How Ironic ?
I received the News my good friend SSP Cornwall (Badda) Ford was retir­ing the same way most every­one else did, through the Jamaican media.
Those who know him from the many and var­ied sto­ries told and retold about his for­ays and exploits in the Police Department his Nickname (Bigga Ford) speaks to his phys­i­cal stature.
To the rest of us who real­ly know him the term (Badda Ford) is more appro­pri­ate, even as it does­n’t come close to telling the mag­ni­tude of his ser­vice to country.

Those who nev­er donned a uni­form in ser­vice to some­thing big­ger than them­selves ben­e­fit from the sac­ri­fices of those who do and that’s okay.
No one forces a police offi­cer or a mem­ber of the mil­i­tary to serve but they do anyway.
No not every­one will ful­ly appre­ci­ate the immense char­ac­ter which goes into some­one run­ning toward fly­ing fly­ing bul­lets and bark­ing guns so that oth­ers can be safe.

I wish I had a dol­lar for every instance I heard the argu­ment that “no one forced them and they get paid”. Nowadays I sim­ply smile either you get it or you don’t

SSP Ford’s immi­nent depar­ture from the JCF will book-end a chap­ter of real fear­less crime fight­ers, some Famous and oth­ers unsung. Ironically the JCF is now an Institution top heavy with gazetted offi­cers most­ly with degrees who could’t find their way out of a brown paper bag.
Ford came from a long line of crime fight­ers some of whom I was priv­i­leged to know and a few I had the dis­tinct plea­sure of work­ing with.
That list includes but is in no way con­fined to the well known.
Joe Williams. Keith (Trinity) Gardener. O C Hare. Anthony Hewitt. Altamoth (Parra) Campbell. Cornwall (Badda) Ford. Dadrick Henry. Isiah Laing. Mikey Scott and others.
As one for­mer street sol­dier speak­ing to the real street sol­diers like Spungy, O’connor, and the count­less heroes who kept Jamaica from boil­ing over into a failed state I lift my cap to you. Many of you have gone on , many still remain with us , you know your­selves and you know your con­tri­bu­tion to our country.
Yo did what you did with­out fan­fare , you did it for pre­cious lit­tle reward, but you did it for love of country.
I salute you.

Those who sit atop the con­stab­u­lary hier­ar­chy climbed on your shoul­ders , many occu­py­ing posi­tions unearned Ford spoke to this in his com­ments to the media.
Quote :  “The police force has made me and I have made my con­tri­bu­tion. I have made my mark. The police force as an insti­tu­tion is not a bad thing. It’s just that you have some police in it who are wicked and bad-mind­ed. You have peo­ple of all dif­fer­ent val­ues and standards,” 
It is report­ed that Ford will be leav­ing the depart­ment in ear­ly January 2016 uti­liz­ing the ear­ly retire­ment option avail­able to him.
No one knows more about the cor­rup­tion of some who serve and some who still serve of which Ford speak.
As a young Constable work­ing at the CIB Office at Constant Spring police pre­scient I was on Vacation leave and dri­ving a rent­ed car my kid broth­er loaned me to pick up a female friend from the Norman Manley International airport.

I was dri­ving East along Spanish Town Road when a car head­ing in the oppo­site direc­tion cut across my path and slammed into me.
The car had no head­lights, I nev­er knew what hit me.
I suf­fered cuts to my head and fore­head and oth­er injuries , the car I was dri­ving a Toyota star­let was lit­er­al­ly totaled.
Driving the unmarked car was a cer­tain police Corporal with whom I had served at the Mobile Reserve on the Ranger Squad .
He was on assign­ment to a plain­clothes squad based at police Area 4 which was on South Camp Road. With him were his team members.

Seeing it was him I asked him to radio the Denham Town Police which was the near­est sta­tion to the crash , I was bleed­ing , mem­bers of his team were also shak­en up but noth­ing seri­ous. An Inspector of police arrived and dealt with the acci­dent as it should be at the time when police ser­vice vehi­cles are involved.
The cer­tain cor­po­ral with whom I pre­vi­ous­ly had cor­dial rela­tion­ship did not want to lose his plum assign­ment at Area 4 so he con­coct­ed a scheme to cov­er his ass.

