No one in Lusignan and Guyana can be that silly

Oct 09, 2013 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

If you tell Americans that the Republican Party is more sympathetic to African-American causes than the Democratic Party, no American would be that foolish to agree with you. If you tell the British public that their past Prime Minister, Tony Blair, did not conspire with President George Bush to invade Iraq, they would not believe you.
If you tell Italians that their past Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi was a homosexual, they would laugh at and ridicule you. If you tell Trinidadians that Brian Lara cannot count among the great heroes of international cricket, they may get violent with you. If you tell a Guyanese that Georgetown is not as dirty and stink as other cities in the world they will call you a perfect donkey. Why?
In all these examples cited above, the absurdity in your proposition is so graphic and so conflicting with what people know and believe that no one will even dignify your argument by talking with you. All Americans know that the Republican Party is not open to acceptance of a multi-racial America the way the Democrats are. That is a known fact. All Italians know that Berlusconi is one of the most womanizing men on earth. The British people believe that Tony Blair lied about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and Trinidadians worship Brian Lara.
In Guyana, every citizen knows that our capital city is stink, rotting and horribly dirty to the point that no other government in the world would allow their capital to be so sickening and diseased. And there is no drainage, so little rains bring floods and big rains bring total floods.
If any Guyanese does not know what Georgetown looks like and what happens when heavy rains come that person is completely sick, indecent and hopeless. Why? Because they see it as they go to Georgetown and they see the effects of two hours of continuous thunderstorms.
Here are the words of Bharrat Jagdeo who, when he was President of Guyana, was awarded the honour from the UN Environment Commission as Champion of the Earth. These words came out of his mouth last Sunday evening when he addressed a PPP rally in Lusignan to mark the PPP’s 21 years in government.
To absorb the absurdity in the politics of Mr. Jagdeo, to understand the contempt the PPP has for the nation of Guyana, I would ask readers to read the quote again so it can soak into their psychology of what Guyana is facing.
“Do not become disillusioned with the party; do not lose hope because of a few potholes, bad roads and unkempt drains?’ Please read again and let your mind stick on the words, “a few unkempt drains.” This kind of contempt is what human beings get when they allow leaders to see them as fools.
Once leaders see humans as beings that they can easily mislead, those humans become slaves, and slaves accept that the master can treat them with indignity.
All of those persons who attended that rally cannot be that stupid and sick in their minds to think that Georgetown and Guyana have a few unkempt drains. This is terrible, horrible and sickening nonsense that any political party can say to any citizen of this nation.
No human in this land can be so imbalanced in their mind as to think that Guyana has a few unkempt drains.
Georgetown does not have a civilized, modern, 21st century drainage system because most of the drains all over Guyana and all of them in Georgetown are clogged up so that in times of consistent rains, Georgetown is flooded. Georgetown is facing a major disaster from which it may not recover if rains come for several days in storm-like fashion on a 24-hour basis.
It is not flooded streets you will have but flooded business places and flooded homes. The inundation will cover the inside of people’s homes.
Mr. Jagdeo should be taken to task by the people of Guyana for this deception he threw on his listeners at Lusignan. The drains in Georgetown are clogged in horrible ways. Once rains come, the muddy drains put their water onto the streets. The streets put their water into your business places, your yards, and in many, many cases, into your homes. Local government elections are around the corner. I suggest that the opposition parties go to every street corner in Georgetown during the campaign and read what Mr. Jagdeo said last Sunday evening. Are PPP supporters that stupid?

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