Who is right, who is wrong about fascism in Guyana?

May 22, 2011 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

The stupid opposition parties we have in this country are absolutely incredible. They are going to cause their supporters to stay home at election time. The moral problem I have is that I do not want to abstain from the poll because it is one vote less for the opposition parties.
But could I morally bring myself to vote for any of the opposition parties that are scheduled to participate in the general elections this year?
The problem is moral values. One’s entire life has to be guided by moral considerations. For example, if the best chance of removing the PPP at the election is by a party that embraces an ideology that openly endorses the subordination of woman to man, then despite my passion for wanting to see the PPP go, morally I cannot vote for such an anti-women organization.
It is the same argument I have with the opposition entities here. I believe these groups are deliberately fooling the Guyanese people. I had cause to chastise both the PNC and AFC in a column many months ago when some of their top leaders used harsh judgements against the PPP Government. How can the AFC and PNC go about telling Guyanese that Guyana is a police state and using devastating concepts to condemn the rule of Mr. Jagdeo and the PPP but they find themselves in Parliament at every session to discuss the PPP’s conspiratorial machinations and to engage the PPP in parliamentary frivolities in which they never win or wrest even an infinitesimal concession. They have been in Parliament since 2006.
My moral dilemma is if I do not support the nature of such parties how can I vote for them? I am compelled by moral rules not to vote for them. The PNC, AFC and the tiny GAP are either dishonest or do not understand valuable political concepts that should guide them in their praxis.
The PNC, AFC and GAP are not in a political and moral position to denigrate the PPP Government as a cruel dictatorship when they are in Parliament and have been there the past five years. It is a contradiction that no philosopher can help them to debate. Democracy and dictatorship are antithetical processes. They cannot be reconciled.
If Clarisa Riehl, PNC Parliamentarian, believes (as she stated) that Guyana is a police state then a police state cannot be a parliamentary democracy. Any university freshman in political studies will tell her that. The PNC and AFC have to tell us how they conceive of the nature of power in Guyana.
Whatever concept they utilize in their conclusions they are going to embarrass themselves because they, themselves have made Guyana into a parliamentary democracy by their faithful adherence to Parliament that has not served them even in the tiniest of ways.
As the election campaign gets into full gear, GAP, AFC and PNC are going to use trenchant concepts to describe dictatorship under Mr. Jagdeo but deliberately mask or hide their slavish obedience to Parliament. This writer contends that had GAP, PNC and AFC taken strong boycott measures against Parliament the past two years, the Guyanese people would have been more galvanized.
Foreign countries and foreign people would have been more sympathetic to the struggle here for a democratic society.
The latest disgrace of the parliamentary opposition is that while fascism was on display at the Brickdam lock-up three days ago, they were in Parliament debating a Bill the PPP deliberately waited to bring at this time when elections are near. And they fell for it. What happened to Mr. Akbar Muhammad is another manifestation of fascism.
The dimensions of the Akbar Muhammad arrest were subtle but nakedly Machiavellian with an ethnic under-pinning. The Americans could not have been interested in Muhammad because he was not questioned by the Americans in the US. Why wait until he spent a day in Guyana to ask the Guyanese police to pick him up. This is the kind of moronic behaviour we see from the little dictators all the time.
Political directors were behind the arrest of Akbar Muhammad. The PNC, the AFC and ACDA should immediately send people to the Nation of Islam to expose the Guyana Government.
The opposition has a glorious opportunity to get much needed support from people like Akbar Muhammad in the US. They need to tell Farrakhan of what is taking place in this land.
In the meantime, the combined opposition, other groups and individual members of civil society should extend a second invitation to this gentleman to come back to Guyana and speak to its people.

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