How can you show so much disrespect to the President of a country?

Nov 04, 2017 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
The leaders of our country are a disgrace to us. On Thursday I was watching the President’s address to Parliament and indeed the world was watching (one can watch it anywhere around the world), and I could not believe my eyes and ears.
In the presence of members of the Diplomatic Corps and other dignitaries, the Leader of the Opposition and his merry-men embarrassed us all. How low can these people get? Their antics must be condemned by all fair-minded Guyanese.
How can you show so much disrespect to the President of a country? Even if you do not subscribe to his policy or his government, common human decency demands that we give due respect to the President when he speaks. The action of the PPP parliamentarians is shameful and must not be condoned.
Take a page out of the US Congress. When the President addresses that body, they all sit and listen, sometimes standing, clapping and acknowledging what the President says. Why have we descended to the gutter in Guyana?
The PPP parliamentarians did not have to show up in parliament to hear the President’s address, but having attended, they should have given due respect to the President. Whether we like it or not, he is the President for all of Guyana.
We have seen the same low gutter politics in our Regional Administration. One side would disrupt the meeting when called to order. Where are we heading? Are we going to the bottomless pit?
I know that the Guyanese voters are watching. As we hear often in our country, “the longest rope has an end.”
Charles Sugrim

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