The rule of law is not perfect

Oct 04, 2008 Letters

DEAR EDITOR
The rule of law is not perfect, even in the country where Mr. Williams now resides. The social infrastructure is never sufficient, even in developed countries.

That should not say that Guyana should not strive for these goals. However, it is my humble submission that if you respect the law, the law will respect you. We should be taught this from the home.

I notice Mr. Williams has not denied my posture that there are many among our Collective who can live gainfully by going back to the land.

I am sure he is aware that, as you traverse our villages, you cannot fail to see yards overtaken by bush instead of being planted with ochro or calaloo or bora.

Neither has he rejected that the values which held the Black Collective together are being neglected and replaced by increased instances of single mothers bearing children for several fathers; by an increase in the number of our people as inmates in the prisons or before the Courts.

Nor has he identified (even) a handful among us who has consistently stood–up and given tangible help where it is most needed within our Collective. Easy to talk; hard to do.

However, I fully agree with Mr. Williams: The young cannot be nurtured into doing the right thing by mixed messages coming from adults and institutions in our Society.

We breed “children soldiers”; adults partake of the booty brought home from robberies and we tell our young ones that the Police would be wrong to come after you. What kind of message is that?

I do not know of youths from areas other than Buxton, Agricola and Albouystown being pulled in for “being on the road in his neighbourhood”. The recent history of those areas relative to violent crimes must have already been forgotten by Mr. Williams.

I wish to ask Mr. Williams to denude his arguments of the academic window-dressing and zero in on what his true message is. It is my hope that we are taking aim at the same objective: Awakening the Black Collective to a greater sense of independence.

Do we engage in forays to display intellectualism? That does not help those who truly need help. Keep the message simple.

I wish to assure Mr. Williams that I am not aligned to a political party, although I was and still am an advocate of the positives of Forbes Burnham.

I am a Black Man and I pain when I see so many of my brothers and sisters and our children heading towards their destruction by the lure of those whose primary aim is to use them, even if it means sending them to their deaths.

Freedom, my dear people, is not achieved by following blindly those who sic you like vicious dogs at their prey. True freedom has a different meaning: it has to do with our own consciousness. Listen well to Bob Marley: We must free ourselves from mental slavery.

There are many among us who tell us fancy things but do nothing in real terms to help us: But they call on so many others to offer that help. The term “hypocrisy” comes to mind.
Godfrey Skeete

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