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James Bond and the licence to kill

Dec 09, 2011 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

 

The AFC and APNU will drive themselves head-on into volcanic trouble if they do not give their supporters what they want. I was on the campaign trail. I openly supported the AFC and I spoke three times with APNU speakers at the Stabroek Market Square at rallies sponsored by the Committee for Human Rights and Free and Fair Elections.
Last Friday evening, I addressed thousands and thousands of people at Square of the Revolution.
If you look into the eyes of AFC and APNU supporters you will see two instincts – anger and expectation. The anger is directed at what the PPP Government did under the Jagdeo regime. The expectation is that they want those wrongs to be righted. AFC and APNU have to deliver and try to deliver ,even if it means a no-confidence vote that will dissolve the Ramotar Government and lead us back to the polls.
The police have lost credibility under Messrs Jagdeo and Greene. The police have done untold harm to this nation under Mr. Jagdeo and Commissioner Greene. My very personal opinion is that there were episodes in which police shooting may not have been necessary.
I have my suspicion on the way the Rose Hall bank robbers died and the manner in which “Uncle Willie” and “Chung Boy” were shot to death during the tracking of the “Fine Man” gang after they had abandoned their Christmas Fall base. I repeat; this is my opinion. I would like to think I have a right to it and the right to express it.
The combined opposition has to rein in the politicized police force. They can try to do it as soon as Parliament is convened. The Guyana Police Force has a licence to kill and killing is what the police do and they do it without remorse. The shooting of James Bond in his back in any other country in this hemisphere would have resulted in an official enquiry. How did Mr. Bond get shot in his back?
There could not have been the physical manifestation of attack by Mr. Bond on the police because his frontal parts, particular chest and face, would have been scarred.
Ten yards separated the marchers and the police and rubber bullets were flying into the bodies of the marchers. This country was spared a tragedy in that none of the marchers lost their vision. Rubber bullets can blind protestors. The police fired from ten yards away. The close range shooting could have caused persons to lose their eyesight.
The officer who gave the orders must be suspended and it is time Commissioner Greene goes. He is beyond his retirement age. He was part of the Jagdeo ambience. That environment will be re-shaped once the AFC and APNU keep faith with their supporters and move towards accountable governance when they take control of Parliament.
The second phase of the manifestation of police brutality last Tuesday was the stopping of four minibuses bringing APNU protestors to Georgetown and the subsequent arrest and placement before the courts of the drivers.
This is yet another manifestation of police lawlessness which APNU, the AFC and the entire nation must not tolerate after November 28. All over the world people use all kinds of transport to attend protest-rallies. Once the G8 meets in a European city, all of Europe’s protestors flock the trains to get to the site.
The flimsy pretext the police used was that there was no conductor on board. I am not familiar with the relevant law, but if the trip wasn’t a commercial one, why did they need conductors? Well let’s say the police were right, the buses should come again in large numbers and place conductors aboard. Let’s see what will happen then.
The police and their political commanders get away with these fascist tendencies because we lack strong leadership. When the buses were stopped, APNU top brass should have arranged for a return visit the next day and placed APNU leaders on the buses. I am willing to travel to Linden and be on the entourage if another trip is arranged.
AFC leaders, civil society activists and trade unionists should join APNU personnel and go to Linden and board the buses to Georgetown and let us see if the police are going to infringe the right of Guyanese to travel from Linden to Georgetown to protest. The struggle for this right is not an APNU campaign only, it is a Guyanese platform and we must all join it.

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