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“Daddy is it you that wrote such appalling foolishness?”

Dec 17, 2009 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

On three occasions, the wife of a Minister of Government told me that she disagrees with the way the leaders of Government run Guyana. She felt that many things are just plain wrong.
One Minister’s child told me that she certainly doesn’t admire her father’s Government. These two persons just quietly go about their way but their attitude symbolizes what the spouses and children of hundreds of importantly placed persons in the corridors of power feel about the nature of the leadership of the Government of Guyana.
It is for this reason, many supporters of the PPP Government have to wear a mask when they write or blog or resort to a magical formula to make themselves invisible. The inherent dilemma with anonymous bloggers and nameless columnists is that they will risk national disgrace if they write with their own identities composing the sycophantic absurdities, servile foolishness, slavish idiocies and propagandistic asininities in support of one of the worst, immoral governments ever seen in the English-speaking Caribbean.
Some anonymous commentators do not have a one-percent understanding of how modern technology operates and haven’t a clue as to the nature of the internet and the kind of information the internet provides.
So some of them bask in their anonymity not knowing some of us know who they are. Some of us know how to research the internet and we know just how the ocean throws up its secrets, the internet does. Some of these invisible writers would suffer cerebral palsy right away if they only know what some of us in the media know. At least one of them is aware that I know who HE (yes He) is.
There is no need to rebut any argument that proposes the Nobel Peace Prize for Mr. Jagdeo. The despicability of that idea should not be dignified with a reply. In a Peeping Tom column, the writer supports his President for a Nobel Prize from behind a mask. This particular Peeping Tom has accused me of not replying to the arguments of Dev.
For readers who looked at that Peeping Tom column, if they are reading this, I wish to inform them that over a two-year period, I have published more than a dozen columns and a dozen (maybe more) letters in the two independent dailies responding to every conceivable argument of Dev that I have found to be despicable, dangerously prejudiced, propagandistic in a racist sense, unhistorical, and mischievously misleading.
I have carefully juxtaposed his premises and mine. Up to Tuesday, I rejected his twisting of political sociology in relation to the security forces’ attitude to the PPP Government. Finally, that Peeping Tom forgot to mention that Ravi Dev, in a rebuttal to one of my pieces, observed that I should see a psychiatrist.
I certainly don’t mind seeing a psychiatrist on the advice of people that I admire. But when a propagandist and a distorter of Guyanese history urged me to see a doctor, then I think I know who is madder.

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