FREDDIE Kissoon (KN Aug 30) finds it funny that I want him to disclose his source in New York that couldn’t locate Bisram as a teacher. Wow! What humour indeed! A man who has no concept about confidentiality suddenly clams up when challenged to disclose a source. Given the fact that it has now been proven that Freddie manufactures information, one can logically conclude that he has manufactured this source. After all, as I pointed out before, any journalist worth his salt could easily verify that Bisram is a teacher.

Mr. Editor, the real humour in Freddie’s letters is the level to which his outpourings are now littered with confusion. For example August 30 Freddie on wrote, “Secondly, Mr. Boodram says because Freddie Kissoon says Bisram is not a teacher, so he, Bisram is not a teacher.”  Boodram has never said such a thing. Actually I have always made it absolutely clear that I know that Bisram is a teacher, while Freddie assumes this is not so based on the findings of a manufactured source.

Then on September 4, Freddie wrote, “He (Boodram) wrote last week that because Freddie says Bisram does not do polls, it means Bisram does not do polls.” This bit of confusion on the part of Freddie is a gem that needs no elaboration.

Added Freddie (August 30), “Mr. Boodram, Mr. Bisram and Ravi Dev know that there is no such thing as NACTA.” Now dear Freddie concludes, on the basis of repeated statements that I know the members of NACTA et al that Boodram knows there is no such thing as NACTA.

Poor Freddie! I guess the pressure to defend the indefensible is becoming quite telling on his intellect.

And in keeping with his Goebellian mind set, Freddie keeps repeating that, “It is this same Boodram who, when confronted with Bisram’s own letter on how much he travels and how many countries he conducts polls in, wrote that B isram makes up for the sessions he is absent from school by teaching during recess (I guess he means the summer).”

Again never did I write any such thing.  In response to Freddie’s assertion to the contrary, I pointed out that New York does have summer school and that students who fail during the regular school year are provided an opportunity to get promoted by attending summer school. In fact, I taught summer school this year – all of six weeks. Further I pointed out that one could be a teacher and still be able to travel constantly, as I, myself, have done for many years. Freddie, of course, is at a loss to figure this out so he assumes that the students of such a teacher would suffer. 

Mr. Editor, the only person who is not convincing is Freddie Kissoon. No one has ever even alleged, much less proven that Boodram has ever manufactured information or sources. In fact, my journalistic integrity stands up to the most intense scrutiny whereas it is now on record that Freddie manufactures information and ipso facto, he also manufactures sources.

Mr. Editor, Bisram did write that he is the highest paid teacher in New York, but even Freddie knows that this statement ended up in the letter by oversight as Bisram would readily admit and that Bisram actually meant to say that he is one of the highest paid teachers.

Let me close by saying there is an organisation called NACTA and  Vishnu Bisram is  a high school teacher in New York City as basic journalistic investigation would easily prove. So Freddie can shout on the rooftops until he’s hoarse, but he can’t negate facts. And Freddie Kissoon can talk all he wants about agenda but someone who manufactures information and sources has little, if any credibility left. In essence readers can easily determine who really has an agenda.