Some candidates for a whipping

THE EDITOR: Here are some other candidates for “licks” in the New School Of Learning And Behaviour Modification:
1. Members of Parliament boorish enough to put their feet up on the tables, and those lazy enough to fall asleep during sittings.
2. Members of Parliament who are disrespectful to the Chair, because they did not learn parliamentary procedure.
3. Lawyers with cell-phones that go off in court.
4. Lawyers who get postponement after postponement, wasting their client’s and the court’s money because they are not ready.
5. Doctors who are late for the public hospitals and refer clients so encountered to their private clinics.
6. Doctors who misdiagnose client’s illnesses.
7. Business owners who overcharge and whose return policy stinks.
8. Public Servants who are rude and who do not give a full day’s work for a full day’s pay.
9. Garbage droppers who think the street is a dustbin.
10. Drivers who use their cell-phones while driving.
11. Drivers who drive rudely, dangerously and whose music threaten to deafen.
12. Policemen who think they are a law unto themselves.
13. Citizens who pay their public utilities bills late.
14. All protesters who block streets, burn tyres and contribute to disorder.
Since we already whip criminals in some cases and execute others and we want licks back in the schools, obviously yesterday’s wayward children did not get sufficient of this salutary form of social control. So, let’s line them up and whip their butts. That’ll teach ’em! Let the teenage boys in Laventille and the beach idlers all over the island, the hangers on and never-do-wells do the whipping. We will have full employment then.

LINDA EDWARDS
Laventille