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Sep 16, 2011 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
Freud is always at work. Today is billed as the Day of Appreciation but the Freudian sub-conscious of Rickey Singh was at work. He referred to it in his column of praise for Mr. Jagdeo as Night of Appreciation. Did Singh have in his mind the content and theme of the famous movie on Nazi Germany, “Night of the Generals” and their relevance to what will take place tonight at the Stadium?
Last year around this time (Sept 19) my column was titled, “Night of the Generals: Inside the corridors of dark power in Guyana.” I applied the content and theme of that movie to the exercise of naked power.
Since then, the generals have exceeded their limitations.
As the Night of Appreciation highlights the power of the generals, I would like to quote at length from that essay to remind you of the travesties, treacheries, tragedies and transgressions of elected dictatorship in this pitiful land named Guyana.
Here is the relevant section; “This is a stunning movie of how fascist elites behave in a dictatorship. The Nazi generals and party leaders committed any sex crime they wanted and were immune from prosecution. It is a superb movie with a powerful political message. That message is dictatorship has no logic.
The power-holders lose reason and rationality and sooner rather than later the rulers commit all sorts of insane acts and remain above the law. In one scene, Omar Sharif, a professional policeman, went to the office of a Nazi general (Peter O’Toole) to arrest him for the sexual brutalization of a woman. O’Toole was amused. He took out his Lugar, shot and killed Sharif. Many scenes in “Night of the Generals” mirror the rule of the elites in Guyana.” (end of quote)
I wished you had seen that movie because tonight as the generals enumerate their achievements, hidden from the notes they will read from are the scenes from “Night of the Generals.” Remember the Canadian Refugee Board granted asylum to a 14-year-old girl who was raped in a business place on the East Bank by men who patronize the political elites. The Canadian Board feared that she would be killed if she returned to Guyana and allowed her to stay.
Remember “Killaman.” He is straight out of the movie. Violence follows him wherever he goes as it did with the generals in Nazi Germany. He pistol-whips who he wants to. He drives his SUV and crushes the limbs of who he wants to.
Then there was the controversial suicide of a dear one in the world of “Killaman.” Like Peter O’Toole, Killaman was (is) above the law. Remember the fourteen-year-old that frolicked her time away at the death anniversary party of Dr. Jagan at the official residence, then her mom asked the “Berryman” to take her home.
The mom trusted the “Berryman” but the “Berryman” was born on the night of the generals. He took the fourteen-year-old to the villa named after a Toyota SUV, and like Peter O’Toole in the movie, he did his thing. He ravished her. A house lot in Diamond and half a million dollars closed the mother’s mouth.
I like the story of one of the generals who allegedly told the Americans who curtailed his ability to travel to the US, “I thought you took it away because I does trouble the girls.” To date, no commentator, editor or opposition politician has attempted to explain what is meant by “troubling the girls.”
I like the saga of the intercepted telephone call in which a lesser general solicits homosexual sex from a fifteen-year-old boy and as the teenager refuses, he, the general begins to cry.
The generals are on parade tonight. Tonight is the night of the generals. What will they tell a nation that has been tormented by their deviant, depraved and demonic rule? You can predict the generals. They will lie. They will avoid the naked, horrible truths that punctuate their insane rule.
There was the VSO that was getting four million dollars a month working on the free laptop programme; the man who collected US$15.4M to build a road but has no experience in road-building; the powerful man who refused to legalize a wedding and led the Guyanese people to think he was in fact legally married.
The most ironic moment in the history of this troubled nation will take place at the National Stadium this evening. It is an event to show appreciation for a leader that has failed his people. Mephistopheles and Faust will dance tonight. What a couple!
Please share this to every Guyanese including your house cats.
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