Here it is that in Guyana we got a fella calling on the armed forces to turn their guns on the Government and their supporters – whether they were breaking the law or not!! Now he and his pals have their bucktas in knots, ‘cause he was charged for “inciting public disorder”!! Now, wha’d he think would happen if the armed forces started shooting people all over the place?? While some ah dem guh hallah and some ah dem guh bawl, ALL of them would be running for their lives as they scramble to get out of the way of the bullets!! That’s public disorder, baby!!
And this ain’t no theory, dear readers!! We, in dear mudland, have sixty years of experience of the armed forces turning their guns on ordinary folks. But what’s ironic is that the same folks calling for the slaughter were on the receiving end in the past!! Back then, the authorities dubbed some folks from places like Tiger Bay and Albouystown as “centipedes” – then had the Police read them “the Riot Act” and mow them down. The same fella who’d made the call at Buxton a month ago had also done it in 2011, when he was “read the Riot Act”. He fully well knows what those words mean in Guyana.
Now, you may say it was the authorities who read the Riot Act back then, and having the authority, the Armed Forces would obey. And, as such, the geriatric fella was just pissing in the wind, since he had no such authority. But we know that in real life there’s official and then there’s unofficial reasons for people to obey calls for such acts. In the Buxton call for turning their guns, the fella reminded the Armed Forces they were “kith and kin”, and we know how such relationships have powerful influence on people responding to your call. Who wouldn’t come to the side of “kith and kin”??
Back during the heyday of the Buxton Mayhem – launched after Feb 23, 2002 by the Jailbreak 5 – they issued a handbill insisting they were African-Guyanese “Freedom Fighters”. The same fella, however, made the fine distinction that they were actually “Resistance Fighters” – which made their massacres OK!! The army had been posted to camp out in Buxton, but on several occasions refused to go in “hot pursuit” after the “Resistance Fighters” committed atrocities. Kith and kin trumped their legal duty.
But in the USA, ex-President Trump’s being charged with 34 felony counts emanating from hush payments to a porn star!! This is how the Rule of Law works – no one’s too big to face the music. You do the crime, you gotta do the time!!
We in Guyana can do no less!!
…on puffery
The letter pages of the newspapers never fail to be packed with missives – some amounting to treatises – on every subject under the sun and then some!! Problem is, almost none of these folks are qualified to pronounce – even tentatively – on the subjects they pontificate on so dogmatically!! Now, you might say they have the RIGHT to their opinions: right to free speech and all that!! But your Eyewitness didn’t see them advise those foreign doctors who recently performed ten open heart surgeries at GPHC!!
And why not?? Thank God, they recognised they knew squat about the subject. But they have no qualms about weighing in on the operations of, say, the global foreign exchange markets that are all seamlessly intertwined!! And involves the US Fed, our central bank, the commercial banks with correspondent relations with foreign banks, investment banks and brokerage firms, etc that may be intermediating our forex. It’s called the Dunning-Kruger effect, and occurs when persons don’t know enough to know they don’t know enough!!
…for greed
US pharma giant Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday proposed a US$8.9 billion settlement to resolve decades-old lawsuits claiming that its famous talcum powder products caused cancer. Can you imagine the baby powder’s still sold in our country??
