Recently I wrote that Elections to fill the seat made vacant by the pass­ing of Roger Clarke in cen­tral Westmoreland would be a lit­mus test on whether Jamaicans are turn­ing around from entrenched alle­giances to the PNP and are final­ly ready to embrace new ideas even if they are com­ing from the oth­er par­ty, or even a new party.

Many peo­ple dis­agreed with me argu­ing that if the JLP los­es the seat in the com­ing by-elec­tions it was not a good indi­ca­tor of whether the JLP has the winds to it’s back. 

The cen­tral Westmoreland seat has been under the con­trol of the PNP for almost 55 years . The seat switched hands in 1980 under the tidal-wave which swept the PNP from office.

I under­stand that irre­spec­tive of what the JLP does in the cen­tral Westmoreland con­stituen­cy they may still have an up-hill task because of what could be a mea­sure of sym­pa­thy for Roger Clarke who was a well liked Politician.

Notwithstanding we have seen the Jamaican elec­torate swing mas­sive­ly in one direc­tion or the oth­er when they ful­ly feel their inter­est are not being met. It may be ill-advised to assume they are beyond mov­ing from trib­al politics. 

During the elec­tion cycle of 1980 hun­dreds of Jamaicans were killed in what was almost a civ­il war. Over the last cou­ple of elec­tion cycles Jamaicans of both both polit­i­cal par­ties have adopt­ed an almost car­ni­val like atmos­phere to the process, an almost one hun­dred and eighty degree turn from what obtained before.

Roger Clarke was pop­u­lar we agree, how­ev­er mis­ter Clarke is no longer with us, vot­ers in Central Westmoreland must decide whether they allow nos­tal­gia and sym­pa­thy of the past, to neg­a­tive­ly impact how they pre­pare for the future.

I believe how they respond will tell the Labor Party whether vot­ers , at least these vot­ers, are feel­ing enough of a pinch , or whether they are pre­pared to con­tin­ue in their mis­ery and with the evil they know.

That is the test,only time will tell.

AS JAMAICA con­tin­ues to make prepa­ra­tions and put struc­tures in place to deal with the dead­ly Ebola if it lands on local soil, one gen­er­al prac­ti­tion­er who is also a prac­ti­tion­er in alter­na­tive and com­ple­men­tary med­i­cine, is urg­ing health offi­cials to incor­po­rate indige­nous tra­di­tion­al heal­ers, com­mon­ly called obeah man/​woman, into their Ebola sen­si­ti­sa­tion exercise.

Dr Sonia Davidson has argued that, with no con­ven­tion­al med­ical cure for Ebola, it is not improb­a­ble that some­one affect­ed with the dis­ease could seek help from indige­nous tra­di­tion­al healers.

“I do think that, as part of the Ebola momen­tum, we should make it our busi­ness to find out every tra­di­tion­al heal­er any­where … . Find out who they are; have dis­cus­sions with them, because peo­ple can slip into the coun­try and go down to Clarendon, St Ann, St Thomas or Portland to see their obeah man and, don’t think is just poor peo­ple who do that, you know,” Davidson reasoned.

“This is the oppor­tu­ni­ty to do what the World Health Organization has been telling us to do all along, find out where your indige­nous tra­di­tion­al heal­ers are, doc­u­ment them, relate to them and upgrade their prac­tices. Examine the con­di­tion in which they work and have them reg­is­tered,” she outlined.

Educate About Symptoms

According to Dr Davidson, it is crit­i­cal that these tra­di­tion­al heal­ers know about the symp­toms of Ebola because “by the time every­body goes down there and touch up and vom­it, him must know that there is a thing called Ebola and is not dup­py, and how Ebola is transmitted.”

She said a lot of health pro­fes­sion­als have told her that the first place an Ebola vic­tim would go after arriv­ing into the island would be the obeah man.

“If that is the case, how are you hav­ing all these meet­ings and train­ing and you don’t include the tra­di­tion­al heal­ers? We have to get off this elit­ist men­tal­i­ty,” the senior med­ical prac­ti­tion­er said.