Fortunately Badda Ford was there when he told the Assistant Commissioner that I was escort­ing gun­men from Tivoli Gardens and crashed into him destroy­ing the car.
♦He nev­er quite explained how it was pos­si­ble for me to be escort­ing gun­men from Tivoli Gardens while head­ing in the direc­tion of Tivoli Gardens.
♦ H e nev­er both­ered explain­ing the absence of the peo­ple I was sup­pos­ed­ly escorting>
♦ He nev­er both­ered think­ing that the acci­dent was prop­er­ly inves­ti­gat­ed by an Inspector who could be called on for a detailed report of the crash.
♦ He did­n’t care that I knew absolute­ly no one from Tivoli Gardens.
♦ He did­n’t care that I was a hon­est hard work­ing police offi­cer who stood for fideli­ty and what’s right.
♦ The idi­ot­ic big bel­ly Assistant Commissioner for all intents and pur­pos­es would have gob­bled up the con­coct­ed sto­ry as gospel had Ford not jumped in and blast­ed him as a liar and a fraud.
Bigga Ford told him point­ed­ly he would tell me what he was telling the Assistant Commissioner so he should know when I con­front him he told me.
I left the force a few years lat­er , the then cor­po­ral went on to become a Superintendent.
Is there much won­der the Department is in the shape it’s in?
The same is true for count­less offi­cers of hon­esty and integri­ty who walked away leav­ing far too many with ques­tion­able characters .

I did not con­front that cor­po­ral imme­di­ate­ly, I wait­ed until I was in con­trol then I told him that despite the fact I had not said any­thing I knew what he did all along and yes I told him Supa Ford told me of his wicked con­coct­ed story.
He knew what time it was , I’m sure he pissed his pants, but for the God in me I would have.….…
Oh well.
The era of the super cops is now offi­cial­ly over.
One of my chief obser­va­tion about my coun­try­men is their pre­ten­tious nature. We pre­tend we are what we are not.
Jamaica is far and away not close to hav­ing a jus­tice sys­tem which works. Adopting a mod­el which even devel­oped coun­tries eschew is suicidal.
Of course in Jamaica every­one knows exact­ly how to do every­one’s job except their own.

So a pedi­atric Doctor became the tem­plate for set­ting polic­ing pro­to­cols, dozens of cops killed since , thou­sands of inno­cent civil­ians also.
Rather than fix the prob­lem they dou­bled down cre­at­ing anoth­er lay­er of antag­o­nism against law enforce­ment, plac­ing at it’s head an ego-mani­a­cal nar­cis­sist , more cops and more inno­cent civil­ians can pre­pare to die.
Ride off into the sun­set Badda Ford you served your coun­try well, you weren’t per­fect , none of us are but here’s hop­ing what­ev­er else you do look after el número uno , my friend , and do smell the flow­ers while you still can .
Peace my broth­er enjoy the next phase of your life.

Over the last three decades well over thir­ty thou­sand ( 30.000) peo­ple have been killed by crim­i­nals in Jamaica. It’s impor­tant to note that the coun­try is not engaged in a civ­il war. That guessti­mate was arrived at using sta­tis­tics from the Police report­ing on murders.
Additionally untold more have been shot and crit­i­cal­ly wound­ed lat­er result­ing in death. These are nev­er added into the mur­der totals, so by all accounts the num­ber of report­ed homi­cides are gen­er­al­ly con­ser­v­a­tive estimates.

As the killings con­tin­ue unabat­ed and arguably with increased feroc­i­ty there seem to be a sense of res­ig­na­tion with­in the pop­u­la­tion that noth­ing can be done to stop it.
The Police Department is plagued with myr­i­ad prob­lems which ren­ders it unable to cope effec­tive­ly as a force in pro­tect­ing the shrink­ing seg­ment of the pop­u­la­tion not involved in crim­i­nal conduct.
Corruption, incom­pe­tence, lack of struc­tur­al sup­port , low wages , and an over­all sense of demor­al­iza­tion are just a few of the issues which are ham­per­ing the police.
The polit­i­cal admin­is­tra­tion in Kingston is not about to help , from top down the admin­is­tra­tion is a tem­plate of cor­rup­tion and malfeasance .

Scandal after scan­dal which would have brought down admin­is­tra­tions in oth­er west­ern coun­tries have been swept aside result­ing in no con­se­quence for the thieves who are entrust­ed with run­ning the nation’s affairs.
This gives the aver­age per­son on the streets the sense that he too can com­mit breach­es of the law with­out con­se­quence. The crime sta­tis­tics in the Island Nation bears tes­ta­ment to that sense. By the con­clu­sion of the year 2015 the num­ber of Jamaicans killed at the hands of crim­i­nals is expect­ed to be in excess of 1200 . As I have argued repeat­ed­ly, these are huge amounts of killings for any coun­try but even more fright­en­ing for a small island with 2.7 mil­lion peo­ple and a land mass of 4,411 square miles.
During my brief decade in law enforce­ment I saw first-hand the dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences crime has on fam­i­lies and on the psy­che of the nation overall.

