Boyne: Tired Of Writing About Crime, Join The Line Brother.….

Ian Boyne’s Article of Sunday January 9^th 2017.

I am tired of writing about crime. I keep saying the same things over and over. The majority of Jamaicans have no need to be convinced of the commonsensical things which I say, but our élite dominates traditional media discourse on the issue, and our politicians are in terror of them the way ordinary citizens are in terror of gunmen.
The politicians don’t have the guts and courage of leadership to take the tough decisions which they need to make to send a signal to criminals because talk-show hosts, articulate, well-spoken defense attorneys and other human rights fundamentalists will clobber them if they dare to act decisively and tough. Every prime minister and minister of national security knows that once he starts talking tough or takes strong action to make life harder for criminals, defense attorneys will be on every talk-show and every prime-time television newscast to make hysterical, histrionic claims of repression and denial of human rights.

Yet our journalists, columnists and civil society activists have the gall to be making calls for the Government to ‘do something now’ and to ‘act decisively’ to deal with crime and to “tame the crime monster. They talk about a whole menu of things which need to be done to fight crime. But examine them carefully. Not one would have any effect on murder today or next week. Listen to their recommendations again and ask, ‘which one would make criminals think twice about killing today?’.
Yes, I agree with all the human rights activists about the social and structural changes which are needed to fight crime sustainably. But what strategies can halt the horrific daily spate of murders? When will we have all the money to effect all the grand social and economic transformation needed to do all the things which the social justice model demands?
What irks me is not that these human rights fundamentalists are stressing the long-term things which need to be done. I have no disagreement with them. My problem is when these same persons harshly criticise the Government for not doing something now, when nothing they are proposing can have any practical effect on crime now. Nothing. Only one bleeding heart columnist has had the honesty to say plainly that there is nothing that can be done right now to halt crime, and we just have to invest the time and resources to get it right.

I respect that kind of forthright admission. He does not annoy me. But it is those who are writing editorials, columns and who are on talk shows demanding that Government ‘do something about this crime now!’ whose reasoning repels me. The only anti-crime measures which can have an immediate effect on crime deterrence must involve some curtailment of civil liberties enjoyed in normal times. We are not in normal times.
It seems that that is dawning on our prime minister. In his new year’s message he said something very significant. I just hope he has the courage to carry it through, after the predictable voices in the defense bar get on early morning, mid-morning, afternoon and night-time talk-shows and newscasts to blast him.
He said: “I believe the Jamaican people are now prepared and expectant of firm and decisive action in breaking the neck of the crime monster once and for all.”

Mr Prime Minister, they have been ready for a long, long time. It is our élite which has not been ready, using sophistry and obfuscation to escape the crystal clear conclusions: We are at war with criminals and we have to craft anti-crime strategies to fit that war.

The prime minister has now told us that, “I have been around the country and everywhere I go the cry is the same, deal with the criminals. I no longer detect an ambivalence.” There was never any ambivalence with the people, Mr Prime Minister. The problem is with our élite, who are as out of touch with the people’s everyday realities as the American élite was with working class and grassroots people in in their country, resulting in that shock defeat to their Democratic candidate.
Our traditional media, like the American traditional media, are out of touch with grassroots fears, concerns and views. These ordinary Jamaicans are seen as just ‘panicking’, after ‘revenge’ and not being sophisticated or enlightened enough to understand the intricacies of human rights issues.
We have a prime minister who is social media savvy and who is directly in touch with multiple tens of thousands of people through those platforms. His thinking is not just influenced by what traditional media discourse is. While I know he remains sensitive to that, he is acutely aware of a broader constituency; a constituency whose interests don’t converge with those of the defense bar.

I was happy to hear the prime minister announce that “we will be creating the legislative environment to support the establishment of the rule of law in communities where it is absent and to separate criminals from communities they have captured.” He went on to say: “We will be creating under this framework, zones where the security forces and other Government agencies will be able to conduct special long-term operations in high crime areas, including extensive searches for guns and contraband.” Excellent!
Expect to hear defense lawyers on every talk show and to see editorials and columns inveighing in Manichean terms about an approaching Apocalypse and the end of democracy and human rights in Jamaica. If the prime minister is not prepared to press ahead despite that; if he displays the fear which has crippled others from decisive, tough action, he will back away from whatever he announces as soon as he does.
The power of the media/​defense bar élite has to be resisted. The courage of Andrew Holness’ leadership will be severely tested on this issue of security. Peter Bunting used to boast about how curfews had declined under his watch. There must be more curfews, searches and detentions in areas of high criminality. Certain people who nobody dares testify against and who can afford the highest-priced criminal lawyers must be taken off the streets and detained. You could say until you are blue that it is because my children will not be scraped up. That diversionary argument won’t detain me.

