In my opinion hypocrisy is as bad as pedophilia

Dec 16, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

I am still to find out if the superstar entertainer, Rihanna will sue the women groups that organize the Violence Against Women rally at the GCC pavilion a few Thursdays back. In one of the booths was a photograph of the battered face of Rihanna.
Did that woman give the organizers permission to use her face? If the answer is no, then the star should sue them not for privacy violation, but hypocrisy. As I stared at the bruised, photographic visage of this famous singer, I thought of my life in social activism in my country since 1968.
I thought of the hypocrisy I have witnessed since then and how my exposure and rejection of it have alienated countless persons from me over the decades. But I have never lost a sleepless moment. I just didn’t bother with these hypocrites and I lived my life the way I saw it.
I am happy to be a solitary man rather than enjoy la dolce vita in the company of hypocrites, publicity-seekers, political manipulators and false people. Why was Rihanna’s troubled image pasted up at that rally and not the faces of other Guyanese females who were subjected to harsh treatment by powerful politicians in the land?
At this point I want to say that I regard Stella Ramsaroop as an exception. She has gone on record as denouncing those who hide the fact that powerful power-wielders are wife-abusers.
Isn’t this immorality on display? You hold a rally to denounce domestic abuse, you put up the lacerated face of Rihanna and there is no visual presentation on the boards and walls at that rally of the women whose powerful male partners ill-treated them.
There is a case in this country in which a death certificate has a politician’s wife as committing suicide. We can’t dispute that if official documents say so but was there ever an independent inquest? I don’t know and stand corrected.
There has never been a report of how and why she took her life. The record shows that two serving Ministers had wives that committed suicide. They are Clement Rohee and Kellawan Lall. The secretary of then Minister Reepu Daman Persaud is a suicide statistic.
Let us see what these women activists are made of in the case of a mother who has been charged for trafficking in begging, meaning that she led her son into beggary. She pleaded guilty and has been put on $75,000 bail awaiting sentence. She is probably in jail because I doubt that she has raised the bail number.
What kind of society is this that we can imprison a woman for sending her son to beg to get food but we turn a blind eye to horrific industrial abuse that result in death on the part of some top firms in Guyana?
I ran a commentary last year on a drowning case in the Abary creek. The victim’s family is yet to receive compensation from a prominent million – dollar (in the American use of the term) firm. A trawler employee lost all four limbs and today still fights to secure life-long benefits
A golden gift was received by those who seek publicity and wallow in hypocrisy. They found a doctor at the Georgetown Public Hospital who was convicted of a sexual offence against a child. They went for the jugular. They created a national storm. Dr. Madan Rambaran sat next to me at a certain meeting and said, “Freddie, they are going for this guy’s neck when a lecturer at UG has done worse.
Dr Rambaran never justified the doctor’s action to me but he was upset at the double standards of the Guyanese society. I shared his sentiments. This lecturer has been going with this unspeakable scatology for over twelve years.
Attorney Gino Persaud told a meeting that he saw the manifestations of this lecturer’s immorality since he was a student and that was ten years ago.
They forced this doctor out of employment (which in the circumstances was justified) but it is the stench of their hypocrisy that poisons the atmosphere. They are not on a campaign to force a pedophile out of high employment when Mark Benschop produced evidence of his seduction of an under-aged boy.
They do not talk about wife abuse in the corridors of power; Stella Ramsaroop does and she is not Guyanese. They don’t talk about work-place injuries in which poor families are never given compensation by billion –dollar firms. They don’t talk about the nouveau riche that controls the security forces and injure who they want to with their guns and cars.

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