Peeping Tom
UNCLE FREDDIE WRONG AGAIN!
Ow, Uncle Freddie, you aren’t tired of being wrong? Yuh wrong, but is a good thing that yuh not strong, because there is nothing more wrong than a man who is both wrong and strong.You ain’t shame that the educational psychologist listed nearly twenty grounds on which you are wrong? Ow, Uncle Freddie, yuh mean is bluff yuh did bluffing about the Oedipus Complex?Then, only yesterday Bisram wrote to correct you on a number of issues. He, too, says that you are wrong. His poll projections have, time and time again, been proven right; so tell me, Uncle Freddie, how come this man is so accurate yet you accuse him of being a pretender?Then there is the man who you say you will reply to his every letter. The man said that you were wrong about him and his geography. Is everybody saying that yuh wrong, Uncle Freddie. Parrot seh yuh wrong. Blame it on the Government seh you wrong; now Peeper gat to tell you yuh wrong again.Ow, Uncle Freddie, why yuh wrong so often? Is it because you are running out of criticisms of the Government? I know you don’t like the Government, but please try to be a little more accurate at times, so that you could enjoy some credibility. Give Jack he jacket. Give the Government some credit when credit is due. Stop being so one-sided! You becoming like a stuck record. From the time somebody open the newspaper and they see you write about the PPP, they can close the newspaper. They know that is sheer criticism yuh penning about the Government.Open yuh eyes and tek the blinkers off! How could you say that the PPP worse than Burnham? If they so bad, how come you doing so well? You forget the days when you used to have to fetch water fuh bathe? When you used to have to ketch bus to go to work? Now the economy improve and yuh living in skyscraper, driving fancy SUV, and even thinking about going on extended weekend trips to Berbice when the bridge complete.Ow, Uncle Freddie, how come you wrong again about the bridge? Dat is a beautiful bridge that is being assembled across the Berbice River. Which floating bridge is going to have aesthetics? What yuh want them fuh do, put some flower plants on the pontoons?Was the same thing with the stadium. Yuh jump up and criticize the stadium, even though dem boys seh yuh never ever been inside one. Give Bharrat some praise, nuh. The man build one of the best stadiums in the Caribbean. It is a showpiece and allows Guyana to host international cricket. Don’t bad mouth Bharrat all the time!Give, also, the Government some credit for standing up for principle. How is it you could have supported the Opposition walk out of Parliament? How is it that you blamed the Government for not supporting amendments that were clearly not agreed to by the larger stakeholder grouping? That grouping agreed to the establishment of long overdue constitutional commissions within three months; they also agreed to establish a standing committee on national security, along with other agreements which have to be done by Parliament. How then can you side with the Opposition when it was the Opposition that tried to have inserted into the motion a clause dealing with equitable access to the State-owned media? How could you be so wrong, Uncle Freddie?I want you to find one stakeholder outside of the Opposition Parliamentary party who will come forward and admit that, during the stakeholder forum, there was an agreement on access to the State-owned media. Let the other stakeholders come forward and indicate whether there was any such agreement. How, if there was consensus on that, did it not find its way into the Bourda Consensus? Tell me, Uncle Freddie! Admit you are wrong!Now, to crown off your wrongness, yuh complaining about street lights in Ithaca. How come yuh blaming the Government fuh that one? Street lights in villages are the responsibility of the NDCs, not the Government. But, then again, you would not know that, because you never grow up in a village.
The Parrot Speaks
AFC picking up PNCR’s “fire-rage”
The Parrot has noted the many similarities in behaviour between the AFC and the PNCR. One is tempted to believe that the similarities are not coincidental, since the last, and incidentally the first, Presidential candidate of the AFC, the Trot-man, was a former “big boy” in the PNCR. He represented Palm Tree jungle in Parliament for many years, challenged Uncle Bob in a leadership race, and refused to vacate his seat after deserting the Palm Tree prior to the 2006 elections. One can safely assume that, for any man who wants to “Trot” to the highest seat of a political organisation, he must possess certain qualities which would facilitate his success and occupation of the said seat. These qualities generally include, amongst others, ambition, experience vis-à-vis institutional memory, astuteness and the ability to denigrate and out-manoeuvre opponents. Given these requirements, it is again safe to conclude that the Trot-man possesses these qualities, but “quantitatively” less than Uncle Bob. This would explain his unsuccessful challenge to the Palm Tree throne. His knowledge of the PNCR’s modus operandi facilitates him not only securing (these traits help him to keep the RumJHATTan at second) his Antagonistically Furious Crown (AFC) in his current political palace in the “liming” street, but to steer his Affluently Few Comrades (AFC) in a direction he determines; a direction that is now evidently similar to Uncle Bob’s.This similar directional “steering” and the latest position of the Trot-man’s party can be construed as direct competition between himself and Uncle Bob on who can do best what both have in common; street protest. No, it wasn’t Uncle Bob who made the recent threat of street protest; it was the Trot-man’s party. The Parrot being so accustomed to the PNC calling for protest that, in reading, the letters AF were mistaken for PN in the articles which alluded to the AFC’s indication that street protests are not ruled out in relation to alleged lack of Parliamentary democracy. Basically, every person is known for certain qualities he/she possesses. In cases where an executive is hired or reassigned to manage an entity, one’s expectations of the entity’s subsequent performance are generally related to the skills of the person at the helm. Given the opportunity, persons are ecstatic to practice the skills they possess. The Trot-man’s street experience can be regarded as a skill he acquired during his time when he was a servant in the Palm Tree palace; and now, being the crown wearer of the AFC, he is eager to display it. Every Guyanese weary of the post-election protest in 1997 would recall the peace and tranquility that prevailed before and after the 2006 election. This exemplified the political maturity and the now democratic culture of the Guyanese people. Even Uncle Bob was commended for resisting the urge of post-election protest in 2006. The drought in protest action since is now being threatened by the contemplation of the Trot-man’s party to emulating Uncle Bob and his party’s engrained trait. The Parrot recalls that old people used to talk stories of when two female neighbours used to “buse” up each other during the day, and when the husbands come home, some used to “pick up” their wife’s “fire-rage” and “buse” up in the evening. It seems that the Trot-man’s party, AFC, is about to “pick up” Uncle Bob’s party “fire-rage” that was left dormant almost a year and a half ago. Squawk! Squawk!
