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The question has been raised many time and moreso recently with  Shaitaan's temporary absence of leave.

 

Are public figures subject to scrutiny and characterizations that are insultive considered off-limits while personal attacks on posters considered fair game?

 

Whatever the answer to the question, there have been instances where public insults and ridicule (race and gender) like those on the US President and homophobic remarks and cartoons on Guyanese politicians including its President, while private ridicule and cartoonish attacks were left untouched. There have been instance of the reverse - like the recent comments on Guyana's Education Minister and some personal attacks against some posters here. What's consistent is the use of pornography, but the lines are blurred when it comes to sexual and racial attacks.

 

Let's hear from y'all.

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Originally Posted by Nehru:

Real men dont attack women. The Honorable Minister is not a memberof GNI and therefore cannot defend herself so it seems  some people(Men or otherwise) feel empowered when they insult defenseless women.

Real men do not support, love, promote or defend @untymen.

 

The Dis-Honorable Thug & PPP Black Hindu Pundit

is here as Councie to defend herself.....

but Pundit Nehru always defending Pundit Kwame.

 

And according to Pundit Nehru.....

it is written in de good book

(maybe in de Exercise Book)

Pundit Kwame do no wrong.

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So these Pundits have nothing to Complain About.

 

Real Pundits have nothing to be ashamed of.

FM
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Originally Posted by Nehru:

Real men dont attack women. The Honorable Minister is not a memberof GNI and therefore cannot defend herself so it seems  some people(Men or otherwise) feel empowered when they insult defenseless women.

She is no honorable minista. She is fat. She is a loud mouth and can be very feral. She ignores the rapes of the young girls. She denies that there is human trafficking of young girls when so much news of the young Amerinds are being taken advantage of by the Chinese. What has she done with the Sexual Offences ACT? Is it still sitting on Ramotar's desk?

Mitwah
Originally Posted by Chief:

Kari,

Living in America has taught me that almost any and everything is allowed to be printed. Attorneys who specializes in free speech normally advise to fight fire with fire. Having said  that, private forums like this do have moderators.

And yet people get killed for printing a cartoon

FM
Originally Posted by Anan:
Originally Posted by Chief:

Kari,

Living in America has taught me that almost any and everything is allowed to be printed. Attorneys who specializes in free speech normally advise to fight fire with fire. Having said  that, private forums like this do have moderators.

And yet people get killed for printing a cartoon

Anan I respect your responses  and in regards to people getting killed for cartoons I find that disgusting. However try shouting fire in a crowded theater, you will be in jail.

Chief
Originally Posted by Chief:
Originally Posted by Anan:
Originally Posted by Chief:

Kari,

Living in America has taught me that almost any and everything is allowed to be printed. Attorneys who specializes in free speech normally advise to fight fire with fire. Having said  that, private forums like this do have moderators.

And yet people get killed for printing a cartoon

Anan I respect your responses  and in regards to people getting killed for cartoons I find that disgusting. However try shouting fire in a crowded theater, you will be in jail.

Bingo!!!

 

Anan it is not an insurmountable exercise to make the leap from "Freedom" to "Responsible". You are free to shout "Fire" in a crowded place as Chief says, but you might end up in jail. How many more killling have to be done by insane people before you stop proving their insanity? It has nothing t do with religion.

Kari
Originally Posted by Anan:

Homophobic Misogynist frenzy. 

An acceptable GNI feature.... 

 

I agree with freeze if the above is a response to what was being protested. Jalil is on his own since I took the time to caution him on his obsession with Kwame.I do not care Kwame is a gay but that he may be a pedophile. But that again is another story. Also, 99 percent of Guyanese have a problem with homosexuals. Edgehill is on record claiming it is an evil

 

The protest is against Mrs Manickchand waxing poetically about the PPP platform including a woman as if it represents the epitome of PPP concern for women. Well that is a lie. Under the PPP's watch we see the highest rate of murder of women via domestic violence, rapes and other heinous crimes against women with little response. This woman's office did not create one PSA on    rapes gone epidemic etc. She did not comment once on the lack of rape kits in our police stations  or the lack of a special crimes unit to address this problem.

 

Did we hear anything from her when the Amerindian woman was brutalized on video by our police. That police is still on the job! Did we hear from her with the promotion of the policemen that burned the genitals of the child who were promotedlast week? The head of the police said "life goes on"!

 

Who was it that denied we had a high rate of trafficking in sex workers especially Amerind girls? That bench warmer. Who was so incensed that she rattled of "let the white people take care of their own problems? That lazy sloppy woman. She even said the presidents lying  to the nation for years that he had a wife and brutalization of said  fake wife was a personal matter. Yet there she is celebrating the PPP and their nomination of a women VP with special emphasis ridiculing Granger as wishing he could!

 

You have the nerve to come here and tell us about misogyny! What  happened to the Amerind kids who complained the were abused by China trading? They shuttled them away into the interior. No; this regime does not care about our women and children and so Farouk in disgust  and lampooned her prating this morning she deserved it. She is a lazy, loudmouthed woman who takes more credit for her successes than her failures would allow.

 

The PPP failed our women and our children. Only last week we had the police trying to negotiate away the rape of a 14 year old by the son of a high official.  They did not let a magistrate conclude her business with the VP son. He was convicted of brutalizing another. I wonder what the woman in PA is thinking when the Wife of Said VP used her diplomatic privileges to abscond with her son. Do you not think she need the feel and appreciate a connection to her child? Another mister's son,  Benn, a serial brutalize of women is still to come to trial. He beat the hell out of his pregnant girlfriend and yet walk the streets. Do you know that is standard practice? Do you know that no rapist has been convicted in the past 3 years?

 

When you get off your ass and tell me that you are concerned about these people them come back here and explain from whence you leveraged the label Misogynist.

FM
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If one has a thin skin one shouldn't enter politics.  The notion that some one should be banned for making comments about a public figure is absurd.

 

If this was about one GNI person making comments of another (some posters like Kari are public and others who are anonymous are known to others), then this is a different story. 

 

NONE of us, even those are aren't anonymous, are public figures and so our rights to privacy ought be protected.  Ditto for well known personalities who aren't public.  I am sorry politicians, and well known journalists, don't have that protection, though of course their family members do.

 

But then this is a PPP dominated site.  All sorts of comments are made about Nagamootoo and Granger, and I am yet to see any one being banned. When some at Freedom House read GNI, then put pressure on the moderators to delete, ban, and erase.  I will add, especially when the poster is an Indian, because they then cannot tar and feather him with the "PNC" epithet.

FM
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Originally Posted by Anan:

Ahhhh....guess u believe in killing for peace.

 

then again you said that a sakawinki is a burd.

what an insult and blatant disrespect to an exotic species! 

I said your mama made a son who lies his ass off. I know what I said. I am Amerind. I know most of the animals before I could walk.  The insult here is you believe lying to yourself will make it right.

FM
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