Decent, normal minds do not do these things

Jun 28, 2016 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

How could you argue for a cricketer who was dropped after failure in a five-Test series in which his average wasn’t even 20? You are bound to be greeted with the utterance; “How can you defend such a person?” That question is perhaps the most used, worn out question in modern civilization. “How could such a person” is perhaps the most used question in the US today – it relates to Trump who is flippant about women and is racially bigoted.
In Guyana we should be hearing that question over and over again. How can you defend Jagdeo, the PPP and the Jagdeoite cabal? Is there evidence to condemn these people? Did these people do bad things when they were in office? Were people and their families hurt through victimization?
Race and ideology run deep in the human soul. People will defend an organization once it is made up of persons of their race or nationality. You can hide a fact from yourself if you want to, for as long as you want, but what you cannot do and will never do, is to hide that fact from the world.
It is foolish to think that 57 women – white, Black, mixed, Hisapanic – who do not know each other are lying on Bill Cosby. Let’s say twenty are lying; but surely not all 57. That is a lot of women. As an admirer of Cosby you can choose to fool yourself but you cannot fool the world. You may hate Trump and vote for Hilary Clinton but the fact cannot be denied the Clintons are a very wealthy couple who keep the company of super-wealthy people.
In Guyana, the Guyana Times, a paper that is self-styled, “the Beacon of Truth” portrays the Coalition Government as incompetent and discriminatory. The Times wouldn’t recognize the truth even if it appears as Jaws in the swimming pools of its two owners – one in Pradovile One, the other in Pradoville Two. The Times has several writers, including its manager, Ravi Dev, who picks on all the mistakes the Coalition Government makes. What is wrong with that? Absolutely nothing.
Emphasis should be on the adverb, “absolutely.” If the government falters, it must be criticized. Speaking for myself; the Coalition’s first year in office has been ordinary, jejune and disheartening. How can any government in a very, very young population as Guyana’s not have as one of its most important ministries, the Ministry of Youth Affairs? That is not only disappointing but completely foolish. People should criticize their government when their government does unacceptable things.
The problem I have with the “Beacon of Truth,” and the bigoted intellectual supporters of the PPP who write letters to the newspapers (including the guy who dons the garb that Swamis from India wear), is how do they type their words on the keyboard? How do the words come out of their mouths when they criticize the Coalition Government and forget that we were living in a virtual nightmare called Jagdeoism? Do normal, decent minds behave like this?
I wouldn’t object if these bigoted people find fault with the Coalition Government, but you mean to tell me not a word on Jagdeo’s 12-year hegemony and Ramotar’s disgraceful three years of being a stooge to Jagdeo?
Have these people been reading the reports of the forensic audits. Are they saying that all the auditors are biased? Is Bryan Hunt, the former American Chief of Mission lying too? He said there must be prosecution arising out of the findings of the forensic audits? Are the Beacon of Truth and the Swami comfortable with how Pradoville 2 came about? If you buy a piece of land and two discarded Bedford trucks sit on the land, do you think you can ask the Government to send a disposal crew to remove them? Removing them is your problem.
This is not what happened at Pradoville 2. The State spent $257 million to develop the area and this sum does not include the enormous amount spent to remove the communication towers that were on the land. Then the land was sold for $5 million per acre as against a market price of $82 million per acre given the real estate location at the Atlantic Ocean.
Priya Manickchand sold her Pradoville 2 house for US$1 million to a businessman by the name of David Narine. Obviously Narine has money to throw away. Maybe he should put some into the Georgetown Hospital.
Normal, decent minds cannot and should not overlook this mountain of corruption but in Guyana we have such minds.

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