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Apr 04, 2012 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
President Donald Ramotar was the identical version of Bharrat Jagdeo when he addressed PPP supporters on the occasion of the 2012 death anniversary of Cheddi Jagan. Even the most mentally challenged person could have easily predicted that a stuck record would have been played – the PNC Government was a dictatorship that denied freedom to the Guyanese people and the PPP Government has liberated Guyana.
I went back to research the annual speeches of Mr. Jagdeo on these occasions and without exception, the stuck record was played – it was the PPP good guy versus the bad guy when the PNC was in Government. The trouble with the PPP is that the stuck record can no longer be played. Science has damaged it. It is like a car with four flat tyres (one of the biggest supporters of the PPP Government, a small businessman, has imported a three-wheel car; sales are slack). There is nothing science can do to make it go if the tyres are not inflated.
The stuck record cannot be played on the phonograph because it is stuck. So it failed to deliver a majority percentage at the November 28, 2011 general elections, marking an historic moment for Guyana. But this will not deter President Ramotar. Come next March, as the troops are marshaled for another eulogy of Cheddi Jagan, we will hear how bad the PNC Government treated the Guyanese people.
And the teenagers who would have been cajoled to attend would turn to their mothers and say, “Mommy, who is Forbes Burnham?” She, of course, somewhat embarrassed at the stupidity of her leaders, would turn and say, “Hush, child!”
We talk so much about the historic moment when the PPP failed to get a parliamentary majority, but we seem not to discuss how the stuck record was defeated and what brought about history at midnight in Guyana on November 28, 2011. The stuck record failed, not because the younger generation didn’t know what the PPP leaders were talking about when they refer to Forbes Burnham, and his Government. The PPP lost in 2011 because the Guyanese people knew that they were as undemocratic as the very past rulers they so berated
Nothing could have been done to get the stuck record to play during the election last year. Hundreds of millions were poured into the campaign by the PPP from the Treasury (which belongs to the nation not Freedom House) but the gorgons still lost. We as a nation are yet to contemplate the crushing devastation the PPP received in the national elections, given the prodigious sums that went into Mr. Ramotar’s presidential ambitions.
And who said so? No, not the AFC or Mark Benschop or Malcolm Harripaul or Congress Place, but the prestigious OAS Observers and the EAB. I guess at the bottom-house meetings, the faithful will be told that the OAS is a spy for Granger and that the AFC controls the EAB.
I remember a cartoon in Newsweek that Nigel Westmaas showed me a long time ago after the Sandinistas lost the general election in Nicaragua. Fidel Castro is speaking to the losing Daniel Ortega and he says to him. “You lost a what?” When the results came in, De Donald must have told the famous MBA man (the PPP’s campaign manager) those identical words.
It could not have been possible to lose such an election; not with three television stations, two newspapers, the country’s only radio station and billions of state dollars on your side.
But the PPP lost, and in a way would have been further crushed if the billions weren’t used. Of course the Chronicle and the Beacon of Truth (the Guyana Times that Glenn Lall insists is owned by De Rat) didn’t chip in. Sorry! They did chip in; only thing is no one reads them.
The historic moment came on November 28 last year, because the Guyanese people tore away the veil of innocence from the visage of the PPP and saw Frankenstein. How utterly asinine some leaders are. How could anyone be so comical to think that they could have collected the two seats in Region Ten when Region Ten people are denied modern television coverage?
Check this out. It has never been mentioned by anyone before. I think the PPP lost also because viewers got a shock when they saw a vibrant, loud-mouthed Roger Luncheon on the platform in the Kitty rally. He was louder than all the other PPP speakers. It is possible people said how come Luncheon was so boisterous when all these years he appeared so sick. Maybe he was fooling us all this time?
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