There are anti-government critics and extremists in civil society who hate any and everything about the government. Two persons come to mind, Tacuma Ogunseye who was charged and Rickford Burke who is wanted by the police.
I read many of the harshness these people write. I believe the outpouring give the analyst a feel as to how these people think.
I never respected the academic output of Dr. Henry Jeffrey but I read him, Eusi Kwayana; David Hinds; “IN THE DIASPORA” with Alissa Trotz; the usual suspects; Isabelle DeCaires; the Stabroek News; Village Voice; and others like them because racial overtones, class prejudice and political irrationality are important to examine. Because of my work, I read non-stop what these categories of persons write.

In all honesty and I swear on my parents’ grave, I do not read GHK Lall and look at the Glen Lall show. Their superficiality is graphic and the comedic content I just could not be bothered with. An analyst cannot form a commentary based on what they write because unlike the anti-government haters, there is absolutely nothing intellectual in the emanations of both Lalls.

I did not know that GHK Lall had written a very unpatriotic piece against Guyana on the Venezuela controversy until I read a rejection of it in the Chronicle by frequent letter-writer Robin Singh. I have dealt with that insufferable item in my Saturday and Monday offerings.

I did not know that Mr. Glen Lall had produced shades of GKH’s unpatriotic manifestation until it was announced by social media influencer Mikhail Rodrigues aka- Guyanese Critic. Mr. Rodrigues said that the state apparatus in Venezuela has translated what Lall had to say and is playing it for the Venezuela people.

This was my concern with GHK Lall’s piece. It was so unpatriotic that I wrote that Venezuelan intelligence agencies had to zoom in on it and use it for propagandistic purposes. Now they are doing the same with the silly bravado of Glenn Lall.
I went to examine Lall’s show for the purpose of this column. I could not believe humans would look at that show. It was comedy non-stop interspersed with dangerous references that are not in Guyana’s interest at a time when Venezuelan President is aggressive towards Guyana.

I am going to omit a description of the comedy itself but surely, those who love Mr. Lall must know that something is wrong, that he may be coming apart. But I ask once more- how can any human watch those performances? Just to watch the show is tantamount to self-degradation.

The anti-oil lobby actors associated with Mr. Lall. Do they feel disgusted at the comedic outlandishness? Can any human watch that show and not be riveted by the thought that something is seriously wrong and maybe some help should be proffered?

When you examine the anti-oil lobby and the people that I refer to as the usual suspects, they are educated people who hold good jobs in foreign universities, they are parents, they have families. Do they want to have an ongoing relation with this type of comical abominations? Do they want to have an association with such an unhinged direction?

Mr. Lall referred to Venezuela as our beloved neighbour. He accused the government of inventing an enemy when the enemy according to him is the oil company. He accused the government of being concerned with the wrong enemy when the local enemy – the oil investor – is right here in Guyana.

Then he waxed lyrical about Venezuela’s generosity to Guyana in the 1980s. It was this part of the vaudeville that Venezuelan intelligence found useful and is playing in Spanish for Venezuelans to listen to. There are those who will argue that maybe Mr. Lall is not intellectually endowed to know better.

I don’t buy that theory because it cannot withstand criticism. Our primary schools kids who are nowhere near reaching their full intellectual evolution know very well that they have to show support for their country and utter criticism of the bad guy at the gate.

Here once again is the reason why both Lalls wrote in favour of Venezuela and once more I repeat the sentiment contained in my columns for Tuesday and yesterday about those who wrote in 2020 about the Caribbean must always be maintained as a zone of peace but have not condemned Venezuela. These people are prepared to write and say anything even if it plays into the hands of Maduro because they are driven by insane hatred for the PPP. Should state security visit both Lalls? My answer is yes.