After this, we will never see some Guyanese the same way again

May 10, 2020 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

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No one in their right mind should be glad that the 2020 election nightmare occurred. Guyana deserves to have democracy, social peace, economic take off that have been stalled since Independence. But the 2020 election rigging is a priceless lesson that we have learned from. We should welcome what it taught us
We have seen people behave in ways we could never have imagined. We wonder if we can see them the same way again. I did know that some prominent women would be barefaced enough to actual allow words to come out of their mouths attacking the countless decent patriots and courageous nationalist for criticizing the dangerous and destructive things that Claudette Singh is doing to Guyana. These women have the barefacedness to say that Singh is a woman and we must not treat women like that woman.
I honestly never thought that such women can disrespect their education and the citizenry at large through their repugnant defense of Singh. I knew about their words after I read a letter in the Stabroek News pointing to what these women had to say in the Chronicle. I hardly read the Chronicle. For someone to actually see the Chronicle as an important newspaper and in this crisis that we are in to actually give a comment to that newspaper eulogizing Singh shows how far this country has gone down the chasm of nihilism.
What Singh is doing to this country is so evil that those who support her support her evil. They should read what Gandhi once wrote; “noncooperation with evil is a sacred duty.” I repeat unapologetically what I think of Claudette Singh. She is one of the most unacceptable citizens this world has produced. She is one of the most questionable character Guyanese history has produced. On a personal level, we should all resent what Singh is doing to this country because our ancestors fought with blood, sweat and tears for the freedoms, rights and liberties us, as 21st century Guyanese, must be entitled to.
Singh wants to take away the right of Guyanese to have their vote counted. These women who gave Singh plaudits in the Chronicle for what Singh is doing to this country do not deserve our respect.
Before I move to Eusi Kwayana, I repeat another condemnation, I made of Singh. Whichever party forms the next government, except Singh’s friends in APNU+AFC, there should be a judicial enquiry into her conduct and that of Keith Lowenfield for which, if evidence is available, there should be prosecution.
I have known Kwayana for more than 45 years and the position he took on the rigged election process that is unfolding cannot be defended. This is a man who authored a book on Walter Rodney. Let me remind readers of Kwayana’s attitude on the rigging and Singh’s role in that. He wrote; “I for one, consider it unhelpful to prattle about facts I do not have…the impressions I am getting are not founded on facts that may pass my own test…I cannot pretend to be unaffected by the statement of (Singh) that she intended to deliver to the public a valid election. I have often wondered to what extent those who appealed to her public spiritedness…have taken the necessary steps to support her started aspirations.”
Kwayana is getting on in age and is becoming funny. This same man who hasn’t got the facts about what Singh is doing has sufficient facts to know that there was a day of post-election violence and he is urging a tribunal into the events. So, can we ask if he embraces facts that are convenient to him? I mean after all, the violence lasted one day. Singh’s long journey into election rigging is now two months on the road.
Rashleigh Jackson wrote a letter a few days ago in which he observed that, “There have been criticisms of the operations of some international observers which should not be ignored.” What Jackson left out is those criticisms are coming from defenders of rigged elections and can be found most among the very riggers themselves. Young Guyanese who read Jackson’s subtle criticism need to understand that a fraudulent government has not been imposed on Guyana because of the democratic instincts of those very observers, the criticism of whom Jackson thinks has merit. Jackson knows better but like Kwayana, there is the “convenience approach.”
Finally, my friend, David Hinds. He wrote; “Both sides have enlisted recommendations from so-called independents and neutral observers”. Is there is no way researchers can arrive at a conclusion as to if an election was rigged? David refers to “so-called independents.” Why? Is it because they denounced rigged elections?

(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper.)

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