The case of Godwin Maxwell will die as the sun sets on this date and another Freddie Kissoon column appears for another day. Unfortunately, I cannot write on the injustice meted out to Mr. Maxwell everyday.
This is my second column on the dastardly thing done to him by the GRA. It is for the hundreds of thousands of Guyanese and the hundreds of stakeholders to take up the mantle.
The first question that needs to be asked is where did the GRA find time and energy to pursue one of the world’s most obscure citizens and demand money from him for holding a simple dance in one of the world’s most obscure villages in the world?
I am no religious person but I ask in God’s name how much money the GRA thinks this man pocketed from a dance in Calcutta, Mahaicony, where less than three hundred persons attended that festivity?
The second question is will there be an investigation of the GRA officers that charged Mr. Maxwell with a view to disciplining them? The third question is will the opposition minus the AFC take to the streets to protest this evil injustice done to this poor villager? I say minus the AFC because the AFC has a fanatical trepidation of the public air.
It is called agoraphobia – fear of open spaces. The AFC does not like to picket and demonstrate in open spaces. Oops! That should mean they don’t like to picket and demonstrate period! One lady in the AFC leadership calls such behaviour “ruckus.”
The final question is –where do we go from here after the death of Godwin Maxwell?
Should we not mention Asst Superintendent of Police Murray? It was not the PNC, Lincoln Lewis, Mark Benschop, ACDA or “those sections of the media” that want to take away the future of Guyanese that made a particular statement about murder.
It was the government’s pathologist that found after the post-mortem, that ASP Murray was murdered. It looks like we have gone about our business and the murder of ASP Murray is now old news in the same way the tragedy of Godwin Maxwell will be buried in the morning sun of the coming days.
A nation of unconscionable creature, dead people and living zombies just go about their way as the tragedies of a nation cascade like fountain water before their very eyes.

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