The truth is history cannot be undone
SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 | BY KNEWS | FILED UNDER LETTERS
Dear Editor,
Mr. F. Kissoon should have been around in the colonial days. He would have had a difficult time convincing the British and the Americans that Cheddi and Janet Jagan were not what they professed to be ideologically. Imagine him telling the Brits and Yanks at that time; “The PPP leaders simply do not practice what they preach and never did.” They probably would’ve told him to scoot.
Mr. Tony Veira and the other die-in-the–wool anti communists must be very upset with Mr. Kissoon. While they continue to push the communist bogey, Mr. Kissoon is at work seeking to undo what has been cast as stone by history. Mr. Kissoon is busy chipping away at historical facts; he will probably end up like Sisiphus.
The truth is history, it cannot be undone. You may try your utmost to revise it; however, such efforts will remain a mere revision, the real history will still stand and not the revision. After all, the revision is merely a point of view, a perspective. I think it should be Abe Lincoln who wrote “History is not History unless it is the truth”.
Clement J. Rohee
SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 | BY KNEWS | FILED UNDER LETTERS
Dear Editor,
Mr. F. Kissoon should have been around in the colonial days. He would have had a difficult time convincing the British and the Americans that Cheddi and Janet Jagan were not what they professed to be ideologically. Imagine him telling the Brits and Yanks at that time; “The PPP leaders simply do not practice what they preach and never did.” They probably would’ve told him to scoot.
Mr. Tony Veira and the other die-in-the–wool anti communists must be very upset with Mr. Kissoon. While they continue to push the communist bogey, Mr. Kissoon is at work seeking to undo what has been cast as stone by history. Mr. Kissoon is busy chipping away at historical facts; he will probably end up like Sisiphus.
The truth is history, it cannot be undone. You may try your utmost to revise it; however, such efforts will remain a mere revision, the real history will still stand and not the revision. After all, the revision is merely a point of view, a perspective. I think it should be Abe Lincoln who wrote “History is not History unless it is the truth”.
Clement J. Rohee