Commenting on indige­nous tra­di­tion­al prac­tices in the con­text of alter­na­tive or com­ple­men­tary med­i­cine, Dr Davidson said the for­mer is a sub­group of the lat­ter. “It is a part of the cul­ture; you can’t dig it out — a part of the cul­ture where peo­ple go to obeah man.”

Discussing the deep-root­ed con­nec­tion between this indige­nous cul­ture and espe­cial­ly rur­al com­mu­ni­ties, Davidson stressed that the peo­ple are like­ly to con­sult these “heal­ers” first.

She said about 70 per cent of the world’s pop­u­la­tion look to the tra­di­tion­al groups for their care, but the per­cent­age of Jamaicans who vis­it these per­sons is not con­sid­ered to be very high in Jamaica.  http://​jamaica​-glean​er​.com/​g​l​e​a​n​e​r​/​2​0​1​4​1​1​2​4​/​l​e​a​d​/​l​e​a​d​1​.​h​tml

PUBLISHER’S NOTE

Note to Dr, Davidson , I do not think that was what the World Health Organization had in mind when it said quote.

“find out where your indige­nous tra­di­tion­al heal­ers are, doc­u­ment them, relate to them and upgrade their prac­tices. Examine the con­di­tion in which they work and have them registered,”.

Just say­ing !!

Maybe the good­ly Dr, have been inhal­ing too much of that tra­di­tion­al chron­ic , no words.

Giuliani: Black vio­lence is rea­son for white cops in Ferguson.

Just when you thought this Racist Napoleonic turd was final­ly under a rock where he belongs , he opens his mouth sticks his foot in it and proves just how much of a jack-ass he still is.

After 8 years as Mayor of New York City, in which this creep pig­gy-backed on Dave Dinkins’ safe City, safe streets pro­gram. Eight years in which he placed the City’s com­mand cen­ter in the twin tow­ers, result­ing in the loss of thou­sands of lives . This ego-mani­a­cal mon­grel has the nerve to open his food-trap about race?

This is the guy who presided over per­haps the worst peri­od of Police/​citizen rela­tions in New York city’s history!This was a peri­od which saw him using the Police Department as his pri­vate Army as he fan­ta­sized and oper­at­ed as a mod­ern day El Deuce. Pitting one sec­tor of the city’s mul­ti-eth­nic pop­u­la­tion against each oth­er for polit­i­cal mileage.

In a con­ver­sa­tion Sunday on “Meet the Press” with oth­er guest, George Town Professor Dr Michael Eric Dyson the dimwit Giuliani stat­ed quote ” I find it very dis­ap­point­ing that you’re not dis­cussing the fact that 93% of blacks in America are killed by oth­er blacks. We’re talk­ing about the excep­tion here.” There is not much to say about this jack-ass, beyond that he did his time and dam­age in new New York city. During which time many peo­ple have been killed , maimed and oth­er­wise assault­ed by the NYPD.

Most well think­ing peo­ple are glad that this piece of garbage will not have any pow­er to do any more dam­age polit­i­cal­ly. We would hope he would sim­ply crawl under a rock and nev­er be heard from again.

What a freak of nature and an absolute dis­grace to the human race.

It’s been months since Ferguson erupt­ed in violence.

Chaos and vio­lence erupt­ed because, as it has on so many pre­vi­ous occa­sions a black man was gunned down by the very peo­ple paid to pro­tect and serve them.

The prob­lem for black res­i­dents of Ferguson and all across America is that many cops do not see their roles as pro­tec­tors, but rather see them­selves as con­querors. Their own com­ments are a damn­ing indict­ment on how they view the peo­ple they are paid to pro­tect. This cre­ates a ten­sion filled rela­tion­ship between minor­i­ty com­mu­ni­ties and the police which the com­mu­ni­ty pays to pro­tect them

In far too many instances the police and their white sup­port­ers act as though the police is there to keep the black com­mu­ni­ty in check against their prop­er­ty, their coun­try. This sense of own­er­ship on the part of some can be traced to the dis­re­spect some cops express and show to the black community.

