A mystery why this government is allowed to destroy this nation

Mar 30, 2014 Letters

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Dear Editor,
In a letter to this newspaper (“Freddie Kissoon explains his non-response to Bacchus” July 17, 2013) I outlined my reasons why I will not reply to some of my critics. I listed some reasons which briefly I will repeat here. First, it has to with my complete lack of respect for these people. Secondly, I don’t believe they will be read by others and therefore when you reply to them, it gives them a chance to go on stage; I believe one should not help such people by providing them a platform, let them build their own platform
Thirdly, I believe these people have absolutely nothing to contribute to a healthy debate and should be ignored. Among those I included were Vishu Bisram and Minette Bacchus, two expatriates Guyanese who write from abroad. In a subsequent letter, I believe I include Harry Gill on my list. Gill is a pretender to knowledge and as a political employee of the Ministry of Education will continue to seek a role within the PPP by writing about Freddie Kissoon
I thought long and hard about responding to another of his sycophantic nonsense in the March 27, 2014 edition of KN’s letter pages in which he wrote; “Why this man (Freddie Kissoon) is allowed to poison the minds of your readers is as mysterious….” I decided to respond to Gill because it gives me an opportunity to address thousands of young minds in my country and Guyanese in foreign lands. The part of his letter that I grabbed at to reply was this question he asked about me: “How can anyone hate so much day after day after day.”
When I read that the thought occurred to me that Gill may be a friend of mine in that he dislikes the Government and said to himself that he will arrange his sentences in such a way that it gives me scope to expose the PPP. And Gill must have known that the concept he chose is the one any amateur analyst can use to devastate the PPP Government – HATE
So I now ask: “How can a population allow a government so full of hate to destroy a nation day after day after day?” Let us stick with Gill’s useful concept – HATE. So I spew hate day after day in my columns. Does the PPP party and the PPP Government spew the same hate? No point asking Gill that question and I am not directing this letter to Gill but to my fellow Guyanese
Interesting that Gill’s letter accusing me of hate comes at a time when two interesting things took place last week. First there was the interview KN did with the daughter of the President in which she said, in reference to herself and her brother: “We are Guyanese and we should have equal rights to build our lives here.” She went on to say; “We want a fair chance like any other Guyanese.” The other event was the demotion of the editor of the Chronicle by Ms. Ramotar’s father, the President, over the publication of an item that the President didn’t take too kindly to
What does one make of the latter action? Haven’t we been seeing this kind of victimization of Guyanese day after day and it has been going on day after day since 1992 even under President Cheddi Jagan?
Shouldn’t Guyanese ask themselves when will this hate stop? Do I spit out hate in my column? Should I? I should not? But then again I cannot remain aloof to the three times I almost lost my life; the termination of my contract at UG; the hounding down of my wife at her state job just before the 2011 election. Are these examples of the violations of my rights not the action of a government that practices hate?
Aren’t the following huge examples of hate; the arrest of Guyanese citizens for treason, the same for the charge of sedition; the withdrawal of subsidy to the Critchlow Labour College; the withdrawal of state advertisements to the Stabroek News and Kaieteur News; the overlooking of the applications of these independent newspapers for a radio license; the illegal dismissal of public servants for failing lie detector tests; the coercive imposition of fixed salary increases to public servants; the open admittance of the little dictators that Nigel Hughes will not be conferred with senior counsel status; the imposition of a Town Clerk on a City Council that refuses to accept her; the eviction of elected NDCs and their replacements with IMCs stacked with PPP supporters.
Shall I go on? The above are just a drop in the ocean of the hateful things done to the people of this country by those in power whose basic instinct is to hate others. And Gill has the temerity to tell me that I advocate hate. This is my last reply to a people like Gill. And I end with a confession. People like Gill I have nothing but absolute contempt for
Frederick Kissoon

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