GENERALLY, most people see political activists as a confused bunch. Some have even remarked that a few of those opposing the government are gradually becoming unhinged and are taking their obsessions to new levels of craziness.

A disturbed few have taken refuge in the press. Here, they unwittingly confuse opposing government policies with publicly harassing government officials.

Online and in print you can read the glee with which they make all manner of baseless accusations that grow grosser and more outlandish every day. Apparently it is the same on local TV. The attacks are disgusting and relentless and it always fails.

Indications are that the government’s chances of winning re-election are solid while the ravings of these operatives are seen more and more as mere rabble rousing. So why are these agents of harassment moving politics to new heights of madness?

Why do they persist in vile but useless actions? Why are the stories they peddle so without class, so boorishly crude and sordid? Have they gone off the rails?

The tone of their activism reflects a mindset suffering the painful angst of political insignificance.

And while their behavior reeks of desperation, they have still managed to find a role in the desert of Guyana’s political wildness; they will be a menace to society. That’s all that’s left for them and they mean to fully embrace it.

They will use the press as the tool in their campaign of harassment (while hiding as reporters, columnists and particularly ugly TV talking heads).

So, as we watch, amused as they project their impotent political psychosis, we should some have pity on them, after all, they are just poor losers with a need to vent.
JUSTIN de FREITAS