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Where did I disparage the personal character of Dr Jagan?

Mar 07, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
I refer to a letter authored by Joey Jagan in the independent media of March 5th, 2011 captioned, “Letter tried to damage the good name of late Dr Jagan”. Is Joey’s first language Spanish or what?
Where in my letter did I try to assassinate the character of Dr. Jagan? What I wrote about were attitudes that I observed with my own eyes; this is no hearsay or third party gossip, this is a primary source of facts.
For Joey’s exclusive benefit and I hope he gets it this time; I said Dr. Jagan had a “checkered legacy, but no one including his worst enemy can deny the fact that he was a good man with good human values. No one can deny that he loved his Guyanese people.  No one can deny that he was financially incorruptible. No one can deny that he had a personal passion to develop Guyana for all Guyanese”.
How difficult is that to understand? Is Joey passing himself off as a “burrito” these days?  If you know Spanish you would know that is not a Taco bell product. Only a “burrito” will display such sub-optimal common sense, or is Joey sucking up to Bharrat Jagdeo?
I could understand Joey’s emotions, Dr. Jagan was his blood, but I challenge Joey to show me the facts where I disparage the personal character of Dr Jagan.
I have extremely high respect for Dr. Jagan personal integrity. So much respect that the PNC boys always accuse me of being a Cheddi Jagan apologist. Well when both of the racist camps (the PPP and the PNC) decide to “cuss you out”, I must be doing something right.
For the record and for emphasis, what I did was I called out the ideology that Dr. Jagan followed – communism.
This ideology and that system of democratic centralism are both very flawed tools that were used to oppress the working people by exploiting their ethnic security dilemma. It will never work in Guyana where the majority of the people are fundamentally interested in growth in their personal wealth – thus the mass migration away from both the PPP and the PNC.
Listen Joey, calm down; you are too emotional. Take a chill pill. Those who know the inner politics of the PPP will tell you if you were a matured person, you would have been the President of Guyana, who would have been departing Office in 2011.
All the right strings were being pulled by the Tsarina of the PPP in her dictatorial style to make baby Joey the President of Guyana. That is why opportunities for good men like Dr. Roger Forbes Luncheon to be our President were torpedoed in 1997.
Jagdeo was supposed to be the “toy boy” who would have made the opening possible.  History was very different and the Tsarina died with an unfulfilled ambition.
When Joey got the PPP MP seat, he was suppose to observe protocol, act maturely, toe the line and the his Presidency was a certainty as the moves were being made to cut down all the true sons of Cheddi Jagan like Roger Luncheon and Moses Nagamootoo.
There was tremendous opposition to a Joey Jagan candidacy very early in the game, but rather than the opponents of Joey having to destroy his chance, he was the perfect Charlie Sheen who help them set up the sword for him to fall on. Joey immaturity got the better of him and the rest is now history. Not that I or any progressive thinker support any of this monarchical imposition.
Funnily I always harbour the thought that a President Joey Jagan would have been better for Guyana than a President Bharrat Jagdeo, but with his continuous display of “dotishness”, I wonder.
Sasenarine Singh

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