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Sometimes the most lawless people in this country are people who dispense the law
Dear Editor,
This is a brief introduction to a forthcoming column in which I will argue that unlike the rest of the world, Guyana may be the only country where some of the most unbecoming forms of behaviour occurs among the legal community; where the law, which is supposed to be upheld by legal officers, is made a mockery of.
Sociologically then, the society has to endure intense levels of degradation, humiliation, loss of dignity, loss of self-respect, total disregard for norms and values and ubiquitous nihilism because those who invested with power to uphold the law are openly seen to flout it
It was a serving Attorney-General who told a media briefing in which over ninety percent of the journalists present were under twenty eight years of age that he is a man who likes to do illegal things. At the moment, our present Attorney-General may be charged or dismissed for gross unbecoming behaviour
Most magistrates in Guyana don’t give a damn about public opinion. Most of these magistrates use repugnant double standards in their sentencing policies. Most magistrates are openly contemptuous of the less endowed classes so they treat them like slaves. These magistrates think we are fools. They grant bail to poor people and the sum is enormous so it is tantamount to denying bail
These magistrates are the poorest in terms of scholarship. And the society can never engender respect for people in authority and the consequences are terrible.
We have at the moment a magistrate who assigned a suspended sentence on an accused found guilty of over 100 pounds of cocaine. We have a judge in this country that laughs at the people of Guyana with his funny decisions that no one understands. But do you think he cares. He knows that the society is one in which people have no self-respect and no dignity so anyone in authority can do anything to the nation
Finally, we have a DPP that is responsible for charging people and putting them in jail. And look at the controversies that envelopes her. In Guyana, the law people are the most lawless
Frederick Kissoon
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