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Oct 04, 2015 Letters
Dear Editor,
I refer to a letter by Lomarsh Roopnarine (“Speaking against this regime does not make one a PPP supporter,” KN Sep 29, 2015) in which he referred to me as the extremist of the extremists. In this same letter sent to another newspaper, Roopnarine called me a bush columnist and lip kisser. Obviously KN editors removed those offensive labels, but I am not surprised at what certain mind-sets have become when they left this country long ago.
Here are the words of Roopnarine; “That the PPP was corrupt in the second half of its tenure in office, that the PPP lost its sense of direction, that some Ministers were incompetent and unprofessional, that the PPP was not transparent in transactions, and that Bharrat Jagdeo should not lead the opposition are views shared and accepted by this writer.” (end of quote) The obvious question is when did Roopnarine embrace these evaluations? Certainly not when the PPP was in power. I will not be insulting to Roopnarine as to question whether he can do a Google search. But this I can say; for the 23 years that the PPP was in power, a Google search would find that there isn’t even a word, much less a line, much less a paragraph, about what Roopnarine now admits are the egregious faults of the PPP when in power. But let’s move because after all – better late than never.
Let’s offer more quotes of Roopnarine; He writes; “Look at Freddie Kissoon, the extreme of extremists continues to propagandize and glorifies an inglorious start of the APNU/AFC.” Three questions come up. When did Roopnarine find his pen so that he can evaluate the new administration by using harsh assessments? The answer is that he discovered his instinct to criticize governmental behaviour after the PPP left office. After all, there is no manifestation of such an instinct during the 23 year old hegemony of the PPP. The second question is if after four months the APNU-AFC Government has started in an inglorious way then surely Roopnarine couldn’t miss the millions of inglorious pathways of the PPP which strangely didn’t elicit a condemnation from him
The third question relates to me. If I am the extremist of all extremists, could Roopnarine identify some PPP extremists?
Let’s examine the devious, dangerous, deceptive polemical outline of Roopnarine. Unfortunately, so full of over-confidence that they can hoodwink readers, PPP supporters like Roopnarine cannot see that they are exposing their contradictions which in the process expose their open partisanship which dents their credibility.
I will ask readers to read carefully the words and logic of Roopnarine. The double standards the PPP embraces are there and they aren’t hard to find. Now here is Roopnarine in his own words; “Many PPP supporters are being released from their postings but valid explanations are not provided for this action. To fire those who do not support the regime and place loyalists may be a false sense of satisfaction, since this policy has the potential to weaken rather than strengthen solidarity in an already deeply divided society. Moreover, the campaign trail of the coalition reveals a movement away from unilateral high-handedness to multilateral cooperation.” (end of quote) Now read below the words of Roopnarine which can only be interpreted as perverse reasoning. Roopnarine writes; “What was the new regime thinking when they chose Christopher Ram and Anand Goolsarran to be part of the forensic audit? These individuals are staunch critics of the previous administration. I support a forensic audit of the current forensic audit.”
I doubt Chris Ram would dignify Roopnarine with a response, but this is inexcusable nonsense in any polemical exchange. Roopnarine tells us it is wrong to fire PPP supporters that the new government came and met but this very man in the same breath says the country’s top accountancy brains must not be used in the service of the state because they were staunch critics of the previous PPP Government.
I ask every decent mind in Guyana if that is nauseating, irrational reasoning. The Government of Guyana must not use the talent of Ram and Goolsarran because they were critics of the past government. In other words, educated Guyanese who were involved in denouncing the PPP when in power, must become ineligible for employment. I know Chris Ram very well, and I can just imagine the expression on his face when he read that nonsense from Roopnarine. You find all types in this world some of whom are simply unbelievable
Frederick Kissoon.
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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