We solve problems when all parties are willing to take introspective looks and see where they can be better. We will never solve pressing issues if parties go to their individual corners convinced about their own self-righteousness. Nowadays we can scarcely have substantive conversations about an issue if there is popular opinion supporting that particular issue. Popular support for an issue now make that issue right,right is a numbers game, and in Jamaica’s case, that posture becomes amplified a thousand-fold to the insane.
The comments by Minister Babsy Grange that [women should not provoke their men], speaking to the serious issue of Domestic violence, has drawn righteous indignation from the hyped up pseudo-intellectuals, who always seem to have their [drawers] in a bunch about everything. The Jamaican tradition is steeped in the [ad hominem] if the other guy does not agree with your point of view then naturally him [a ediat]. Because of course, they and they alone have a monopoly on what’s right.
Could minister Grange have been less inartful? Of course, she could have been! But that is hardly the point, the idea that everyone in the family needs to do their part is a net positive, not a negative. Challenging bullying abusive men not to beat the women in their lives does not negate the fact that women must also be challenged to lower the temperature as well.
Why is everything a zero-sum game, with only winners and losers? Some of the greatest and most indelible opinions are dissenting opinions which challenges conventional wisdom. I do not assume to speak for Minister Grange, nevertheless, speaking from my past professional perspective, and I say this without equivocation or fear of contradiction, that in many cases where there is domestic violence in a relationship women are the instigators. They become the victims because more often than not they come out the worse for it.
Even if we set aside the scenarios in which women start what they cannot finish, we would still be forced to deal with the unmitigated truth of women who are inherently violent. How many people have women, stabbed with ice-picks and knives, shot, disfigured with acid, and bludgeoned with whatever weapon they can get their hands on? The fact that we are outraged about weak, pathetic men who assault women should not blind our eyes to the abusive and dangerous women in our midst. Violence committed by women are less reported to authorities because men are generally ashamed to talk about domestic violence for fear of societal ridicule. Even in court their cases are not taken seriously and in many cases becomes the subject of ridicule and laughter by female judges.
I had a conversation with a woman who was in the United States on a temporary work visa. She bragged to me just how dangerous she is. She detailed how she used a rock to hit a man in his head almost killing him. She talked about how she lied to him that she would help him with his hospital bills until he was well enough to leave the hospital. She laughed that once she was convinced he would not go to the police she told him she was sorry he hadn’t died. His transgression? Constantly trying to seduce her! Let us talk about violence in all its forms, including child abuse and verbal abuse. Let us stop pretending that only our point of view matters and that those with opposing views are stupid. Let us hear the other sides of the conversation and save everyone the self-righteous indignation.
Police responding to a shooting at a mall in Alabama apparently shot and killed the wrong person — a Black man — leaving the suspected gunman at large following a violent episode that wounded two others on Thanksgiving night.
Emantic “EJ” Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., “an active duty officer for the Army,” was reportedly shot in the face and died at the Riverchase Galleria in the town of Hoover as police identified him as their primary suspect. The 21-year-old, who was armed and licensed to carry a gun, was reportedly home for the holidays when he was killed.
Law enforcement was seemingly eager to announce how they were able to kill a suspect, even going so far as to announce it to the press before any apparent investigation had been launched. That proved to be one of a handful of mistakes the Hoover Police Department made Thursday, according to AL.com.“We regret that our initial media release was not totally accurate, but new evidence indicates that it was not,’’ Hoover Police Captain Gregg Rector said.
“We remain committed to maintaining the integrity of this investigation, helping determine the facts involved, and assisting ALEA in their efforts.”According to AL.com, “Rector said investigators now believe that more than two individuals were involved in the initial altercation. The information indicates that there is at least one gunman still at-large, who could be responsible for the shooting of the 18-year-old male and 12-year-old female.”
The admission stopped well short of any type of apology for what on the surface appeared to be a case of police seeing a Black man with a gun in an open carry state and assuming the worst. Chances were more than likely that police will claim they feared for their lives, a common defense that killer cops routinely rely on to elude any sort of punishment or criminal charges.
One of the things I have argued over the years to much push-back from some of my friends is that police training is inadequate. I fundamentally believe that the drills should be curtailed to 10% of what it is presently. Drills are purely ceremonial, they literally serve no useful purpose in real policing practices. The 90% of the time taken from (drills) should be utilized in weight training and swimming. Hand-to-hand training is critical as this is perhaps going to be the most utilized element by officers and may arguably be the difference between life and death of officers.
I make the foregone in light of an incident involving an officer and a schoolboy at the Kellits High School in Clarendon In the incident, the officer was badly manhandled and overpowered by the schoolboy in quick time. Rather than criticize the officer and what he may or may not have done wrong in the time in which he was assaulted I would rather like to once again point to (a)the ineffectiveness of the training in the Jamaica Constabulary Force and (b) the ease with which citizens feel free to assault officers of the force as a consequence of the lack of punitive components in the law.
Assaulting a police officer in most developed countries is a felony punishable by real jail time on conviction. Jamaica is certainly not a developed country but it hasn’t been shy in quickly adopting practices it leaders deem in their best interest from developed countries. What hasn’t happened is a bill in the parliament which addresses appropriately the dangers police face in this volatile environment. Conversely, the INDECOM bill was introduced in 2010 under the Jamaica Labor Party’s (JLP) Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, with the full backing of the Opposition People’s National Party(PNP). That bill became law with marginal results against crooked cops and devastating consequences for crime fighting on the Island. Additionally, administrations of both political parties have empowered other agencies like the Peblic Defender’s Act which created another layer of state-funded antagonism against law-enforcement, unprecedented anywhere in the world. Arguably the only thing the two political parties in Jamaica can find common cause around is their disgust for law-enforcement and the rule of law.
Changing police commissioners, putting friends into positions of power will not change the trajectory of crime. Changing the structural inadequacies in the training regimen and giving law enforcement the tools it needs to get the job done will. Job one for all police officers is self-preservation. The training the police is receiving is far from adequate hence these incidents. Thankfully this one did not result in the loss of life but officers have lost their lives before in this way. I call on the Government once again, shelve the archaic training and introduce real training, commensurate with the dictates of the times. The little thug will most likely get a brush on the wrist by a liberal judge. The officer is forever exposed to ridicule and the lawlessness will continue. It will continue because the Government which has the power to put a stop to it refuses to give law enforcement the necessary tools they need to do their jobs safely and effectively.
There are roles within societies which strive for the rule of law and the principles of basic human rights to have genuine, balanced and vigilant oversight of Governmental activities. Nevertheless, those oversights have to be executed against a fundamental understanding of the role and responsibility the government has in protecting the broader society from harm. They must also be balanced against the limitations of government to adequately fulfill all best practices within the framework of its financial constraints.
