THE Vice-President of Guyana, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, said that Guyana got some stupid people. It is only a stupid mind that would criticise Dr. Jagdeo for saying that.

You have to be stupid to think that Guyana and the rest of countries in the world do not have stupid people. Which country is so spiritually endowed that it does not have idiotic humans who are abysmally ignorant?

Stupid people can be a vexation to the human spirit. They say and accept things that have no connection to commonsense. Let us offer two examples of stupidity in full blast then move on to the famous Whoopi Goldberg, a woman I admire and hope she is invited to Guyana.

Norman Browne, a PNC die-hard actually put pen on paper to say that when President Ali shakes the hands of African Guyanese, he subsequently washes his hands with a special detergent. Tell me if a human isn’t the personification of asininity to believe that.

Secondly, Guyana found a natural resource that the world needs and when sold on the world market can elevate Guyana into a country where poverty will be removed and development can put us on the map.

Some 42 ill-advised people (who published their names) wrote the President demanding that we stop oil production because Guyana has an obligation to save the Planet from climate destruction. Isn’t that stupidity when you think of how necessary are oil revenues to save, yes actually save, Guyana?

Now let’s discuss asininity, moronic display, idiotic manifestations and unadulterated ignorance in some people in this country. When we make the descriptions below then you see right in front of your eyes how stupid are some people. Some editors in this country may not be stupid but they are mischievous.

It is the editor’s obligation to put an editorial note to letters that say people have a right to express themselves, people have a right to freedom of speech, and they should be allowed to say what they want to say without being prosecuted.

The editorial note at the bottom of such foolish letters should state that since philosophy in the Western world started with Plato, thousands of years ago, there has never been complete freedom for the citizen to say what he/she feels.

Yet in defence of Baby Skello, there have been idiotic publications in both private newspapers defending what Skello broadcasted and asserting his right to freedom of expression. How can anyone be so stupid?

The right to express yourself cannot infringe on the right of others to practise their religion and culture. The right to unlimited free speech does not exist. How can people defend Baby Skello after what happened in Rwanda? Almost a million Tutsis died because free speech became unlimited and drifted into the advocacy to kill other ethnic communities.

I find it unbearable that the newspapers published the abject, miasmic fiction of those who defend Baby Skello by citing freedom of speech in the Western world.

Guyana has more tolerance for free speech than these Western countries that people like Henry Jeffrey, Bertrand Ramcharran and Vishnu Bisram tell us we must look up to.

Do the Guyanese know and if they do not know, they will know now – in most European countries it is a criminal offence to speak or write any negative thing about the Holocaust?

It is a criminal offence punishable by imprisonment in most European countries to deny the Holocaust. One of the most prolific British war historians, David Irving, was jailed in Austria for three years for Holocaust denial.

Do the Guyanese people know that in an instant, you can lose your job in the state or the private sector in the EU countries (not Hungary), Canada and the US for saying or writing negatively about homosexuality?

As an author, a singer, actor, athlete, etc…, you face loss of income if you criticise homosexuality or denounce it. Baby Skello on a visitor’s visa to any Western country would be deported if he had published an anti-homosexual song.

Whoopi Goldberg, a Black American icon needs to come to Guyana to lecture Guyanese who are still sycophants of Western colonialism. On her show, “The View,” Goldberg became upset when one of her co-hosts spoke of how Iranian treat homosexuals.

Goldberg was assertive in telling the lady that African Americans face the same cruel mistreatment in their own country. Whoopi went on a rant but when you listen to her rant, if you are a Guyanese with a colonial mentality, you would have learned how stupid you were to have such a mentality.

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