Don’t warn me about Freddie Kissoon

Dec 08, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
I find Eddie Boyer’s charge to Freddie Kissoon that I should correct myself, to be one of the most asinine cautions to come out of a supposedly intelligent person. And I use the term intelligent very loosely, because intelligent is as intelligent does.
And since I have absolute faith in the veracity of my friend and companion in ethical social activism Freddie Kissoon, the boorish attitude and behaviour he described as coming from his assailant was certainly not an indication of intelligence.
Rather, it parallels exactly what we have grown to recognize from the Orwellian characters drunk with political and economic power in Guyana, and whose rampaging excursion over the rights, freedoms and quality of life of Guyanese has no parallel in modern times in the Commonwealth Caribbean.
If anyone needs correction it is the assailant of Freddie Kissoon, who clearly and obtusely concludes that he is above the law. Bullies are always people who lack the cognitive capacity to differentiate between right and wrong. They take their strengths from membership in primordial packs, herds that prey on those they consider weaker or smaller.
Eddie Boyer is delusional in his perception that Freddie Kissoon is smaller and weaker. The strength and size of Freddie Kissoon’s character dwarfs mental Lilliputians. Freddie walks a path with no powers and friendship of the state behind him to protect him and immunize him against attacks from people like Boyer. But still he rises to the challenge of speaking truth to unethical and corrupt power.
And it is the manifestation of such character, the realization that regardless of the financial empires they accumulate or the frequency with which they rub shoulders with the powers that be, they lack the moral fib re to walk even an inch in the moccasins of Freddie Kissoon.So I do not need your caution Mr Boyer. I am a social activist. I am a fighter for the rights of the poor and the down trodden. Throughout history people like me have always been cautioned by people who are beneficiaries of the status quo, and are thus reluctant to see any alteration that might dissipate such influence.
Like the late great Martin Luther King I am a firm believer that “an individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity”.
Both Freddie Kissoon and I have made this journey, along with a few others in Guyana. Why should we heed the advice to correct ourselves that comes from one in bed with those who continue to tighten the yolk of oppression around the necks of Guyanese?
Mark Benschop

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