The Mephistophelean masturbation

Aug 26, 2015 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

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After the cremation of Mrs. Christobel Hughes, we went to Parliament. The budget criticism I heard from PPP parliamentarians is an exercise in psychological terror. It was frightening to see.
Here is what the psychological textbook instructs us. Young children from a village are being abducted often. A search party is formed. The exercise goes on nightly.
The kidnapper is part of the search group. After a period of time, the kidnapper goes through a surreal process.
He lifts himself out of his own reality and becomes part of the reality of the search. What happens then is that the kidnapper believes there is an abductor out there and looks for him.
This is the unimaginable danger facing Guyana with the PPP as the opposition in Parliament. When an offender is aware of his/her mischief, there is every chance of stopping the action. An insurmountable danger arises when the pervert is not aware that he/she is committing a crime.
You cannot stop the crime, because the perpetrator is not conscious of his/her action. I came out of Parliament after sitting for five minutes. I left without telling Leonard Craig and Aurdell Glasgow, who came with me, that I was leaving.
Guyana is going through a Faustian spectacle, where a three-month-old government is accused of the worst abominations in the undemocratic exercise of power by a political party that was in power for twenty-three consecutive years.
What is unfolding here is not only masturbatory narcissism, but psychological terror. Three months replaces twenty-three years. The PPP tells the nation that its twenty-three years cannot be compared to APNU-AFC’s three months because the PPP comprises superior humans that did not commit the sins in its long rule that the new regime is guilty of in three months. This is Draculean surrealism.
We return to the psychological textbook. If the PPP over the next five years until the election in 2020, persists in accusing the APNU-AFC administration of all the depravities in the naked use of power then the PPP becomes irredeemable, and will not concede the semi-fascist mistakes it made, because it does what the kidnapper did.
It psychologically removes itself from its twenty-three year-old tyranny and replaces it with democratic crusade. This is what is happening in Parliament at the moment.
The PPP is advocating a special fund for victims of criminal robberies. They see this as justice for people whose relatives were murdered by violent robbers.
The psychology at work here is that the PPP, through its empathy for the victims, cares about justice. But there was no empathy from the PPP when the past fifteen years a tsunami of violent robberies has overtaken this country.
People have seen their loved ones die in front of their eyes on the parapet after their arrival from overseas. For over twenty years, late night arrival at the airport has been a dangerous thing.
This country has seen the brutal murder of people who died clutching their bag of money withdrawn from commercial banks. The PPP wants a fund for the victims. Where was this fund prior to May 2015?
The level of disbelief simply numbed the mind as one listened to the budget criticism of the PPP Parliamentarians. Descriptions included, “lack of accountability and transparency”.
These were two words that did not exist under the presidency of Jagdeo, the very man who led the budget debate for the opposition in Parliament last week.
This country woke up to some of the most horrific forms on incestuous political economy under Jagdeo – never seen before in the entire history of the British West Indies.
But it was incestuousness clouded in diabolical secrecy. The people of Guyana yearn for some disclosures that have terrorized their minds the past fifteen years.
Mr. Jagdeo through the instrumentality of his underling, Labour Minister Nanda Gopaul, hijacked the entire private commercial house named New Building Society (NBS).
The NBS purchased the shares of CLICO in the Berbice Bridge worth over two billion dollars. CLICO then paid those two billions to favoured shareholders who lost when CLICO collapsed. To date no one knows who those shareholders are; all the recipients were close to Mr. Jagdeo.
This former president and his party are now accusing a three-month-old government of lack of accountability and transparency.
Millions of acres of land have been sold to favoured foreign investors and the shape of those sales remains state secrets, like the 65 acres opposite the Botanic Garden, sold to China Trading.
This country is facing the PPP’s entry into bizarre psychology in which it will come to seriously accept that its 23-year-old reign was absolutely perfect.

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