The road to stupidity

Feb 17, 2015 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

I was leaning on the rail of the balcony of the High Court waiting for the hearing of the Jagdeo libel trial last week when this lawyer who is with the PPP asked if I am not glad that the road in my community has been done.
I replied that it was stupid not to see the link between a road that was non-existent for over twelve years and its sudden recovery with the imminent general elections. He backed off immediately because he knew I would have objected to his insult to my intelligence.
You can take a horse to the trough but you cannot get it to drink. Likewise you can preach and beg how much you want but if a person doesn’t want to respect you there isn’t anything you can do about it. What you can do is defend the assault on your intelligence. When people come up to intelligent, educated people and try to push their narrow self-interest to you, you can walk away or reject their deliberate intention to disrespect you.
If some people want to spend their lives in foolishness, that is their right but we need to tell them how silly they are. I read an election advertisement where the PPP promised within five years new universities, fifty percent reduction in electricity rates and fifty percent increase in salaries.
A mind has to be an asinine one to believe that and for commonsensical reasons.
Why after twenty-two years of PPP in government there weren’t more universities and the biggest university in Guyana, UG is almost moribund? Why after twenty-two years in power we didn’t get electricity reduction but it came just two months before an election? Why hasn’t there been even a ten percent wage increase since the PPP came to power twenty years ago but suddenly in a few years from now there will be a fifty percent increase?
It is horrible to contemplate that actual human beings would believe such sickening deceptions but life is full of such people. Not to see the infrastructural works that are about to flow and its connection with the upcoming May 2015 general elections is to display a very sad, useless mind. One cannot be less harsh because such a mind deserves a harsh description.
It takes commonsense and one would assume that all humans have commonsense to know that there cannot be new universities coming when we cannot fix our big university at Turkeyen and our secondary schools and other educational institutions that are lying in derelict conditions.
Why are there going to be electricity reduction rates when for the past twenty two years of PPP rule electricity supply deteriorated from the era of President Hoyte?
Instead of giving us reductions in rates, give us electricity supply. Readers would not want to live where I reside at Turkeyen. Blackouts bring daily miseries. My southern neighbour had her fridge blown up from high voltage on Christmas Eve. My wife and I were so sorry for this woman because of the timing of GPL’s incompetence. The next month, January 2015, my western neighbour saw sparks all over her house because of high voltage. Against this backdrop, the promise of fifty percent tariff lowering in the future is an election promise that no decent mind should accept.
The election promises are flowing like water from the Kaieteur Falls. It will be difficult to keep track of them. As the election date nears, the theatre of the comic, the drama of the absurd and the histrionic display of asininity will overrun Guyana. Will people fall for this outrageous hilarity? One would hope not.
The promises will defy imagination. I guess we will hear about overpass to ease the congested traffic situation. A highway from Berbice that bypasses Georgetown and links up with upper East Bank. Roads and bridges that will link Essequibo with the rest of Guyana. Free internet service for the Guyanese people. Street lamps on every road in Guyana including villages. Large buses financed and maintained by the state with a nominal traveling fee.
When these crazy things are brought to your attention, commonsense must come into play. Why weren’t there even attempts to start these things since 1992 when Papa Cheddi’s great party came into power? Why after twenty two years in charge of this country the streets outside the most important state institutions –Police, Army, Office of the President, Ministries and Hospitals – have no lamps?
A political party that has made Georgetown the dirtiest capital city in the world will come to you in the coming weeks and promise you paradise. You have an empty mind to believe such nonsense.

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