Radical left-wing lunatic

Mar 25, 2025 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

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Hard Truths…

By GHK Lall

Kaieteur News- All things are possible.  It is a saying from sacred scripture.  For here I am agreeing with the newest American Superhero, President Donald Trump, a fire-breathing, enemy devouring Captain America.  The latest jewel emerging from his profound being is “radical left-wing lunatic” hurled at a fellow American.  In sidestepping that blow, the mystery is how President Ali and Vice President Jagdeo didn’t get there first.  In flinching, it got me thinking about what’s happening here.

To say that Exxon is a rapacious corporate predator is to be deemed a traitor.  Lower than low, beyond rehabilitation; one unworthy of acceptance back into loyal society.  To me, that sounds eerily like ‘radical left-wing lunatic.’  Don’t look at me.  With hand over heart, I repeat my oath to America, capitalism, and the American Way.  The old one.  But Exxon is America, that projection of American power and its subtle imperialist visions.  Trouble looms.  Instant qualification for that verbal sledge from the New Yorker now excitedly ensconced in Washington.  Given the temper of the times, he belongs.  But “radical left-wing lunatic” for someone asking a question, scoping out a situation is venturing into storm-tossed waters.

Storm-tossed waters are what Guyanese live with here.  To test this, I must find out if I still qualify for a Guyana passport, and the lettering it presents to me.  Because ‘One Guyana’ means that all must rally around the commercial that Exxon is as one with Guyana and its interests.  Based on its voracious 2016 document creativity, I assert loudly, clearly: Exxon is anti-Guyana.  I’m sure that Mr. Alistair Routledge heard me, and I have something more for him.  Shred that 2016 document, reboot the conversation, and that is pro-Guyana.  Rather than ruthless capitalism, there is its right-minded, even righteous, version.  I recognize that this is dangerous country.  For to say that Exxon is anti-Guyana brings instant qualification for that searing brand: ‘Anti-American.’  Anti-American is the sweeter rendition of ‘radical left-wing lunatic.’  And to think that I penned annual writings titled, ‘The local lunatic fringe.’  It is a terrible development to end up in the asylum that is owned and inhabited by men like, aw shucks, let me be generous today.  It is that kind of country here.

Yeah.  To tell Mr. Routledge to tell Mr. Woods that 2% is a patented robbery is to be anti-American, thanks to the political and ideological conversion of Daktah Irfaan Ali and Daktah Bharrat “Exxon” Jagdeo.  It is common knowledge that those who experience overnight religious conversions can be real fanatics, loose cannons, bona fide fundamentalists.  But they can’t hold a candle to the Guyanese now basking in their new political light.  “America! Oh Americaaah…  God shed his grace on thee….”  No! that’s not Ray Charles.  Nor of me standing to attention, saluting the Stars and Stripes, and the goose bumps out of control.  It is Irfaan Ali and Bharrat Jagdeo, Aubrey Norton and Nigel Hughes all striving to outshout each other.  Outshout fits, because they could sing a line to save this country from Maduro.  Or Exxon.  Or those fine fellas in DC.  What chance the Guyanese people?

When I think of 75% of the rich oil cream snatched for expenses, some not quite legit, I see more than a crippling mortgage.  I behold a goddamn loan shark operating out of some back alley in Brooklyn.  Alistair Routledge, he of MIT math vintage and the Wharton School of Business, takes out 75% from the top and still ends up with 52% gifted to Guyana.  It reinforces my unmoving belief that this nobleman is more than a CXC candidate.  He is a CXC victim, and a Guyana tragedy.

Now, the local defenders of the faith will say that I have crossed the line from anti-Guyana and anti-Exxon to anti-American.  If this was a country, I could take it seriously.  This is not a country.  It is a catastrophe.  One man who is a living, walking version of the uber local power master came up with the pathetic taken to its ultimate.  He can’t tell this mathematically-handicapped American superstar to tear down his blasted billboard.

I have heard about getting on the right side of powerful people.  But there is the greatest distaste to observe leaders lying on their backs and waiting for their bellies to be rubbed for their docility and pretended stupidity.  All of this offends my tender sensibilities.  From billboards, to the Routledge lite math to national leaders cooing in contented submission.  They can surrender themselves.  But no Guyanese with any cojones should avert their gaze whey national leaders agree to the subjugation of the citizens of this Republic to foreign corporate entities.  Or any entity, power.  Work together, for sure.  But yielding the knee, nevah mah luv!

Now, disturbed PPP Government operators are adept at rearranging things to suit their nefarious programs (before AI, there was the PPP, a lurking crime wave).  A field day beckons.  Lunatics on the loose.  Left-wingers running amok.  The only left-wingers left are North Koreans; even Putin is lukewarm.  He is more into money via the American capitalist route.  But say Exxon, this cannot be thine way, and daggers are drawn.  Guyana is going to hell in a calabash, and citizens shrug.  I contend that it’s already there.

(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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