It requires tremen­dous effort for black Americans to see the val­ue of police to their com­mu­ni­ties. They can­not relate to the deep ded­i­ca­tion and good­ness of some offi­cers, because of the actions of some cops. This places the lives of good offi­cers at risk, it erodes trust and defeats the pur­pose of laws in a demo­c­ra­t­ic free society.

As long as one sec­tor of soci­ety sees itself enti­tled to a dif­fer­ent set of rules, which caus­es it to embrace police crim­i­nal­i­ty the streets are going to be unsafe for all. Criminal cops should have no safe haven in any eth­nic group. Neither black nor white. Even as I write this, a young man was gunned down in New York City by police offi­cers who are unable to point to any wrong-doing by the vic­tim. The young man just hap­pened to be walk­ing down the stair­well as cops walked up. One cop report­ed­ly lost his nerve and fired killing the young man.

Michael brown was slain by Ferguson cop Darren Wilson, the streets of the small sub­ur­ban town erupt­ed in what many say was the straw which broke the prover­bial camel’s back.

Report after report bears out cit­i­zens com­plaint which point­ed to the inap­pro­pri­ate behav­ior of police, and dis­grace­ful racist jus­tice sys­tem which is sup­posed to work for the pro­tec­tion of all citizens.

Damning evi­dence sur­faced of tick­et­ing blitz on black cit­i­zens by white cops for the most minor traf­fic infrac­tions. Fines and court costs exact a ter­ri­ble finan­cial bur­den on the strug­gling people,who were already find­ing it dif­fi­cult to make ends meet. http://​www​.democ​ra​cynow​.org/​2​0​1​4​/​8​/​2​7​/​i​s​_​f​e​r​g​u​s​o​n​_​f​e​e​d​i​n​g​_​o​n​_​t​h​e​_​p​oor

The sys­tem is rigged to favor dirty cops. No one under­stands the need to give our law enforce­ment offi­cers the ben­e­fit of the doubt more than I do, nev­er­the­less the ben­e­fit of the doubt can­not be blan­ket refusal to indict and con­vict cops who bla­tant­ly and wan­ton­ly abuse their authority.

As the Grand jury pre­tend to con­tem­plate the evi­dence in the case against Darren Wilson , cer­tain ques­tions begs answers.

(1 What is the Grand Jury wait­ing on to announce it’s decision?

(2 How will the jury arrive at a deci­sion as it telegraphed it would with­ing days, if it could not arrive at the same deci­sion months ago ?

(3 Why is there a process to allow Darren Wilson the oppor­tu­ni­ty to resign on his terms, if he is in jeop­ardy of being indict­ed, or is he?

( 4 Why did Prosecutor McCulloch not recuse himself?

(5 Why did Governor Jay Nixon not remove McCulloch when it became clear that McCulloch would not recuse himsel? 

It would have been the cor­rect thing to do in the inter­est of jus­tice, which would leave those who want­ed him out with no one to blame, in the event of a non-indictment !

Many observers black and white insist offi­cer Wilson will not be indict­ed. Whether or not he is indict­ed is prob­a­bly not as impor­tant as the dis­par­i­ty which exist in this coun­try which will even­tu­al­ly cul­mi­nate into some­thing rather ugly if it is not cor­rect­ed soon.

There can­not con­tin­ue to be two set of rules in a coun­try which takes it onto itself to lec­ture oth­ers about civ­il and human rights when it’s own house is in dire need of cleansing.

White acqui­es­cence is the fuel which fires police mis­treat­ment of non-white cit­i­zens. There are close to forty mil­lion black peo­ple liv­ing in America. By every mea­sure that is a huge Country with­in a coun­try. Sooner or lat­er peo­ple will come to their sens­es, that day is fast approach­ing and it will not be pret­ty. The police can­not kill forty mil­lion people.

This injus­tice must stop , it will only stop when the peo­ple make it stop. I make no judge­ment on the guilt or inno­cence of Darren Wilson. We also know that Michael Brown was not total­ly above reproach.

Notwithstanding, the 18 year old Brown did not deserve to die. We know offi­cer Wilson was not privy to any­thing Brown may have done pri­or to their encounter. This makes it dou­bly dif­fi­cult to jus­ti­fy killing some­one who had no weapon.

