Enough With The Support For Criminals:

On May 10^th the Spanish Town Police Station came under attack from ter­ror ele­ments with­in the soci­ety. This was not the first time that we have seen this occur­rence, con­verse­ly this has become a trend , as it is in Mexico, and oth­er near and failed states .As a mat­ter of fact there is not even the bat­ting of an eye when Police Stations are attacked and burned to the ground in Jamaica, these are the fruits of the seeds sown over three decades ‚when some in the media told peo­ple to throw stones on Police Stations to sat­is­fy their dis­con­tent. The stone throw­ers have grad­u­at­ed to AK-47 Rifles.

The Police report­ed that the Klansman Criminal Enterprise is rak­ing in just under half a Billion Dollars annu­al­ly. Through extor­tion and Murder for hire, this esti­mate may be under­stat­ed, con­sid­er­ing the stran­gle hold this ter­ror Organization has on the Parish of St Catherine and Clarendon.

As is evi­denced they have no respect for the rule of law and are hell-bent that if the Police dare chal­lenge them they are pre­pared to declare war on the secu­ri­ty Services.This Gang is affil­i­at­ed with the Opposition People’s National Party . The oppo­si­tion Party in Jamaica that have been notice­able absent from the defense of the Jamaican peo­ple, when­ev­er they are required to stand with Jamaica and those who defend her. The have time and again cho­sen polit­i­cal expe­di­en­cy, pop­ulism and cheap pan­der­ing to the base instincts of the poor­er class.

That act of betray­al was just one in a long line orches­trat­ed by the PNP .On Friday the 22^nd of July 2011 the People’s National Party mem­bers in the Senate vot­ed en mass, with the bless­ings of its nation­al exec­u­tive coun­cil , against the Government’s renew­al of the Constabulary Force (Interim Provisions for Arrest and Detention) Act, 2010. a

The Government, on Friday, used its major­i­ty in the Senate to give law-enforce­ment offi­cials the right to con­tin­ue detain­ing crim­i­nal sus­pects for up to 72 hours with­out charge The par­ty notes that the con­sti­tu­tion­al court, in its land­mark deci­sion hand­ed down on July 15, 2011 in the Nation and Wrightcase, has stat­ed that 24 hours was Parliament’s indi­ca­tion of the peri­od which does not vio­late the require­ment, in the for­mer chap­ter III of the Constitution, for a detained per­son to be brought before the court with­out delay,” said a release from the PNP.The par­ty said the equiv­a­lent pro­vi­sion in the Constitution’s new Charter of Rights requires detained per­sons to be brought before the court forth­with, or as soon as is rea­son­ably prac​ti​ca​ble​.In light of the rea­son­ing of the court in the Nation and Wright case, the par­ty con­sid­ers it like­ly that the pow­er for deten­tion for up to 72 hours with­out con­sid­er­a­tion of bail is incom­pat­i­ble with the Charter of Rights, and can­not with­stand judi­cial scrutiny.Meanwhile, National Security Minister Senator Dwight Nelson, who is also the leader of gov­ern­ment busi­ness in the Upper House, jus­ti­fied the leg­is­la­tion as he argued that the secu­ri­ty forces must be empow­ered with the sup­port of the law to help reduce the scourge of criminality.Making ref­er­ence to the behead­ing of three peo­ple in two inci­dents in Lauriston, St Catherine, Nelson told the Upper House last Friday that the exten­sion of the inter­im pro­vi­sion was warranted.According to Nelson, it is a key piece of leg­isla­tive pro­vi­sion that has strength­ened the crime fight­ing capa­bil­i­ties of the Jamaica Constabulary Force and its auxiliaries.While point­ing to the reduc­tion of mur­ders, since the start of this year, Nelson said over the one-year peri­od when the law was in effect, the police arrest­ed more persons.He not­ed a sig­nif­i­cant reduc­tion in mur­ders in the five his­tor­i­cal­ly trou­bled police divi­sions, and said the leg­is­la­tion had a direct impact on this development.Nelson crit­i­cised the Opposition, which on Tuesday, dur­ing the sit­ting of the House of Representatives, reject­ed the motion to extend the crime measure.Opposition Spokesman on National Security Peter Bunting said the leg­is­la­tion was not the rea­son for the reduc­tion in crime.The Opposition has also ques­tioned the legal­i­ty of the legislation.But Nelson said the deten­tion of a sus­pect with­out charge for up to 72 hours is con­sti­tu­tion­al, based on the advice of the attor­ney gen­er­al, who received advice from the solic­i­tor general.He cried shame on those who did not sup­port the exten­sion, say­ing it was tan­ta­mount to not sup­port­ing the secu­ri­ty offi­cials, many of whom “paid the ulti­mate price,” in crime fight­ing.(Jamaica glean­er July 26^th 2011)