It as against this background that I am unsure whether in Jamaica’s case, the Office of Public Defender and it’s principal officer, Arlene Harrison-Henry is fully conversant of those responsibilities to which the Government is obligated. There is always room for improvement and in the Jamaican public sector, hardly anyone could reasonably argue that there is due diligence in the dispensation of all public functions.
Harrison-Henry was testifying before the Internal and External Affairs Committee of Parliament yesterday, on the effects of the State Of Emergency (SOE) in the parish of Saint James. The (SOE) was initiated to stem the bloodshed and the massive loss of life in the parish as a result of what the police contend is gang violence.
The Public defender laid out a raft of issues which she tells the committee her office have found lacking and are in breach of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms.[sic] Among the issues, she laid out are the following.….
(1)Up to October 9th, 3,687 persons, primarily young men, have been detained, since the declaration of the SOE on January 18, 2018.
Typically, this is what happens in (SOE), security personnel operating in the dark (intelligence wise) are forced to scrape up large numbers of young men whom they believe may be involved in criminal activities. Given the limitations technologically, the police have to embark on a slow deliberative process of sifting through latent fingerprints which may or may not exist, of those who may have previously passed through the system. This is a slow antiquated system which requires time. Admittedly, it is not the bests system but it is the system we have. This is not the fault of the police.
(2) Only a fraction of the people detained are charged with actual crimes, according to Harrison-Henry.
It would be nice if the law of averages were more in favor of the good guys who are risking their lives, trying to produce a safer Jamaica. If they did they wouldn’t be the law of averages now would they? Since they aren’t, the overworked, underpaid, police have to sort through the detainees the old-fashioned way. The police would be glad to have real-time intelligence if Harrison Henry has it, this would go a long way in eliminating some of the inconveniences she complains about.
(3) Poor quality of food for people picked up and detained and unsanitary conditions around food.
There is no excuse for this and there will be none coming from me.
(4) Detentions are mainly men from communities such as Rose Heights, Norwood, Granville, Flanker. She pointed out that the bulk of the detainees are young men between the ages of 19 and 25.
That is police business, the so-called public ‑defender must concentrate on what it is that she and her staff are tasked with doing. The security forces have a responsibility to take the fight to criminals regardless of where they are from, regardless of their age group.
(5) Concern that police officers and soldiers sometimes take photographs of detainees on their mobile phone. This has implications for the fairness of an identification parade for example.
Members of the Security forces have a responsibility to act with professionalism, nevertheless, in the barren intelligence landscape in which they operate almost blindly, it is commendable that members of the force whose responsibility it is to contain criminals are acting proactively in this regard.
(6) Harsh conditions under which detainees are held at the Freeport Police Station lock-up, which is the hub of the SOE activities in St James.
This is a longstanding issue which spawns administration of both political parties across several decades. It is important that government understand that if its agents are going to violate people’s basic rights by detaining them the least it [must] do is provide them with decent accommodations, food, and healthcare for the duration of their incarceration.
The testimony of the Public Defender is scheduled to resume sometime in the near future to complete the deliberations on its report. In light of that, I will naturally withhold some of my comments. Nevertheless, it is instructive to observe that nowhere in the reporting in [the link above] is there any acknowledgment of the fact that as a result of the actions of the security forces there has been a marked drop in the number of murdered St. James residents.
What I conclude from this is that there are two competing objectives at work, neither of which works for the greater good of the Jamaican people. On the one hand, the security forces must find a way to balance dealing with the existential issue of violent crimes while taking care as best it can to protect the rights of the most vulnerable. For its part, those who purport to protect the rights of the public must demonstrate that they understand the exigencies of the situations the nation faces and the constraints under which the government is forced to operate. Neither of these two positions is mutually exclusive if the egos and personal agendas are discarded.
In the struggle to make America a better place for all of its citizens, there will have to be a reckoning among Black people along certain distinct lines. (1) They cannot count on anyone else’s efforts in this existential fight. (2) White women are equally as complicit in white supremacy as their male counterparts. (3) Expecting a change of heart from the descendants of those who enslaved, murdered, raped and sodomized their fore-parents is fool’s gold. The expectation that white women will fight for civil and gender rights because they too were victims of oppression ignores the fact that they have long done the math and have decided the benefits of white privilege far outweighs any benefits they would derive from gender equality. In fact, in 2018 white women have solidified themselves as the number one anti-black antagonists in the age of Trump.
The burning of Rosewood
In 1923 Fanny Taylor’s lies caused the massacre of hundreds, if not thousands of black residents of Rosewood Florida. The massacre was instigated by the rumor that a white woman, Fanny Taylor, had been sexually assaulted by a black man in her home in a nearby community.
In 1955 Emmet Till a 14-year old black child from Chicago was visiting relatives in Mississippi when he was murdered for allegedly [flirting] with a [white woman]. His killers, —the white woman’s husband and her brother — made Emmett carry a 75-pound cotton-gin fan to the bank of the Tallahatchie River and ordered him to take off his clothes. The two men then beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head and then threw his body, tied to the cotton-gin fan with barbed wire, into the river.
Emmet Till’s mother, Mamie Till Mobley’s, though ravaged by the trauma and grief of the inhuman savagery which went into the slaughter of her son decided to hold an open casket funeral on September 3, 1955. She urged the world to look at her son’s beaten, swollen body. The body, was so disfigured that he was only identifiable by the initials on a ring on his finger, was viewed by thousands of people and photographed and published in newspapers and magazines. Emmett Till’s old casket may be viewed at the Civil Rights exhibition at the African American History Museum, in Washington DC.
Emmett Till
In July of 1995 South Carolina native, Susan Smith decided to kill her two children. She drove her car into a lake and drowned the two children then told police they were kidnapped by a black man. September 2018, after only three months on the job, Sherry Hall a recently hired Jackson Georgia cop shoots herself and told her bosses she was shot by .….. you guessed it, a black man. With blood in their eyes, they embarked on a two-week chase for the imaginary black man until her story fell apart and she was arrested.
The undeniable truth in the innumerable instances in which white women have used black men as foils to (a) cover up lies or (b) elicit rage from their male contemporaries, has demonstrated the devious calculation in the way they have opted to cash in on whiteness in America.
This is America’s shame, it must be confronted and exorcised
Once there is a fundamental understanding that the three concepts outlined in paragraph one above are institutionalized impediments to change, the arduous task of self-determination, self-autonomy, and self-governance begins in a country within a country. The idea of a gradual change has long been rubbished, even though many, even within the Black community will argue that there has been marked change in their lifetime. The idea that a Black man was twice elected and Blacks occupying high places of power remain indelible markers of the progress of which they speak.