In the 24 years since I left,crime has gone up expo­nen­tial­ly. Murders alone has increased between two hun­dred and fifty and three hun­dred per­cent­age points.
Those per­cent­age points are not mere sta­tis­tics they rep­re­sent once liv­ing breath­ing human beings whom were our broth­ers and sis­ters, aunts and uncles , moth­ers and fathers, our neigh­bors and friends.
Laws have not kept pace with the sit­u­a­tion on the ground, in fact Jamaica has dis­proved the old say­ing “crime does not pay”.
Crime does pay in Jamaica , it’s sim­ply a mat­ter of calculation.
A per­son want­i­ng to mur­der some­one for what­ev­er rea­son has pre­cious lit­tle to fear from the author­i­ties. Less than 50% of mur­der­ers are ever arrested,those arrest­ed are large­ly domes­tic homi­cides where every­one knows John killed his girl­friend Shauna-kaye .
More fright­en­ing is that even with those mea­ger homi­cide arrest num­bers only about 7% are con­vict­ed by the crim­i­nal friend­ly court system.
If you thought that the 7% con­vic­tion rate is bad it’s impor­tant that you know that even then the lib­er­al appeal courts over­turn con­vic­tions on the flim­si­est of tech­ni­cal­i­ties mak­ing it all but cer­tain the courts sys­tem has no agen­da to incar­cer­ate dan­ger­ous crim­i­nals but is more inter­est­ed in push­ing it’s rad­i­cal left­ist pro­gres­sive agen­da. By the time the appeal courts whit­tle the con­vic­tion rate down we are down to a shock­ing 1% actu­al­ly pay­ing for their crimes.

Poverty. Deportations . Government incom­pe­tence and com­plic­i­ty. A Weak inef­fec­tu­al crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem . Laws which ham­per effec­tive law enforce­ment are just a few of the fac­tors fuel­ing crime on the Island. The rough­ly 4 Jamaicans mur­dered dai­ly is a mere par for the course except when some­one of promi­nence becomes the vic­tim, in which case there is an out­pour­ing of out­rage and dis­gust and as my dear­ly depart­ed grand dad used to say , “like crème soda it fiz­zles and then it dies”.
Outrage done !
The Island’s archa­ic laws encour­ages crim­i­nal behav­ior , even when author­i­ties attempt to do some­thing in response to the bur­geon­ing rate of law­less­ness instead of tak­ing a stand against crim­i­nals they design laws to fur­ther impede and ham­per law enforcement.
In the end Jamaica is not a good place to raise a fam­i­ly or do busi­ness any more . Sad to say this will not change with the present lead­er­ship or should I say lack thereof.

I hope that with the com­ing new year Jamaicans will take a col­lec­tive intro­spec­tive look at the direc­tion our coun­try has been head­ing and ask them­selves are they bet­ter off than the year before, or the year before that?
If the answer is no as it should be then they must ask them­selves whether it’s okay to con­tin­ue sup­port­ing a Party and a Government which is gross­ly incom­pe­tent at best and worse case bla­tant­ly cor­rupt and crim­i­nal in nature?
Jamaicans have a col­lec­tive new year res­o­lu­tion to make and that should be to return the coun­try to a path of pros­per­i­ty and growth for their children.
That path is not to be found in the man­i­festo of the present administration.

Am I the only one offend­ed by Portia Simpson Miller’s propen­si­ty to jump at every oppor­tu­ni­ty to offer words of con­grat­u­la­tions and plat­i­tudes to sports stars, beau­ty pageants con­tes­tants, but nev­er have time to speak on burn­ing issues of the day.

The Jamaican Prime Minister in clas­sic dumb mute char­ac­ter has no word of sup­port for the fam­i­lies of police offi­cers when their loved ones are mur­dered in ser­vice to their country.
She is silent about the dai­ly blood­shed in our coun­try. As she is about the fact that the Jamaican dol­lar is for all intents and pur­pos­es a worth­less currency.
She is silent on the ram­pant cor­rup­tion which has plagued not just for­mer PNP Administrations but which seem to be the defin­ing theme of both her Administrations.

