From the Diaspora…CHEATING SPOUSES, LOVERS ETC, AND CHARACTER ASSASSINATION

Sep 21, 2014 News

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By Ralph Seeram
I love those Radio or Television programmes that trap a “cheating” husband, wife, boyfriend or girlfriend. It’s kind of a guilty pleasure voyeurism, but very funny so that you can’t resist laughing hysterically.
I am sure some of you must have seen these on the internet, television or listened to the radio about cheating that turns out to be really embarrassing moments for the guilty parties. Some of you might have indulged in a little cheating yourself.
Some of the cheating also exposes cultural differences or culture shock for some in the Diaspora where moral values and sexual permissiveness differ from their homeland.
This week I happened to come across a video clip where a young housewife from India now living in the USA called into a radio station that specializes in catching cheating spouses or lovers, to see if they can confirm her suspicion that her husband was cheating.
She disclosed he is a fan of singer Beyonce and would go to her concerts but would not offer to take her.
To make a long story short the station called the husband, told him that he had won a pair of tickets to a Beyonce concert and needed the names of who will be attending. With the wife listening in on the call he said Nikki and himself and to put this message with the ticket.
“Thanks for showing me the way of American love, thanks for the “booty call”
Wife: “Who the hell is Nikki?”
Husband: “What’s going on here? Who is it on the line? Sounds like my wife.”
Radio host laughing hysterically, “It is your wife”.
Wife: “Who the hell is Nikki? Is that what you brought me here to America for?”
At this point, instead of hanging up the phone, and knowing that he has been caught the fool, sought to offer an explanation, and it went downhill from here folks.
Husband, “Nikki works with me. She shows me the way American women make love, Nikki uses her mouth you Indian women don’t use your mouth”.
Wife without missing a beat, “You don’t use your mouth either,” she shot back. “Maybe if you use your mouth I will use mine,” she informed.
Still instead of getting off the phone and plan sleeping on the couch, he puts himself in deeper trouble. It now goes in the gutter.
“Indian men don’t use their mouth (speak for yourself guy) and American women are open for a three- way relationship. You are not.” This incensed his wife even more.
Guys if you going to cheat and get caught please, don’t offer a defense just shut up, and plan how you are going to get off the couch and be accepted back in bedroom.
It’s amazing how these Radio DJs devise ways to get confessions from lovers. Take the case of the woman who was having an affair with her married boss. The Radio host called her pretending to be the wife of her boss, with the wife listening in.
Radio host pretending to be wife speaking to husband’s lover: “I called not to fight or quarrel with you, I am concerned for your welfare and health. Did you have a relationship with my husband?” The woman replied, “No.”
Radio host: “As I said I am concerned about your health and welfare. My husband is HIV positive. He has infected me and must have infected you. Did you use condoms?’
Lover: “No “and now in panic mode uttering “OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD”, probably repeating what she must have uttered under more pleasurable circumstances with her boss. While they sound funny, we know it also has serious consequences for the relationships.
Moving on into a different direction, last week I wrote about the value of friendship, and mentioned that I can count my best friends on my left fingers. One of those friends is Oscar Ramjeet. Our friendship goes back to over 40 years. Oscar was a well known radio and newspaper journalist before he entered the legal profession in the late 70’s.
Two weeks ago his character was attacked by a self styled “intellectual”, political activist and whatever he calls himself these days. He actually called my friend a” low rated lawyer”. As usual writing more fiction than facts he went on to label him a PPP supporter. So I called my friend and asked him if he was going to refute what was said about him.
He replied, “You can’t communicate with a jackass”, which incidentally is what I called his attacker some three years ago. Then last Friday the jackass who thinks he has a monopoly on opinions attacked Ramjeet again.
The problem with this Looney, (he actually said in an article that he is crazy) is if you express an opinion that does not fit his tunnel vision view of the world, he feels that he has the right to attack your character. His world is black or white, you either support the PPP or you are against the PPP, and his whole world revolves around the PPP. He thinks everyone should share his obsession.
Oscar Ramjeet, after working for Clarke and Martin in Guyana, went on to be the Solicitor General of St Vincent, was an Administrate Law Judge for three years, and was the Solicitor General for Belize, where he was also a member of the Judicial and Legal Commission.
Ramjeet was also one of the lead criminal defense Attorneys in the famous Murder in Paradise trial in the Virgin Islands a few years ago, where four young Americans were charged for the murder of a young girl also from the USA.
The case had International coverage especially on US Television Stations; in fact Court TV did live coverage of the trial. Oscar represented two of the defendants who were acquitted. I am sure you will agree his record is not bad for a “low rated lawyer”.
I should add that he is also a member of the New York State Bar.
Meanwhile, what were the Looney’s achievements? He spent over 20 years as a mediocre lecturer at University of Guyana living off the Guyanese taxpayers, repeating the same thing. His writing skills are limited to criticizing the PPP government, and if your views are not in conformity with his warped thinking then you are a PPP supporter.
Any fool can tell you that having a University education does not necessarily make you an educated person and he has proven this to be true.
My friend, Oscar, likes to take the “high road”, a credit to his character, which is unlike me. You attack me, I come after you like a vicious pit bull, even if I have to go in the gutter. I will take you down to the gutter if I have to. That’s the way you have to deal with people who write nonsense about you.
Ralph Seeram can be reached at email: ralph365@hotmail.com and on Facebook.

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