There must be laws governing social conduct during election campaigning

Dec 04, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
Ninety percent of this nation’s electorate that cast their vote chose ethnicity as the main criteria of their choice. Such is their entitlement; however, the result is a defining consequence.
History has clearly indicated in every event of national divisiveness, that cataclysmic occurrences are a natural corollary. We as a nation are the poorest in the hemisphere with the exception of Haiti. Our choices are indeed very strange in an attempt to disembark from the grips of poverty.
The analyses will follow surely as night follows day as to which ethnic group did what and why they chose to act in the manner that they saw fit. I leave that to my competent and superbly qualified patriotic colleagues.
However, a cardinal sin of human behaviour has been endorsed in this campaign and must be addressed by this nation as is required by the norms of decency and human integrity. We must never ever descend to depraved levels of spewing social venom on the good character of citizens where the facts clearly indicate otherwise.
In this recent electoral campaign and no doubt in previous campaigns this seems to have been “the modus operandi”. Specifically, Mr. Bharat Jagdeo et al in the Peoples Progressive Party sought to tear apart the good character of Mr. Moses Nagamootoo simply because Mr. Nagamootoo exercised his constitutional right to associate with a political party of his choice.
The verbal attack was lewd, vulgar and uncalled for and none in any civilized country on the planet deserves this type of verbal ridicule especially from a sitting president of a country.
The electorate registered its concern and the statistics confirm the government of the day losing its majority in a clearly defined ethnic showdown. However, there must be laws governing our social conduct and specific punitive consequences in place.
This must never ever happen again in Guyana and the nation must act to ensure accordingly. We are a civilized nation and a part of the Free World.
Kris Kooblall,
Toronto, Canada

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