These facts indicate a psychologically dead society

Jul 08, 2021 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Kaieteur News – Two crazy facts, just these two, made me believe that this country does not have real existence. Now to add to that was a letter yesterday by a member of parliament representing a political party in the House that does not exist anywhere on Planet Earth.
Let’s look at the two insanities first. David Hinds wrote a piece in April on his Facebook page in which he said, “I am stoutly opposed to electoral rigging and will never participate in such activity.” For more on this absolute depravity see my column of Thursday April 15, 2021, “Did the government this year try to bribe Dr. David Hinds?”
Is there a deeper expression of surrealism in Guyana than this utterance by Hinds? One of the most fanatical endorser of the attempts to rig the March 2020 election with ghoulish styles in his propagandistic outpourings was Hinds himself. He continues in that mode. In fact, he’s stuck in that gear.
The other maddening occurrence was the Catholic Bishop of Guyana. He formed an organisation with some other people whose purpose was to ensure Article 13 of the constitution is fully implemented in Guyana in substance and effect. The article stipulates that “The principal objective of the political system of the State is to establish an inclusionary democracy by providing increasing opportunities for the participation of citizens.…”
Here is the bizarre part of this macabre formation. Many of these groups that the goodly Bishop has endorsed were completely silent when for five months dangerous and deadly minds tried to destroy Guyana’s constitution by taking away the fundamental right to vote and have that vote legally counted and legally recognised. One can only assume that these groups at the time were on an excursion at the bottom of the world’s oceans.
Are you telling me you are going to help me achieve greater freedom in my country by agitating for Article 13 to be fully at work but when my country was on the brink of extinction, a process that lasted for five months, you ran away in fear? You cannot even help yourself, you are going help me? But there is more to come.
When I see the Catholic Bishop, I will kindly ask him to explain how his organisation, named the Civil Society Forum, expects Guyanese to support his outfit when others in his midst are flippant about the very role of the constitution. Here are more examples of a crazy, absolutely morally shambolic country.
The Stabroek News in an editorial on Tuesday referred to the Guyana Human Rights Association as a non-partisan body. Which organisation deserves that appellation that absolutely refused to issue even one word on the constitutional denial by the incumbent regime of a no-confidence motion, a denial that went on for one full year? Which organisation that deems itself a human rights group that said not one word on the most deadly and dangerous assault on the right to vote in the British West Indies deserves the label of “non-partisan?”
A PNC parliamentarian, Amanza Walton-Desir, accused Indians of being mentally lazy to think for himself or herself so they let the PPP think for them. At the same time, she refuses to concede that one can say the same about African Guyanese. The same lady tells African Guyanese that the March 2020 election was not credible. Is she and her party, the PNC, thinking for African Guyanese?
Finally, there appeared a letter yesterday in the newspaper by parliamentarian, Tabitha Sarabo Halley. She writes, “Most of us who want to abide by the rules and norms that govern our society find ourselves zoning out from the politics of our country because it all seems so convoluted and lacking certainty.” But this very lady is guilty of that behaviour. Her party, the WPA, did not select her as its first choice as its representative to parliament. But she is still in parliament representing which party? She is not an APNU MP because she has formed her own party and was not selected by the leader of the list, Mr. Granger, to be an APNU parliamentarian. If Guyana is not a dead place, it certainly is a crazy land.
(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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