Down… a (Guyanese) rabbit hole

“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice as her adventures began in Wonderland as she changed sizes, wondered who she was, and ended up in a pool of tears with a mouse, birds and other animals like a duck, an eaglet, a dodo, and a parrot that insists it knows better because it’s older – but refuses to reveal its age!! Had she lived in Guyana, she might’ve added, “And who collecting the legal fees?”
Our latest Wonderland begins in Kitty, where a late-night drive-pass of the police intelligence chief’s residence has developed into a national examination in firearms, cinematography – and believing whichever explanation matches your party colours!! Sanction Man, the driver-passer, says he was documenting the deployment of police resources!! Thus began the “curiouser”!! Police say the encounter involved gunfire from the vehicle, and Supt Narine responded with a shot!! With social media and AI now creating realities at will, Sanction Man claims that Narine (somehow!) knew it was him in the car – and tried to assassinate him!!  Curiouser and curiouser!!
Then comes the pistol. Police report recovering one from Sanction Man’s car, but he, his Sissies and his lawyers counter it was planted!! Somewhere down this rabbit hole, the Mad Hatter – a Judge? – might demand that the accelerator pedal under which it was found be called as a witness!! But even though forensic findings place gunshot residue on Sanction Man and his driver, he stoutly maintains he neither possessed nor fired a gun!! More tea, anybody? Or preferably something stronger?? To heck with science – says the Daady!!
Then there are the videos – the Cheshire Cat of this production – since everyone sees something reassuring in their various and sundry appearances and incarnations, assisted by the now ubiquitous AI!! The defence shills insist the footage supports Sanction Man; the DPP says the circulating excerpts belong to a longer recording forming part of the prosecution’s evidence!! One recording offering competing invitations to declare victory!! We’ve finally achieved bipartisan enthusiasm for CCTV!!
The WIN camp, naturally, has already completed their investigations with a method admirably economical – establish whom you support, then determine what happened!! Where might the rabbit hole end? In the next chapter of our Guyana Wonderland, perhaps every camera will retain separate counsel and the gun residue will demand witness protection!! The pistol’s gonna deny knowing the accelerator!!
In the coming ending with complete recordings, tested forensic evidence and witnesses answering questions in court, some folks’ confident account might then prove considerably less confident!! Until then, the Queen of Hearts has been replaced by the Court of Facebook, where the preferred procedure remains – verdict first, evidence whenever convenient!!
Alice eventually woke up, but Guyanese are waiting for the next upload!!

…on the old order
Now that the Dems are about to control both US Houses of Congress, they were ecstatic to be given the opportunity to take aim at Trump’s Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth!! What his new chief of staff, Miller, is to Trump on domestic policy towards immigrants – a hardliner!! – Hegseth is to the rest of the world!! Give them hell or blow ‘em out of the water!!
Ironically, it was a Republican Congressman who brought the motion to impeach in the House!!  But as they say in Texas, all of this was all hat – and no cattle!! A bluff!!  The new Congress don’t get sworn in till January 3, and it was a damp squib as the Republicans rallied to deflect the matter to the House Judiciary Committee!! But even when the new Dems show up in January, the two-thirds majority for a Senate conviction stands the same chance of a snowball surviving in hell!!!
Heck, the Senate might dismiss the charges outright!!

…Chinese fellow travellers
Back in the days of the Cold War, being friendly with the USSR/Russia earned folks – like Jagan – the unenviable title “fellow traveller”!! Godfrey Smith – Barima CoI Chair – just had his US visa cancelled for being “a Chinese fellow traveller”!!