Dr King
The undeniable truth, however, is that despite those gains the systematic stain of racism is still deeply etched in the body politic, that if Blacks continue to accept what Dr. King once called “the tranquil drug of gradualism”, black Americans will be no further along three hundred years from today. There is a sense of moral degeneration which permeates certain quarters which hold power in America. This makes it almost impossible to dislodge the corrosive and cancerous consequences of racism which is literally destroying the country from within.
Steve King ® Iowa
A sitting Congressman [Steve King] of Iowa who openly supports white supremacist causes across the Globe was re-elected in his district. An appointed Mississippi US Senator, Cindy Hyde-Smith, R‑Miss so enthused with a supporter, remarked to a group of supporters,” “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row“ On the 27th Of November 2018, Cindy Hyde-Smith the Republican will square off in Mississippi against Democrat Mike Espy who just happen to be black.
Cindy Hyde Smith
If you are reading this and you do not know or understand the loaded back-story to Hyde-Smith’s statement, this article will be insufficient to educate you on lynchings, and the part the state of Mississippi played in that sordid part of America’s inglorious racial history. But Hyde-Smith was not done, she publicly opined about how great it would be to prevent young people at liberal colleges from voting. It’s needles to wonder or guess what the students of those liberal colleges look like.
It is as systemic as Florida’s new Governor-Elect at the start of his campaign telling voters not to “monkey up” the Gubernatorial race by voting for Andrew Gillum his Democratic opponent who just happened to be Black. The people of the state of Florida did not find any of these incidents disqualifying. Come November 27th, Cindy Hyde-Smith will almost certainly beat Mike Espy for the Senate seat in Mississippi. Like Ron Desantis, like Steve King, Cindy Hyde-Smith will take her place in the Government of the United States. They will vote on issues which affect the daily lives of tens of millions of people who do not look like them and for whom they have scant, if any regard.
Chris Collins
But if you thought that these are the only ones you are deeply mistaken, In Western New York 27th Congressional District, Republican Chris Collins was re-elected despite being under Federal indictment for felony charges around insider trading. In California’s 50th District, Republican Duncan Hunter was re-elected despite facing a federal indictment for allegedly misusing campaign funds. You may argue that in the case of Duncan Hunter and Chris Collins nothing about their story is racial. If you do that, you are missing the greater point about the deeper rot which permeates the politics. So much so that even these egregious acts which are antithetical to good governance are ignored. What chance then does deep-rooted white racism have of being uprooted by these miscreants?
Imagine breaking into a man’s house, raping his wife, stealing everything he owns, beating and humiliating him, selling his children that you haven’t killed, then forcing him to work for free. Are you able to make that mental journey? If so, then picture this, after he has done everything you have demanded of him, you are angry at him for fighting for his freedom. Even if you were to give him everything you own it would not begin to compensate for the hundreds of years of dehumanizing and degrading rape, sodomy, murder, and the untold cruelty and barbarism you have subjected him to. Now you are mad that he dares stand up to demand his right to human dignity. You are mad because he dares to revisit his past in order to understand his present and to chart a course for his future. How dare you?
If I said it once I’ll say it a thousand times. The fight for Black autonomy and black respect will not be won by using other people’s soldiers. Iowa’s Congressman Steve King said, “You cannot rebuild your civilization with somebody else’s babies. You’ve got to keep your birth rate up, and that you need to teach your children your values.“ King was making the case for white supremacy and white Anglo Saxon dominance. “I’m a champion for Western civilization,” said Steve King, “If you go down the road a few generations, or maybe centuries, with the inter-marriage, I’d like to see an America that is just so homogenous that we look a lot the same.”
If African-Americans are going to survive against these imbeciles they better wise up to the fact that they will have to fight like hell on every front, in a fight which will require a full arsenal of wit and cunning. This is an existential fight against annihilation and they have no compunction against removing us from the equation as if we never existed.
A 16-year-old student of the Spanish Town High School and a resident of Percy Bush, Lauriston Rojario Lynch was beaten by citizens and handed over to police last Friday.Residents claimed that the juvenile attempted to carry out an armed robbery and was overpowered. An Intra Tech TEC‑9 sub-machine gun, MOD99, with the serial number erased, a magazine and four rounds of ammunition was also handed over to the police.
The Spanish Town Police are investigating the incident.
The year was 2008, there was an electric dynamism in the air. For many Americans, particularly those of African heritage, it was like Christmas in July. No, African-Americans did not get the promised forty acres and a mule their ancestors had been duplicitously promised and denied. No, there would be no reparations paid to them for the 373 years of slavery their ancestors endured between 1492 and 1865. It was something less transactional but a lot more motivational. Contrary to the thinking of most of those Americans, a black man was elected President of the United States, breaking what many believed was a shatter-proof ceiling that would outlast them all.
On Obama’s coat-tails rode a new Congress and a new Senate, all Democratic. The new President entered 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with a free hand to enact his agenda, or so he and many of the people who voted for the new president and Congress thought. The Republicans had other ideas for the first African-American president, in fact, Mitch McConnell said his primary goal was to make Obama a one-term president. I have tried to play McConnel’s statement over and over in my head, I imagined I was a Democrat in McConnell’s shoes and interestingly I do not find it so hateful a statement for the senior Republican in the Senate to have made. Of course, I would have wanted a Republican President to be a one-term president. While the new president was being sworn into office, however, a band of Republicans with nefarious intent was having a secret dinner at a private restaurant in DC with one goal in mind. [How to stop everything Obama attempt to do]. I labeled them [nefarious] because to those involved elections had no consequence. To them, the will of the American people meant nothing when compared to their own agenda.
Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell
In a then newly published book, Robert Draper wrote that as President Obama was celebrating his inauguration at various balls, top Republican lawmakers and strategists were plotting how to derail his infant presidency. Present at the dinner were Republican Reps. Eric Cantor (Va.), Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), Paul Ryan (Wis.), Pete Sessions (Texas), Jeb Hensarling (Texas), Pete Hoekstra (Mich.) and Dan Lungren (Calif.), along with Republican Sens. Jim DeMint (S.C.), Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Tom Coburn (Okla.), John Ensign (Nev.) and Bob Corker (Tenn.). The non-lawmakers present included Newt Gingrich, several years removed from his presidential campaign, and Frank Luntz was conjuring up ways to submarine Obama’s presidency.
PAULRYAN
In two short years, the Democratic majority in the house was gone and the majority in the Senate reduced to a razor-thin majority for the Democrats. A well-funded insurgency cloaked under the disguise of grassroots concerns would emerge in American politics as a pushback to Obama’s rise. The Tea-Party was born, neither the Republican party nor America would be the same again. A resurgent racism would be unleashed on the nation. We are yet to understand what it will all mean in the end. The inevitable question then was what the hell just happened? The reason given for the 2010 loss has been head spinning in number and variations, none of which I subscribe to. Obama Continued pointless wars some argued.
