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Oct 21, 2009 Letters
Dear Editor,
I have noted Stabroek News’ publication of the email correspondence between its Editor-in-Chief and Kaieteur News columnist Freddie Kissoon and have also taken note of the level of hostility and intolerance demonstrated by Mr. Kissoon.
This runs in contradiction to his pronouncements and daily chastisement of government officials for what he alleges to be similar type of behaviour.
Mr. Kissoon has been experiencing some dissonance in what he regards to be appropriate in his commentary on others with his expectations of what their commentary on him should be. It is interesting to see the shifting position he has taken relative to the possession of these books in question: first it is impossible to have stolen them, and then they were provided to him by the writer of the original letter which created this furor and finally, not being ashamed of having stolen.
One of the difficulties I have found with Mr. Kissoon in the past has been his personal attacks on his critics and his willingness to descend into vitriolic diatribes. It is a point I wish to iterate; when you have established yourself as an arbiter on the government, public figures and made yourself a subject of your columns (way too much information is now known about Mr. Kissoon and his reveling in his now much vaunted life of poverty as a child) then you yourself become open for public discussion.
Kissoon’s threat to sue SN must also be seen as an attempt to muzzle them and also an attack on press freedom. SN afforded Kissoon an opportunity to respond to a letter sent for publication, which is not part of the procedural arrangements at Kissoon’s employers, the Kaieteur News, and how did he respond; with threats and personal attacks.
And so, to all those who think Freddie Kissoon is ‘worthy of emulation’, is this the response you would have made to the letter in question? Is this the response you would have wanted your children to make if they were similarly attacked?
Baldeo Mathura
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