Police offi­cers are grant­ed wide pow­ers, includ­ing the lat­i­tude to kill in fur­ther­ance of the law. The tak­ing of a life is a seri­ous deci­sion to take. Officers should not take a life sim­ply because they are vest­ed with the pow­ers to do so, or because they can.

One of the pri­ma­ry func­tion of a police offi­cer is to save lives, not to end life. Too many cops seem unable to grasp that concept.

In all of this there is a mes­sage, no one is sug­gest­ing that blacks change to be accept­ed. No one is sug­gest­ing that blacks adjust to the ways that white America wants them to. What I sug­gest is that Blacks change to fit into right America.

With the pos­si­bil­i­ty of fur­ther clash­es in Ferguson hing­ing on the immi­nent deci­sion from a grand jury, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon issued a stern warn­ing Tuesday after­noon: If the police are unable to con­trol protests in the St. Louis area, then the National Guard will.

Nixon and St. Louis law enforce­ment are prepar­ing for a grand jury deci­sion that could reignite smol­der­ing unrest in Ferguson, on the out­skirts of St. Louis. Later this month a St. Louis County grand jury is expect­ed to rule on whether police offi­cer Darren Wilson should be pros­e­cut­ed for the Aug. 9 shoot­ing death of Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American 18-year-old. If Wilson is not pros­e­cut­ed for the shoot­ing, which ignit­ed some­times vio­lent protests, many see fur­ther demon­stra­tions as all but inevitable.

“The National Guard has been and will con­tin­ue to be part of our con­tin­gency plan­ning,” Nixon said Tuesday at a news con­fer­ence. “The guard will be avail­able when we deter­mine it is nec­es­sary to sup­port local law enforce­ment.”http://​amer​i​ca​.aljazeera​.com/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​s​/​2​0​1​4​/​1​1​/​1​1​/​n​a​t​i​o​n​a​l​-​g​u​a​r​d​-​o​n​c​a​l​l​i​n​f​e​r​g​u​s​o​n​.​h​tml

In addi­tion to mar­shal­ing the National Guard and enlist­ing the assis­tance of com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers, state and local offi­cials have pro­vid­ed more than 1,000 law enforce­ment offi­cers with thou­sands of hours in train­ing, accord­ing to the governor’s office. Fire and emer­gency med­ical ser­vices will also be at the ready in the event of new unrest.

PUBLISHERS NOTE:

From the looks of this it appears Missouri Governor Jay Nixon already knows what the out­come of the Grand Jury’s deci­sion will be. Nixon had the author­i­ty to remove Prosecutor Robert McCulloch when cit­i­zens demand­ed that he remove him. Nixon cir­cum­vent­ed the will of the peo­ple and now he is pre­pared to use all nec­es­sary force to crush the peo­ple if they dare protest against what they see as an injus­tice if Darren Wilson is not indict­ed. It is sur­pris­ing that the peo­ple could be demand­ing just an indict­ment any­way they demand­ed an indict­ment in the Trayvon Martin case , what did that get the Martin fam­i­ly? George Zimmerman is a free man doing what he does ‚what­ev­er that is.

Had Jay Nixon acqui­esced to the demands of the cit­i­zens of his state by remov­ing McCulloch ‚Black res­i­dents of Ferguson would have no choice but to live with the deci­sion of the Grand Jury, what­ev­er that deci­sion end up being. Governor Nixon in stub­born obsti­na­cy, not want­i­ng to capit­u­late to the blacks, either did not think through his deci­sion , or he is not very smart.

There are a lot of eyes on Ferguson as the storm clouds gath­er. Whether or not there will be an avalanche of fury if the res­i­dents do not get the results they desire is yet to be seen. One thing is cer­tain this Country is not much dif­fer­ent than it was in 1962 , or 1942 for that matter.

White Americans are loathe to sup­port black caus­es , sub­se­quent­ly Racism per­sists. It is rather dif­fi­cult to expect the descen­dants of the peo­ple who enslaved you, raped you, beat and muti­late you , imprison and kill you , to turn around and sup­port your right to be treat­ed fair­ly by the peo­ple who ensure their privilege.