Others claimed Democrats were outflanked by competing philosophies. Still, others say the Democrats lost support from major corporate lobbies and financiers. Yadda, yadda, yadda. The truth of the matter is that Democrats did exactly what they are doing this cycle. They spent time bickering among themselves about who were blue dog democrats as against who were liberal democrats and much of what the new President could have accomplished was shelved.
Fast forward to 2018, the Democrats are powerless in the dog-house, literally shut out of Government at every level and has just been restored to some power after winning the house. The very first thing which comes out of the new caucus which hasn’t even been sworn into office yet is infighting about jettisoning the leader who just led them back to the majority.
I don’t want to talk about Charles Schumer’s lackluster uninspiring leadership in the Senate which actually cost Democrats seats in that body. No need to talk about Schumer giving away the store to Mitch McConnell, allowing him to place more judges on the federal bench just so he and other Democratic senators could go home to campaign.
What I want to talk about is the utter stupidity of this Democratic party and the newly elected ones in particular. Former RNC chairman Michael Steele admitted on national television that the reason his party launched its attack on congresswoman Nancy Pelosi was her effectiveness.
Former speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi (Democrat California)
Now, I did not need to hear that out of Michael Steele’s mouth. If Republicans go after a Democrat it always is because of that Democrat’s effectiveness. Ask Maxine Walters, Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, and others. If this lowly opinion writer can conclude that Nancy Pelosi is a thorn in the paw of the Republican Lion, why would these newly-minted elected officials not be able to understand it? Why would these newly minted elected officials volunteer to be the [Androclus] who removes that thorn? [see Aesop fables]
Donald Trump
There is much work to be done in this 116th Congress, much more than any in a very long time. At issue is the need to work on legislation to strengthen the Affordable Care Act. Voters chose health care as the number one issue they voted on in the recently concluded midterm elections. There is also the issue of the rule of law and the dire need to instill some oversight of the executive branch. If the Democrats are stupid enough to squander this opportunity to get to work doing what they were elected to do and decide to spend time-fighting among themselves they should be prepared to be back in the minority come 2020. In addition to that, it is not a stretch to imagine that a frustrated, fed up and exasperated electorate will re-elect Donald Trump to the presidency, leaving the Democrats crying in their milk once again.
Over the last 30-years, in particular, Jamaica has lost countless amounts of money to corrupt officials in both political parties. The Peoples National Party (PNP) has been in power for longer periods at a time including a 141⁄2 year unbroken tenure leaving the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) literally in political oblivion.
(1) The furniture scandal in December 1990. (2) The light-bulb scandal in November 2008. (3) The chandeliers scandal. (4) Operation PRIDE scandal. (5) Trafigura affair. (6) The ‘Fat Cat’ scandal. (7) Iran sugar deal. (8)Outameni scandal. (9) FINSAC (10) JPS (11) Sandals Whitehouse. (12) Netserv. (13) Zinc (1989)
The list of theft under this party is by far too much to mention. This list only scratches the surface of the scandals in which the PNP has been involved costing the poor Jamaican taxpayers untold billions if not trillions of dollars. The list of scandals under the PNP in my estimation ought to disqualify the party from contesting elections, if not from a dissolution of the party, then a total voter blackout. Notwithstanding, we all know that uninformed loyalist voters literally makes that impossible.>The JLP for its part has certainly had its own [sticky fingers] problem.(1) The Coke extradition/Manatt. (2) The infamous Mabey and Johnson bridge-building bribery case. (3) In August 2009, 50-million spent to upgrade the minister of transport and works home. (4) Ministry of Tourism spent $8.4 million to retrofit the minister’s offices between May 2008. (5)Petrojam.
The point of all this is to highlight the tremendous amounts of resources which has been pilfered, squandered, and misappropriated by the very people the Jamaican people entrusted to be stewards of those resources. It is against that backdrop that I wish to speak briefly on news reports that Jamaica acquired a long-range surveillance aircraft, and two helicopters to patrol the Islands territorial waters. Prime Minister, Andrew Holness told a gathering of dignitaries and officials involved with the developments that, “Jamaica has made an investment in both security and our economy. Greater security means a stronger economy”, Holness said. Imagine if all of the pilfered billions were invested in Education. Healthcare. Security. Infrastructure. Where would the Island be today in it’s slow plod to first world status?
The Prime Minister, however, has finally had a come to Jesus moment when he argued: “Greater security means a stronger economy”. This writer has gone to great lengths to point out the fact that this Prime Minister seemingly has a particular disdain for police officers and a wider lack of understanding that the prosperity he has been promising the Jamaican people is a Unicorn, given the country’s unchecked lawlessness. Most importantly, however, Holness went on to say quote; “The government is committed to ensuring that criminals don’t take over Jamaica”. My great Aunt always advised me to let people talk, soon enough she opined, they will reveal the truth about what’s going on in their heads. [tek time search yu wi find ants gut]. As a young investigator that concept served me well in my interactions with both criminal defendants and witnesses giving affidavits.I have consistently warned of the impending danger
Jamaica faces from a burgeoning confluences of militia groups which are becoming more and more emboldened because of Government’s inaction. In the numerous articles I have written, I have sought to lay out the imminent creeping danger this inaction poses to the country’s solvency and security. The link provided above is the latest article I wrote on this imminent danger.
[Warning/address These Militias Now Or Face The Consequences Tomorrow].
The path to ensuring that criminals do not take over the country requires much, much more than the purchase of an airplane and a couple of helicopters. Nevertheless, it does go some distance toward interdicting some of the illegal guns and ammunition entering the country, if applied correctly. Unfortunately, despite the Prime Minister’s seeming new awareness, that criminals do have the intent if not the resources yet, to take over the country, he still hasn’t fully grasped the need for structural changes to how our nation is policed. Those changes will have to be legislative. They must include a sea change in the way those in power understand the importance of the rule of law and how that understanding is communicated to the people.
Here are your future Judges, Police Officers and other public officials, here are your private sector officials. Welcome to America 2018.
