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A caution to Freddie Kissoon

Aug 27, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
A long time ago, when Adam Harris and Freddie Kissoon were engaged in a war of words in the newspapers, I wrote a letter imploring that they both use the great gifts that were given to them to educate the Guyanese people, instead of wasting it castigating each other.
If I remember correctly, I told them that I was referring to the gift that was mightier than the sword.  The heights to which both of these gentlemen have utilized their writing abilities, albeit in different directions, have left many Guyanese very proud of them.
Mr. Editor, I am writing this time to implore Freddie to wake up and smell the coffee.  His denial to himself, the Guyanese population, and especially the people who are trying to hurt him that he is not the greatest threat to the corrupt PPP government, will and is not fooling anyone.  Freddie Kissoon is the GREATEST threat to an uncivilized government, which has succeeded in getting strong, brave men to do their dirty work for them.
Freddie is in a really unenviable situation.  He has to recognize that the opposition parties, just like his competitors in the journalism field, are not going to protect him.  Hey, he is stealing their thunder! In truth, it is Freddie’s thunder.
The only thing he should expect from the opposition, in the event of an untimely demise, is their capitalization on events and made into a hero posthumously!  I sincerely believe that Freddie has single handedly revitalized the opposition into a moral crusade against a nasty set of people, many of whom I know personally since the Burnham days, and in my wildest dreams could not have anticipated their actions today.  How power corrupts!
Mr. Editor, the attacks on Freddie are getting progressively bolder and his assertion that he is normally very careful is woefully misguided.
Maybe he has a martyr’s complex, maybe he has a copycat complex (read Walter Rodney) or maybe in his heart he feels that his enemies are not as cruel, heartless, brave, take your pick, as those who assassinated Rodney.  In the last one, he is DEAD wrong.  Take it from someone who grew up in Enmore.
Sultan Sattar

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