That is why Grand juries do not con­vict cops who kill black peo­ple. That is why there are two sep­a­rate ways in which laws are applied to whites and blacks. That is why police shoot with­out wor­ry­ing about the con­se­quence when a black per­son is at the busi­ness end of their weapon.

Those who think racism is a thing of the past because they have a cou­ple of white friends need to have their heads exam­ined. They can­not even bring them­selves to respect their own darn President, even when he is on for­eign soil. They would rather sup­port a sworn ene­my of the United States than stand for their own President and coun­try-men , sim­ply because they are black.

That kind of ran­cid igno­rance have per­me­at­ed their brain and occu­pied the very innards of their bio­log­i­cal make­up for gen­er­a­tions. I believe it is now genet­ic , the hate they have for blacks in this the land of the free , home of the brave.

This is what is play­ing out in Ferguson Missouri. Rather than fix the atti­tude of the Police by putting strict pro­tec­tions in place for the cit­i­zens , they give the police more guns to abuse and kill the very peo­ple who pay their salaries.

The sharks are cir­cling, there is blood in the water, this is huge. An American Icon is about to fall. 

Bill Cosby was America’s dad. Largely because of the NBC 1980’s hit, the Cosby show.

Reports are that mul­ti­ple women have come for­ward claim­ing that Cosby now 77, have drugged and had inap­pro­pri­ate sex­u­al con­tact with them. Thus far Bill Cosby have refused to com­ment on the allegations. 

These alle­ga­tions have dogged Cosby for years. In 1977 Cosby con­fessed to an extra-mar­tial affair with a woman named Shawn Upshaw . Upshaw claimed that her daugh­ter Autum Jackson was Cosby’s child. Paternity of Jackson was nev­er proven. Upshaw lat­er spent two years in Prison for try­ing to extort mon­ey from the Comedian.

Andrea Constand, the for­mer direc­tor of oper­a­tions of Temple University’s women’s bas­ket­ball pro­gram, sued the come­di­an, claim­ing he slipped her “herbal med­ica­tion” for stress when she vis­it­ed his Philadelphia man­sion in 2004. 

After tak­ing the “med­ica­tion,” she said Cosby touched her breasts and gen­i­tals and sex­u­al­ly assault­ed her. Constand had met Cosby sev­er­al years ear­li­er and con­sid­ered him a men­tor but when she con­tact­ed offi­cials, the dis­trict attor­ney declined to press charges. At the time, Cosby’s lawyer calls the accu­sa­tion “utter­ly preposterous.”

In 2006 Constand and 13 oth­er women filed a law suit against the Cos, the suit was set­tled out of court for an undis­closed sum of money.Unfortunately for Cosby the alle­ga­tions seem to be inten­si­fy­ing, not going away. Now there is a grow­ing list of women who claim that they too were drugged and assault­ed by Cosby.

♦California lawyer Tamara Green, who had appeared on the “Today Show” in 2005 alleg­ing that Cosby drugged and sex­u­al­ly assault­ed her in the 1970s in a fash­ion sim­i­lar to the one Constand alleges.

♦In 2005, Beth Ferrier claims she had a sex­u­al rela­tion­ship with Cosby — who has been mar­ried for 50 years to wife Camille — which she said end­ed after he alleged­ly drugged and groped her.

♦Barbara Bowman, tells Philadelphia mag­a­zine that Cosby threw her on a bed and attempt­ed to force­ful­ly dis­robe her as she yelled and begged him to stop.

♦Another accuser, Joan Tarshis, comes for­ward on November 16, claim­ing Cosby drugged and assault­ed her twice in 1969. Two days lat­er, for­mer super­mod­el Janice Dickinson says Cosby drugged and raped her in 1982.

Women seem to be com­ing out of the wood­work, all claim­ing that Cosby drugged and sex­u­al­ly assault­ed them. Tv Networks have begun to take notice, shows are being can­celled and all because Black Comedian Hannibal Burris said this in his rou­tine in October.

