Did the law take its course then, Freddie?

Jun 23, 2011 Letters

Dear editor,
I agree with my friend Mr. Freddie Kissoon that the population does not have much respect for the police, because most of the time they fail to do their job. But in his latest praise of the dictator Forbes Burnham, Kissoon penned: “If you ran over a civilian on the road while you were drunk, it was not a political matter for Burnham. With a cynical grin… he would have quoted a Latin phrase to mean, “Let the law take its course.”
Can Kissoon explain to readers what happened after the murders of Vincent Teekah, Walter Rodney, Edward Dublin, Ohene Koama, Father Darke, etc? Can he explain why the witness to Teekah’s shooting was spirited away to Atlanta? Why was Gregory Smith spirited away to French Guiana after killing Rodney? Why were dead bodies turning up on sea walls after only hours before they were seen with police and/or army officials? Did the law take its course in those incidents?
The law should take its course in every case, with no political interference and without favour for anyone. Unfortunately, it was Burnham who first introduced political interference with justice and using “connections” to buy one’s way out of wrongdoing and that has continued till this day.
Vishnu Bisram

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