People in inner-city communities know that there are certain criminals who are well-known but whom nobody can testify against in a court of law. These guys can hire the best attorneys to defend them or to get them on bail where they can kill more people.
Let them and their attorneys protest; let all the editorial writers, columnists and commentators come out in unison against the measures you are coming with, prime minister, have the guts to implement them in the interest of Jamaica and its future. Don’t be intimidated by élite lawyers with uptown diction and impeccable media connections. The people are not listening to them. The people know better. They don’t have safe uptown houses . The prime minister said in his new year’s address that he was confident that this year “will be the breakthrough year in bringing the crime monster under control, while respecting the human rights of every citizen” . I am for respecting human rights. I am not calling for extra-judicial killings or police abuses.
But I am calling for locking down certain communities, locking away certain known crime perpetrators; going into homes without search warrants and stopping vehicles on the road. Curtail some of my civil liberties in the interest of all. You can’t have human rights if there is not a viable state. We cannot allow Jamaica to become a failed state and to let our prospects for economic growth evaporate before our eyes because our politicians and chattering classes are cowards. Enough is enough!
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Thanks Ian Boyne. I have always believed that ulti­mate­ly things will come to a boil, that soon­er or lat­er peo­ple’s eyes will be opened to the neg­a­tive con­se­quences of crime on their lives .
More and more non-police Jamaicans are com­ing to that crit­i­cal mass and it’s encouraging.

For years I have writ­ten and writ­ten and writ­ten about this sem­i­nal issue.
For years I have spo­ken to the fact that there are a bunch of self-appoint­ed Elites who shape pub­lic per­cep­tion about what is done about crime.
For years I point­ed out to the Jamaican peo­ple who actu­al­ly suf­fer from crime , that it is them and their fam­i­ly mem­bers whom are the vic­tims of crime.
I spoke specif­i­cal­ly about where they may be found , I char­ac­ter­ized them as those who live above Cross-Roads. But that does not ade­quate­ly describe where they may be found. They are in the media hous­es,(move yu toe Boyne) they can be found in the Island’s Bar asso­ci­a­tion, (the crim­i­nal lawyers who sur­vive from crime).They are at the University of the West Indies,(Mutty Perkins labeled it the intel­lec­tu­al ghet­to).The Norman Manley law school being the epic-cen­ter of the indoc­tri­na­tion, as well as the over­all cam­pus which has always been a ground-zero of left­ist ideology.

These soci­etal vul­tures are mas­ter pontificates.
They carved out a place for them­selves which effec­tive­ly posi­tions them­selves as moral supe­ri­ors. They under­stand that pover­ty and bad gov­er­nance breeds crime.
The per­fect envi­ron­ment for them to operate.
Taking the sides of crim­i­nals secures them in their abil­i­ties to make a liv­ing from the blood-shed,while shield­ing them from the blood-let­ting as a result of the stance they take.

The trail lawyers were always under­stood to be just an uptick above the vul­tures which tear the car­cass from the corpse of the inno­cent slaugh­tered on the Serengeti.
They like the Vultures are quite con­tent to wait on the lions/​lionesses , after which they swoop down to pick up the pieces left over by the killers.
It the new breed of Vultures, (jankru) which have tak­en over the narrative.
Those whom have dri­ven fear into Politicians, and police , pre­vent­ing them from doing what must be done to reclaim the streets from the mind­less killers.

IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG AS WE EXPECTED

We knew it would­n’t be long before these local jankru, I’m sor­ry vul­tures swooped down as they are wont to do when­ev­er any­one dare step up in a away which will dis­rupt their food..
The ink on Boyne’s Article had­n’t dried before they swooped down.
In case you are won­der­ing who they are, here is what appeared in the Gleaner on Monday morn­ing , the very next day.

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Courtesy of the dai­ly Gleaner.

Public Defender Arlene Harrison Henry, a defence lawyer and human-rights activist, says the proposal by influential journalist Ian Boyne for Prime Minister Andrew Holness to curtail the rights of Jamaicans to address crime should be rejected for its ‘unlawfulness’. Boyne, in his column in The Sunday Gleaner yesterday, branded rights advocates, defence lawyers, and members of the media as elites “who harshly criticise the Government for not doing something now when nothing they are proposing can have any practical effect on crime now”.

“I am calling for locking down certain communities, locking away certain known crime perpetrators; going into homes without search warrants and stopping vehicles on the road. Curtail some of my civil liberties in the interest of all. You can’t have human rights if there is not a viable State,” he wrote, urging Holness to ‘resist’ efforts to undermine plans to address the crime problem this year. However, Harrison Henry said those suggestions should be rejected. “Mr Boyne’s aim is for the reduction of crime, and that is laudable. The methods he has prescribed, however, have already been tried, tested and proved not to work. So let us not forget that Tivoli Gardens incursion in 2010.”