“It’s even worse because Bill Cosby has the f – king smuggest old black man pub­lic per­sona that I hate,” Burress, who is also black, tells a crowd. “‘ Pull your pants up, black peo­ple. I was on TV in the ’80s. I can talk down to you because I had a suc­cess­ful sit­com.’ Yeah, but you raped women, Bill Cosby. So, brings you down a cou­ple notch­es. ‘I don’t curse on stage.’ Well, yeah, you’re a rapist, so, I’ll take you sayin’ lots of moth­erf — ers on Bill Cosby: Himself if you weren’t a rapist.”

The feed­ing fren­zy has begun, many in the media and around social media are sali­vat­ing about this mas­sive take-down , after all it’s the American way right? Build them up ‚then take them down?

We make no judge­ment call, we just have one observation.

Since Mister Cosby has­n’t yet been con­vict­ed of any­thing. Could you please stop with the use of the old hag­gard-look­ing, beard­ed, con­vict-resem­bling por­trait ? We do get the sub­lim­i­nal mes­sage you are sending.

Oh, one more thing, those of you American blacks who despise Bill Cosby, you don’t hate him because you know that he is guilty of any crime. You hate him because he tells you about your­selves and you resent that. Some of you would rather sit and make excus­es rather than get up and make a way for you and your families.

Whether Bill Cosby is guilty or not, does not ren­der his crit­i­cisms any less true. We will with­hold judge­ment on Bill Cosby until the facts are prop­er­ly aired in a court of law, if at all.

The Nassau Guardian report­ed that Rev. Myles Munroe, pres­i­dent of Bahamas Faith Ministries International, and his wife, Ruth Munroe, were among the pas­sen­gers on a pri­vate jet that crashed into a crane at a ship­yard as it approached Grand Bahama International Airport in Freeport. The news­pa­per said two oth­er pas­tors with Munroe’s orga­ni­za­tion were also on the flight. The Nassau Guardian report­ed that Munroe, his wife and the oth­er pas­sen­gers were trav­el­ing from Lynden Pindling International Airport in Nassau, the Bahamian cap­i­tal, to Grand Bahama for a lead­er­ship forum that opened on Monday.

Immediately after the crash and before Doctor Monroe’s rel­a­tives can grieve his loss one homo­sex­u­al sup­port­ing web­site had this to say.

While some media out­lets are describ­ing the death of “Dr” Myles Munroe, and his wife Ruth Munroe, in a plane crash this week­end as the loss of a promi­nent faith leader, the ugly real­i­ty is that Munroe and his Bahamas Faith Ministries were major forces sup­port­ing homo­pho­bia and vio­lence against Gays in the Bahamas, a nation I’ve vis­it­ed a num­ber of times and which deserves far bet­ter than the igno­rance and big­otry which are the stock in trade of the “god­ly folk” like Munroe. I don’t mean to speak ill of the dead, but in report­ing on Munroe’s “min­istry,” lets at least be hon­est about what the man was real­ly all about. The Washington Blade has details on the death of these homo­phobes (Note the pan­der­ing — dare we call it self-pros­ti­tu­tion — of gov­ern­ment offi­cials to this mer­chant of bigotry):

It is clear that those who engage in homo­sex­u­al prac­tices and their sup­port­ers will not be sat­is­fied until every per­son who dis­agrees with their nasty per­vert­ed lifestyle is dead. I mean who is beyond crit­i­cism? Why are Gays so afraid of crit­i­cism? Is it that they know in their hearts that les­bian­ism and Homosexuality is a degen­er­ate unholy, unright­eous lifestyle that is counter to the laws of nature and the laws of God?

Daring to dis­agree with them brings a fierce and sav­age back­lash designed to destroy. Heterosexual dis­senters are labeled Homophobic and hate­ful. The vit­ri­ol which spews from Homosexuals far out­weigh any­thing Heterosexuals say in dis­sent. The Monroes and their friends bod­ies weren’t even cold when the sav­age attacks started.

Doctor Monroe has spo­ken out against Homosexuality, par­tic­u­lar­ly in his native Bahamas. In fact a Gay Pride event sched­uled for last week­end was scrapped because Dr Monroe slammed the pride event and the LGBT move­ment say­ing the LGBT move­ment has “hijacked” and “raped” the civ­il rights movement.

