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Ralph, Ian and Trudy
Jul 22, 2011 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
This country has produced the most irritating human beings on Planet Earth. You have to look hard around the globe to find more Shakespearian characters. Let’s start with a famous Guyanese, Ian Mc Donald, the chairman of the Stabroek News Board of Directors who migrated to Canada two years ago, at a very late age in life.
Writing in his last Sunday column, Mr. McDonald described Dr. Cheddi Jagan as a genius.
Mr. Mc Donald has never been politically open and is a very level-headed human being. So one should put weight on what he says.
Unfortunately, after reading the article three times, there wasn’t even one paragraph that offered a reason why he considered Jagan to be a genius. After describing how Buxtonians came out to view Dr. Jagan’s coffin and the many times he spoke with Dr. Jagan, he ended his panegyric by stating that he will always remember a speech Jagan gave to some sugar workers.
Surely, if you are going to interpret a human being as a genius, you owe it to your readers to assess the magic, substance and achievements of the person. We certainly shouldn’t go around classifying certain Guyanese as geniuses and leaving young readers confused.
Next there is a Sunday KN Diaspora columnist, Mr. Ralph Seeram, who really crossed the line separating commonsense and nonsense.
In all honesty, I haven’t read anything as exasperating as what Mr. Seeram wrote last Sunday, except of course, the banality of the PPP propagandists. Mr. Seeram met President Jagdeo in the US two weeks ago and asked him a few questions. It appears that Mr. Seeram was smitten by Jagdeo, because he wrote glowingly of Mr. Jagdeo’s “accomplishments.”
But here is where the asininity comes in. He told readers that the last time he met with Mr. Jagdeo was five years ago. Yet he wrote at their meeting; “His concern for the issues were genuine” So how did he know that? By chatting for a few minutes with a man he had not seen since five years ago?
With psychologists like Seeram, the world should not have people with mental problems. Mr. Seeram could just watch you, speak for a few minutes, and detect the sincerity of politicians. Sadly for Mr. Seeram, he must be the only person in the world that has not read about the deceptive art of the politician.
Sadly too for Mr. Seeram, President Jagdeo didn’t think highly of him at all. The President told Seeram that he does not read the Kaieteur News. If Seeram believes that, then Seeram is the biggest idiot in the world.
If Seeram does not believe the President, then Seeram is in massive trouble. Because if the President can avoid the truth about one thing, why can’t he derecognize the facts in many, many areas?
So come on Ralph. You believe he doesn’t read the Kaieteur News?
Let’s offer some more of the thoughts (oops, asininities) of this Diaspora gentleman. Seeram tells us that the President is passionate about democracy. If democracy appears in front of Mr. Jagdeo in the form of a typical Manhattan skyscraper, Mr. Jagdeo would not recognize it. I will not waste my time to describe elected dictatorship in Guyana for someone like Mr. Seeram. He lives happily in a country (the United States) where he has access to thousands of private newspapers and where people ranging from mega-stars like Michael Jackson to the President’s daughter (in the case of President Bush) could be arrested by the police.
Seeram cynically wrote that the Berbice Bridge may be ugly in some people’s imagination. As far as I know, I am the only person that has publicly proclaimed the structure to be an ugly one. It is not only an aesthetic monstrosity, it is the cheapest bridge you can find since the 20th century began.
You look at that bridge and you know that the government that built it operates in one of the poorest countries in the world. Seeram completes his adulation of Jagdeo by stating that “based on our brief encounter, I feel the man is passionate about his country.”
Just before she died in 2002, the secretary of Adolf Hitler, Trudy Jung, published her memoirs. She said in the book that she could only write on what she knew of Hitler while working with him, and what she saw was a good man who was passionate about Germany.
What do Ian Mc Donald and Ralph Seeram think of Trudy Jung? Was Hitler a good man after all, or was he horrible but Ms. Jung saw what she wanted to see?
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