In the photo, nearly all of the 63 boys appear to make the Sieg Heil salute before their junior prom in the spring at Baraboo High School. Lori Mueller, of the Baraboo School District, said Monday via Twitter that the district will pursue all available options, including legal action, in response to the photo. The school district and local authorities continue to investigate, speaking with the students and families involved to determine how and why this was taken. Baraboo is a town of about 12,000 residents that is about 115 miles (185 kilometers) northwest of Milwaukee. Mueller says the photo doesn’t reflect the district’s values and that administrators will pursue appropriate action. Mueller said the photo appears to have been taken last spring and wasn’t on school grounds. The Auschwitz Memorial in Poland released a statement Monday emphasizing that the photo is one of the reasons children must continue to be taught about the brutality of what the Nazis did. http://cutenailsdesigns.net/2018/11/13/wisconsin-students-throw-up-sig-heil-in-prom-photo.html
This is Mississippi Republican US Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, making a flip reference to a “public hanging” is incensing voters in a special election runoff, drawing attention to the state’s history of lynching and boosting Democrats’ hope of pulling off a stunner in the Deep South. Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith is facing former congressman and former U.S. agriculture secretary Mike Espy, a black Democrat, in a runoff Nov. 27. She was captured on video praising a supporter by declaring, “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.” After the video was made public Sunday, Hyde-Smith said her remark Nov. 2 at a campaign event in Tupelo was “an exaggerated expression of regard” for a friend who invited her to speak. “Any attempt to turn this into a negative connotation is ridiculous,” she said.spy on Monday called the remark “disappointing and harmful.” “It reinforces stereotypes that we’ve been trying to get away from for decades, stereotypes that continue to harm our economy and cost us jobs,” he told MSNBC’s, Chris Matthews. At a news conference Monday with Republican Gov. Phil Bryant by her side, a stone-faced Hyde-Smith refused to answer questions about the hanging remark. “I put out a statement yesterday, and that’s all I’m going to say about it,” she said. https://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/elections/mississippi-us-senator-won-t-discuss-public-hanging-remark/article_d1fb0e80-230f-56a2-8f09-8273d2e71a67.html
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I will say this to the Jamaican Government again. For years after leaving the JCF I have assiduously studied crime patterns and looked at data involving crime in developing countries. As a consequence, I have written hundreds of blog posts and have produced countless pages of data in support of my theory that crime cannot be contained without a firm hand.
(QUALITYOFSERVICE)
In the 27 years since I left the JCF after a brief ten years stint, I have seen the quality of service offered by the JCF deteriorate and distrust of the Department increase exponentially. This two-fold event has created the perfect opportunity for crime to flourish resulting in the unnecessary deaths of tens of thousands of Jamaicans and the entire nation now completely traumatized and desensitized to the horrors of the daily bloodshed.
(THEEVOLUTION)
The approach by both political parties combined, both in administration and in opposition, have left much to be desired and may logically be argued to be one of the reasons which have caused the continued explosion of violent crimes across the Island. For years I have warned that the approach [must] be a two-fold approach which(a) delivers a heavy hand to violent criminals, but(b) uses a velvet glove to massage the rest of society.
This approach is exactly what other societies have used successfully and it is the approach safer societies (not totalitarian societies) uses today. Crime cannot be solved unless the appropriate resources are appropriated and directed to the cause of law enforcement. It is not a liability, it is an investment in our survival, literally and economically. When we make the decision to ignore the needs of law enforcement we have by default given license to the creation and expansion of underground economies which only benefits a few criminals. Those decisions frighten away legitimate investors and returning residents and embolden criminals to set up extortion rackets by creating more fear.
(THEREALISSUE)
Administrations of both political parties have maintained a curious indifference to this burgeoning problem which is now threatening the very viability of the Jamaican state. (see the Tivoli incursion of 2010) and events thereafter. The incompetence and corruption within the JCF is not an isolated case of simply people corrupted by power taking advantage of the system. It is a much deeper across the board rot, not a stranger to other parts of the public sector. This rot has been made to fester from low wages, lack of resources, lack of respect, insufficient training, insufficient support legislatively and structurally and a host of other neglect. The extremely high attrition rate within the department is proof that contrary to popular perception the lure of a gun and badge is not enough to offset the burning desire to leave for greener pastures.
(THE #1 MISTAKE)
Instead of looking aggressively at the problems in the JCF, if not out of love for the rule of law but out of a recognition that no society can grow and survive in crime, Government’s actions have been to take steps to exacerbate the problem. Instead of creating a structure of support to address the problems of the police, administrations of both political parties have shown open disdain and disrespectful hostility to members of the force. Instead of fixing what’s wrong with the force they went a full one hundred and eighty degrees by installing in place other agencies which have demonstrably created hostile relationships with the JCF. See (INDECOM& Office of Public Defender).
(CUMULATIVEEFFECT)
The fact that the small Island of 2.8 Million people is losing well over 1600 of its people to violence annually though ghastly, does not tell the whole story. The raw death total regardless of the numbers, will certainly not be the worst-case scenario for the country. The existential threat to the nation’s solvency and sovereignty will be far more consequential.
For years we have seen the number of violent crimes rise and remain high with the exception of 2010 when the security forces were forced to use overwhelming force to put down what the country [refuses to accept] was a [militia uprising] against the authority of the state. Immediately after that event criminals largely kept their heads down, unsure of the security forces next move and not wanting to draw their ire. This was a clear indication that force absolutely is the only thing they understand and will bow to. After the Government signaled to them that it would be the security forces which would be on trial for the Tivoli event, crime began a steady and determined climb and has continued to today.
I want to warn the Governing authority that the declaration of States of Emergency (SOE) and declaring Zones Of Special Operations (ZOSO) are not panaceas for the nations crime problem. Let me be clear, you not only have a crime problem. What you have is a metastasizing militia problem, which is completely different than gangs. Criminal gangs do not operate together to challenge the authority of the state. Militias do. We saw that this concept has been on the table since 2010 when hatred for the duly constituted state far outweighed political and other differences. In 2010 loose actors from differing political persuasion found common cause around a singular figure(Christopher Duddus Coke). Unperturbed by what the state may do they came together in Tivoli Gardens and stood up to the state. Eight years later those actors are more closely aligned and more sophisticatedly armed. It is no longer just guns, its grenades and silencers, scopes and other more devastating paraphernalia of warfare. Notwithstanding, the Government has not coördinated a cohesive strategy around that reality, neither has it demonstrated that it understands fully the danger these well-armed criminals pose to the state despite the mass killings.
Right here in our hemisphere. Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua offers case studies on the danger of ignoring these trends. Yet the Jamaican political class which has a responsibility first and foremost to protect the country from harm refuses to confront that existential threat. Rather than seek the necessary expertise to once and for all end this problem, administrations of both political parties have embarked on a systematic head-in-the-sand approach which largely ignores the danger of the bullet in the body as long as they can hide the blood. That fallacy included bringing British police who know nothing about our culture, environment or crime-fighting needs. They sit in offices pushing paper, making press statements and fattening themselves at our expense. On the other hand, Government looks to their cronies at the University of the West Indies for solutions on how to resolve these critical issues, an institution which has a tenuous relationship with police and has liberal biases and ideas which have not been known to work anywhere.
