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Dolly Hassan, your slip is showing!

Jun 15, 2014 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

I don’t know who Dolly Hassan is (hereafter referred to as Dolly). I got to like the name Dolly after my brother took me to Empire Cinema in 1970 to see Dolly Baksh dance to the phenomenal guitar sound of Carlos Santana’s fantastic hit, “Samba Pa Ti.” I really like the name Dolly. I was smitten by Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong’s, “Hello Dolly,” which will remain one of the world’s favourite songs.
Dolly is a real person, lives in “Little Berbice” in Richmond Hill in New York, and probably belongs to a die-hard group of Richmond Hill PPP supporters who probably will never face history the way it should be or even care to glimpse into the rivers of Guyanese history for a fleeting moment.
My own take on history is that it holds the key to self-liberation. But why glance on the sea of history for freedom when you think you are already liberated? Dolly probably thinks she is.
Dolly was quoted as telling David Granger in New York, recently, that the PNC should apologize for the things it did when it was in Government. Dolly didn’t state whether it should be Mr. Burnham or Hoyte, but she couldn’t mean Hoyte, who remains the best president this country had. Dolly must know Hoyte was from the PNC. I hope she does.
Dolly followed up her brazen demand with letters in the Stabroek News last week in which she boldly stated the current PPP Government is a democratic one, because it allows critics to condemn the PPP but the PNC Government did not do that. Now, Dolly is either a very serious person or a very comical Guyanese.
If the PNC Government prevented its critics from speaking out, then how did the PPP survive? How did the PPP newspapers, Mirror and Thunder survive on the sprawling real estate in Ruimveldt, and the Mirror outlived Burnham? How did GAWU survive to become the richest union in the Caricom area, with the largest head office for any trade union in the Caricom area?
Now I do believe Burnham was an authoritarian president, but it is for Dolly to answer these questions. I don’t think Dolly will reply.
My contacts told me that Dolly belongs to a group in “Little Berbice” which counts as its influential leaders Vishnu Bisram, Anand Boodram and Ravi Dev who are die-hard Indian supporters of the PPP and who think that Freddie Kissoon is a madman. Vishnu Bisram has four letters in the Chronicle over the years that labeled me a madman.
Ravi Dev in the Kaieteur News suggested I see a psychiatrist. And Anand Boodram had a letter in the Chronicle four years ago that declared me clinically sick.
I never got around to asking Boodram what he thinks of the mental health of his very best friend, Vishnu Bisram. It was Bisram who replied to Mike Persaud in this very newspaper and told Persaud that he, Bisram, has a number of Masters and doctorates. It is this same Bisram who has been writing letters in both KN and SN the past ten years telling Guyanese that he conducts opinion surveys in a wide list of countries around the world throughout the calendar year, yet this same Bisram tells us in the same breath that he is a school teacher in Richmond Hill.
Well it is either Bisram is mad like me or he is the greatest acrobat since civilization began, that he can be in two places at the same time.
Bisram’s best friend, Boodram, thinks Freddie Kissoon is mad. But Boodram is yet to comment on his friend’s mental state. So do I think that both Bisram and Boodram are mad? I will stick to what I was trained in – history and philosophy. I know nothing about psychiatry, so I will return to the topic of the woman whose first name is one of my favourite appellations – Dolly.
So Dolly wants David Granger to apologize for the wrongs of the PNC government. But Dolly, the PPP regime committed the identical wrongs. What about twenty years of PPP evil? Don’t tell me Dolly doesn’t know about that.  Dolly, what about the death of Ronald Waddell? Dolly, don’t be asinine and deny who killed him.
Dolly what about Mark Thomas (‘Kerzorkee’) who was about to confess to the PPP’s role in extra-judicial killings and mysteriously died in police custody?  Dolly, the identical circumstances existed with David Leander (‘Biscuit’).
But shouldn’t the PPP or you Dolly, apologize to my family? I was attacked twice, saw my UG contract terminated and ended up three days on remand for an innocuous traffic offence. Dolly, your slip is showing and from the peep I got, it is expensive designer lingerie.  Dolly, do you know the devil wears Prada?

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