Something does not add up in Mormons issue

SOMETHING just does not add up involving the Mormons in Guyana. In God’s name, what were 69 foreigners doing in Guyana, attached to a miniscule church? I am sure that the more established organisations like the Anglicans or the Catholics do not have that massive amount of foreigners managing their business. One newspaper said they were doing community work. Mr. Editor, can you please do the world a favor and put one of your trusted journalists to do an in depth article on the work of the Mormons in Guyana. And in so doing, please let us know, whatever they were doing, apart from proselytization, if there were not qualified Guyanese to do the same job, considering our unemployment statistics.

America does allow foreign church workers to enter and work, but the sponsoring church must first advertise locally and prove to the authorities that suitable workers were not available locally. The visiting worker is then provided a work permit and compelled to abide by the law of the land. At the expiration of his work permit, he has a few options: Apply for renewal, with proper reason; go home; get deported or hide away and declare himself/herself an illegal immigrant.  Is it too much to ask others to show the same respect for the sovereignty of Guyana? Could the American Embassy not been able to advise its citizens accordingly? If it is true that some of these who were illegally were here did so for many years, then I consider this gross eye pass.

I am truly ashamed of the locals who encouraged this! Has Jonestown been completely forgotten? If it is true that an embassy release mentioned spying, then they probably know more than the Guyanese people, and government should ask for clarification. The most disgusting part of this affair is to read of the opposition leader (hoping one day to become President) actually supporting foreigners to break the law of the land. Then he says that the whole of Guyana might suffer because of this. One supposes he meant that the Obama Administration will withhold aid for Guyana because Guyana wants foreigners to abide by the laws of the land. We can’t judge other leaders by our own standards.

You better believe it, the Mormons, as American citizens are compelled to abide by the laws of America, including the law governing polygamy. Is this one of the reasons for running to Guyana? Once again I say, if we forget our past we’re condemned to repeat JONESTOWN! Burnham said then that it was an American problem. Whose is it now?


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