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Feb 10, 2015 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
Sigmund Freud died seventy-five years ago. When you have read Freud completely as you should, the question always lingers in your thought – what explanations he would have for the behaviour of Homo sapiens in the 21st century. Is it possible he would have given up trying to probe the mental structure of Homo sapiens?
How would Freud have reacted to the utterances of Phylicia Rashad in support of Bill Cosby; Nadira Jagan’s damning statement about hating people who criticize her mother; Mikhaila Puran’s claim that her father, Vic didn’t die in an accident but was murdered? Is it possible Freud would have put it down to the thin line that separates Homo sapiens from lower animals?
Let’s divert to Leslie Ramsammy. The owner of an electronic store in Florida identified Ramsammy, the then Health Minister as the person from the Guyana Government that purchased a spy equipment in the form of a laptop that could trace the locations of the transmissions of cell phones. The accusation against Ramsamy was that the purchase was made to facilitate Roger Khan. Khan was found with the laptop when security forces arrested him. Ramsammy denied he was the purchaser.
Why did the manager, who had no knowledge about who was who in the Government of Guyana, name the Health Minister and not Ministers with the portfolios of security and presidential affairs etc? If the manager wanted to rubbish the Guyana Government by claiming that it was by-passing US Government restrictions and buying sensitive electronics why would he pick on the Health Minister and not ministers with security portfolios?
Logical deduction will instruct you that Ramsammy may have been involved. Phylicia Rashad has defended Cosby by saying there is no proof and that it is a conspiracy to tarnish his legacy. Has Rashad ever heard about logical deduction in the social sciences? It is not three, not 13 but 30 women –African, white, mixed – who have made terrible sexual accusations against Cosby including multiple rapes.
These 30 women come from every corner of the territory of the United States and none knew each other as friends. A majority of them are in their sixties, have very respectable jobs and many are mothers. Is Rashad telling us that there is a conspiracy among these women to demolish Cosby? And why Cosby who is at the end of his rainbow and not the wealthy artists like Kanye West, Jay Zee, Lionel Ritchie, Samuel Jackson, Denzil Washington? Why Cosby who is in his late seventies?
The first thing that came to my mind when I read Rashad’s defence was that she was never raped. And this is where the thin line between Homo sapiens and lower animals comes in. A lion protects her cubs, and will violently defend them but that same lion will eat the young of other animal.
The point is we defend those who were our benefactors and those we care about and we throw others to the wolves. Rashad said Cosby was a good friend. She was his co-star for over a decade. He must have been nice to her. But should that blind her to what he did to others?
It is exactly the same with Puran and Jagan. Puran’s father, Vic was trying to put to death the parents of two small children falsely charged for treason by the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal. The evidence was non-existent but Puran was looking for opportunities with the PPP Government. Puran made a Faustian pact with the Government in which he would prosecute the parents in exchange for helping his pocket. Puran was a dishonest man who tried to murder three persons falsely accused of treason. Mikhaila Puran didn’t write about the two small children, only about her father.
Nadira Jagan no doubt has fond memories of her mother. The record shows that Janet Jagan was in politics for over sixty years during which time she was de facto head of the PPP, the controlling voice over Cheddi Jagan and she was President of Guyana. In those sixty years, the accusations of terrible things done by Mrs. Jagan to her fellow humans could fill volumes. A large percentage could be substantiated. And these accusations didn’t come from obscure individuals but from some great Guyanese.
Nadira says that she hates people who criticize her mother. Her brother, Joey, once advocated violence against those who criticize his father. These children may be saying their parents are perfect. Are all the people who made accusations against Cheddi and Janet Jagan lying? Or is it that the line that separates Homo sapiens and lower animals is too thin and getting thinner?
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