H@rd Truths By GHK Lall – A Society Without Moral Anchors

Jul 06, 2023 Features / Columnists, News, The GHK Lall Column

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Kaieteur News – Resignation!  What emerges, where all roads terminate, is clear: we have the power, we decide who, when, and how.  Nobody, no dreadful circumstances, no societal clamor, no victim’s pain, matters.  Only the PPP franchise matters.  Smoke it, choke on it.

Now it is forward with the minister’s serial, episode three, maybe twenty-three.  I regret being unable to identify the minister, a brother in distress, by his name.  I am working to overcome my own distress first, at the calumnies that coagulate in this country.  What follows next is the next question, several of them, in fact; and, naturally, those will be the signal for another frenzied extended moment of hysteria in this country.  Social media be ready.

First up: should the minister have been allowed to resign?  Or should our dear beloved President Ali have had the grooming to rise above his partisan protective proclivities and dealt with this matter unambiguously?  I think that word “proclivities” fits and is proper.  I did the president a favour by allocating to him the grooming to rise to the demands of the occasion, which they don’t teach in any school, including doctoral ones. To my chagrin, the best that I could have done for the minister resigning was that he could have used the breeding. It is why I appreciate Yanks and British so much, they have the word that matches man and moment.  Still, there is an understanding that the best of grooming and breeding do sometimes result in, ah, er, mishaps.  Men can’t help themselves when near forbidden fruit, which given the power of politics is low hanging fruit; and which, considering the antics of the PPP Government’s Machiavellian brain bank, is believed to be the right of the ruling class, the flesh savored by the local political aristocracy.  Just have to have it.

Next in line: the DPP’s office -yeah, that office, what is going on there?  Is it for the state of the people’s interests, their concerns, their fears, their peace and rights rent asunder?  Or is it more flexible and adventurous and, first for the state of mind that would prevail in elevated ruling circles of the State’s power apparatus should the people’s cause come first?  As in a charge?  My thinking is that high values, and higher beliefs, would be so sacred that the rights of frail and foolish men pale into insignificance, when the rights of a child, and the rights of society, have been abrogated. I hope that the last word did not fly past the head of the Hon AG.  My concern is what do we have for law in this country, and very finitely, to whom do those laws apply only?  Somebody help me, please.

A child with a situation indicating harm, a Chinese man with a story that pickles a powerhouse, a cohort of women whose stories are stained, smelly, and sickly (party platitudes and ‘pampasettin’ for public relations purposes), a child protection body that can’t determine its head from its heart, and if it has any holiness left.  And so on and so forth, ad infinitum and ad nauseam.  Where do I begin, in this Guyana love story of crime and no punishment?  Of high crimes reduced to not even misdemeanors. Of Democracy’s ideals condemned to the city pound like some flea-ridden, sore-infested, disease-plagued, mangy, abandoned cur.  Animals seemingly have more rights in this country than children of lesser gods and citizens of a certain cast of mind.

Which president, which former president(s), which Attorney General, which DPP office, which Opposition Leader, would preside proudly over these repeated instances of societal and national incest, chronic depravity, what is rankly predatory? Which society of people will be so reprehensible as to now celebrate for or against this costly bailout cloaked in the pristine finery of resignation?  How about a medal for long, outstanding, and conspicuous service of an extraordinary kind? Such belongs not only to the farce-filled, folly-infested minister retreating (temporarily) from the public radar, but also to all those who made trumpeting symphonic sounds about the rule of law, of diving into the offal deeply, and drilling deeper, to get to the bottom of this cesspool that is a nation.  For starters, I identify the president, the Vice President, and two female ministers, for a special carved medal for their patented pro forma pieties that are really a worshipful offering to themselves.

The first out of court settlement in this country is cash.  The second is political clearance and passing.  And, the last, is leaving one’s post of infamy voluntarily.  In other places, even in these modern times, it would have been with blindfolds at dawn, a wall, one last cigarette, and the rattle of musketry.  President Ali could check with his Saudi friends on how their vice police deal with these things.  Clearly, what Guyanese live with is not a government in any sense of the word, but of a gang of irregulars conducting proxy infiltrations of particular rapaciousness on their own.  Over a decade ago, I wrote of Guyana as a national cesspool.  I had no idea that I would be so right, and so many times over. Well, here we are, and this is what we live in, and how we are forced to live, thanks to a classless, standardless, and truthless PPP Government, with agents to match.

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

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