KISSOON, in KN Friday’s verbal diarrhea spewed, “It is no secret in Georgetown that these phantoms are going to go on a violent spree during the election campaign. The truth is that in Guyana the weapon of fear has worked for Freedom House and New Garden Street.”
The “mental case” is obviously having a serious nightmare or a mental breakdown. He must be remembering Burnham in the sixties.
This excerpt form GUYANA UNDER SIEGE by Rakesh Rampertab may better explain what’s behind his mental breakdown: “Leading from the streets, Burnham challenged his supporters through racial fears, reinforcing their sense of “power,” saying, “In fact, comrades, you do not realise your power, but I do not want you to use your power recklessly.” By mid-year of 1963, PNC’s campaign of violence reached government officials (Senator Christina Ramjattan was attacked and hospitalised) and buildings. Some foreign ships (Cuban tanker, m.v. Cuba ) also became targets for sabotage. Horrified with his party’s campaign, Dr. D.J. Taitt, a founding member of the PNC, accused Burnham of leading its members into a “blind alley of improvised tribalism at variance with the economic and social realities of the two major ethic groups of our country…”
At Bourda Green, in May 1963, Burnham suggests that the PPP plans to form “an authoritarian regime” in the Legislature, and if such occurs, then “there would have to be a shifting of the scene of agitation and opposition from the Legislature to the places where they grow rice.” A message loaded with racial overtones, “rice,” of course, symbolizes Indian-populated districts. Despite the discovery by the police of plan X-13, an insurrectionary plot to overthrow the PPP by force and national instability, as well as arms, ammunition, chemicals for bomb making, etc. at Congress Place, the PNC headquarters, Burnham’s rhetoric about violence intensifies, suggesting that the “PPP plan violence and propose to execute violence,” and thus, his supporters “must be in a position to apply the remedy.” Thus, when asked why he refused to travel in Georgetown and assist in the arrest of the disturbances (asked by Governor), his response was that “we were very short on petrol and we felt that if we went around Georgetown using up this petrol…we would have no petrol for the vehicles to carry out Party work.” ”.
I encourage our readers to look up and read this article in totality. It may assist some of us (like Kissoon) with a short memory to recall what our nation really faced at the hands of Kissoon’s guru, Burnham. It may also explain why Kissoon is trying to paint the current politicians with the same brush – He is recalling what he may have experienced as a young man and it is haunting him.
Alternatively, Kissoon is just plain WICKED and bent on resurrecting “slo fyah, mo fyah” mentality. Perhaps, he dreams of becoming a hero after that. Dream on Freddie!