I don’t have the money as yet to give the freed treason accused

Mar 29, 2012 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

When you speak your mind, you get all kinds of slander directed at you. From the time I joined the WPA in 1974, I stood alone in my independent ways. I am not a member of any political party and I will not be, now or in the future. I want it to be like that so I can preserve my independent mind. I voted for the AFC in the last election.
I currently support that party in the present Guyanese scenario but I will raise my voice and pen against it should it depart from the politics of human rights. This week I penned a column disagreeing with the AFC (and also Red Thread’s) participation on NCN in a programme hosted by Minister Priya Manickchand on corporal punishment.
I don’t think the AFC should have accepted the invitation from particularly the Minister of Education given that she is the subject Minister that deals with UG because of what is taking place at UG.
There are people from the seventies and onwards who have been nasty to me or hate me or have avoided my company because I may have directed a few remarks against them. I don’t care because that visit is unavoidable in life. Harry Gill, a frequent letter-writer to this newspaper, whose views I find are in support of dictatorship in Guyana, has written a public letter advising me to change my attitude to the government because people will get at me. Gill was referring to things said about Adam Harris on a Facebook page that supposedly came from me.
I don’t need Gill’s advice. I am an activist against the PPP Government because I believe and know that the PPP Government is instinctively against freedom, justice, liberty and democracy. If there are depraved minds out there that want to invent a Facebook account with my name they will not succeed.
No one in this country would believe that I wrote the nasty things that were on that Facebook page that Adam Harris reproduced. Harris knows I wouldn’t do that. The KN publisher knows I wouldn’t do so and the entire world of people who are familiar with my work and activism know I wouldn’t say such things
So I don’t need Gill’s advice. I don’t have a Facebook account and I am not inclined to have one. I seriously doubt I will. But there will be more dirt dished out and purporting to come from me. It wouldn’t bother me. I will continue to speak my mind. I now come to the reason for this long description of my independence.
APNU did not do a damn thing for the treason accused. The group of treason protestors (myself, Mark Benschop, Norris Witter, Lincoln Lewis, Gerhard Ramsaroop, Michael Carrington) implored the political opposition to raise the charges against these people with the PPP in the tripartite talks. Only the AFC responded. Rupert Roopnaraine assured me via e-mail that APNU will ventilate this violation with the Government.
It did not happen. This is the same APNU whose representatives sat in stone silence when Khemraj Ramjattan and Gerhard Ramaroop brought up my contract termination at UG at the very first tripartite meeting, I repeat, the very first tripartite engagement.
The President and Gail Teixeira spoke on the issue but not a word came from the lips of David Granger, Rupert Roopnaraine and Deborah Backer. Not a word came from the lips of APNU when we were protesting for the treason accused.
Gerhard Ramaroop and Michael Carrington of the AFC joined us on several occasions with Ramsaroop bringing one of the AFC youth leaders to join us. No one from APNU ever had the courage to join our constant picket exercise for these three Guyanese citizens who were in the Camp Street prison for more than a year.
I don’t care how APNU reacts against this column. I will raise my voice and pen what I believe needs to be pronounced on in the politics of my country. As the saying goes; “A man has got to do what a man has got to do.” As readers would know, Gerry Gouveia issued a challenge to me that if I can prove he bought Duke Lodge below market rate he would give the property to the Government for free.
My proposal was that if I won he should sell the property and let the proceeds go to the families of the three treason accused. I believe I won the challenge. Gouveia must sell Duke Lodge and give the money to the accused now that they have been freed.

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