It’s long past the time we can pussyfoot around the elephant in the (Guyanese) room – corruption! After all, ain’t it corruption in the Police Force that kindled that massive outpouring of togetherness (and anger) at the unexplained circumstances around Adrianna’s drowning?? And we know that’s only the tip of a massive iceberg!! So, your Eyewitness would like to ask the question frontally – and brutally: is it possible to get rid of corruption in general??
And he’d like to give you his answer just as frontally and brutally – NO, there ain’t!! There’s no ifs and buts about this…corruption is endemic to our human condition. One famous philosopher pronounced about “out of this crooked timber we are made”. We come into the world already bent towards corruption. We didn’t need no apple to tempt us or no serpent to stray us!!
So, does this mean we gotta accept corruption?? Absolutely not!! Some people are also born with the urge to kill their fellow human beings…should we allow the Ted Bundys of the world to get away with their cold-blooded slaughter?? More to the point, we’re all born with the sex urge. Do we allow folks to bop others on the heads like the cavemen and cavewomen of yore, and drag them into their lairs to satisfy their urges?? No siree Bob!! The thing is, we gotta set up rules of the game to control those tendencies that are detrimental to us as a society living the good life. And hold folks accountable!!
So, now about corruption? The first thing is we all gotta follow your Eyewitness’s philosophy as stated above, and assume that EVERYONE is out to screw you over. That shopkeeper selling you rice?? Check his scale. That contractor bidding for contracts?? Check out if he’s bribing the folks in charge of procurement. The contractor executing the contract for a road or a bridge or whatever? Check out if he’s bribing the Government supervisors – and so on and so forth.
The question is the eternal one signalled all the way back to Roman times – Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who’s gonna guard the guardians?? In this case, who’ll keep tabs on them in an infinite regression!! Well since the corruption we’re worried about right now concerns the Police, the fiasco that unfolded before our eyes over in Tuschen – due to the ubiquity of social media and now preserved in the “cloud” – is as good a place to start as any. It’s like a loose thread that we can use to unravel the entire corrupt sweater that’s been woven ever since Burnham took over in 1964.
We can start with that report on the Raum spiriting poor Adrianna away…
…the Case of Adrianna’s drowning
Apart from the autopsy into the cause of Adrianna’s death – drowning, pronounced by three foreign pathologists – with the family’s swearing she’d been killed elsewhere and the body placed later in the pool – the Police have to either show conclusively that she did die in the pool – or alternatively, somewhere else that can be identified. Along with who and how, etc.
Yesterday, we discovered that Adrianna’s family lawyer – the blustering Darren Wade – had been replaced by TWO other lawyers. They met with the top COP to find out what progress had been made in the GPF investigation – but were told the latter were working on it. And that some samples were sent abroad for testing. Clearly, the case hasn’t been cracked. There’s been talk that the family might be turning to another (4th!) pathologist and the body might have to be flown abroad. There would be, of course, the “chain of custody” questions.
Meanwhile, the country remains on tenterhooks.
…our heroes?
Your Eyewitness didn’t accept the escapades of Diddy – but he could move along by ruefully telling himself that the world has changed. But how does he deal with the accusations that 84-year-old Smokey Robinson molested four of his maids??
Say it ain’t so, Smokey!!
