IF there is any moment in my media career when I felt deeply revolted is when the pro-imperialist, colonially-shaped mind is in front of me.
One of those moments was recently when ANUG, now WIN politician Kian Jabour told his viewers on the Freddie Kissoon Show that the West has accountability systems to make people adhere to laws that places like Guyana, India and Third world countries lack.

I wanted to ask Jabour to leave my show, but protocol was more important than the way I felt. There are no accountability systems in Western countries that are superior to what we in Guyana, India and many, many Third World countries have, especially CARICOM States.
Jabour was speaking about Western accountability at the very time when these Western States, without accountability to their citizens, were and are supporting the most violent form of genocide in human history.

They were/are supporting a government in Israel that makes Hitler’s Government of the Nazi party in Germany from 1933 look credible, normal and democratic. When you think of what the West is doing in Gaza, and to tell the Guyanese people that Western governments have accountability systems is simply the product of a flawed, sick, and condemned mind.
Henry Jeffrey is a Guyanese I detest, not for his anti-PPP insanity; that is his right. What he doesn’t have is the right to attempt to maintain a colonial narrative and pro-imperialist subterfuge in Guyana. People would say he is entitled to support the cultural and political superiority of the West. I disagree.

You have no right to say racist things; you have no right to insult people’s ethnic composition, you have no right to exclaim that women are inferior to men, you have no right to tell Guyanese people that Western societies are superior in their thinking to us in the post-colonial world when Europe enslaved the Third World and enriched themselves with the wealth of the colonies. Sugar kept Britain alive in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Jeffrey published a letter a few days ago in which he offered Guyanese readers a Zionist, anti-Palestine extremist as an example of democracy. And Guyanese should read this man, Natan Sharansky of Israel, if we want to understand democracy. You have to cringe when you read people like Jeffrey.
Shransky, as an Israeli Cabinet minister, piloted a Bill in parliament to seize Palestinian lands in Jerusalem. Sharansky became a more over-zealous, right-wing extremist when he opposed even

the evilest Zionist Israeli has produced, with the exception of Netanyahu, Ariel Sharon, who wanted to pull the army out of the West Bank. Sharansky opposed Sharon.
Sharansky was released from a prison in the then USSR after spending eight years. He is now a free man; so free that he became a Cabinet Minister in Israel. The Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are not as fortunate as Sharansky.

Either they spend the rest of their lives in prison or they die in captivity. Maybe the USSR erred in releasing him. The world would have had one less Zionist if Sharansky was condemned to eternal jail.

Jeffrey is an intellectual pretender. The commonsensical thing for any human on Planet Earth to do when somebody’s book is recommended, is Google the name. When Jeffrey reads about Sharansky, a simple Google search would have revealed the undemocratic substance Sharansky is made of.

But why do you think Jeffrey did not research Sharansky? Because his colonial mind could not have allowed him to. Jeffrey is a hopeless example of what Franz Fanon wrote about.
This explains why, in his letters over the years in the newspapers, he keeps extolling the liberal democracy of the West, and shamelessly says Africa and places like Guyana do not have liberal democracy.

And what is liberal democracy in the West? It is about jailing people for expressing themselves. You hold a Palestinian flag in any Western country, and you will be charged. We in Guyana have the right to wrap ourselves in the Palestinian flag, as I did tonight on the Freddie Kissoon Show.

I was completely wrapped in Palestinian garb. And two of my guests had the Palestinian flag emblazoned on their shirts. Take a look at the show tonight, and you will see how Guyana is far more democratic than any Western nation.

Gerald Pereira, one of the Caribbean’s longest serving Pan-Africanist and a local activist that is not associated with the ruling PPP or the Government of Guyana, has requested that I include in this column how he feels about Jeffrey’s constant extolling of the West’s liberal democracy. Gerald told me he wants Jeffrey to know that Guyana is more democratic than any Western country. Indeed, it is.

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