The evil that men do live after them

Mar 10, 2017 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Anil Nandlall leant his frame against the rail of the High Court balcony. This was about the third or fourth day of the hearing of the libel that Bharrat Jagdeo, then, President Jagdeo, brought against me for one of my columns in which I had referred to him as an ideological racist. What is seldom mentioned when people discuss the libel is that the column was a description of an event that went on the day before.
I was doing a presentation at an academic forum for the Guyana Research and Historical Society at the National Library when a group of about six persons began to disrupt my talk. Included in the group was Charles Ramson Jr. They disrupted the event. It was a dreadful reminder to me and so many others of the days of the House of Israel.
There are untold numbers of fools out there whose minds are so rotten that all they can write and speak about is the violence of the time when Forbes Burnham was president. Some of these fools didn’t see any violence because they ran away to foreign lands. Today their minds are warped and one-dimensional. They know only about the bad days when the PNC was in power, not the horrible days when Jagdeo ruled this land and his critics were assaulted, dismissed from their employment, arrested and charged.
Sorry about the diversion but let’s return to Anil Nandlall. With a satisfying grin on his face, he said to me before the court went into session, “Bharrat (he didn’t say the President) gun tek yuh house.” He was referring to a victory and I would not be able to pay Jagdeo so Jagdeo would levy on my house. That was in 2010. Today, I still have my house and I can write about probable charges against Jagdeo and Luncheon and their acolytes.
When I saw on Leonard Gildarie’s computer the way Luncheon was being helped up the stairs of SOCU, my mind went back to how the police helped him up the stairs of the High Court each day of his testimony on behalf of Jagdeo in the libel trial. The identical situation was so uncanny. I stared at this man who was helping Jagdeo to win a libel suit against me thus jeapordizing, as Nandlall put it, my house. As I mentioned the word, staring, I recalled as Luncheon passed me for seven days in that court house, he never looked directly at me.
He would chat away with my lawyers, the court officials, the spectators but he never acknowledged my presence. Was he ashamed at what he was doing thus could not bring himself to look at me? I don’t know but this I know; Luncheon has gone down in history for saying in that trial that in 2010 there wasn’t an African Guyanese living in Guyana that was qualified to be an ambassador. To this day, Luncheon never apologized for that cruel remark.
Once the news was out that Jagdeo and Luncheon were ordered to SOCU head office, I have been stopped each day wherever I go for an opinion of what I think. I can say most honestly; every questioner has a pleasurable smile as he/she spoke to me. It is as if each knows that the king has fallen and that for me it is poetic justice. The long arm of the law has caught up with tyrants who reminded me of the Shakespearean play, Macbeth. Jagdeo is Macbeth. Desmond Hoyte is King Duncan of Scotland. The three witches are the PPP.
Jagdeo inherited a country that Desmond Hoyte had fashioned to allow democracy to grow. But Jagdeo murdered the life of democracy when he took over. The PPP informed Macbeth that he was destined for greatness. The climax of Jagdeo’s desecration was his throne of corruption. The witches fooled Jagdeo. Like Macbeth, he was destined only for downfall.
When he walked into SOCU’s head office after being compelled to attend, his words were far removed from Macbeth’s last moments; Jagdeo was defiant. But Macbeth’s final words are bound to haunt him as SOCU closes in. Here is Macbeth final uttering;
“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.”

Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5)

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