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The hypocrisy of some people’s reasoning

Sep 29, 2008 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
Geraldine Smith, if that is the real moniker of the person penning the letter captioned “Let’s get the facts right before casting stones,” provides us with the classical example of the hypocrisy that inundates these pages today.

In pursuit of offering a defence to the two prison officers indicted for the killing of a prisoner, Smith ends the letter with the caution, “Let us not play judge and jury, but get the facts right before casting stones”.

Did Smith get the facts right before accepting informal judge, jury and executioner disposition of the matter in which the suspect was killed?

In how many countries in this world will one find this kind of ridiculous hypocrisy? Smith was prepared to accept the playing of judge, jury and executioner when it came to the alleged wrongs of Niles, while wagging a precautionary finger in the faces of others about doing the same thing with respect to others.

This abominable pattern of reasoning, of examination of issues, of casting judgment, is more and more becoming the norm, rather than the exception, as it relates to issues in Guyana.

People are extolling the importance of rights and freedoms for some out of one side of their mouths, while diminishing the value of the importance of rights and freedoms as they relate to others out of the other side of their mouths.

According to the reasoning of Smith, it is wrong to appoint ourselves judge and jury with respect to the case against the two officers, but it was ok for them et al to assume those roles as it related to Niles.

I might remind her that these officers, whether innocent or guilty, will have their day in court. For Niles, unfortunately, that day can never come.

Robin Williams

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