As head of Bahamas Faith Ministries International. Dr Myles Monroe spoke out against sin. He spoke elo­quent­ly on the need for the Church to preach an unvar­nished Gospel, not one that will please, but a Gospel which will con­vict sin­ners , bring­ing them to repentance.

Homosexuals believe that the love of God will cov­er them even as they con­tin­ue to wal­low in the filth of homo­sex­u­al devian­cy. They are woe­ful­ly wrong. God does love the sin­ner but he hates sin. As I have said in these blogs, we can­not sim­ply claim Grace even as we con­tin­ue in sin presumptuously .

The prob­lem is that Homosexuals do not want to accept that Homosexuality is abnor­mal and sin­ful. The Homosexual com­mu­ni­ty is wag­ing psy­cho­log­i­cal war­fare on the rest of the world. They do not want to hear that Homosexuality is abnor­mal, so they demo­nize any­one who dare dis­agree with them.

It is becom­ing rather dan­ger­ous, sui­ci­dal even ‚to speak out against them. Economic sabotage,blacklisting, and even more seri­ous weapons are in their Arsenal.

Make no mis­take they have pow­er­ful friends in high places . From Obama and Biden in the White house to Francis in the Vatican. Powerful peo­ple line up ready to wage war in their defense.

Pope Benedict crit­i­cized Homosexuality and soon after announced his retire­ment. Obama was quick to vis­it the Homosexual sup­port­ing Pope Francis.

Just recent­ly American Cardinal Raymond Burke was tak­en off the church’s high­est court to become the chap­lain of the Knights of Malta, a Vatican char­i­ty group. Demoted for speak­ing out against Francis’ lib­er­al­ism with the Gospel of God and Homosexuals.

The high­ly placed Political and Religious sup­port Gays receive pales in com­par­i­son to the amount of peo­ple with mon­ey who are will­ing to use eco­nom­ic sab­o­tage as a blud­geon­ing tool to cow their opponents .

Countries which stand on their prin­ci­ples of not accept­ing Homosexuality as a way of life are threat­ened with Economic sab­o­tage for their stance. So we ask, “Is it coin­ci­dence that Doctor Monroe who spoke out against Homosexuality just recent­ly, his wife and friends are all dead?

Was this an accident?

Was this just an unfor­tu­nate plane crash ‚or was this some­thing much ugli­er. Was Myles and Ruth Monroe silenced for dar­ing to speak out against the bur­geon­ing can­cer of Homosexuality as Cardinal Raymond Burke was demot­ed for dar­ing to stand on prin­ci­ple chal­leng­ing Pope Francis for try­ing to change Gods word to accom­mo­date homosexuals?

We may nev­er know the truth, or the truth may come to light some­how. It is obvi­ous how­ev­er, that speak­ing out in defense of one’s prin­ci­ples may mean seri­ous loss of rights or worse.

Already some Christian denom­i­na­tions are afraid to preach God’s word out of fear they may lose tax exemp­tion if they speak the truth about homosexuality.

It is not uncom­mon to see Homosexuals as part of the cler­gy as a result.

Here in America States like South Carolina are fight­ing a los­ing bat­tle against a ris­ing crescen­do of gay sup­port as it fights to pro­tect the sanc­ti­ty of mar­riage between man and woman.

There is some­thing sin­is­ter in these deaths. Maybe I’m para­noid, maybe I’m right. What is clear is that we are fast approach­ing a time when crit­i­cism of Homosexuality will land one in prison.

As Myles Monroe argued, Homosexuality has hijacked and raped the Civil Rights Struggle” . Speaking out against some­thing God’s word labels an Abomination is not abus­ing any­one’s Civil Rights.

It is the cor­rect thing to do, regard­less of what President or Pontiff say otherwise.

By ‑Elections to be held for the seat occu­pied by the late Roger Clarke in Central Westmoreland will be a sig­nif­i­cant indi­ca­tor in Jamaica Politics. The out­come of those elec­tions will deter­mine once and for all whether Jamaicans as a peo­ple can turn the cor­ner from blind polit­i­cal alle­giance and embrace a future of hope. Or whether they will con­tin­ue in the squalid gut­ter of polit­i­cal patri­o­tism , hun­gry and with­out a future.

