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Jan 26, 2014 Letters
Dear Editor,
From time to time, there are replies in the letter pages to my columns. Over the years, I have taken the position of not offering a follow up to certain people and for one fundamental reason; you get nothing of literary or intellectual value in exchanges with these people.
They are dishonest or extremely racist, simply want to say something nasty about me, or downright close-minded so nothing will be learned from them
There are others that I will engage because readers can get analytical information from the polemics.
I have ceased to reply to a faked pollster who I consider a racist. I think most people know this guy has descended to a comical level. Every country I mention, he replies to say he visited it and haS talked to the leaders.
Every scholar I mentioned, he claims he had them as teachers or he knows them. He claims to have attended more than six universities.
Mr. Mike Persaud recently exposed him because Persaud asked the scholar if he knows this so-called pollster and the professor says not at all
I will not reply to Minette Bacchus. She is a charlatan masquerading as someone who knows Guyanese sociology and history when she cannot even argue using intellectual concepts.
You engage her and it swells her ego but she offers nothing constructive, only a racist mind. The same goes for Vassan Ramracha.
He sees noting useful in African Guyanese and openly preaches Indian racism. Why would any person reply to a person with such a mind?
There is Devanand Bhagwan. He recently penned a view on one of my columns and was downright dishonest in misquoting me.
But he went to stupid levels just to prove Freddie Kissoon was wrong. All he proved was that he is a clown.
Here is graphic evidence where he is a clown. I will ask readers to ponder on whether this man’s opinions should be respected
An American priest came to Guyana, was disgusted and shocked into disbelief at the failure of Guyana as a 21st century state and wrote the following about Guyana, I repeat about Guyana; “There is no relief here from the heat, humidity, torrential downpours, or from the poverty, pain, unemployment, corruption, garbage, congestion, noise, danger, illness and so on…these are not temporary problems that come and go like our seasons…they are perpetual state of affairs that people today inherited from their forebears…”
Devanand Bgahwan, in his emotional quest to propagandize for an Indian dominated government in Guyana, wrote that these words of the priest were a description of the mental institution in Berbice, not the state of Guyana. Any ten year old child reading that statement would know it is in reference to country.
It is commonsensical to note that because the writer talks about the weather, unemployment, poverty etc, all concepts that deal with a country. Given this type of mind Bhagwan has, why would I want to reply to him. I will not.
Finally, I will not dignify Harry Gill’s pretences by responding to his comments on my columns.
Like Bacchus, Ramracha, Bhagwan and the faked pollster, you commit an assault on your own dignity when you engage these so-called debaters. They want you to write about them so they can be read by others.
Then there is the retired Guyanese journalist from Florida who wrote in KN that he had a talk with President Jagdeo when he was President and he was convinced that Jagdeo wanted to bring democracy to Guyana. I should not have mentioned his name in the first place and I will not do it now. Imagine someone writing that and you dignify that with a response. I guess coming soon is another piece in which this retired journalist from Florida will tell us what a freedom lover Ramotar is after he interviews him
I close with a brief response to Dr Henry Jeffrey. I will engage Dr. Jeffrey because he is a genuine intellectual debater that has no need to be a pretender. I respect his right to his enlightened views even though I disagree with many of his polemical angles.
In his Friday commentary on my question to him about sovereignty, I think Dr. Jeffrey repeated his mistake by assuming sovereignty is acquired through fair elections. The two are not dialectically inter-linked. I will follow up on this later.
An elected government, once it breaks the social contract, is liable to be removed and appealing to outside help to remove it is perfectly legitimate in moral philosophy.
Dr. Jeffrey studied all the contract theory philosophers; he knows this. I end with two strong views.
The Jagdeo regime was more morally and politically inferior to the Burnham Government.
Secondly, with a minority government, sovereignty also resides with Parliament.
Frederick Kissoon
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