This leads us to ask some per­ti­nent questions.(1) why is the PNP silent on the behead­ings being car­ried out by its affil­i­ate The klans man gang oper­at­ing out of St. Catherine and Clarendon.?(2) The PNP must state pub­licly why it choos­es to sup­port ter­ror­ists over law enforce­ment offi­cers and the rule of law. (3) Of the esti­mat­ed half a bil­lion dol­lars the gang rakes in from its ille­gal activ­i­ties , what per­cent­age if any, goes into fund­ing can­di­dates for the PNP’s elec­toral machinery.

The PNP argued that Jamaica’s secu­ri­ty forces, who sac­ri­fice at the per­il of their lives could poten­tial­ly abuse cit­i­zens rights if they were allowed a lit­tle more time ‚to solid­i­fy the gains they made after rout­ing Christopher Coke’s mili­tia from his Tivoli redoubt. Jamaica’s peo­ple’s nation­al par­ty refused to sup­port the work of the coun­try’s hard-work­ing men and women in uni­form ‚en mass as a par­ty, by default throw­ing its sup­port behind Jamaica’s ter­ror­ists net­works. That action to my mind was the great­est act of betray­al and un Jamaican activ­i­ty I have ever seen in my lifetime.

This must be a les­son to the Officers that pro­vide secu­ri­ty to mem­bers of the PNP in what­ev­er capac­i­ty. Understand this, they do not care about you , they do not care if you live or die,.They care more about the maraud­ing despots ram­pag­ing through­out the parish­es of Clarendon and St Catherine behead­ing peo­ple. You must do your duty as a Police Officer and noth­ing more , and remem­ber self-preser­va­tion ought to be para­mount to you. The peo­ple for whom you risk your lives, do not respect you enough to vote to give you a leg up on the mon­sters that seek to destroy you. I know some of you are easy and licky licky, I implore you not to allow your bel­lies to dic­tate where com­mon sense ought to lead, most of you are at least bright enough to get the job , use your intel­lect to fig­ure out what’s going on .This Party is a crim­i­nal sup­port­ing par­ty , as police offi­cers you must under­stand what is hap­pen­ing around you ‚.It is called local knowl­edge. The inci­dents of the pnp ‘s sup­port for anar­chy are well doc­u­ment­ed , I per­son­al­ly have no vendet­ta against them I am a patri­ot , and as a patri­ot I must stand against those whose actions are reck­less, and destruc­tive against Jamaica.

I sup­port nei­ther par­ty , I sup­port the rule of law and those tasked with enforce­ment of said laws, I will not flinch to seek to edu­cate peo­ple on the lies and dis­tor­tions that are being per­pet­u­at­ed on their behalf by those they trust and elect to pro­tect them.a Government’s first respon­si­bil­i­ty to its’ peo­ple, is to pro­tect them. That begins with the fun­da­men­tal and uni­ver­sal right to life, There is no need for civ­il rights if you are dead.The ter­ror tac­tics of Jamaica’s under­world. The same klans man gang has start­ed what appear to any trained intel­li­gent per­son, to be a com­mu­ni­cat­ed trend .This trend is the grue­some act of decap­i­tat­ing their vic­tims. As I have stat­ed in anoth­er post, the rea­son could be three-fold.(1) To dri­ve fear,(2) to send a mes­sage, or (3) they are run­ning low on bullets.

Here is more proof of the won­der­ful work Jamaican Law mak­ers are doing fur­ther pro­tect­ing the rights of criminals.The Charter of Rights, unan­i­mous­ly passed in Parliament recent­ly, states that: Any per­son who is arrest­ed or detained shall be enti­tled to be tried with­in a rea­son­able time and (a) shall be (i) brought forth­with or as soon as is rea­son­ably prac­ti­ca­ble before an offi­cer autho­rised by law, or a court; and (ii) released either uncon­di­tion­al­ly or upon rea­son­able con­di­tions to secure his atten­dance at the tri­al or at any oth­er stage of the pro­ceed­ings; or (b) if he is not released as men­tioned in para­graph (a)(ii), shall be prompt­ly brought before a court which may there­upon release him.(Jamaica glean­er)(Daily Gleaner July 26 ) THE GAVEL :cap­tioned :unfair and unjust.In the quest to appre­hend and pun­ish crim­i­nals, the State ought not to legit­imise breach­ing the con­sti­tu­tion. We have always felt and we remain even more con­vinced that leg­is­la­tion such as the one renewed in Parliament last week, is counter-pro­duc­tive and will result in noth­ing more than the abuse of human rights by the police.(Jamaica dai­ly gleaner).

