As Obama Comes To Town Lets Ponder This.…

After 34 years of ser­vice to the Jamaica Constabulary Force Owen Ellington attend­ed an impromp­tu meet­ing at Kings House, at the time of the meet­ing it was report­ed that Portia Simpson Miller, the nation’s Prime Minister was on a flight out of the country.
Peter Bunting the coun­try’s nation­al secu­ri­ty min­is­ter announced then that he was advised by Ellington that he was step­ping down from his post and would pro­ceed on leave July 1^st 2014, after which he would for­mal­ly depart the Department.

The nation was nev­er for­mal­ly told the real rea­son why the pub­lic ser­vant of 34 years sud­den­ly stepped down.

Ellington was a fan of the elites of upper St. Andrew.
He was seen as a reformer who had fired unprece­dent­ed amounts of offi­cers from the depart­ment who were alleged to have con­tra­vened the depart­men­t’s rules or were active­ly involved in crimes.
Ellington also took the con­tro­ver­sial step of mak­ing the depart­men­t’s week­ly pub­li­ca­tion (the force orders) a pub­lic document.
This pub­li­ca­tion was out­raged when Ellington took that step, we felt then and still believe now, that a pri­vate inter­nal memo which cat­a­logs per­son­nel and oth­er depart­ment pro­to­cols has no busi­ness in the hands of mem­bers of the pub­lic, unless through a court order for spe­cial circumstances.

Ellington was hired as police com­mis­sion­er under the Jamaica Labor Party Administration of Bruce Golding.
He was respon­si­ble as police chief, for rout­ing Christopher (Dudus) Coke from his strong-hold in 2010, dur­ing which an esti­mat­ed 73 peo­ple lost their lives.
Police Officers and mem­bers of the mil­i­tary were wound­ed and killed, police sta­tions were torched, oth­ers took sus­tained gun­fire from heav­i­ly armed mercenaries.
Despite Ellington’s attempts at reform and house clean­ing of the force, there were forces at work in Jamaica which were paint­ing a dif­fer­ent pic­ture of events.
This includ­ed the Jamaican’s for Justice,(JFJ), Families against state ter­ror­ism (FAST) , the Peace Management Initiative,(PMI) , (INDECOM) and others.
Some of these groups became pro­fes­sion­al agi­ta­tors against the crime fight­ing efforts of the police.
The head of Jamaicans for Justice Carolyn Gomes, rode to fame on the backs of police, cop­ping a nation­al hon­or in the process, pos­ing as a cham­pi­on for social justice.[sic]

Gomes and oth­ers fed infor­ma­tion to their han­dlers in Washington DC , London, and Ottowa that there was mas­sive ille­gal killings by the JCF.
They cre­at­ed fic­ti­tious death squads and cre­at­ed the impres­sion that the mem­bers of the JCF were a bunch of mur­der­ing lunatics.
In many cas­es their reports were void of data sup­port­ive of their claims of ram­pant extra-judi­cial killing by police.
In oth­er instances their reports used data already cred­i­bly debunked.
Their one-sided reports did not take into account the num­ber of offi­cers killed or wound­ed in encoun­ters where lethal force was employed by police.
Neither did those reports take into account the bru­tal­i­ty and deprav­i­ty of the coun­try’s criminals.
This does not mean that there were not police offi­cers who were engaged in crim­i­nal actions. or were in fact guilty of extra-judi­cial killings.
The notion that he entire JCF was an out of con­trol killer orga­ni­za­tion was far from the truth.
Unfortunately for hard work­ing mem­bers of the depart­ment they had no one in their cor­ner despite their sac­ri­fices, not even Owen Ellington.

Charges of mas­sive extra-judi­cial killings, death squads and the Tivoli events of 2010 are rumored to be the events which cause Ellington to sud­den­ly step aside.
At the time Ellington stepped aside he indi­cat­ed that his deci­sion to retire was based on the need to sep­a­rate him­self from the lead­er­ship and man­age­ment of the Force pri­or to the begin­ning of the immi­nent Commission of Enquiry into the con­duct of the Operations of the Security Forces in Western Kingston and oth­er areas dur­ing the lim­it­ed State of Emergency in 2010.

