Dear Editor,
Guyana’s newest season of madness is at hand. How long will the brightest minds among us be silent? The noble aspirations of a maturing democracy are being sacrificed on the altar of less-than-subtle anti-Christian political positions and gay militancy!
Guyana’s Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee, is unenvied in this mission. It must be no joy to find yourself catapulted to the dizzying heights of de-facto point-man for the effort.
Gay militancy has in the past launched an unprecedented attack on black artistes visiting Guyana, the clear message being that their opposition to homosexual criminality and deathstyle (see Regent University’s law review ‘Child Molestation and the Homosexual Movement’) is to be silenced. This has usually meant that artistic licence has to be silenced, and Rohee has just accommodated that endeavour. The lesson of Stephanie Phillips’ column, ‘How Britain is turning Christianity into Crime’ in the Daily Mail (2006) is ignored. And Ted Byfield’s account of Canadian Richard Kempling’s trial by terror in the name of human rights (‘Only a few Defended the Teacher,’ Edmonton Sun (2003)) in of all places Canada falls on deaf ears. The story of Buju Banton (‘Boom Bye Bye’s inconvenient truth Part 2’) is a local illustration of the technique.
Minister of Social Services Priya Manickchand in her otherwise noble effort at the ‘Stamp It Out’ campaign against domestic and sexual violence, refuses to acknowledge the role that homosexuality, prostitution and pornography play in the violence against women and children. The ministry considers these fundamental issues “too complex,” and apparently ignores the evidence of the vulnerability of Guyanese children at two local schools in the online article ‘An initial assessment of the Stamp It Out consultation.’
Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) is forced off Guyanese television after six socially positive years of broadcasting to Guyanese, and its rival Daystar follows a similar fate a few months after. Paradoxically, the Inter Religious Organization makes no comment denouncing the move, apparently accommodates and approves the most riotous music in its stead being played at this hour on STVS 21/72, and a querulous IRO-Chairman at a meeting called at Red House claims “not to see the relevance of an IRO statement for the reinstatement of TBN.” In the meantime, the same person is appointed to the executive of an “Inter Religious TV Channel,” following a “Presidential” direction. This is folly and recklessness inhabiting the same space.
Now Movado is accused of being a “security threat” for absolutely no reason, much as the church was in 2006, and Bounty Killer is vilified in the by now very pro-gay inserts and letter-licences in, of all newspapers, the Stabroek News. Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee on April 29 announces that “Bounty Killer is banned from the jurisdiction.” He offers no formal written statement for us to dissect, but leaves the justification for the obvious sabotage of Bounty Killer’s Ignition Concert is in no other place than the staff writers of Stabroek News, who unwittingly intertwine gay militant explanations with the unfortunate events of a night of sabotage amid lax security. They even manage to include the troubled black village of Buxton in the concoction, blaming it on Bounty Killer even after we know it was the local DJs that mouthed those unfortunate words
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Astonishingly, there is no public reprimand for the police who fired shots into the air to make an already bad situation worse. No attempt was apparently made to arrest the bottle-throwers who were venting at the malfunctioning audio set.
The Stabroek News ‘The Scene’ article of April 26 then relegates the press release by the promoters correcting the obvious inaccuracies in their previous report to pages 6C and 8C, while its derogation of Bounty Killer gets Page 2C bold-face billing and cartoon. Is this the new direction of Stabroek News?
And 56% of the population still doesn’t get it! And the brightest and best in our country continue to say nothing!
And it’s all being done in the name of gay militancy! And Minister Rohee offers himself up as chief facilitator to the feeding frenzy that will now follow.
The Minister’s was an incredible (but by now familiar) over-reaction that pandered to the sentiments of the gay lobby. They will now claim to own his actions.
And you will find no local newspaper editorial, or ‘The Scene’ article, advocating the online law review ‘Child Molestation and the Homosexual Movement,’ or advocating that it is child molestation, paedophilia and pornography that need to be banned in Guyana. Is it significant that the Home Affairs Minister does not list any of these as the crimes against that Guyanese people that he is working on. Now gay militancy leads worldwide efforts in this regard.
Bounty Killer and Movado were just easy targets for the Home Affairs Minister, much as the church was in 2007. It could yet backfire on the government!
Yours faithfully,
Roger Williams
