Would President Ramotar kill his own party activist?

Mar 26, 2015 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

If this country allows itself to be bullied much further by the PPP, its opposition, free press, human rights activists and independent civil society have no reason to open their mouths any longer. It is best they become pliable sycophants of Mr. Jagdeo and company.
When opposition critics point to political orders in the assassination of Courtney Crum-Ewing, they were told that unless they have evidence of governmental input, they would be guilty of inciting. Dr. David Hinds was singled out by the police.
Now we have a new twist to the assassination of Courtney Crum-Ewing. President Ramotar insinuated to a Blairmont audience that the opposition may have killed Crum-Ewing. No matter how poor is your grammar or knowledge of semantics, the following words of Ramotar have only one interpretation. “I would say that he was a pawn that was sacrificed for (the opposition’s) own political ends.”
Ramotar is saying that in order to blame the PPP the opposition sacrificed one of its own by killing him. Here is where logic comes in. And you have to be a monumental fool to think that only Americans kill their spouses or only Jamaicans kill their spouses. What I am saying is that no race or nationality or particular organization has a monopoly on violent behaviour. What I am saying is, if party A can kill one of its activists and blame party B, why then can’t party B kill one of its own and blame it on party A?
So let’s follow the thought pattern of Donald Ramotar. He is positing that the conspiracy of the opposition is killing Crum-Ewing and putting the blame on the PPP in order to get political mileage. It follows logically then, that the PPP can kill one of its main activists and put the blame on the opposition to garner electoral sympathy.
It would be interesting to hear Ramotar’s response. If he says the PPP will never do that then he means that only the opposition has a devious mind. So I guess we can extrapolate from that reasoning that only certain people are prone to violence. So only Russians are capable of killing their dissidents and only the British are capable of killing animals when hunting.
Of course any little ten-year-old would know that if Ramotar denies that his party could murder one of its names to blame the opposition, then he is talking miasmic nonsense. Homo sapiens is endowed with the instinct of killing, it doesn’t matter which country or race or religion or culture they are from.
If the opposition can plan a murder so can the PPP, which brings us to a Mephistophelian pathway. Did the PPP kill Walter Rodney to blame the Government so that the Burnham presidency would weaken and fall? If PPP propagandists say no, then why would the opposition kill Courtney Crum-Ewing?
Let’s look at another dimension of Ramotar’s foolishness. So the opposition sacrificed Crum-Ewing in order to get political profit when the blame falls on the PPP. But why would the opposition select one of their finest to sacrifice? Courtney Crum-Ewing was a highly trained former officer in the army and a courageous man whose valour and bravery the opposition needed.
We will say no more on this asininity of Donald Ramotar except to wonder what will be the response of the police to Ramotar’s exclamation. The police asked David Hinds for his evidence in his announcement that Crum-Ewing’s assassination came from the corridors of power. Where is Ramotar’s proof that the opposition removed Crum-Ewing?
What the opposition needs to do is to inform the Guyana Police Force that during the election campaign, it expects its members to conduct themselves professionally and not to act as if they are surrogates of politicians.
One cannot expect a senior officer to reject an illegal demand by a powerful politician but he/she has to understand that in an existentialist world we live in, we are solely responsible for our action that hurts other people. The victim has a right to redress.
I went to Brickdam police station on Monday and interviewed the officer who threatened Courtney Crum-Ewing. He denied it. But Courtney pointed him out to me.
Grove policemen were demanding that a coalition driver and activist take a breathalyzer test. This happened soon after a coalition public meeting was over. Policemen have removed drunken persons making noise at PPP public meetings but stand immobilized when the same thing happens at coalition meetings.
I had to ask the police to intervene at Providence when inebriated hecklers were disrupting the chairman of the event. Maybe they were sent.

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