(SOLUTION) These mass killings in Jamaica are different than the mass killings in the United States. In the US mass killers are usually mentally deranged individuals, or killers with deep racial or religious animus. Either way, when they rear their heads they either kill themselves, are captured if they surrender or are put down with overwhelming force by the state. In Jamaica, the killings though tied to particular motives are designed to drive fear into the society. The actors intend to derive more control for themselves by paralyzing the population through fear. It is working. A cursory look at the Spanish-speaking countries I named above will give an idea why Jamaica’s Criminal [gangs/militias] are more in line with those countries than they are with mass killers in the US.
It behooves the administration in Kingston to address this issue today with a decisive military response. That response must be a full-throated no holes barred response which leaves no question that their actions will not be tolerated. Jamaica is only 4411 square miles. Under no circumstances, should militias be terrorizing entire communities and wiping out entire families while there are soldiers at Up Park Camp playing dominoes.
News from Jamaica’s crime front; Delano ‘Prekeh’ Wilmot, the leader of the infamous Ratty gang, which has been terrorizing the communities of Cambridge and Retrieve, in St James, was reportedly shot and killed in a confrontation with members of the security forces in Cambridge this morning. According to the security forces, the much-feared gangster was killed and anM16 assault rifle seized from his person. His crony another much-feared gangster known only as ‘Cruz’, who was said to be in his company during the shooting, managed to slip away. The security forces are reportedly still in pursuit with the aid of JDF helicopter.
Parekh was wanted for several murders,
he allegedly shot to infamy when he orchestrated an ambush of members of the security forces in which two soldiers were shot and injured. He was reportedly elevated to the top spot after Ryan ‘Ratty’ Peterkin the leader of the gang was neutralized by the security forces. Bravo for the members of the security forces who continue to risk life and limb in support of this criminal supporting nation, without the recognition they deserve.
A friend asked me a while back, “Why do you write”? I was a little taken aback at the question, but I intimated to her that writing was my chosen way of communicating my thoughts. Some people rap, sing, write poetry, and play musical instruments. I love to write; I believe the written word is intrinsically important; it leaves an indelibly codified historical record of events of the time and a window into the writer’s soul.
She told me she sometimes read my work, which I was thankful for; she didn’t have to. She went on to say that I am my own worst enemy, as there was too much cussing in my writing, she cautioned. My writing gave her a headache, she said. I would be advised to tone it down. My friend had no idea that what she told me was music to my ears. I never thought I would write so that people could feel comfortable; I do not write to validate what people already believe. I write to communicate my thoughts in ways that jolt people to the realities of what I am trying to convey. »»»>
I did that little lead-in to avoid a cussing rant because I am floored at the seeming state of backwardness in my country. Wait, wait, please, you die-hard patriots, before you start cussing me out, hear me out first; thank you. According to some recent reporting, the Jamaican Government is again talking about putting prisoners to work. Geez, what a novel idea.
PUTTINGPRISONERSTOWORKWHAT A NOVELIDEA
Here’s the shit which gets my blood boiling. On the rare occasion that a murderer gets convicted for a fraction of his crimes, the sentence is usually handed down with a hard labor caveat. That the government is not carrying out the court’s orders means that this administration and others prior are in gross violation and abdication of their duties and are violating court orders, which are antithetical to the concepts of a budding democracy.
PRISONCLOTHES
The reporting alleges that the government is considering using convicts to clean up the nation’s streets and gullies that are littered with garbage. In fact, the state is now considering purchasing special clothing for prisoners to wear when they engage in clean-upactivities.
Why are prisoners not in special prison clothes, and why would it only be when they are engaged in work? Why are Jamaican Government officials so intent on half ass methods rather than doing things the way they ought to be done? If a prisoner manages to escape custody, one of the easiest ways to quickly identify and recapture that felon is the prison garb he is dressed in. Why has the government not done this simple due diligence, given those facts?
LOW-RISKPRISONERS
I have always argued that Jamaican authorities are like a Jack ass with its ass where its head should be. So it comes as no surprise,.…… to me at least, that Pearnel Charles Jr., the junior national security minister, told the media quote;
“Any person in the systems with a non-custodial sentence or a custodial sentence that is low risk could be used in this category to clean the litters in gullies.” So the idea is to basically punish low-risk non-violent offenders while [violent shottas sit]around chatting on their cell phones, eating, making music, and ordering hits. Actually, comparing these dweebs to jackasses is an insult to jackasses. “We need to reduce the number of persons within our custody. We have reclassified, and we are also looking at electronically monitoring convicted persons to engage in clean-up activities that they might not be able to do before because of security issues.”
This is the Jackasse’s ass where the head should have been. If the administration wishes to carry out the court’s orders finally, it would make sense to do the opposite of what this twit is recommending. (a) Here’s a clue, have low-risk offenders who have no motivation to escape without getting into more trouble do the work that is being recommended, and (b) Have high-risk offenders get up off their asses and do serious work wherever they are needed, to build the country.
How do you ask? I’m glad you asked. I fully understand that simple things that many of my country folks do not understand are considered impossible to do. Other countries have created ways to put violent offenders to work safely. If, of course, we can eschew pretense and get our heads out of our own asses. Look, China, Iran, Russia, the United States, and almost all of the major countries across the globe execute murderers.
Since we Jamaicans are sanctimonious hypocrites who are too shit holier-than-though to kill these scumbags, maybe we can get around to putting them to work so they earn their keep and repay their debt to society. Shackle two together by the angles and give them three feet of chain to separate them and put their criminal asses to work. This is a net win for the country as they produce to feed themselves. Please give them a tiny stipend; this results in less idle time for them to plan and scheme and order hits on innocent people from prison.
As straightforward as the foregone is, I cannot wait to hear the sanctimonious bleeding hearts with their contrarian handwriting about how we cannot do this; we cannot do that. Simple legislation, which ought to be a given, becomes a major thing. A major announcement is required for this grand idea. Yup, putting prisoners in uniform is groundbreaking[sic]
Since scarce state resources are being spent to feed, medicate, house, and whatever other benefits they receive, it is only fair that Prisoners are made to earn their keep. It is unquestionably the right thing to do, yet the government is acting as if this is a monumental, groundbreaking concept for which it must be congratulated. On the other hand, if the government ever gets up off its ass and gets this done the right way, look for the pathetic political opposition to find something wrong in its implementation on which to object and seek political mileage.
On that note, while we are on the subject, it is high time that the JLP tags the PNP as a “criminal supporting party” going forward. If they want to support criminality, let them own it.
