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Oct 13, 2011 Letters
Dear Editor,
In as much as the President withdrew his unwarranted ban on CN Sharma’s television station, it is clear that the administration is not going to relent on its fear and intimidation policy.
It is also clear that Sharma will remain the object of its attack, primarily to send certain messages to the rest of the Guyanese populace, while satisfying some of the PPP/C’s basic political objectives.
No one will be fooled as to who were the organizers behind the spontaneous, insensitive, action taken, by those calling themselves Mothers Organized against Molestation (MOM), in front of CNS Channel 6, on Monday night. Guyanese are aware that this is how the PPP/C reacts to issues when they are made to answer to the Guyanese people. We have witnessed many of these swiftly organized groups of paid protestors, who very often confess that senior actors out of the Office of the President organize and pay them to engage in these activities.
In a report carried by Guyana Chronicle, dated 10/11/11, it was stated that the group of mothers were protesting against CN Sharma, for his child molestation allegations. What a coincidence?
Why now? We all are aware that this Sharma matter is currently receiving the attention of the courts, so why this sudden action?
This is all the work of the PPP/C. It is unconscionable, insensitive, and wicked. The orchestrators are, in my view, attempting to do two things; Firstly, to create an ideal condition for serious political confrontation, where citizens are pitted against each other, in an effort to create some level of chaos, in order to disrupt the holding of free and fair elections.
Secondly, I see this move by the government, as an act of driving fear in citizens to keep them in check, particularly during this election period. I say none of these will benefit the nation, and I am shocked that some women are continuing to allow themselves to be used.
As a former Commissioner of the Rights of the Child Commission, I denounce anyone who commits sexual and other unjust acts against children. I denounce you whether, you own TV Stations, labour in the fields, serve as government ministers or work out of the Office of the President. I say all should be brought to face the full extent of the law.
As a woman, I am ashamed and appalled that in this age of modernity, some women are prepared to allow themselves to be used in this simple-minded and disgraceful fashion. I believe that those women who stood with the placards hiding their faces are genuinely ashamed.
Allegations of child molestation are serious issues that should not be used as a political football by anyone. So why are you ashamed to associate your face with this issue you are protesting? Are you serious? Those hiding their faces know their action was wrong, they know that the focus and timing were wrong, they know that they were only demeaning their families and children when they engaged in these questionable acts, for just a few dollars more. I therefore, call on all of you to rise to the occasion and demonstrate that you are capable of doing critical thinking.
The men who paid you to go in front of Sharma’s business to make yourselves idiots and attract insults, couldn’t care less that you were endangering you own selves by acting as agent provocateurs, planted to instigate fights and quarrels. I have been involved in many protest actions, when many of our teenagers and young adults were turning up dead almost daily. I never saw those MOM protestors on those occasions. These women should have been protesting the suppression of free speech in Guyana.
I call on all legitimate women’s organizations to reach out to these MOM and assist them to develop that preferred level of self-esteem that seems to be so lacking among them.
At a time when women are making their marks all over the world, they are being used to project us as a gullible bunch who cannot think for ourselves, who can be used for a few dollars. I empathize with this group of women and wish that they would never find themselves in this sorry position again.
Women account for a significant portion of the electorate, and I am confident that we will work to ensure that, as a voting bloc, we lead the way in ensuring that the politics of fear and intimidation is removed from Guyana. Let us lead the way to ensure that we vote for a government that does not take us for granted, in the way the PPP/C has taken MOM for granted. Let us vote for a government that respects us, women, and recognize our worth.
I therefore urge you to vote APNU, which spoke definitively on the important role women ought to play in the development of our country. I call on the women of MOM to recognize their worth and join the rest of us as we chart a new course for women’s liberation in Guyana. No woman will be left behind, under the APNU.
This recent action by MOM should reignite every women’s organization in Guyana to intensify their efforts to ensure that women in our society are liberated and respected.
Lurlene Nestor
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