Americans are all about Show Business

I sometimes have to shake my head when I read about the insanity of a nation that claims to want democracy. For every freedom you earn there is responsibility, there is something you have to be prepared to give up. Americans appear to live in the fairyland of Waltz Disney where there is a happy ending somewhere beyond the rainbow or something like that.

This  Edward Snowdown fellow might think he is doing Americans a favour by blabbing his mouth about what the CIA is doing. This is the kind of insanity that the terrorists depend upon. They know what fools we are and that some idiot will dream of himself being written about, going down in history as a hero or some such thing.

Most of the time the average Americans carry on mindless chatter on TV, internet, FB and so on - who in their right mind would want to listen to such  diatribe? Those of us who have nothing to hide do not mind the inconvenience if it means that more criminals would be caught. It is when you have something to hide that meaningful intrustions such as tapping into to conversations of people of interest would generate a furor. Do not cover criminals under the cloak of freedom and democracy.

Come on Americans, do you want to be safe or caught with your pants down by people who want to harm you and your children. Instead of worrying about democracy and freedom for criminals to get away with murder we might as well start talking about the criminals in our backyards with guns and bullets ready to take you down and your entire family. America wake up! This is not la la land. Trust President Obama, he is not George Bush. He has your best interest at heart. I totally support this administration because it has proven itself. There are no hidden agendas.

Edward Snowdown is just another Americans who is trying to get famous or infamous. Don't let him persuade you to leave yourself wide open to terrorist actions.  Or could it be he was a person of interest and was sure to be exposed? Let the CIA do its work in protecting us.

Edward Snowdown is a criminal and his fate needs to be decided by a court of law. He has betrayed his country in the worst way. Whoever this guy is I do not trust him. He is dangerous. As far as I am concerned this is treason.

Remember this Criminal Roger Shaheed Khan and don't let him leave Guyana

Roger Kahn's rise to notoriety and wealth in Guyana was swift but the Government looked the other way. He was deported from the US because of his criminal activities and returned to Guyana where he was allowed to continue his criminal way until he started embarrassing the government's inept police force. Khan was found with a
cache of arms and sophisticated communication equipment at Good Hope, East Coast Demerara, had accumulated enormous wealth within a short period of time.
However, with a weak Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and an inept police force, no one investigated how he grew so fast and strong financially in an economy that has remained stagnant for years.

He now stands charged with an 18-count indictment of distribution, importation and possession of cocaine and engaging as a principal administrator, organizer and leader of a continuing criminal enterprise in New York and elsewhere. He is accused also of heading a powerful, violent cocaine trafficking organisation out of Guyana and faces a maximum penalty of life in prison if convicted.

Observers believe the authorities here knew of Khan’s narcotics-related activities long before the US first named him in one of its drug strategy country reports.

In an earlier motion filed by his attorney in New York, it was revealed that during the late 1980s and early 1990s Khan was living in the US and attending Norwich University in Vermont. On or about November 29, 1993 he was arrested on a federal criminal complaint and the next month charged in a one-count indictment with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in violation of Title 18 US Code 922. He was subsequently released on a US$1,000 bond following his initial appearance in court, and skipped the jurisdiction, returning to Guyana.

He never went back voluntarily to the US. Around March 30, 1994, the US District Court for the district of Vermont issued a warrant for Khan’s arrest and on October 28, 1994, his bond was ordered forfeited.

His lawyer said that on his return to Guyana in 1993 or early 1994, Khan became an “enterprising innovative entrepreneur.” He founded and operated a number of successful businesses including, but not limited to, a housing development and construction company, a carpet cleaning service, a nightclub and a timber mill.

Guyanese first became aware of Khan when he, Haroon Yahya and policeman Sean Belfield were detained on December 4, 2002 by an army patrol and turned over to the police following the discovery of a cache of arms and sophisticated electronic surveillance equipment in a pick-up at Good Hope, East Coast Demerara.

When they were caught, Khan and his partners had told law enforcement officials that they were in search of Shawn Brown and the rest of the prison escapees who had fled the Camp Street prison earlier that year. The men were later charged with possession of arms and ammunition and placed on $500,000 bail each.

The charges were subsequently dismissed by Magistrate Jerrick Stephney at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court the next year. Not much had been known about Khan prior that incident, but persons close to him told this newspaper that as soon as he fled the US jurisdiction and returned to Guyana he had allegedly begun associating with drug dealers. From 1994 when he fled from the US to 2002 when he was caught with the arms, Khan had already established himself as businessman and had also secured government contracts working on a building project at the University of Guyana, one of his local attorneys disclosed. Between 2002-2006 Khan kept a relatively low profile, although according to one of the statements he released when local police had set about to arrest him, during this time he was involved in crime-fighting. His lawyers told the court in New York that following the February 23, 2002 jailbreak when the escapees went on a killing spree he responded to the crisis, providing financial and logistical support to the government. “During the crime spree in 2002, I worked closely with the crime-fighting sections of the Guyana Police Force and provided them with assistance and information at my own expense.

My participation was instrumental in curbing crime during this period,” Khan said in one of his media statements.

The US has since alleged that a group he had set up was responsible for the murders of over 200 people during that period. Apart from the period immediately prior to Khan’s departure from Guyana for Suriname in 2006 because he was being sought by local law enforcers, his only other encounter with the police after the Good Hope incident came when properties owned by him were raided.

In 2005, a team of policemen descended on Master’s Touch Carpet Cleaners located at Second Street, Bel Air Village and arrested several of his bodyguards and seized cocaine and arms. The case against the men collapsed in court and they were all set free.

Khan, still in his 30s and with no record of a transfer of assets from relatives to him was able to acquire Kaow Island in the Essequibo River; own a large timber company, called Aurelius; a large housing development project, called Dream Works with houses at Farm, East Bank Demerara and at Blankenburg on the West Coast Demerara. Shortly before he was arrested, he was also the owner of the now defunct Avalanche nightclub and was said to have provided seed capital to a number of small businesses operating along Regent Street.

In a less than strong economy Khan owned a large home at D’Aguiar Park and employed more than two dozen men to provide security for him.