World War I began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. During the conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States (the Allied Powers). Thanks to new military technologies and the horrors of trench warfare, World War I saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction. By the time the war was over and the Allied Powers claimed victory, more than 16 million people — soldiers and civilians alike — were dead. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war‑i/world-war-i-history
Donald Trump the American President yesterday left for France to commemorate the end of world war one along with other world leaders, including the French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and others.
However, Donald Trump on Saturday called off a trip to a World War I US military cemetery in France because of supposed bad weather, the White House said. After talks with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, Trump canceled his visit to Belleau Wood battlefield and cemetery 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of Paris because of “scheduling and logistical difficulties caused by the weather,” his administration said. So we have interpreted that to mean that Trump did not want his hair to get wet, he would rather spend his time with Vladimir Putin, or both. So we took it unto ourselves to show you what a real president does when he has important duties to perform and there is a little rain.
Nicholas Soames British MP and grandson of Winston Churchill blasted Donald Trump
In the meantime, Nicholas Soames, a British politician, and grandson of Winston Churchill ripped Donald Trump on Saturday for canceling a cemetery visit in France due to bad weather. “They died with their face to the foe and that pathetic inadequate @realDonaldTrump couldn’t even defy the weather to pay his respects to The Fallen,” Soames tweeted. Trump and many members of his administration are in France this weekend to commemorate Armistice Day. Nov. 11 marks 100 years since the end of World War I. Former top Obama aide Ben Rhodes also called out Trump for not visiting the cemetery, saying that under the previous White House there was “always a rain option. Always.”
Soames, who is a member of Parliament for Mid Sussex, included a hashtag saying Trump is “not fit to represent his great country.”
A Police Corporal, Jermaine Merril Powell o/c Zigga of Rocky Settlement, Rockey Point, Clarendon, attached to the Hunts Bay PIU, was arrested for breaches of the dangerous drug Act yesterday.
On Friday, November 9, 2018, about 4:20pm during Anti-narcotics and Illegal Guns operations the Area 3 Narcotics Police along with the Porus Police stopped a White Toyota Probox along the Porus Main Road in the Vicinity of the Porus Police Station. The vehicle was being driven by Corporal Jermaine Merril Powell o/c Zigga. In the vehicle with him was Steve Ray Moxam o/c Guga Wray, Fisherman of Rockey Point Clarendon. During a search of the vehicle, approximately 1kg of white Powder Substance Resembling Cocaine and One Million Jamaican Dollars, ($1,000’000.00) were found wrapped in a Black Plastic Bag and concealed between the spare wheel and the bottom of the vehicle.
Powell and Moxam were arrested on reasonable suspicion of breaches of the Dangerous Drugs Act. A Glock Pistol along with two magazines was seized from Corporal Powell. Powell indicated that the pistol and the motor car are both government property. Both accused, the vehicle and exhibits were taken to the Porus Police Station. More Investigations are to follow.
Duncans Trelawny area close to St Ann Border we are told is a place my friend said where the grim reaper has set up shop. The truth of the matter is where the ridiculous stupidity of Jamaica’s drivers is playing out with consequences too gruesome and macabre to look at. We could not publish most of the images.
Clearly this is untenable, there will need to be action taken to eradicate the scourge of reckless driving from our roadways.
Yesterday the cowardly little Cuban US Senator Marco Rubio stood up in front of his intellectually challenged deplorable supporters and declared that Democrats are trying to steal the elections in Broward County. In addition to the baseless claims he also fired off a torrent of baseless tweets making the same accusations without providing any evidence. I guess he learning the Trump tactics. In one tweet Rubio claimed #Broward election supervisors ongoing violation of #florida law requiring timely reporting isn’t just annoying incompetence. It has opened the door for lawyers to come here & try to steal a senate seat in the US Senate% Florida cabinet.
Now it does not matter that the little twit did not bother to offer one scintilla of evidence to back up his claims, he did it anyway and at the same time, Rick Scott who stands to benefit from being given the contested Senate seat was on state TY @fox misinformation complaining about Democrats trying to steal the Senate seat. And of course, as you might have expected the Lying dishonest criminal tweeter in chief fired off tweets about the need to end the count and move on even though the absentee and mail-in ballots are yet to be counted.
Senator Bill Nelson , Marco Rubio and Rick Scott.
As the Governor of the state, Rick Scott also ordered a law enforcement investigation into the counting of the vote in Broward country. As you ponder that it is important to understand that the thing which is causing these incredibly corrupt politicians to be complaining and asking for investigations is that county officials are counting the votes.
There is precious little secret to the fact that I find Marco Rubio and Raphael Cruz the two Cuban frauds in the Senate rather offensive and disgusting. Both of those weaseling little self-hating Latinos have tried their level best to dishonor the process of immigration even though both these frauds are first-generation Americans of parents who left Cuba in search of better lives.
As despicable as Raphael Cruz is I find Rubio no less revolting from the time the little dweeb remarked that President Obama had no class for having black rappers at the white house. The hypocritical little weasel has nonetheless been deathly silent in the face of Trump’s assault on the very foundations of the democratic principles of this country. The levels of graft and corruption are unprecedented yet the despicable little Rubio whom Trump derided and berated in 2016 has no smart ass comment now.
Those old enough to recall the 2000 presidential elections will recall that Republicans had no problem with the fact that their goons stormed the venue in the very same Broward county in which the votes were still being counted and tabulated and shut down the vote and declared George Bush the winner even though Al Gore was ahead in the count. George Bush’s younger brother was governor at the time. You all remember low energy Jeb right[sic ]?
What Rick Scott, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump want is to [end the vote count] and hand a Democratic Senate seat held by Senator Bill Nelson to Scott and the Governorship of the state to the clueless mini-Trump Ron Desantis by ending the vote count. The (daily beast) Sam Stein tweeted. Marco Rubio could be working behind the scenes and even in public to try to bring some order and trust to Florida recount, instead, he’s chosen to tweet. The usually brilliant Sam Stein must have forgotten that corruption and deception are all Republicans have left.
The midterms are now over and contrary to what Trump and his acolytes tell you there was a blue wave against his régime. When you take gerrymandering, blatant voter suppression tactics and God knows what else Democratic voters are forced to go through to cast a vote, it was a terrific win for the Democratic party and a chance for the nation to pull back from this two-year nightmare that is making us all sick.
As those of us who care about the country, the rights of others, and the rule of law let out a sigh of relief that the impediments placed in the way of the democratic process did not win out, Democrats still managed to win in excess of the 23 seats they needed to take back control of the Congress even as the votes are still being tabulated in places like California. According to experts, by the time the counting is done Democrats are expected to have raked in somewhere between 30 and 36 seats in the house.
