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Jun 18, 2017 Letters
Dear Editor,
For the past year the talk in political circles is the coming of a third political party to compete with the two big ones that have been around for ages. Many conversations I have had with friends and associates, they think that a third party is necessary because the AFC will not appeal to voters since it will be swallowed up by the PNC in 2020. From what I have discerned it looks like the third party will fall victim to the ethnic requirement – Prime Minister and President must come from different race grouping. Mr. Freddie Kissoon and attorney Nigel Hughes seem the likely ticket.
Letter writer after letter writer keep citing Freddie Kissoon as a vote catcher. Be that as it may Mr. Editor, these admirers of Kissoon must tell us if they agree with his philosophy? For over fifteen years Mr. Kissoon has written a daily column – a remarkable feat. In those thousands of columns, Mr. Kissoon has laid bare his soul for the world to see. Everything Mr. Kissoon believes in he has laid out in those never-ending volumes. In those volumes, Kissoon perhaps has not left out even one iota of belief of his. Those Kaieteur News columns are his autobiography. But in those memoirs, Mr. Kissoon has published his philosophy that I consider both irrelevant and dangerous to Guyana.
I am not one who dislikes Mr. Kissoon. People give him heroic status. Who am I, an ordinary soul to deny Kissoon his rightful place in his country’s history? But as a strong believer in the Creator and as a devoted Hindu who believes in my religion, I find Mr. Kissoon’s philosophy inappropriate. I hope such a person does not become one of the leaders of my country. I cannot and will not vote for Freddie Kissoon given the things he believes in. I doubt people would have digested all those thousands of columns but most of them would have read quite a lot. Kissoon is strongly influential as an opinion-maker and he writes not so much with flair but with emotional appeal. Reading at least a thousand of those articles over the years, it is not hard to see the essence of him.
Mr. Kissoon is a self-confessed atheist. He once wrote that his favourite philosophers are Nietzsche, Marx, Freud and Sartre, all of whom had tragic lives; I hope a similar fate does fall on our beloved hero. If Kissoon partakes in elections in 2020, he would be the only candidate to ever contest an election in this country who was an atheist. Cheddi Jagan was not an atheist. My grandfather who was a pandit told me Dr. Jagan once told him that Marxism and the Hindu religion are not incompatible. Dr. Jagan was a non-practicing Hindu. You cannot be an atheist and be a Hindu. My father also knew Dr. Jagan. He told me that Mrs. Janet Jagan always denied she was an atheist when asked. The only person in politics I know who wrote that he is an atheist is Freddie Kissoon. President Burnham and Dr. Walter Rodney were not atheists. Our current President is a strong believer in the Almighty. So is Mr. Hughes.
Mr. Kissoon endorses same sex marriage. I cannot believe Mr. Nigel Hughes would accept such beliefs in his party. Mr. Editor, homosexuality is a turning away from God’s world. It is a wrong path that God never intended his children to go toward. Homosexuals may not be bad people but they have committed the ultimate sin and we should help to redeem them. Homosexuality has been imposed on us by the colonial rulers. The British tried to publicize it in India but was met with strong opposition. India today, with its large population has fewer homosexuals than Guyana with 800, 000 people.
Mr. Kissoon is an advocate of legalization of marijuana. I want to believe this came out of the carefree life he grew up with. Any kind of narcotic substance is harmful to the individual and society. Mr. Kissoon should take time off from reading philosophy books and do some research on the harmful effects marijuana has had on our youths. Many of the robberies committed were done by drug-smoking youths.
Reading Mr. Kissoon, he appears as a person who hates power, authority, rules and traditions. Do we want such person to a president or cabinet minister or parliamentarian? I will not deny that Mr. Kissoon has good qualities. I admire his bravery on behalf of the poorer sections of our country. I admire his ability to live an open life. He seems to be a strong family man who loves his wife, child and always writes about his pets. I believe he does not have a racist bone in his body. I cannot see him being concerned with who is African or Indian. But those qualities alone do not make up Freddie Kissoon. There are other character traits which our elections, our politics and our government can do without. Sorry Mr. Editor, Freddie Kissoon is not my idea of an election candidate.
Anand Seebarran
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