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Freddie Kissoon thanks Messrs. Duncan and Morgan
Jun 04, 2014 Letters
Dear Editor,
I refer to law student, Sherod Duncan’s letter of Friday, May 30, 2014 captioned, “Does Mr. Freddie Kissoon stand with us or against us?” The answer is yes. I will always stand with the Guyanese people and seek to protect and preserve their rights that have been jeopardized by successive government since colonial and post-colonial times including the very moment we are in.
I would be glad to vocally and physically support Mr. Duncan’s effort to either get a law school here or reinstitute Guyana’s financial contribution to the regional Council of Legal Education.
I thank Mr. Duncan for his rejection of my sudden contract termination at UG in 2012 and his subsequent involvement in protest action. I also refer to a letter by Kevin Morgan in the KN of June 2, 2014 in which he said he was a law student at UG at the time of my contract termination, and was so upset with my dismissal that he attacked (his word) his law lecturer and inquired how UG can teach its students about the rule of law and that very institution does not uphold the rule of law.
I don’t know Mr. Morgan and cannot recall meeting him but I would like to thank him for his revulsion of what happened to me at UG. As upcoming lawyers, I hope both Duncan and Morgan walk in the footstep of great human rights lawyers like Khemraj Ramjattan and Nigel Hughes and others of their type. But more than that, I hope they bravely defend the rights, in and out of the courtroom, of the people of this sad, tragic land.
This country is waiting for courageous young people to replace the great freedom fighters that have struggled to free the Guyanese nation from both colonial repression and post- colonial oppression. Please call upon me for any assistance that is within my capability to deliver. I have given all my life to this country and outside of Walter Rodney who was killed, I humbly think I have been more victimized than any other human rights activist.
I will leave both of you gentleman with the phenomenal saying of Martin Luther King, delivered on June 23, 1963 in a speech in Detroit, “If a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
Frederick Kissoon
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