How could a government maintain the laws of the country when, for political expediency, lawlessness is encouraged and allowed to reign supreme? The support by political leaders who hope to govern this country, by members of Guyana’s Bar Association, by women’s groups who are intent on supporting someone accused – not once by one individual, but several times by many individuals of rape and child molestation, is a primary indication of the lawlessness embraced and supported in this country by these representative bodies and individuals.
Guyana has a history of internecine conflict that has seen many persons unnecessarily killed by those led astray by political opportunists.
CNS Channel 6 has a history of encouraging racist and inflammatory rhetoric.  Currently, a Kaieteur News columnist who has been sued by President Bharrat Jagdeo for overtly and covertly accusing the Head-of-State of practising racist policies, wrote in Kaieteur News that he would support Tacuma Ogunseye in his call for violence in this country.  But he has been doing so for a long time.
However, there is something called a boomerang effect and the horror and terror these persons seek to unleash on innocent persons – as had happened during street protests after successive elections since 1992 –  in 2002 during the infamous jailbreak and its aftermath of criminal rampage throughout the country, with the annexation of the communities of Buxton and Agricola; as well as the Lusignan and Bartica massacres, have left a psychological imprint on the minds of young people, who think that the quickest way to get riches is to rob, and even to kill.
The CNS 6 issue is not about Sharma and his indifferent showings at the polls, nor of opposition elements not having a medium to vent their views, because they have many options.
The issue is not simply one whereby a media house continuously transgresses against the laws of the land; nor is it about Bishop Juan Edghill, which is a private matter.
CNS 6, however, is guilty of the most heinous of crimes in a nation that is slowly recovering from violent episodes in the country, whereby many innocent persons, including babies sleeping in their beds, were savagely murdered.
Guyana once had a beautiful culture whereby members of every race in this nation liked and respected each other – sharing meals and celebratory occasions with equal fervour and enjoyment.  Everyone looked out for each other’s children.  Doors would be left unlocked while neighbours “kept an eye”, and the helpless and vulnerable in communities were looked out for by the collective community.
The youths knew well then to show respect to their elders and teachers, and to always be mannerly and courteous, or face dire consequences.
People seldom owned shoes until they were grown and poverty with pride was a way of life.  However, these standards deteriorated rapidly during the years when people faced starvation and were encouraged to harbour hatred against each other because of their race or made to feel inferior because of the religion they practised.
Today, slowly but surely, the youths of Guyana are bonding as their foreparents once did, and their parents are learning from them how to live in peace with their neighbours.  The country, as a result of the consequential peace, has been developing like a runaway train as its potential has been nurtured and carefully managed by President Jagdeo and the PPP/C administrative construct.
But what the President calls the “fossils, vultures, carrion crows” – the destructive elements of this beautiful country, are intent on taking this nation back to its painful past, when Guyanese saw each other as deadly enemies because of their racial composition or religious beliefs.  However, the President is resolute in disallowing this to once more take this nation back into the hole of despair, hatred, distrust, violence and hopelessness into which it had once sunk – and if this means sanctioning CNS Channel 6, or letting the strife-making columnists and programme managers of the various media houses in Guyana face the courts of the land (despite fears of political partiality in the judiciary), then he considers it his duty in discharging his mandate to ensure peace in the land; and that the gains he and other government officials who worked untiringly to win for this country not be lost to opportunistic power-seekers and white and blue collar criminals – as well as aiders and abettors of criminals and child molesters.
It seems that all a criminal has to do in Guyana to gain immunity from prosecution is to declare himself a politician, then all the rabble-rousers and the motley crew in Guyana’s political minefield will form a barricade of protection around him – even hand him a few morsels of eight-year-old victims to pacify and comfort him.
So hurray for MOM and their championing of the victims of an alleged paedophile.  It is time for the voice of the people to be heard in defence of the real victims – the children who have been robbed of their innocence, their childhood, and their womanhood.  Let the vigil begin for justice for all.