Protests continue against contract rape, other rapes

Jul 09, 2023 Editorial

Kaieteur News – The PPPC Government and its leaders need to get one thing straight in their heads. Guyanese who take to the streets to protest against contract abuse, the abuse of power, and other forms of vile abuse at the hands of agents of the government are not going away anytime soon, not until justice occurs. From President Ali to Vice President Jagdeo to ministers to collaborating and consenting public servants to the army of Government defenders and deniers, the messages and actions must register on their consciousness. Protest actions against what wrongs Guyanese and wrongdoing by the powerful and protected in Guyana will continue unabated.

Guyanese are grappling for their birthright, for what is beneficial to their interests. Protests will continue despite efforts by officials to shuttle the protesters out of sight, or steer them to places where their messages are obscured. Limitations placed on protesters will not deter them, make them give up hope, or diminish their energies that grow stronger, their passions for a cause intensifying. The more that politicians with abundant power in their hands, and much malice in their minds, and their helpful agents try to suppress dissenting voices in the media, to vilify protesting citizens in the streets, and to squeeze Guyanese from speaking out, the more other citizens (growing numbers of them) are watching and coming to their own conclusions.

Both loyal political partisans and neutral and independent Guyanese are more fully informed, understand more, and arrive at their own ideas, about the damage being done to the hopes and dreams of the people who are supposed to be the richest in the world. They may not have known as much before, but with each passing day, they are more familiar with what the 2016 ExxonMobil contract does to each and every Guyanese. The barbaric ExxonMobil contract drains the nation’s patrimony for a pittance in return. The ugly ExxonMobil contract harms the hopes of Guyanese looking for fair returns from their national wealth to lift them out of their impoverished state that condemns to a life of daily struggle, need, and coming up short. The obscene ExxonMobil contract rapes Guyanese and then leaves them naked, brutalized, and in the most dreadful state.

So much given to this nation, so much hoped for, so much robbed, so often wrested away, and so frequently raped. Only the worst of connivers, the most unspeakable of covetous minded, could have dreamed up a contract like the one from 2016, and then make it become a reality by forcing it upon a poor, ill-equipped, unprepared nation. But this is what Guyanese live with, a penny here and a penny there for their rich patrimony, which is why Guyanese go out and protest in the street. This right, this fight, this light must be brought to the fullest focus on this abominable ExxonMobil contract, and those Guyanese who lamely and sickeningly support it.

Our leaders have failed us from the inception and again and again today. Our political cream consorts with those who violate the soul of each citizen, be it for their patrimony money, and as is now often for their body. None is exempted, not young girls, not the weak and vulnerable, not those who look high for help, only to be dishonored to the lowest, by those trusted to look out for the safety and destiny of all Guyanese. The violators of Guyanese old and young, poor and starving, are both foreign and local, with the locals the worst of the worst.

They clear the way, they are the touts and solicitors, they do the coverups. This is why protesters, no matter how small, regardless of how limited they are, take to the streets of Guyana to get their messages across. The foreign embassies are put on notice of the rage of Guyanese. Foreign visitors of the highest rank, like the American Secretary of State, are given a taste that all is not well in this oil paradise. Far from it with the orgy of rapes and plunder with besmirch Guyanese, and snatch their aspirations away. Protests, even if one citizen and one placard, will resonate and gain traction when it matters. Mr. Blinken should have taken note.

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