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Oct 29, 2014 Letters
Dear Editor,
Reference is made to Mr. Freddie Kissoon’s column (Oct 21) in which he attacked me — name calling without offering an iota of evidence to support his wild claims. This is the umpteenth time Freddie has penned untruths about my polls and I challenged him on numerous occasions (even offering him large amounts of money) to providence evidence for his unsubstantiated allegations.
Fred described the PNC as a 10 per cent party, PPP a 25 per cent party and the WPA as a 45 per cent party. Can he say how he came up with those numbers? The NACTA polls consistently showed the PNC as 40 per cent plus party, PPP as a majority party and WPA as less than two per cent party – all of which coincided with election results.
Thanks Fred for providing us with your fictional writings that offer comical relief. Freddie is right to refer to himself as an “abysmal intellect”; and he is right that educational and social standards have declined ever since he joined UG but have been on the mend ever since he was forced to retire based on mandatory old age.
Freddie made reference to individuals “deluding society” and being “outed”. He did not include himself although all of Guyana knows he has been deluding society. Wasn’t he “outed” for deluding Stabroek News and David DeCaires using “Dr” Freddie Kssoon? Didn’t Father Andrew Morrison of the Catholic Standard also terminate his services for deluding them?
In his column (Oct 21), Freddie also made demeaning comments about other eminent individuals without supporting evidence. Academics are trained to offer evidence to buttress claims. Isn’t Freddie deluding people by not citing evidence to support his false assertions?
And Freddie attacked a young man who made damning charges against a powerful politician for allegedly sodomizing him when he was only twelve years old. Freddie knows a lot about sodomizing and should not have invoked the young man’s name in his commentaries.
As an academic, Freddie ought to know that matters before the police should not be commented upon to influence their investigation. But then again, that is Freddie who was thrown out of university in Toronto and now allowed to complete his PhD and subsequently deported. He was denied employment at colleges in Grenada, Barbados, Trinidad and Florida deluding people about his credentials.
On the sex allegation, the matter is before the police who are investigating serious allegations of child molestation. The accused has obtained a gag order. No one should comment on the case until the police issue their report. The principle of a person being innocent until proven guilty is invoked.
The rights of the accuser should also be respected and Freddie should desist from name calling. Freddie is violating legal and social standards by commenting on the case – the same allegations he leveled against the young man.
Vishnu Bisram
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