Theft is theft

Jun 11, 2023 Editorial

Kaieteur News – We say it in the most unambiguous terms: the contract is theft; plain, old fashioned, theft of the most wanton and heinous kind. When one partner does this to another partner, it is not a contract, but what equates to a crime, a capital one. In Victorian England, petty pickpockets and property vandals were often hanged, and when they were not, they were subjected to the ordeals of a grueling trip in chains to wild Australia, which was even grimmer than the cramped ships.

In this enlightened 21^st century, there is this destruction done to Guyana’s most prized property, its national patrimony, through barbarisms and vandalisms of an unmentionable kind, so putrid they are. What is happening to Guyana cannot, would never have happened, in the United States. This was said by Kenya anticorruption sage, Professor PLO Lumumba, and we are right with him on that position.

How is it, and why is it, that contracts of these types for the rich resources of coloured people around the world are always about a yoke around their necks, a saddle on their backs, and a whip across their hindquarters? Contracts with the terms and provisions, clauses and conditions, that Guyana is a signatory to, never seem to be the binding agreements finalized between multinational corporations and countries of Anglo-Saxon, Nordic, Gallic, and other Caucasian heritage. But it is what Guyana has, and we are told must live with, even though in America itself, such a contract would be burned in effigy. Or, possibly, the people behind it would have been sent to some penal colony, like Devil Island to reflect upon their covetousness, voraciousness and, let it be said, their patented selfishness and the wickedness that it brought about.

Peel back the layers of legalese in that contract, and look at what is really happening to Guyana and the Guyanese people. Country and citizens are being robbed blind, their rich assets are being stolen from right under their eyes, and under legal cover. The powers that be, locals on the inside of the thievery and the foreigners around it, have the unmitigated gall to tell this nation and its peoples that the thievery is a sacred duty sworn to some demon of a god that is worshipped. In the days of the Old Testament, examples used to be made of such brigands. If they used to stone women for adultery, imagine what was the penalty for thievery.

Theft is theft, and there are no two ways about it. No amount of leadership interference and justification under the banner of what is untouchable, and should be allowed to remain so, can avoid this simple conclusion: the contract as it stands in its utterly revolting and condemnable state is perishable. It is not untouchable, and about that all Guyanese must steel their minds, discover the courage to say so before anyone at any forum.

What is good for America and Europe is good for Guyana. There must not be any double standard. No more of the two-faced and fork tongued deceptions that have been piled upon Guyanese by their own. And there must be no more of the ‘eyes-pass’ by those from the outside who have the audacity to come here with their tricks to conceal their thefts of our property, our prosperity, and our destiny.

Theft is theft, and when Guyanese get one penny less than they are rightfully due, it is nothing, but great thefts practiced in the open by foreign exploiters and extractors, with the connivance of our fellow Guyanese who think nothing of betraying citizens for a dirty dollar. When our birthright is ruptured so cruelly, snatched from us so brazenly, then there can never be the sacred or what is inviolable with that unspeakable contract. The Guyanese people are being violated at will, and it counts for nothing. These are not the days of slavery and the plantation. So how can there ever be what is just about a legal concoction that chains us to the will and whims of the greedy and the always grasping from the treasure chests of nonwhite people all over the world? Theft is theft, and this is regardless of who justifies it.

Editorial, England, Kenya, Professor PLO Lumumba, Victorian

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