Freddie Kissoon’s penchant for ‘Quill Drivelling’

May 14, 2024 Letters

Dear Editor,

Editor, I am both amused and annoyed at the hilarity of the piece “I really envy President Ali.” It is another example of Freddie Kissoon’s ‘lack of substance,’ ‘silly subject matter’ and ‘overall irrelevance.’ In fact, his overt and unwarranted worshipping of President Irfaan Ali is symptomatic of his burgeoning multi-faceted ailment.

Just read this: “When I saw the moves of President Ali at the Peoples Progressive Party’s (PPP’s) congress, I envied him. That gentleman can dance. I guessed it came easily to President Ali because he has a light personality as part of his persona. His rhythmic manoeuvres will always be remembered by the people of this country for a long time to come because it was unique and it came from a unique leader of this country.”

LOL. Freddie says that these “… rhythmic manoeuvres will always be remembered by the people of this country for a long time to come…” Hmmm! And yes, I do agree but because they were clumsy, not unique and certainly, odious to a lot of people. As a matter of fact, if Freddie Kissoon were not so ineluctably beholden to his erstwhile enemies and nemesis, he would have renounced President Ali and his simian antics. On this note of a Head of State’s dancing in ‘whatever’ form, it was and never something to ‘rant and rave over.’ It is a most frivolous issue and does not make for main stream journalism.

For example, Sanna Marin, during her 2019-2023 tenure as Prime Minister of Finland, was cleared of misconduct, after a leaked video showed her dancing exuberantly and drinking with friends and celebrities. Once a PPP hater, Freddie Kissoon, back in 2015, tried to embarrass Bharrat Jagdeo and Donald Ramotar, stating that their dancing was vulgar and even illegal. Like ‘big joke.’ He horribly exaggerated the one or few times indulgences of these two men, and even hoped for support in castigating and shunning them.

So back then, he shouted ‘dirty’ for back-balling and is now willing to learn the ‘hip-wriggle’ from President Ali. Maybe he likes the frontal approach since back then, in speaking for himself, he vowed not to engage in back-balling, since he was not a ‘back’ man. Editor, I feel that Freddie Kissoon has reached his nadir. He seems a helpless and hapless victim of some kind of avolition and cannot prevent being and acting like a PPP and Ali devotee. He is helpless.

He now endorses what he so vehemently renounced ‘once upon a time,’ and for him, as of the present, “In all seriousness, (he asks) how can someone see that (Ali’s hip- wriggle’ in a negative light? (After all) , He was at a private function, enjoying a private moment. It went viral but that does not take away his right to retire his suit and tie, and exist outside the context of the presidency. He is entitled to that right.

Mind you, up to Apr 15, 2019, Freddie Kissoon, in “I feel personally insulted by what Irfaan Ali did,” explained in great detail and anger that “Most people are familiar with that old saying, “whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.” If I had any respect for Irfaan Ali, he has lost it. If I had any admiration for Irfaan he has lost it. I am referring to his recent press conference in which he appointed Kwame McCoy to direct.” He extended his harangue, detailing that “Irfaan has gone mad. The gods have destroyed him. Of course, the gods rendered him incompetent before sending him off to Hades. How perceptive is Ali? The question is he isn’t at all” I can only end by asking a few questions: Is Freddie Kissoon for real? Is he a bona-fide wreck? When he will re-start PPP/C’s quill-drivelling oppugnancies?

Sincerely,

Prescott Mann.

Bharrat Jagdeo, Donald Ramotar, Freddie Kissoon, Prescott Mann, President Irfaan Ali

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