IRONICALLY, Freddie Kissoon spoke of a “Halloween of real life masks, real life fright, real life horror” in Guyana, and he is like a monster masquerading like Frankenstein, as Mary Shelley and Vick Frankenstein had described in their literature of Frankenstein.

Better yet, he does not even need either a mask or a costume, since his natural ugliness won him the best prize Halloween costume of the year. This spectre of monstrosity and ugliness has risen again in celebration of his freedom of expression in disguise of commemorating his evil of destruction during the Halloween season, and more so the election season.

Perhaps, in this case, the play did not end the same for Kissoon because, fortunately, some of the Guyanese people are apparently tolerating this monstrosity; and Guyana is a democratic society giving him the very right to freedom of expression and freedom of speech.

But yet, he continues to call this country a dictatorship. How can he call this country a dictatorship, when he writes just about anything against the PPP/C government every day? The fact that he, just as every other Guyanese, has  constitutional access to the fundamental liberties, especially, freedom of expression, of a democratic state is evidence of a democratic Guyana. Apparently, Freddie, as a so-called academic, cannot differentiate between a dictatorship and a democracy. He is still living in his own make-believe world where he feels constant rejection, and is  afraid of his own shadow.

Freedom of speech, a component of democracy in Guyana, gives Kissoon the opportunity to spread his diatribe every day. Kissoon claims to be an academic and with this right to freedom of expression that he exercises in Guyana’s democracy and he is unaware of it, enables him every day to discharge gutter journalism about President Bharrat Jagdeo and his government; and he envies people from the PPP/C, a party that he despises, only because these people understand that Guyana is a living democracy.

Therefore, it is nonsensical and unacceptable that Kissoon continues to call Guyana a dictatorship; carelessly writes against the government, and unnecessarily opposes other people who have the fundamental right to support the party of their choice. Dictatorships do not allow that; only democracies provide expression to the opposition’s voice. Kissoon lives in a democracy and does not know this. I believe that state is called a state of ignorance. I pity this spectre of ugliness and deception.