Democrats lost a few seats they already had. In Missouri, Claire Mccaskill went down to defeat. So too did Joe Donnelly in Indiana, Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota and before its all done so too may Bill Nelson in Florida. In the meantime, the race in Arizona to fill Jeff Flakes Senate seat is locked, too close to call between Sinema and Republican Martha McSally. But Democrats also had some near misses as well In Florida, the race between Andrew Gillum and Desantis is still too close to call although Gillum sorta conceded. That race is probably going to result in a recount.
In Georgia the race is so close there may very well be a runoff between Stacy Abrams, the woman vying to be the nation’s first African-American Governor and the secretary of state Brian Kemp. Per Georgia’s law, if neither candidate receives more than 50 percent of the votes a runoff is forced between the candidates. In Texas, Beto O’rourke fell short of defeating incumbent Raphael Cruz. Nevertheless, O’rourke may be poised for even bigger and better things in the future if some in the punditry class have their way.
Overall, Democrats still stand to gain more seats in the house and it should not go unnoticed that Nevada’s Dean Heller who tied himself to Trump went down in defeat to Democrat Jacky Rosen. Additionally, seven new governorships were added to the Dems total and well over 300 seats in state legislatures across the country. The legislative wins in the state houses sound significant but in essence under President Obama Republicans took over almost two-thirds of the seats in state legislatures across the country.
According to (the Atlantic.com) Red-to-blue flips may be most significant in states such as North Carolina and Texas, where Republican legislators have redrawn congressional districts into Rorschach-test shapes that are often specifically designed to limit the electoral influence of racial minorities. They have also pushed voter-roll purges, voter-ID laws, and other voting restrictions that make it difficult for people to vote, or for their ballot to be counted. These measures also often target racial minorities, thus suppressing Democratic turnout.
So what does all of this mean for the Democrats chances going forward? Before we answer that question it is critical that we consider the impact the Trump senate will have on the Federal judiciary for the future. With Mitch McConnell as the leader in the SenateDemocrats lost the opportunity to appoint Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court to fill the seat vacated by the deceased Antonin Scalia. Judge Garland languished under appointment for over a year as Mitch McConnell thwarted President Obama’s right to appoint and fill the seat. Garland wasn’t even granted a meeting with Republican senators. Those are the people who were largely rewarded with another six-year term in the Senate yesterday. Such is the state of logical reasoning in the American electorate.
In the end, Trump rammed through Neil Gorsuch and of course Brett (I like beer) Kavanaugh. Two Supreme court appointments in two years. But that does not tell the full story about the forty-something judges he is stacking on the federal bench at the lower levels, numbers of judges unprecedented by any other president. These white men will be making the call on justice for the next forty to fifty years.
While you are scratching your head trying to find the cords which bind Trump to his cult of [deplorables] look no further than the things he is doing. Trump is only a symptom of a deeper rot which exists in the country. Remember his “I could shoot someone on 5th avenue and I wouldn’t lose any support”? Ya, he may not be the brightest bulb in the room but that much he understood. Contrary to what the punditry class tell you about wages and other crap, the fact of the matter is that Trump hates the same people they hate, so essentially when you stand with mouth agape at the things he says and does, wonder no more, he is merely a bullhorn for the racist xenophobes which are in larger numbers than many are wont to admit.
There is a stubborn racism that persists in America, particularly in older whites who have lived insular lives, they are generally uneducated and in many cases have not ventured outside the counties and states in which they were born much less venturing to the country. Contrary to the starry-eyed stories politicians tell when they are seeking their votes, many of these people are incredibly small-minded and xenophobic. It is shocking to hear them talk about other human beings who do not look like them. And guess what, the problem isn’t going away, the young ones are equally as venomous, just more dangerous.
Which brings me to what we may expect to see going forward.
(1) The 2020 Race for president will begin in earnest, rest assured the various candidates on the left and maybe on the right are already making phone calls to line up donors, as well as to test the waters to test their feasibility for the 2020 race.
(2) let us get this straight, this economy will certainly not be clicking on all cylinders as it is now (thanks Obama) come 2020. CNBC reported on July of this year that Investors are so nervous about a potential recession that they are preparing for one. A late-cycle represents an economy that has been growing, but is poised to fall into a recession, amid tighter credit availability, lower profit margins, and tighter monetary policy.“We are no longer long, we are increasingly nervous about this,” Roelof Salomons, chief strategist at Kempen Capital Management, said.
(3) With no great economy to run on because Trump will have damaged the economy with his misguided tariffs and an economy which has run its course, Trump will be forced to run on what he did in 2018, fear. Trump knows quite well that there is still that constituency I alluded to which is quite willing to overlook his flaws as long as he is willing to reinforce white supremacy. He will subsequently be forced to depend more and more on that segment of the population, a diminished base it will be but what Trump has nonetheless.
(4) If Trump finishes his first term with this new Democratic house and decides to run for reelection, it will come down to who the Democrats nominate to be their standard bearer. A wounded Donald Trump, a Trump who quite possibly will be under impeachment proceedings will not win re-election.
Just a day after losing the house of representatives to the Democrats Donald Trump fired Attorney General Jefferson B Sessions.
Former Attorney General Jefferson Sessions
Dear Mr. President,
At your request, I am submitting my resignation.
Since the day I was honored to be sworn in as Attorney General of the United States, I came to work at the Department of Justice every day determined to do my duty and serve my country. I have done so to the best of my ability, working to support the fundamental legal processes that are the foundation of justice.
The team we assembled embraced your directive to be a law and order Department of Justice. We prosecuted the largest number of violent offenders and firearm defendants in our country’s history. We took transnational gangs that are bringing violence and death across our borders and protected national security. We did our part to restore immigration enforcement. We targeted the opioid epidemic by prosecuting doctors, pharmacists, and anyone else who contributes to this crisis with new law enforcement tools and determination. And we have seen results. After two years of rising violent crime and homicides prior to this administration, those trends have reversed – thanks to the hard work of our prosecutors and law enforcement around the country.
I am particularly grateful to the fabulous men and women in law enforcement all over this country with whom I have served. I have had no greater honor than to serve along them. As I have said many times, they have my thanks and I will always have their backs.
More importantly, in my time as Attorney General we have restored and upheld the rule of law – a glorious tradition that each of us has a responsibility to safeguard. We have operated with integrity and have lawfully and aggressively advanced the policy agenda of this administration.
I have been honored to serve as Attorney General and have worked to implement the law enforcement agenda based on the rule of law that formed a central part of your campaign for the Presidency.
Thank you for the opportunity, Mr. President.
Sincerely,
Jefferson B. Sessions III
Attorney General
For the record, if you say ” At your request, I am submitting my resignation”.you were terminated, fired. We wait like everyone else to see what this means for this [democracy].
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