With regard to elections, the Black race and Black leaders have nothing to be ashamed of

Jan 07, 2021 Letters

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Dear Editor,

Permit the right to respond to Freddie Kissoon’s “Afro-Guyanese in 2020: Bonfires of deceit” (KN 5th January 2020). Valuable, but necessary, time is being taken to deal with the rigged mind, the nincompoopism of Freddie Kissoon who has nothing to do and all day within which to do it. Every day he takes advantage of his media privilege to pound the African race on his electoral repeated nonsense, his garbage rants. Let me be very clear, the Black race and Black leaders have nothing to be ashamed of. Neither must we allow this racially driven captain of chaos to determine our reality. He is not qualified to make such judgment about rigging and dishonesty because he has lost all credibility when it comes to his ability to be intellectually honest.
He is a self-admitted thief of intellectual property; he admitted publicly to stealing books thereby depriving the owner the necessary revenue associated with sales. He who has brought international academic shame on this nation now thinks he has authority to speak about rigging. Who and what gives him that right? He was lucky that he was able to work at the University of Guyana (UG).
I stand by my position, the 2020 election should have been cancelled not declared given the revelations the recount process unearthed and the failure of GECOM to implement Order 60 of 2020 in its totality, as promised to society, in delivering “a credible count.” But he whose mind is rigged will never acknowledge this. His paid assignment is to do the daily dribble of seeking to convince society the riggers were the Coalition parties and Africans leaders were in the forefront of this.
The integrity of the vote in the 2020 election was not safeguarded and GECOM knew this during the recount exercise. No election body worth its salt, having recognised the gravity of the situation, should have foisted on this nation known tainted tabulations as legal (declared) results. There is nothing wrong in legally applying the full scope of the law to uphold justice or circumvent injustice.
It is one thing when an election is suspected to be compromised and declared but another when it is known to be compromised and declared. Guyana saw this in the 2006 Election when the Alliance For Change’s votes and seat were knowingly awarded to the People’s Progressive Party/Civic. We witnessed it again in 2020 when GECOM, having gone through a recount and admitted “grave irregularities” by none other than the Chairperson, this nation was forced to accept tainted results as credible. But local and international bullysim, bordering on electoral terrorism, held many hostage. Even our children, going home from school in assigned and easily identified school buses, were not spared from the violent attacks and disruptive behaviours.
Kissoon, in collusion with others, wants the Black race to feel it must carry the sole burden and responsibility for the shenanigans in the 2020 election and basically for everything that is wrong in Guyana. He, even as he pens his drivel, ignores the irrefutable 47 boxes from the lower East Coast Demerara, a PPP/C stronghold, that had no statutory documents. In his corrupted brains, the Coalition is responsible and not the presiding officers who may have been corrupted. To this academic cheat, the Black race is not so stupid to rig against its own interest. This is intellectual idiocy at its best and only a corrupted mind would not recognise the illogic.
As I continue to follow President Donald Trump’s manoeuvres in the presidential election, I am even more convinced the electoral coup his administration executed in Guyana (2020) and Bolivia (2019); he is hoping to replicate there. He is not only assailing the courts, but electoral bodies, political leaders, and legislatures to turn the election in his favour as was done in Guyana. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had the audacity to threaten our courts, GECOM and government officials with visa revocations if a particular result was not declared.
Whereas Americans and their institutions are standing up to Trump, notwithstanding the plummeting, in Guyana we had the opposite effect. It was political not legal dictate that ruled the day at the behest of rogues, local and international. Only rigged minds, peering through racist lenses such as Kissoon would see the obvious and say otherwise. He and many others like him have not evolved to the level of human decency, which we are witnessing by some in the USA who are not allowing Trump to compromise America’s democracy, despite the known ethnic and racial undertones.
It is time the decent people of Guyana, of all races, especially those descendants of Africa who he continues to badger and denigrate stop treating Freddie with kid gloves and fearing his pseudointellectual onslaught. It is time to take him and those who are his supporters on.
Yours truly,
Lincoln Lewis

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