Bai Shan Lin or Bai Gi Net?

Aug 19, 2014 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

All Guyana is talking about Bai Shan Lin. I literally cannot count the people who have mentioned this to me with a vexed face over the past week. It is a colossal story of everything that is wrong with the PPP’s reign. As the days pass and more venal tales come to light, I am getting more irritated at the Rodney Commission. More on the Commission’s uselessness later.
Shouldn’t we be talking about Bai Gi Net too? Bai Gi Net is the source of Bai Shan Lin. Bai Gi Net is a long, deadly Scottish bayonet. In Guyana, bayonet politics has killed off democracy, accountability and transparency. The PPP regime has used its Bai Gi Net to pierce every conceivable institution in this country, including the judiciary.
The wording of the no-confidence vote is a gigantic indication of the success of bayonet politics. The no-confidence motion is one line – “The National Assembly has lost confidence in this government.” Why was it a one-line motion? Because the combined opposition is frightened to death of the constitutional court in Guyana.
The constitutional court in Guyana works in ways that the greatest minds on earth cannot fathom. The Chief Justice (ag) ruled that the Minister of Local Government had no legal authority to appoint Ms. Sooba as the Town Clerk, but ruled that Sooba could remain in office. I ask readers to overlook my ignorance of the law, but I do recall there is a famous statement that refers to the law as an ass.
Even if there is a legal justification, I don’t want to hear it, I don’t think it is sound and I believe a justification should not exist. Here is my analogy which I think is water-proof. While I was away, my NDC chairman told my neighbour that he could park his car on my driveway. I returned and demanded the vehicle be removed. My neighbour says he was given permission. I took the chairman to court to overturn his permit.
The court said the NDC chairman had no legal authority to assign parking facilities on my driveway, but the car can remain while I sought other legal remedies against my neighbour rather than the NDC chairman who was the culprit, and in fact, is the cause of my discomfort. I should end this section of my discussion before I get sued for both contempt of court and libel. But this I will say; after seeing the performance of Caribbean jurisprudence in the Linden Commission, the Rodney Commission and the Guyanese constitutional court, I don’t blame Caribbean people for wanting to stay with the Privy Council.
The motion was a one-line affair because the AFC was overwhelmed with the fear that if they include any other detail, the PPP would run to the constitutional court and the motion may get thrown out. The AFC and APNU have many top lawyers in their leadership and these attorneys may want to take the diplomatic highroad and avoid claims that even the judiciary has been penetrated. The fact is that since 1999 when Mr. Jagdeo became President, Bai Gi Net politics has pierced the entire foundation of the nation.
There isn’t an institution that the PPP’s Scottish bayonet hasn’t lacerated. Even the most priceless of institutions, the NIS, which is responsible for our continued existence when we grow older, is tottering. There is the strong feeling that in five years’ time, the NIS may fail. Why then should Bai Shan Lin come as a surprise to this nation?
The PPP is drowning in venalities like Bai Shan Lin, it is just that we have seen only the tip of the iceberg. Bai Shan Lin and Vaitarna are the news now. Yesterday it was Amaila and Marriott. There are hundreds more. And they are yet to hit the press. These travesties have continued because the Bai Gi Net has been driven deep into the heart of this nation. It has lost its physiology. It cannot speak, see, and hear. Maybe we are a dead land.
The power-wielders think so and they feel uninhibited to take excesses that even brutal dictatorships may be hesitant about. The question most Guyanese should be asking themselves is, if these opaque investment agreements are bad judgements or opportunities for corrupt transactions? If the answer is yes to the latter query, then think of the enormous gains that may have come the way of certain people when you think of the hundreds of other invisible, unknown acts of selling out of this poor country’s resources. After Bai Shan Lin, the time has come to stop the PPP’s Bai Gi Net.

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