The Stabroek News: The worst is yet to come

Nov 29, 2012 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

This political activist here who has more than forty years of praxis is confessing here and now that I would never have anticipated what the PPP Government did to the Stabroek News in connection with the paper’s investigation into the National Intelligence Centre (NIC).
It was an act of madness but as media practitioners and commentators know; whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. The PPP lost its rationality a long time ago.
I repeat for the third time in this column what American television journalist, Jonathan Mann, said when he first met the then leader of Libya Muammar Gaddafi.
Mr. Mann observed that he couldn’t believe a country can have such a leader. He was referring to the style, low intelligence, antics and stupidity of Gaddafi. It is simply amazing how a modern Caribbean nation in the 21st century can produce people like those we have in power in Guyana today.
Surely Gaddafi could not have been as asinine as the people we have. Gaddafi had some intelligent sons and a smart daughter who made up for the silly antics of their father. Sadly in Guyana, there are no offspring that could perform the same task.
Look at the composition of the allegation against the Stabroek News by the Office of the President – that two reporters in trying to gain access to the NIC told the sentry on duty that Minister Rohee sent them.
How unintelligent are the people that administer the government in this country! Rohee would be the last name any reporter would cite if they wanted to gain access to any door anywhere. It is not hard to imagine what went on at the Office of the President when the local imperialists decided to harass the Stabroek News.
A meeting was called and all the bigwigs were there including De Donald. Present were media underlings like Kwame McCoy and Prem Misir. This columnist is saying that he believes that it was a certain outlandish media person who suggested that Rohee’s name be mentioned and one could easily have imagined the congratulations he got from the entire Cabinet when he came up with that imbecilic strategy of accusing the two reporters of using Rohee’s name.
No one in this country would believe that the journalists did what the Office of the President has openly stated that they have done with regards to the Rohee thing.
There isn’t much erudition at New Garden Street so the Rohee factor was not surprising. Do you know there is a very powerful person in the power establishment who did an extremely stupid thing about six years ago?
With such a lack of intelligence in the corridors of power can Guyana ever have a future with these types? One once wrote letters in the newspapers and signed as Oliver Sam. The Stabroek News checked and found out that there was no such person. The letter writer responded and was enraged. He claimed that is a real person and can prove it.
How idiotic can a human being be! You know that there is no such person, so you know you cannot produce Oliver Sam. Commonsense will tell you that you should evade the question. But no, he insisted there was a real Oliver Sam but after that, Oliver Sam disappeared. If you know who this person is you would shudder to think how far Guyana can get with the kind of power he currently has.
The attempted victimization of the Stabroek News is yet another pathological sign of decay inside the PPP,
I did a column two weeks ago in which I said some supernatural voice is egging on the PPP Government to reenact in identical fashion all the violations the PNC regime committed. And the PPP leaders are doing it.
Every human rights atrocity of President Burnham they are copying in identical ways. The latest is the reenactment of sending police to arrest Stabroek News personnel as the PNC Government did with two reporters in 1987 from the same newspaper over their visit to a warehouse.
The PPP is going through the final period of its rule. The writing is on the wall. The private media can expect the worse. I seriously doubt Guyana will move into another election before the PPP implodes. Dictatorships don’t operate with logic. They don’t possess logical thinking.
This columnist is eagerly awaiting the response on the attack on the Stabroek News from the man in Barbados who ran from President Burnham but now supports a regime worst than Burnham’s. Over to the infamous Rickey Singh.

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