Guyana does what the US wants it to do

Nov 19, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
This argument about corporal punishment can continue forever with some arguing to bring in the “new,” even though the so called new is proving to be a nightmare in the United States.
There is a good reason why 19 states in the U.S. still use corporal punishment in schools. As one writer stated in her letter a few days before in Kaieteur News, it makes no sense embracing a new approach which is proving to be a failure. It reminds me of a movie caption I had seen at Metropole years ago; Sean Connery’s “Zardoz” with the caption “I’ve seen the future and it doesn’t work.”
We have seen the results of the alternative to corporal punishment and it doesn’t work. And yet, because it is touted by the great enlightened and progressive United States of these Americas, we are gladly willing to abandon that which has worked for years and label it prehistoric, archaic etc. And embrace that which we’ve seen in our daily consumption of American media; that it does not work. It’s fruitless continuing this back and forth of opposing views, for it shall achieve nothing in the end.
The decision of whether or not Guyana abandons the cane and adopts the “enlightened” approach is not going to be decided by us the people of Guyana, but by the dictates of the U.S. government. This applies to any practice the United States wants us to adapt. For as long as we are depending on the U.S. for aid and protection we’ll have to dance to their flute.
Malcolm Alves

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