‘Lunatic fringe, usual suspects, Creole middle class and the stallion’

Mar 14, 2022 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Kaieteur News – “Lady, take me, high upon a hillside
High up, where the stallion meets the sun.”
Those are words from the super hit of Barry Manilow when I was very young. In case you are interested in this song, disco queen, the late Donna Summers has a version that is mind-blowing. These words refer to our local politician, Dominic Gaskin. He stood like a stallion during five months of the election horror show.
I have committed myself to write about this period in our history each time the anniversary comes around and I will not forget to mention the name – Dominic Gaskin. I will not let the name Dominic Gaskin fade, from memory, once I have a keyboard in front of me. Dominic Gaskin is worthy of the admiration of this entire country. He deserves it. Guyana must give it to him. Simply put, Dominic Gaskin is a giant.
At the time of the rigging, Gaskin showed the world what character is. At the time he was one of the most influential forces in the corridors of power. He was (still is) the son-in-law of the then president and one of the most pronounced voices in the AFC which was one-half of the ruling entity.
Mr. Gaskin publicly distanced himself from the rigging. Through his Facebook page, he came out against the fraud. He became famous for these words, “who vex, vex.” That was when he made the most pellucid description so far about his feelings on the election fraud. In common Guyanese parlance, “who vex, vex” means, “I don’t give a damn if people are annoyed with what I said, what I said I am standing by it.”
In July 2020, four months after the rigging bandwagon was still doing its journey, when the world had enough of the machinations, asininities, immoralities, crudities, eccentricities of the PNC, AFC, WPA, the lunatic fringe, the usual suspects and the Creole middle class, and some in the GECOM Secretariat, Dominic Gaskin took to his Facebook page and etched his name in the history books of Guyana.
He needs to be quoted at length: “It appears that the entire world is lined up against the APNU+ AFC coalition, it is because the entire world, except the coalition and its supporters, knows that Mr. Mingo’s numbers were not the right numbers. It is the failure of the incumbent to acknowledge Mingo’s unscrupulous act that has us where we are today. The unfortunate truth is that the only ones fooled by Mingo were his intended beneficiaries. The votes in those ballot boxes, all of which have been deemed legally valid, show that the majority of Guyanese prefer a PPP-C government to an APNU+AFC government. This is what the coalition should be working to change in time for 2025 election.”
These words, at the time, coming from the president’s son-in-law and a top leader of the AFC sealed the fate of the Granger presidency. Mr. Gaskin’s voice was too reverberating to be ignored by the world. We didn’t see it and it was never shown, but the effects of those words no doubt persuaded very powerful governments and international organisations.
The lunatic fringe (TLF), the usual suspects (TUS) and the Creole middle class (CMC) did not heed the advice of Gaskin. Their antics, barefacedness and immoralities from March 2020 up to this date, will undermine the electoral chances of the favourite parties in 2025.
TLF on their META (Facebook) pages and in an online newspaper, Village Voice, continues to denounce the PPP government as being installed. The columnist who I refer to as the Trumpian narcissist, wrote that in all of the 10 Regions, a huge percentage of the votes were fraudulent. TLF continues to make a mockery of the right of Guyanese to have their vote counted. Since they are fanatical backers of the PNC, they are embarrassing cobwebs to the new PNC leadership.
TUS is more depraved than TLF. While TLF rages on, they speak their minds. TUS is in a dilemma. It supported the rigging but chose to remain silent, finding expressions by writing copious letters in the media denouncing all the policies of President Ali as a way of telling him, “we didn’t want you on March 2, 2020.”
TUS has lost credibility. Each time they publish a letter in their favourite newspaper, people laugh at them and say: “where were your letters from March to July in 2020?” CMC has proven to be one of the largest moral disappointments in the history of this country. They fought for free and fair elections from 1968 to 1992. But we now know why. Race was the motive.
(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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