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It is amazing how graphic these facts are yet…

Jan 20, 2012 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

I wrote an article earlier this week on the frustration of our youths with the older folks whom they ought to look up to. Many of those youths that are marching in the streets and are being yelled at to go home are educated people. I taught many of them at UG.
Take Annette Ferguson, the APNU Parliamentarian. She did philosophy with me at UG and was one of the top students in her class at the time. Some of the protesters are currently at UG. James Bond is a lawyer
These young people cannot be fooled when it comes to understanding constitutional politics and the philosophical foundations of freedom. They know that the PPP Government since 1992 has fallen down on every count of democracy. It is not based on interpretations. It is based on facts. The facts are compelling and graphic.
Some of our business leaders and others in civil society have to be inherently indecent and immoral not to see that in today’s Guyana, the PPP as a party and government simply do not believe in the fundamental pillars on which precious freedoms rest.
Let us examine these graphic facts. We begin with a statement that these facts are so conspicuous that it is truly inexplicable that a decent human being can argue that the PPP as a political party and as the party in government practices democracy. We start with the procedure to choose the PPP presidential candidate. No matter how racist and sick are the minds of those who condemn the PNC, the PNC went far, far ahead of the PPP in the use of the method they chose for the same occasion.
You can make the claim that at the end of the day the process was flawed and that some PNC bigwigs claimed there was manipulation. But the process was immensely superior to the PPP’s. Five candidates went all over Guyana facing questions from angry citizens. I was at one of those town hall meetings. Mark Benschop got up and asked a searching question. In contrast, the PPP procedure was primitive and undemocratic.
There was no open vote among the members of a party that says it is sixty years old and that it has brought democracy to Guyana. The AFC chose its leader at its convention in an open vote with Michael Carrington opposing Khemraj Ramjattan.
The PPP issued a statement after it selected its presidential candidate saying that a consensus approach is superior to open competition. If that is not depraved understanding of freedom then something is wrong with philosophy.
Next there is the local government election. A former high-ranking diplomat has left this country with the belief that the PPP is not going to democratize. He left with a bitter experience of the PPP over local government reform. He told me that the PPP was the main stumbling block to legal and financial independence for local government authorities.
He lamented the morbid inflexibility of the PPP on the final control of central government over local organs. For him, the PPP is not going to move forward on this issue.
The PPP was just waiting to get its hands on government after Hoyte agreed to free elections. How can any human being defend the insane insistence that Guyana must remain a country with one radio station only and it must be in the control of the government?
I haven’t done the research but I am assuming that outside of North Korea and Cuba, Guyana must be the only land where the population cannot have access to other radio stations except the single one that the State possesses. (In October the government issued 12 radio licences).
How can any human mind condemn the PNC Government for having one radio station and in the same breath accept this horrible denial of democracy by the PPP? Of course you can defend your position if you are racist. Next there is the University of Guyana. Burnham was crucified by the PPP and its supporters for denying Walter Rodney employment at UG.
Thousands of pages of criticism exist in the PPP archives on this injustice. The truth of the matter is that Rodney didn’t have a contract so there wasn’t a court case to fight. In today’s Guyana, lecturers with binding legal contracts are facing instant dismissal.
We can go on forever because these graphic facts are never-ending. If I were to ask which egregious act under the PPP would never have happened under any PNC president, I would say the Varshnie Singh marriage sham. And to think that there are human beings out there who like the PPP Government.

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