When you invent your own facts, you are a narcissist

Feb 04, 2022 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

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Kaieteur News- I believe it is my right to say who I respect or who I see as not brilliant or bright. I never respected the academic work of Henry Jeffrey.
As a trained social scientist, I have always believed since my UG student days that Jeffrey did not and does not produce plausible academic arguments. In one of his Stabroek News columns (to this day Jeffrey has never written why he left the PPP government or was evicted and the same for the Stabroek News). Jeffrey described me as a Trumpian narcissist. That was weird.
A Trumpian personality believes in right-wing politics. I have been a left-wing activist my entire life and accept an infusion of socialist economics in policy-making. A Trumpian personality is against the flow of immigration into his/her country. I took volcanic objection when a certain trade unionist used xenophobic language to deny Latin immigrants to Guyana. Anyway, for a rebuttal to Jeffrey’s portrait of my Trumpian narcissism (I’m still amused as that thing), see my column of Sunday, June 7, 2020 captioned, “A Trumpian narcissist calls me a Trumpian narcissist.”
Here is the academic and polemical mediocrity of Jeffrey again. This is where it is important to confront people who produce their own facts. What you are about to read from Jeffrey is bizarre but these things should not come from someone who was once a university lecturer.
Jeffrey produced statistics from the Chief Election Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield, at the time of the March 2020 election, to prove that the votes counted were not genuine ballots. But wait a minute! You have to see which Regions produced these false ballots. Here is what Jeffrey regurgitated from Lowenfield. Below is the percentage for fake ballots for the flowing Regions as adumbrated by Lowenfield and Jeffrey found credible to reproduce: R1- 34.6 percent; R2 – 74.8 percent; R3 – 67.9 percent; R4 – 55.4 percent; R5 – 50.5 percent; R6 – 77.4 percent; R7 – 70.5 percent; R9 – 53.7 percent; R10 – 17 percent.
What is the reply to this asininity? First, you are talking about a massively rigged election in which on March 3, the day after voting, the very Lowenfield certified the results for nine Regions. If Lowenfield’s percentage is right, then three questions are relevant. One is, where was Lowenfield when this gargantuan conspiracy of rigging was taking place on voting day? The other question is where were the 2,000 APNU-AFC polling agents and returning officers (ROs) when all hell was breaking loose in those polling stations?
The second reply is that the APNU+AFC never objected to these frauds and Mr. Joseph Harmon announced on Friday, March 6, 2020 that GECOM was being summoned to declare a victory for the APNU+AFC. It is either the CEO, the APNU+AFC polling agents and ROs were pathologically incompetent or no such fraud occurred.
Third, there is no percentage of bogus ballots for Region 8 by the CEO. This is strange. Why would the opposition rig the poll in 9 of the 10 regions, leaving out Region 8? Could it be the CEO forgot to include the imaginary percentage for Region 8? Fourth, if the PPP tampered with the election in Region 10, then the PPP is a phenomenal, omnipotent superhero. For all of Guyana’s modern history, MacKenzie has been pro-PNC. How did the PPP manage to rig the ballots there to the tune of 17 percent?
Fifth, the CEO declared, and Jeffrey found it credible to publicise it, that 55.4 percent of Region 4 ballots were bogus. This is a region where the PPP has never won since British Guiana started having elections. But while in opposition in March 2020, the PPP through one of the world’s most daring feats, pulled off a successful tampering project in Region 4 on March 2.
It is such a sad commentary on people who have had a university education, to believe those jumbie statistics that Lowenfield produced. Anyway, I left number six reply for the last – the statements of poll (SOPs). If we had such an oceanic assault on the March election, then the victims of fraud had to do the commonsensical thing and produce their (SOPs). Even if they could not do it a week or a month after, then surely, they should have done it while the world’s eyes were on Guyana.
To conclude, people like Henry Jeffrey have their problems. We all do, so one must move on. Guyana has moved on. I will close with a question for Jeffrey. Is he willing to analyse the minds of Mr. Dominic Gaskin and the son of the AFC’s leader, Khemraj Ramjattan? They both concluded that the APNU+AFC did not win the March 2020 general elections. Who really is the narcissist?
(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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