I thank Mr. Freddie Kissoon for his endorsement of the PPP/C government. At long last, the ‘man’ has come to his senses. He realises that the best (only in fact) way for the Guyanese people, is that they remain loyal to this government. This may shock people, but it was very clear in his last Sunday’s piece in the KN. It is titled: Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris.” Freddie, logically (for once) says that Guyana must stay ‘forever’ with the PPP/C. Here are his reasons, and he employs three analogies to support his position. First, Freddie alludes to Tom Dalgetty’s take on the Walter Rodney scenario. He suggests that Rodney was wrong in opposing the rule of President Burnham. This is because, in Kissoonian/Freddian thinking, a ‘worse than’ Burnham is now in control. Guyana, in other words, should have settled for the erstwhile PNC dictator.
Then in conjuring up Oscar Wilde, who was destroyed after being charged with sodomy in the UK in 1895, Freddie opines that homosexuality should have been legitimised a long time ago. And in terms of modern-day obscenities in literature, Freddie appeals to D. H. Lawrence’s “Lady Chatterley’s Lover.” Freddie goes even further to endorse the PPP/C. He uses the 1972, “Last Tango in Paris” directed by the Italian Bernardo Bertolucci, with its pornographic content, as a parachronistic example. So what do we have now dear Freddie?
It is quite clear, (in retrospect then) that since Burnham was good, Dalgetty was wrong, and that Oscar Wilde, DH Lawrence and Bernardo Bertolucci were all decent, and preceded their time, then that mistake must not be repeated (You realise this is what you are saying Freddie?). What mistake? To switch from the PPP/C. Anything outside the PPP/C will redound in a worse scenario.
To close, here is what is really good (according to you Freddie)-An adviser exports dolphins illegally; a Permanent Secretary signs over fifty bogus duty-free letters; a bogus marriage lasted almost ten years; a cocaine baron ran a death squad; a minister cannot get an American visa to travel to do his cabinet duties; the Police Commissioner had his visa problems too; the Auditor-General’s report points to hundreds of millions of dollars that went astray and perhaps ended up in Switzerland; a little girl is given money and a house lot after being deflowered at Pradoville One; a rape victim identifies the big-wig in the SUV. Canada saved her by offering refugee status. A Hindu priest cannot resist under-aged girls.
You know Freddie (if you survive your current court battle), and when Donald Ramotar takes over, he may use the ‘bit and bridle’ literally on you. So if I were in your position, I would definitely try to do the dog walk.