She argued that some of the old methods included the Suppression of Crime Act of 1974 that was repealed in 1993 after yielding little results except for the alleged abuses of citizens’ rights. Tied to that is the creation of various special police units over the years that earned the wrath of rights campaigners for their actions. “At the risk of being regarded by Boyne as one of the human-rights fundamentalists, what we’re saying is that crime-fighting measures will not succeed if people’s rights are disregarded. Crime is a societal problem and it cannot be solved without the full involvement of communities.”

Jamaican authorities are struggling to contain crime, particularly murders — the key indicator. About 1,350 people were murdered last year, 11 per cent more than 2015. That’s a rate of about 45 homicides per 100,000 of the population. Rights campaigner Horace Levy said the figure is high, but the “nonsense” proposed by Boyne will not do anything to address the problem. “It simply has not worked. For decades, we’ve been doing that. It’s absolute rubbish! Absolute rubbish!” Levy said. “And, we in the civil society, and I’m sure the Jamaican Bar Association, will also be involved in it, will fight any attempt to bring back this business of barging into peoples’ houses without search warrants and limiting their right to bail. I’m disappointed in Boyne because he usually writes good sense,” added Levy, the executive director of Jamaicans for Justice.

On the issue of searching houses without warrants, Patrick Atkinson, defence lawyer and former attorney general, said Boyne should volunteer his house first. “I would like them to start by going in and locking down his community, and stop and search his car, and going into his house without a warrant. Since he’s willing to do that, let them start there,” he said. “It is just a recycled diatribe that occurs every time that there is a crime spike. When you have these spikes in crimes, they call on police to stop it. They call on lawyers to be silent. They feel it necessary to dismiss lawyers by referring to them as high-priced lawyers, as if that is some kind of a crime. They don’t speak about high-priced doctors or high-priced journalists. If you’re a lawyer, nobody has a clue what your fees are and that people somehow, by hiring lawyers, it facilitates them committing crime. It is all nonsense.

“To stop crime is really not the police’s job,” said Atkinson. “The police are there primarily to go and investigate crimes that have been committed.” His successor in the attorney general’s chambers, Marlene Malahoo-Forte, renewed the debate about rights and crime last May when she told the Parliament that “fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed to Jamaicans may have to be abrogated, abridged or infringed” to address crime. Holness noted in his New Year’s Day message that legislative changes were coming, but gave no specifics. The public defender, meanwhile, said her office was prepared to fight any unlawful proposal.

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These are not the only entrenched crim­i­nal sup­port­ing peo­ple on the Island. Neither are the Organizations they rep­re­sent the total­i­ty of the myr­i­ad insti­tu­tions which does so. Some are even tax-pay­er fund­ed ‚yet active­ly engages in and enhances crime on the Island.
This has been par for the course in the over 50 years since the British hand­ed the coun­try after 1962.

I’m glad Ian Boyne used term “ELITES” to describe them, he sim­ply for­get to add “wannabe”.
Criminal lawyers live off crime. Human rights peo­ple eat a food off alle­ga­tions of state abuse. The very office of pub­lic defend­er is a con­tra­dic­tion, it should be scrapped , the pub­lic defend­er’s office is actu­al­ly the DPP. What has that lit­tle creep Levy done out­side leech­ing and mooching? In what oth­er coun­try out­side the worlds num­ber one crim­i­nal par­adise Jamaica, would these despi­ca­ble mis­cre­ants even have a say in nation­al secu­ri­ty policy?

Two issues arise when­ev­er these vul­tures open their despi­ca­ble pie-holes.
(1) They demo­nize any­one who dis­agree with their views, and can­on­ize those with whom they agree.
(2) They nat­u­ral­ly default to using the word “unlaw­ful”, as soon as there is a sug­ges­tion to get tough with criminals.
We know these peo­ple are leech­es , we know they are parasites .
What these damn fools do not real­ize is that all that is need­ed, is to change the laws and what they per­ceive to be unlaw­ful now becomes lawful.

How dumb do they think the aver­age peo­ple are?
In Jamaica there two groups of peo­ple , there are decent good peo­ple who are vic­tim­ized by crime then there are the crim­i­nals and their cabal of sup­port­ers which include these jankru Elitists.

The peo­ple of Colombia rose up against crime, they chose not to become a narco-state.
They rose up against Pablo Escobar, the Medellin car­tel and the Cali Cartel.
But they also rose up on those who for years sup­port­ed the criminals .
That time is fast approach­ing in Jamaica.
There are some in Jamaica who must receive vis­i­ta­tions if our coun­try is to improve .
Our coun­try must move from a crim­i­nal sup­port­ing state con­trolled by Liberal talk­ing heads. In order to get there some of these” jankrus” who feed off the car­cass of our coun­try­men must be removed.

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