The seat has been occu­pied by the People’s National Party for 25 years. Conditions in the Constituency leaves much to be desired though the People’s National Party have been in office for all except 4 years of that time.
The Elections will be a three-way affair this time between Financial con­sul­tant Faye Reid- Jacobs of the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). Businessman Dwayne Vaz, for the

PNP and Independent can­di­date Ras Astor Black of the Jamaica Alliance Movement.

Candidates of both major Political Parties were sup­port­ed at the nom­i­na­tion process by their respec­tive par­ty lead­ers . Jamaica Labor Party Leader Andrew Holness said quote, I sense a wind of change and the Jamaica Labour Party has put up its sails. We are mov­ing in Central Westmoreland,”.

Word of advice to Holness, noth­ing good hap­pens unless one lay the foun­da­tion and work like Hell to make a dream become real­i­ty. Bad things hap­pen all by them­selves. If they are going to win that Central Westmoreland, seat the JLP will have to get up of it’s col­lec­tive behind, go out and con­vince peo­ple why they need to embrace change.

Not to be out­done the Leader of the People’s National Party, and Prime Minister , Portia Simpson Miller said quote. 

“It will come back. This is PNP ter­ri­to­ry,” In ref­er­ence to the Constituency. Typical Simpson Miller under­stand­ing of politics.Gang-land, Garrison, enti­tle­ment. It’s ours, as if the peo­ple have no say in who their elect­ed Representatives are.

Miller went on to say,“The real­i­ty is that President Obama became a black pres­i­dent of the US and it was not expect­ed that a black man would have become pres­i­dent in the US,”.

That was vin­tage Portia, mak­ing a weak attempt at being the vic­tim, play­ing up the gen­der card. Someone in the gath­er­ing of PNP big­wigs should have had the good sense to nudge their Leader and remind her she is the Prime Minister. At some point Portia must come to the real­iza­tion that she is the leader of the coun­try. She can­not be allowed to play gen­der and class games in order to retain power. 

She has the pow­er, the peo­ple must demand she use it in their inter­est or step aside. This will be the best indi­ca­tor of whether the peo­ple are turn­ing the cor­ner, whether the winds of change are blow­ing the oth­er way, as Holness seem to believe. 

It was not the JLP tak­ing the Cassia Park Seat in the Local Government Elections as some Laborites seem to believe. Central Westomreland will indi­cate to the JLP and Jamaicans in the dias­po­ra whether the Country will con­tin­ue on the down­ward slide to becom­ing a failed state mired in pover­ty and crime.

There are times when I sim­ply just throw up my hands in exas­per­a­tion at the total incom­pe­tence and cor­rup­tion of Jamaican Officials. The JamaicaGleaner​.com reports that the Country is run­ning out of space to bury the dead​.In a report dat­ed Nov.11. 2014 the Paper reports that in 2013 ‚15,427 deaths were record­ed. Those num­bers are shock­ing all to them­selves when con­sid­ered in the con­text of the Country’s under 3 mil­lion population.

The report went on to state quote. The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is con­cerned that Jamaica is run­ning out of pub­lic space to bury persons.

I am going to take a leap and assume the Report is refer­ring to dead peo­ple. Anyway , even as the report high­lights the loom­ing prob­lem with so many deaths and such small land space peo­ple con­tin­ue to erect mam­moth edi­fices in Public Cemetery to hon­or their dead. The report cor­rect­ly spoke to the prac­tice of bury­ing dead in places which threat­en drink­ing water, as well as in places which neg­a­tive­ly impacts the val­ue of the prop­er­ty of oth­ers. In all of this one has to ask , “why is it so dif­fi­cult for the lazy ego-mani­a­cal thieves who run the Country to draft Legislation to fix this sim­ple prob­lem? How dif­fi­cult is it to have man­age­ment in place that does it’s damn job? Whether the UDC or the KSAC, irre­spec­tive of who is in charge, why can’t they get up off their sor­ry ass­es and actu­al­ly do some­thing? How incom­pe­tent can these nin­com­poops real­ly be ?