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Wallowing on the seashore of blissful ignorance

May 01, 2012 Letters

 

DEAR EDITOR,
With utter astonishment and bewilderment I flipped the pages of the KN on Apr. 30 2012 and spotted one of the most intellectually obtuse missives entitled “Replying to Freddie Kissoon”. I’m moved to address this issue due to the unintelligible nature of that response.
I have long opined that for a person to become a defender of the present corps of Guyanese political elite they must take on a mud-headed numbskull persona and of necessity, defile their own conscience. I cannot understand how a public official serving in a public office addressing a public issue would reduce a “professional” office to a personal cuss-out stage.
I don’t believe for one minute that Mr. Kissoon threatened the personnel at the pool, because kinds like Watson and his political slave masters are waiting for the slightest occasion to drag Kissoon off to jail. Who would believe that Kissoon threatened the pool staff and no police report was made and a battalion of black clothes officers did not descend on Kissoon’s home to arrest him? Who Watson thinks he is talking to?
In response to Watson’s assertions, I visited all three of the “public” swimming pools and I was told point blank I cannot access any of them, except I belong to what seems like an elite group of some sort. All I have always wanted to do was have an occasional swim. I offered to pay a per-use fee but even that option was refused. The pools’ personnel were very clear I have to belong to a club, so Mr. Watson is a lowdown dirty fibber with a Machiavellian curdle. Watson’s mind is so corrupted with defending the elitist status quo of the pool that he cannot appreciate that public facilities in general should be accessed using the same basic principle, “open to the public” on a walk-in basis, even if a user fee is charged, example the harbour bridge, botanical gardens, the zoo, the national park etc.
For Watson, the swimming pools are different from all other public facilities and he is right when he intoned, “… we have rules and regulations on how the facilities operate.” Rule number one, a citizen must belong to an elite club to access any of the pools.
This well learned, military trained expert and competent staff defence officer, displayed an awesome level of crass stupidity by claiming that Mr. Kissoon swam on the seashore, tisk tisk tisk, how ignorant can one guy be?
Abraham Watson, the seashore is the sandy, muddy area (the land) that leads up to the sea (water), however, as soon as you hit the water you are in the ocean. Because you swim in the political mire doesn’t mean you have to drag others in with you. Continue to wallow on the seashore of blissful ignorance.
The issue raised by Mr. Kissoon has not been addressed by the likes of Watson and Kumar. Will someone please tell me the days and times when a member of the public could visit these pools and actually have a chance at an occasional swim? Until then, the issue still remains that public pools should be open to the public and not left for abuse by a selected few political minions.
Lenno Craig

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