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Apr 26, 2013 Letters

 

Dear Editor,
I read with some surprise, a letter dated April 21, that appeared in the Sunday edition of the Kaieteur News, captioned “If the AG has a case to make on the Chief Justice’s ruling let him do so coherently.”
I am no lawyer, just an ordinary person with an ordinary person’s concern about the future of my country, the budget, the Chief Justice’s ruling as it relates to the budget, and ultimately how it will affect me.
In this political climate, I find that the citizens of this country are often bombarded by a veritable blitzkrieg of misinformation. Screaming sensational headlines alleging mass corruption, mayhem, nepotism etc. are encountered every day. But on a mature and reasonable filtering of the news being fed to the citizens of this country, I find that rarely, are these allegations supported by fact or evidence.
Decisions of the High Court are handed down, but often the impact and meaning are lost and buried beneath layers of grandiloquence and artifice.
This is where I believe the AG stands apart from the frenzied and the confused, the dishonest and the absurd. I have watched with avid interest, the AG’s clear distillation of the Chief Justice’s ruling in Parliament. I have listened to him read passages from the decision, and in concise measured language, explain their purport and intent. And he has impressed me as one of the few politicians who is dignified and statesmanlike, seeking to clarify rather than to perplex.
The author of the letter to which I have referred, speaks rather condescendingly of the AG’s “ bastardization “ of the Chief Justice’s ruling and goes on to expound that the public is brainwashed in a manner reminiscent of the Nazis.
The author makes sweeping statements without more. He does not explain how the ruling was “bastardized “, and assumes that the Guyanese public are like sheep, incapable of reading and discerning for themselves; that they are no more than hapless victims of conditioning. Maybe the syllogism that is his letter has eluded him.
I applaud the AG for the good work that he has done, for his fearlessness, for his honour, and it is my sincere wish that he continues to speak in Parliament, bringing freshness and clarity to issues of which the public needs to be apprised.
Kuldeep Persaud

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