The women who are picketing against Commander Hicken

Nov 24, 2014 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

I reached the point in my life a long time ago where I just don’t give a pint of parrot piss what people say negatively about me if they cannot prove they have superior moral values than the ones I have. I don’t give a pint of parrot piss about people who have lesser values than I have (forgive the chauvinism please) but choose to criticize me.
The Chronicle journalist and Stabroek News columnist, Shaun Samaroo, publicly stated that I am a crass, acerbic, divisive columnist. This same Samaroo reaches the lowest rung of unprofessional journalism with his stomach-churning reporting on the Walter Rodney Commission. This same Samaroo wrote in his column that Guyana’s future depends solely on Priya Manickchand and that the AFC is the obstacle to progress.
I know who I am. And I believe in me. Against that background I will commit myself to expressions and critiques that I believe I am morally entitled to make because my moral system allows me to. There are times when you cannot remain silent to the over-bearing double stands of sections of the Guyanese nation. And it cuts across gender, politics, culture, religion.
Commander Hicken made a comment about the society protecting itself from rape. Some interpreted it to mean that he was warning women of a style of fashion which may bring on rape thoughts in men. That was not true. He would have been way out of line.
But for me, since the Linden 2012 shooting, he should have been demoted. There are cruel episodes of mistreatment of women taking place in this country and you haven’t seen or heard about these women who are confronting Hicken over his disastrous scandal.
To date only two men and no woman in the entire Guyana have publicly condemned Berbice Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs for jailing a female teenager for six months for crossing over to Suriname without going through immigration. The two men are this columnist and Barrington Braithwaite.
Before the birth of Magistrate Isaacs and all those women who are outside Hicken’s office, Guyanese have been doing just what that teenager did. It goes on. This was a bestial mistreatment of a girl but somehow our women folk were too busy with watching Chris Gayle bat to come to that girl’s rescue.
Maybe our women folk like Chris Gayle. He is a macho sports male personality who likes sexual innuendoes. A female cricket journalist asked him about his feel of the pitch. Gayle replied that he cannot answer her question because he hasn’t felt her pitch as yet. It was a crude anti-woman, sexually loaded insult.
In Europe and North America (White man country) Gayle would have ended in the micro-wave. In the Caribbean no one said anything except a women’s group in Grenada. In Guyana, there was no voice or pen from the women who are currently picketing Mr. Hicken’s office. Maybe they were to busy watching Tiger Woods play.
I hope they know what I am getting at. For more on the Chris Gayle insult, see my column of July 31, 2014 captioned, “Chris Gayle and the Question Marks over Non-White Civilization.”
In August last year, a Guyanese woman committed suicide by hanging in a detention centre for illegal migrants in Trinidad. She was repeatedly sexually assaulted (see my column of August 15, 2013 titled, “Tragic Death of a Woman.”) This was a mother who went to another land to earn a living that her country couldn’t give her just like the teenager who Magistrate Isaacs jailed.
No one in Guyana raised a pen or voice to condemn what happened to that poor woman. She died without telling us about her agony. Maybe the women folk who are now picketing Hicken’s office were busy watching episodes of the Bill Cosby Show.
Bill just concluded a show in a sister CARICOM territory, Bahamas. After the performance (the event, that is, not Bill’s other performances) two women shouted, “We love you Bill.”
In one of the most hellish assault on a Guyanese woman in recent memory, a policeman beat her and her child for protesting mining concessions given by the Guyana Government to a multi-national corporation. It was a sickening sight to watch. That policeman is as guilty as Hicken.
He still serves on the force. For more on this horror show, see my column of March 13, 2013 with the headline, “Bestiality, Brutality and Bravery on the Marudi Trail.” The women protesting outside Hicken’s office didn’t protest. Maybe they were too busy watching those Disney movies where the men always save the women. For those women reading this; don’t bother to reply.
I don’t give a pint of parrot piss what you think of me.

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