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More of the usual hypocrisy
DEAR EDITOR,
I have read with deep interest the article in Kaieteur News (06/26/2008) captioned, “Minister Robeson Benn charges police with ‘shakedown’, spiteful arrest”. He is claiming that his “son’s legitimate rights” have been violated.
That the Hon. Minister should now pronounce on the police methods in relation to the treatment of his son is an affront to all the people of this country who have suffered at the hands of the police and have been calling for an investigation into the highhanded way in which the police have been operating in the country.
What about the many innocent school children of the Buxton community who have been carted off to the police stations in the several Joint Services’ operations?
Have they no “legitimate rights” and have those rights not been violated?
What about the children of the late Donna Herod who saw their innocent mom brutally gunned down in the street by the alleged Joint Services as she went to collect them from school?
Have they, too, no “legitimate rights” and have these rights not been violated?
Why was the Hon. Minister silent on the issue of violation of “legitimate rights” when the young men from the Buxton community were tortured by the Joint Services, when the people of Lusignan, who in their worst nightmare of terror, called the police who subsequently refused to respond, and when one of his ministerial colleagues violated the “legitimate rights” of a teenager by gun whipping him?
And just in case we have forgotten, what about Yohance Douglas, the UG student who was gunned down by ranks of the police on Sheriff Street?
Minister Benn seems to have missed the fact that those are the methods, given approval by the State, by which the police treat with all the citizens of this country and that “Junior”, as a citizen of this country, is subject to those police methods approved by the state of which his dad is an integral part.
If then, anyone has violated the Minister’s son “legitimate rights” it is the Hon. Minister himself and the state apparatus which has given credence to the police methods.
Finally, the Minister’s recent pronouncement on the violation of rights comes as an example of the usual hypocrisy that emanates from our government ministers of this country and speaks to the level of nepotism and corruption that innate in this group.
Jason Benjamin
President, UGSS
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