A June 13.2013 New York Times Article report­ed on the American Federal Law which affects coun­tries with which the United States have bilat­er­al secu­ri­ty arrangements.
The 16-year-old law that bars American aid to for­eign secu­ri­ty forces that vio­late human rights is draw­ing unusu­al fire from some top mil­i­tary com­man­ders who say it under­mines their abil­i­ty to train the troops to fight mil­i­tants and drug traffickers.
The com­plaints about the law’s require­ments come from sev­er­al rank­ing admi­rals and gen­er­als, includ­ing Adm. William H. McRaven, a mem­ber of the Navy SEALs who led the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and who now heads the Special Operations Command, as well as senior com­man­ders who over­see oper­a­tions in Africa and in Latin America.
At issue is the so-called Leahy amend­ment, a 1997 pro­vi­sion to a for­eign aid bill named after its author, Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, which bars the United States from pro­vid­ing train­ing or equip­ment to for­eign troops or units who com­mit “gross human rights vio­la­tions” like rape, mur­der or torture.

The revised law empha­sizes that the United States must sus­pend aid to an entire unit even if only one or two mem­bers are impli­cat­ed in human rights vio­la­tions. Assistance to the unit is sus­pend­ed while the alle­ga­tion is inves­ti­gat­ed. Aid can­not be restored until the home coun­try deals with the cul­prits, a process that can take weeks or months, if it hap­pens at all, crit­ics say.
Assistance to some Jamaican secu­ri­ty forces, for exam­ple, has been sus­pend­ed while the State Department exam­ines human rights alle­ga­tions stem­ming from an oper­a­tion in 2010 to arrest the drug lord Christopher Coke, whom the United States had request­ed for extradition.
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The United States was instru­men­tal in the Christopher Coke issue.
They demand­ed that Coke be extra­dit­ed after then Prime Minister Bruce Golding said he would not have Gays in his cabinet.
The Americans knew full well that Golding was the mem­ber of par­lia­ment from Tivoli gardens.
They also knew that extra­dit­ing Christopher Coke was a lose, lose for Golding.
It did not mat­ter, they want­ed Golding gone, and gone he was.
They want­ed a pup­pet in office, they have one.

Today Barack Obama is in Jamaica. Jamaicans at home and abroad are ecsta­t­ic about Obama’s visit.
As Obama vis­its places and Sites in Jamaica , includ­ing the Bob Marley Museum, Jamaica’s eupho­ria is gross­ly misplaced.
Because of America’s manip­u­la­tion there is more crime in Jamaica than ever before.
More Jamaicans have been deport­ed from the United States than any oth­er nation in this Hemisphere.
In many cas­es the Jamaicans deport­ed were crim­i­nal­ized for minor infrac­tions like sell­ing a few mar­i­jua­na cig­ars or for Domestic infractions.
On the streets of America, cops killed hun­dreds of peo­ple all across the nation, usu­al­ly under ques­tion­able circumstances.
There isn’t even uni­formed report­ing or cat­a­loging of those killed by police.
The vic­tims are more often than not ‚unarmed black men killed by white police officers.
Most of the abus­es and mur­der offi­cers com­mit are brushed aside. Cops basi­cal­ly kill at will,the sto­ry is usu­al­ly the same “I feared for my life”.

But none of that mat­ter, police depart­ments receive more and more equip­ment more and more aid, despite their record of abuse and mur­der of minor­i­ty groups in America.
So what will Jamaica derive from Obama visit?
Obama’s vis­it is the first of an American pres­i­dent to the coun­try since Reagan did in 1982.
Has human rights abus­es ceased in Jamaica, which would neces­si­tate a pres­i­den­tial visit?
Human rights abus­es are more ram­pant in the United States that at any oth­er time.

So the whole premise of the Leahy amend­ment is a self serv­ing talk down to small­er poor­er nations.
Portia Simpson Miller will have these images of her­self and Obama.
She will use them as val­i­da­tion for the failed poli­cies of her cor­rupt klep­to­ma­ni­ac administration.
She will say it means her par­ty is on the right track.
She will say Obama’s vis­it is val­i­da­tion of the course she is on and vin­di­ca­tion of her personally.
In fact , Obama’s vis­it is noth­ing more than pay-back to Portia for not being Bruce Golding on the gay issue.