I am inform­ing the world that 20 per­sons have been mur­dered in Jamaica since the start of this week.

Some of them decap­i­tat­ed. While the entire lead­er­ship of this once beau­ti­ful coun­try ‚to include the entire oppo­si­tion par­ty, speak­er of the house, pub­lic defend­er NGO’s that receive mon­ey from abroad, the lazy unpro­fes­sion­al media , church, all band togeth­er to make sure the rights of crim­i­nals are not vio​lat​ed​.It is about time that the world is made aware that the entire cam­paign of’ (Jamaica no prob­lem ) is a fraud­u­lent façade , con­ceal­ing a dirty under­bel­ly of crim­i­nal­i­ty that per­me­ates the entire fault line of the Jamaican society.Visitors must under­stand they are not safe , the Police are hin­dered from doing their jobs, the rule of law in Jamaica is a myth. Jamaica is ruled by pen­ny oli­garchs who col­lec­tive­ly main­tain the sta­tus quo through a uni­fied and com­pre­hen­sive sup­pres­sion of police actions , uti­liz­ing all organs avail­able ‚to demo­nize the secu­ri­ty forces. They active­ly encour­age out­side agi­ta­tors to come into Jamaica to look for what they char­ac­ter­ize as police excesses.

Many pow­er­ful fam­i­lies with­in the coun­try are involved in seri­ous crim­i­nal activ­i­ties. They are untouch­ables ‚as is evi­denced by Christopher Coke’s pow­er, con­nec­tions, and clout , the author­i­ties did noth­ing to put a stop to his crim­i­nal empire.There are many more like him oper­at­ing under the radar , and noth­ing is being done about them. It took the brave actions of a police offi­cer ‚work­ing in tan­dem with the Americans ‚and for­mer min­is­ter of nation­al secu­ri­ty Peter Phillips, to put a stop to Coke’s pres­i­den­cy. Phillips bucked the sys­tem and signed a mem­o­ran­dum of under­stand­ing with the Americans that allowed for crim­i­nals phones to be tapped .Phillips did not have the con­fi­dence in his par­ty ‚which was the par­ty in gov­ern­ment at the time, so he kept them in the dark.Not even the Prime Minister at the time, Portia Simpson Miller was in the loop about the memorandums.

This sup­ports my argu­ment about crim­i­nal sup­port by the People’s National Party​.It speaks vol­umes about Peter Phillips con­fi­dence in his Prime min­is­ter. The cab­i­net and the mem­bers of his own par­ty to sup­port the rule of law. Or worse, not to inform their crim­i­nal affil­i­ates that they were poten­tial­ly being lis­tened to by the Americans.

Christopher Coke did not rise to promi­nence under the JLP. The People’s National Party has approx­i­mate­ly six gar­risons for every one that is aligned to the Jamaica labor Party​.It was, and still is, no mys­tery why the People’s National Party can­not sup­port the police in their actions to uphold the laws. As I have stat­ed, a large part of the Jamaican pop­u­la­tion ben­e­fits in some way from crim­i­nal­i­ty, a recent cor­rup­tion assess­ment places Jamaica 87 on the cor­rup­tion index for 2010, up from 84 the pre­vi­ous year. But not a posi­tion we should be proud of .In the 2009 Corruption Perception Index Jamaica was ranked 99 out of 180 coun­tries, a dete­ri­o­ra­tion from the rat­ing in the pre­vi­ous year when the coun­try placed 84.

At every turn along the way we see the mem­bers of the Peoples’ National Party sid­ing with whomev­er has a grouse with the rule of law, This is unprece­dent­ed , even in Iraq and Afghanistan Politicians of all stripes argue for the rule of law, and give their sup­port to those tasked with uphold­ing it.

Jamaica’s Politicians are a unique bunch. This par­tic­u­lar trait of not giv­ing sup­port to the agen­cies of law enforce­ment, is not con­fined to the PNP but for all intents and pur­pos­es becomes ampli­fied based on their actions.

