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R2P Reduces Adults to Children

Tuesday, 04 August 2009

By Duane Edwards
Dear Editor
I was reading with interest your editorial dated, 4th August, 2009. And it seems as if there is a tacit agreement by the government and all sections of society, viz. Court, police, political parties, academic community, media, church, etc to keep the people in bondage. All these institutions are apparently protective of the status quo. They seem to want only cosmetic changes, superficial reformation, but no real change, no revolution.
R2P, as it relates to the state protecting the people, is not a new doctrine. Wherever they was a state, they were also always the doctrine of the state's responsibility to protect its people. That doctrine was alive since the days of Patriarchy. In a Patriarchy, the father, being the absolute authority, knew that it was his responsibility to protect his family. But when the children grow into adulthood, they slowly and gradually assume the responsbility to govern and protect themselves. The people seems to be the only organism that is not evolving and developing into adulthood with the ability to protect itself. It seems to be locked eternally into a matrix of childishness and dilettantism, hence the need for protection by some external organisation and institution.

R2P totally strikes out any thought of the people solving their own problems, it must either be the national state or the international state.
We must be bold enough to let the people know that the state and its appendages are no longer necessary evils, they have become unnecessary inconveniences. They are restricting and restraining the growth of the people. Everywhere there is a state, there are discrimination, marginalisation, repression, oppression, exploitation, torture, harassments, murder and a whole string of anti-social and anti-human acts. Whenever these acts are not carried out in their brutal and gruesome forms as in Guyana, they are carried out with a cover of finesse as in America.
The people need the total disbandment of the government which would be replaced by a mere administration. We do no need a government because to be governed according to Proudhon is "to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality."

We also need a disbandment of the Guyana Police Force and give the policing responsibilities to communities and villages. No community of people will watch helplessly while a policing group they are controlling are torturing their people, the people of the community.

We need a total revamping of parliament and get rid of those toothless, ineffective, insipid opposition parties who are being paid to do nothing. Parliament should be filled by recallable delegates who have been put there by the people with a specific mandate for each sitting of parliament. Cabinet members in the new administration should not be chosen by the President who alone, if we do need one, would be elected by universal adult suffrage. Ministers should be elected by workers association, therefore not answerable to nor subject to the President but to the workers association which elected them and which at anytime could recall them. So there is less if any temptation to conspire to betray the people.

Just as there is freedom of conscience and people are free to accept or reject religion, and just as there is this facade of market freedom, we also need political freedom.
Down with Government, Police Force and Opposition Parties all are swindlers and oppressors of the people.

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