Last fling with the devil

Nov 03, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

When you are a commentator who wishes for the birth of new leadership in your country, you feel a sense of relief as time turns its pages and you come near to the moment of judgement. That moment is the general elections. As my right index finger moves on the keyboard (I only type with one finger; I must be the only person in the world who types like that), I am reading about the electoral devastations that await President Obama in today’s voting, (meaning yesterday since I am penning this on Tuesday, Nov 2)
I will be grieved at the loss of congressional seats for the Democrats that will upset Mr. Obama’s agenda. I am absolutely smitten by Barack Obama and wouldn’t want to see that happen to him, but people should vote on issues and for those issues that are important for their lives. Many Americans feel that the economy is killing them and they feel the Republicans should be given a chance. I don’t think so, but it is a civilized world when people can go out and vote for the things they want from politicians, and not out of considerations of culture and race.
Unfortunately in Guyana, we haven’t reached that stage of civilization. The PPP has been in power for eighteen years in which there have been literally 1800 scandals that should have toppled the government and which would have removed the rulers in any other state.
But why bother to point to 1800 disasters; four will suffice. My four are; the allegations of mistreatment by Ms. Varshnie Singh; the involvement of very high ruling politicians in the empire of a deadly narco-trafficker, Roger Khan; the Lindo Creek massacre and the 2005 over-topping of the conservancy that devastated the economy.
The PPP Government survived these man-made calamities and went on to perform more unspeakable venalities. And yet there are Guyanese, with maturity and education that will walk into a ballot station and vote for the people who have brought on these catastrophes
When you see how certain types of Guyanese vote, imagination of how Hitler came to power and the encouragement he got to kill his fellow German citizens comes easy.
As my right index finger moves on the keyboard, the month of November is here. In the minds of many of us, (I know this was how I felt growing up in Wortmanville) when November comes, the year has come to an end. When you think of November, you think of Christmas and the coming of a new year. So we are moving to that moment.
The end of the year is in sight. We have a mere six months to go before we keep that rendezvous with destiny. Will there be a future for Guyana? Will the PPP, which on the basis of sheer moral decency needs to be voted out, be gone?
What is in store for Guyanese before the moment of expectation in 2011? What will the role of the opposition be in the next six months? Try as hard as you can to cast it out of your mind, the inescapable fact is that since the 2006 elections, Guyana has had indecent, immoral governance that remained a hardened sarcoma without any opposition.
This has been a personal dilemma for me. How does one confront a terribly dictatorial cabal in power when there is no opposition to it? The PNC, AFC and GAP have been pathetic failures.
I say without any fear of contradiction that the confrontation to dictatorship in Guyana has been Mark Benschop. He has formed a party named the Independent Party and one has to wait to see how that unfolds. But he has stood up to be counted. One can hardly say the same for our pin-stripe parliamentarians masquerading as opposition leaders
So Christmas is here. The House of Assembly will soon go into recess maybe for the last time for as 2011 begins, so will be the election campaign. One can anticipate the joyous, rapturous eruptions in the House as opposition MPs endure their last fling with the devil. New Bills to secure more power for the little dictators will be tabled and our servile opposition legislators will stand up to speak of the goodness in these Bills. The little dictators will laugh for they know that since 2006, they have outsmarted the people who sit opposite them in Parliament. Maybe the last fling with the devil will see some generosity from the devil. He will table a motion for there to be free whiskey and vodka for all opposition MPs. The final insult!

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