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Sep 01, 2016 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
Anyone who went through a philosophy book would tell you that humans are so complex, mysterious, self-driven, self-preserving, deceitful and incapable of selfless love that prediction of their behaviour is almost impossible despite glowing theories of the role of genetic factors. Sigmund Freud once observed that he didn’t think he ever understood women.
The greatest line fault in human thinking is that we do not transfer to others the soulful emotions we nurture for our loved ones. Here is a criminal who is all excited at the birth of his new child. But he would go out there and kill a parent who is the only income-earner in the family, thus devastating the future of the man’s children. This is where humans come very close to animals.
If one loves his wife intensely how can he harass another man’s wife for sex and victimize her through dismissal? Such charges have been made against the CEO of the most watched cable news channel in the US – Fox News. Can you imagine three young men robbed a house, set it on fire when they were leaving and left an elderly mother to burn to death? Then days after, they hacked an elderly man and his wife to death in his shop. In the court, their relatives turned up and were consoling them and they were waving to their relatives. Why should anyone show love to these tenth rated, lower animals? But they have relatives who love them and they in turn love.
This is where life becomes incomprehensible. How can humans hurt, maim and murder others when those very perpetrators have other humans that they love? Don’t they know the meaning of love and shouldn’t that consciousness deter them from hurting others? I did two columns some years ago in which I looked at a daughter’s defence of a father. I featured the daughters of Saddam Hussein, and in Guyana, the daughters of Donald Ramotar and attorney Vic Puran.
All three daughters had lovely things to say about their fathers and I attempted to show the men’s record. Hussein as President murdered thousands of people including his own sons-in-law. Vic Puran was the prosecutor for a treason case. Treason carries the death penalty. Two of the accused, Carol Ann and Bruce Munroe has two little, sick children. I knew Puran all my life since we were teenagers.
I knew Puran had fallen in bad company and I believe those people eventually killed him. In a published letter in the newspapers, his daughter subtly hinted that the police knew who killed him but would not act. I met Puran in Tiger Bay while he was tending to the Foreman Shoe Factory – a building that I suspect he purchased with questionable finances. I asked him not to continue as prosecutor because I knew it was a case of victimization. He said to me; “you should see the evidence”. I told him I did and it had more holes than a discarded basket. The accused got off because the evidence was sickeningly non-existent. When the daughter wrote her praising letter, she wasn’t concerned with Puran’s role in the treason trial.
Donald Ramotar’s daughter said in the newspaper that her father deserved the good things that came his way because he fought for his country. I guess my daughter thinks her father fought for Guyana too. But I, my nephew, Mark Benschop, Oliver Hinckson, Bruce and Carol Ann Munroe and so many others were seriously oppressed by the presidency of Lisa Ramotar’s father. But she chose not to comment on those things despite my public appeal for her to do so.
We come now to the letter by Forbes Burnham’s daughter, Roxanne, yesterday in KN. She wrote nice words about her father. I read them and remembered what Tacuma Ogunseye once wrote in this newspaper. He observed that people think Burnham didn’t do wrong things. In my opinion, Burnham did so many wrong things that an enumeration will fill volumes.
But are these daughters wrong to eulogize their fathers. The answer is no. They knew them up, close and personal. The point is these daughters may not know what their fathers did. But is that not stretching it a bit? Saddam Hussein killed his opponents openly. Lisa Ramotar had to know about the PPP’s excesses during her father’s reign. You mean to tell me Roxanne didn’t know anything about the wrongs and violations of Forbes Burnham?
I suggest two things to her. Read the 1980 Constitution and tell Guyanese what you think of it. And have a chat with some of us who know what you don’t.
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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