One would rea­son­ably con­clude that after being in Opposition they would get. One would assume they would have a clue. That no coun­try can progress or pros­per with­out the rule of law, estab­lished, and adhered to. Here’s Portia Simpson Miller in response to queries from an inter­view­er on (TVJ smile Jamaica june 3^rd 2011) what would you do as a mat­ter of pri­or­i­ty if you are elect­ed Prime Minister of Jamaica , what would you address as a pri­or­i­ty”? Simpson miller :I have sev­er­al pri­or­i­ties and hence the pro­gres­sive agen­da, that lays down the var­i­ous areas of concentration,certainly the growth and devel­ope­ment of the country,economic growth and developement,education , jobs,.….…

Interviewer jump­ing in , with a view to help­ing her focus, But those are kin­da broad, but what would you do to fix what you under­stand is a bro­ken econ­o­my.? There are a num­ber of areas that we … we can look on that will be able to cre­ate jobs , we look at what you men­tioned ear­li­er agri­cul­ture and the val­ue added, you notice every year it’s now man­go time, we eat what we can and the rest just fall on the ground and rot, .veg­eta­bles now when you see the farm­ers loos­ing their crops because they have no market,how is it we can get fac­to­ries into a num­ber of the parish­es, that will process all of these things , and so that we can con­sume what we can and then oth­ers the rest of the world will share with us ‚and I think agri­cul­ture is one in terms of agri­cul­ture and the val­ue added.And I think urban and rur­al devel­ope­ment will also be a focus apart from look­ing at the whole ques­tion of ener­gy , because I think that is crit­i­cal in the coun­try at this time, and look­ing at all the oth­er areas cer­tain­ly busi­ness­es, aahm small medi­um size , while not ignor­ing the big busi­ness­es, and con­tin­ue to give them sup­port, well we need to look at all those areas that will allow the econ­o­my to grow. We need to look seri­ous­ly at the devel­ope­ment and planned devel­ope­ment of Jamaica , both rur­al and urban, we tend to look at the towns and the cities and we ignore the rur­al areas,and the deep rur­al areas , and I think that’s why we have the migra­tion into .…so there are a num­ber of areas that are well doc­u­ment­ed in the pro­gres­sive agen­da , and there are a num­ber of per­sons that are look­ing at it and they are giv­ing us some crit­i­cal feed­back and sug­ges­tions that we are tak­ing on board so we can have the launch, and then to have wider con­sul­ta­tions , broad­er con­sul­ta­tions , and all of that.

Whew !!!!

Simpson Miller then jok­ing­ly chid­ed the mod­er­a­tor for giv­ing her too short a time.

Absent from the whole dis­joint­ed tor­tured ram­ble, was an under­stand­ing of what is the para­mount imped­i­ment to Jamaica’s eco­nom­ic prob­lems. crime and vio­lence has sti­fled and stunt­ed growth over the last four decades with the peri­od of the eight­ies being a respite in between​.How can some­one gear­ing up to once again take the reins of lead­er­ship of a coun­try , who does­n’t even under­stand the com­plex issues of the day, be expect­ed to come up with, and exe­cute a plan to address them?

The seri­ous and urgent issue of Jamaica’s ever esca­lat­ing crime prob­lem, did not even make the list of her pri­or­i­ties. During that whole inar­tic­u­late, inco­her­ent ram­ble, not one men­tion was made about the seri­ous issue of crime.If you can’t see it, how can you fix it.?

Our Country’s secu­ri­ty can no longer be a Political foot­ball, to be kicked around by the two polit­i­cal par­ties , for their own gain. It is now time for both to come togeth­er, and not only denounce ter­ror­ism and crime, but through the leg­isla­tive process make it bad busi­ness to be involved in the Crime business.

There is no short­age of big mon­ey Lawyers , who demand that ter­ror­ists tak­en off the streets , be charged or prompt­ly released. This leads to the con­clu­sion that there are peo­ple in high posi­tions that have no inter­est in see­ing the entrails of this mon­ster evis­cer­at­ed. I sug­gest that a sim­i­lar statute to the American Rico Statute be enact­ed that will effec­tive­ly remove this scourge,The time as come for those who iden­ti­fy with, are asso­ci­at­ed with, and are a part of Gangs, to be so linked and removed from society.This must be done despite the pre­dictable howls from Defense Lawyers , and crim­i­nal sup­port­ing groups like Jamaicans fo jus­tice ‚when crim­i­nals are removed from the streets. There are more than enough spe­cial inter­est groups with­in Jamaica that advo­cates for Criminals and their way of Life, I would like to take this oppor­tu­ni­ty to advo­cate for Jamaica and Jamaicans who want a decent law-abid­ing way of life.

mike beck­les:

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