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Aug 18, 2014 Letters
Dear Editor,
I must confess to not being a regular reader of your column ‘Peeping Tom’. The subject of your August 17, 2014 article, as well as its opening paragraph, however, arrested my attention. Thanks to your paper and its publisher Glen Lall, the Guyanese public is now enlightened to yet another example of industrial scale corruption.
In this case a foreign owned company Bai Shan Lin is plundering our prime forest resources with very little benefit accruing to the country in return. It seems as if it is only a few persons who are benefitting from this rape by invitation. At current rates of harvesting, these valuable resources -prime tropical hardwoods- will soon be gone and the country will have little to show in return. A few individuals, however, must be laughing all the way to the bank.
As said though, I was captured by the opening paragraph which says that while the Kaieteur News publisher loves the President, he loves Guyana more. It reminded me of some words of Teddy Roosevelt, widely considered as one of America‘s great Presidents.
The man who is widely credited as coining the phrase to ‘speak softly but wield a big stick’ said the following: “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country.
It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country.” By this metrerule, Glen places himself squarely in the category of patriots. This is what Guyana badly needs now to arrest our descent into The Kleptocratic Republic of Guyana.
Ronald Bulkan
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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