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Dancing to a different tune?

Jul 15, 2008 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
In the last paragraph of his letter under the caption “What is the government’s record of achievement” in the July 13, 2008 edition of the Kaieteur News, Freddie Kissoon writes “Why would a president be popular, have a record of achievement and yet be confronted with an insurgency?

Was it something he did? Or were the insurgents just wicked people who were absolutely insane and there was nothing the government could have done to prevent them?”

Readers may be wondering if Mr. Kissoon has forgotten what he wrote in June 2003 in a series of articles in the Guyana Chronicle in relation to the “insurgency”.

In 2003, he wrote “…if there is anything readers should know about the Buxton conspiracy it is the frightening merger of criminality and politics” and “It is a desecration of political theory and revolutionary philosophy to classify the Buxton conspiracy as a political movement”.

Could it be that the “insurgency” has solidified his support base and contributed significantly to the popularity of President Jagdeo which Mr. Kissoon seems to want to deny?

Readers would find Mr. Kissoon’s series of articles in 2003 very informative. Below are a few more excerpts:
“Ocean Eleven was the combination of the five escapees joined by six other diehard Buxton-based conspirators…

In the case of the Buxton conspiracy, the people who were teaching members of Ocean Eleven the arts of politics were feeding them with voodoo political theory.

These persons know nothing about Guyanese history, the political sociology of this country and how to define oppression. It is frightening what the violent youths of Buxton were educated in….

They were told the most untruthful things about the government, the business class and the East Indian community…

It is when one considers the type of influence that Ocean Eleven came under that such a movement had to disintegrate into semi-civilized violence and animalistic hate against the race group that it was told stood in the way of the freedom of Black people…

In all the writings of Eusi Kwayana on the Buxton madness, he subtly stressed on the criminal link with those who called their activities political…”

Was Mr. Kissoon dancing to a different tune when he wrote for the Chronicle in June 2003?
Harry Hergash

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