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Mar 14, 2015 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
On a dark, lonely street, the assassins came. They killed a patriot. They killed a man, not known for mansions and fast cars, not known for smoking even a cigarette, but known for his love of country and admired for his courage to stand up against a type of insanity which is the world’s oldest depravity – naked power.
Courtney Crum-Ewing died in a hail of sadistic bullets, bullets that were scared of the future, bullets that were used to protect those who want to hold back time. Time has never been on the side of dictators.
Time gives dictators space so they can hang themselves. When they refuse to face reality, they throw the rope down and others, like the descendants of Crum-Ewing, Walter Rodney, Ronald Waddell, picket and give it to their generation to do the final rites. When they do so, history comes alive and we bow to it.
Courtney Crum-Ewing has passed into history. We must now do the final rites. We must not wait for time, because time is contemptuous of those who refuse to see that time is not a cow that you can milk whenever there is a need to drink. Assassins never give recognition to history. Assassins do not recognize anything except the power they have to kill those who expose their unbridled lust.
This is the time for the end of unbridled lust in Guyana. Dictators are deadly people. They will not part with their loot. They do not run away and leave their treasure. They kill to stop time and heroes. They have stopped a hero named Courtney Crum-Ewing but they cannot postpone the day of judgement.
Denials will come speeding down the track like a bullet train. But the assassins are known. We must let them know that we know who they are. We must hold fast to the opinion we have about who killed Courtney and we must assert the right to express that opinion on why Courtney died.
Whores, charlatans, wannabes luxuriating in the company of those who give out thirty pieces of silver and media slaves whose hands are imprisoned by the fingers that feed them will unleash a tsunami of denials and paint them with hypocritical colours. But the nation knows who sent the killers that roamed the night looking for Courtney, found him, killed him, then, burned the truth using the stench of their fetid corruptibility to fool the Guyanese people.
Courtney Crum-Ewing is dead and gone but his ashes have become a University to school the dreamers of a bold new Guyana, who occupied the public on Carmichael Street on successive days this week to announce to the dictators, that history will judge them and the sentence will be harsh.
I saw that education for myself as Guyanese with passion, purpose and perseverance occupied that public space. And memories of an apartheid South Africa permeated the ambience of struggle outside the Office of the Attorney-General. It was on that very spot Courtney Crum-Ewing staged his one man picket. That space now belongs to the spirit of Courtney Crum-Ewing
Few people if any in that protest on Thursday afternoon, were aware of the significance of that specific spot where Courtney carried on his one man picket against the Attorney-General. Across the road, just yards away stands, Independence Park, formerly the Parade Ground. It has colossal significance for this country.
It was across the road from where Courtney Crum-Ewing kept his vigil that the captured slaves of the 1832 rebellion were mutilated, dismembered and decapitated. That area may have played a part in the decision to kill Courtney. Those who ordered their bestial demons to kill Courtney Crum-Ewing meticulously shaped the message they wanted to send to the people of Guyana.
The first dimension of the murder has been painfully explained by those who know how brutal the dictators are. Let’s explain it again. And we must go to explain it. The timing was decided on when the assassins found out that Courtney was in full political mode urging people with his bullhorn to go out and vote. I believe that particular act cost Courtney his life because they wanted Guyanese to see the image of a dead activist lying in a pool of blood with his weapon next to his side, the weapon of his voice – his bullhorn.
The second dimension of this assassination is related to Independence Park. The plotters said to the nation, let them go where their ancestors were killed to mourn another death. In other words, the plotters knew that as a response to his death, we would go near to Independence Park to protest Courtney’s assassination. In other words, tremendous insult and cynicism went into the planning of the assassination of Courtney Crum-Ewing.
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