IT is a grave pity that humankind not infrequently fall prey and become the loudspeakers of faceless bureaucrats, as Chaffee admonished in “Blessings of Liberty.” To this may be appended the aphorism that such a person runs the risk of adopting the badge of slavery which none but a slave should wear. Speaking for myself, it is incomprehensible how an Attorney-at-law could have extrapolated from my letter to the Chronicle in relation to the Hemchand Persaud appeal, seminal in import, the implausible offence articulated in his letter to the Editor and printed on Saturday the 14th inst. Perhaps, the English Language of yesteryear has become a foreign language of today, disfigured with apparent impunity by practitioners when stripped of its inflexions and nuances. There is yet time to arrest the decline in this art of communication and, being a young man, Sandil Kissoon should seek syntactic guidance, failing which he will continue to substitute pallid orthodoxy for the independence of thought, ingenuity and boldness of decision which effective public service demands. Lawyers are ideally located in the continuum of this activity to reverse the mediocrity of the mindless.
It is not unexpected that he should luxuriate in the glory of his success, particularly where an appellate court affirmed the advocacy of his client’s position. I have experienced that emotion on countless occasions but have yet to be justifiably accused of a lack of limpid expression in the presentation of a case. This was partially the thrust and intention of my first letter to the Editor, contrary to the obverse understanding attributed to it by that Attorney-at-law. Rhetorically, I must invite him to identify by research, any Case Report from an established Court system, worthy of serious citation in which the epithet “preposterous” is used, now that he had confirmed the report emanating from our Court of Appeal. It is clear that judicial democracy is alive and well in our dear land, contrary to the allegations of late.