Most impor­tant­ly she had noth­ing to say about Dwayne Vaz’s nin­com­poop com­ments on a plat­form in St James urg­ing PNP sup­port­ers to pick up their guns against Jamaica Labor Party supporters.
I find it extra offen­sive that Miller who has done every­thing to secure and hold onto state pow­er has noth­ing for the peo­ple except Spanish Town Road ghet­to rhetoric and a kind of old style pol­i­tics the coun­try had already turned it’s back on.

Portia Simpson Miller can cheer-lead for sports stars, beau­ty con­tes­tants and what­ev­er else tick­les her fan­cy but it’s time she step aside if she loves Jamaica and in the name of God leave some­thing of the Island we know and love for the next generation.

Among the destruc­tive things the People’s National Party has done to Jamaica out­side the destruc­tion of the econ­o­my, impov­er­ish­ment of the pop­u­la­tion, mak­ing our cur­ren­cy worth­less, and destroy­ing the pro­duc­tive sec­tor, is the destruc­tion of the Island’s moral compass.

Several days ago Dwayne Vaz the PNP mem­ber of par­lia­ment for cen­tral Westmoreland caused great con­cern to Jamaicans both at home and abroad when he invoked the mur­der lyrics of impris­oned con­vict­ed mur­der­er Vybz Kartel on stage , induc­ing his sup­port­ers to load up their guns to take the fight to mem­bers of the oppo­si­tion Jamaica Labor Party.
Since then Vaz has walked back the com­ments after Jamaicans react­ed strong­ly to the notion that an elect­ed offi­cial could reck­less attempt to do any­thing , much less sug­gest that the Island return to the dark days of polit­i­cal executions.
Vaz is rel­a­tive­ly young but he is no pup , if he is old enough to sit in Parliament as a mem­ber of that body he is not too young to know wrong from right and if he is that stu­pid then he needs to step aside.
Jamaica cer­tain­ly does not need that kind of leadership.

Absent any pepu­da­tion of Vaz on the mat­ter is the Prime Minister whom for all intents and pur­pos­es can­not be tak­en seriously.
However Portia does not need to speak out she does not know wrong from right and nei­ther does the Jamaica Gleaner a once proud paper now shame­less­ly the mouth-piece of the rul­ing PNP .
December 17^th 2015 The Paper pub­lished it’s dai­ly let­ter of the day, titled :

“Low Di Yout Dem”…

For my read­ers who are not famil­iar with the Jamaican ver­nac­u­lar, ” Low Di Yout Dem” is a col­lo­qui­al inter­pre­ta­tion of “leave the young peo­ple alone”.
The let­ter reads as follows.

THE EDITOR, Sir:

It is a wel­com­ing sight to see the increased num­ber of young peo­ple in pol­i­tics. Like in our youth­ful days, they will err. It is not our duty as elders to shut them up or try to destroy them in the name of trib­al pol­i­tics. First, we must acknowl­edge that this is not the gen­er­a­tion of the 1950s and 1960s. Second, they are more expres­sive and advanced cul­tur­al­ly and/​or intel­lec­tu­al­ly. They will make mis­takes; why hang them?

There is an inter­view with Bob Marley that was done on his return from a Caribbean des­ti­na­tion in the 1970s. He spoke about adults wrong­ful­ly judg­ing young peo­ple. He said (and I para­phrase) that all ‘dem big peo­ple gwaan like sey dem was nev­er young; dem a gwaan like dem did born big’. This line of rea­son­ing helps us to reflect on our­selves as we judge the young. Let us take the case of young Dwayne Vaz and that Kartel song. I will also look at young Dayton Campbell, too, because when he speaks, there is a kind of avalanche of con­dem­na­tion. It was this blitz of con­dem­na­tion and hang­man’s noose shak­ing at young Dwayne Vaz; and look who is talk­ing! Lef di yute! We were once young and we made errors. There were elders that were in place to help us to grow and to respect rea­son. What is miss­ing from all of this is reason.

There is the argu­ment that Vaz used lyrics of a “con­vict­ed mur­der­er”. Is the prob­lem the music or is it Vybz Kartel? I agree with the protest, but make it civ­il and intel­li­gent. Dwayne Vaz is a young man, and like any one of our sons, treat him like your child. On Tuesday, I saw the slew of orches­trat­ed con­dem­na­tions of young Vaz. It was like he com­mit­ted ISIS types of crime. Was there this lev­el of con­dem­na­tion of the so-called flag killing in Portmore? We have some young peo­ple in Jamaica who have a lot of poten­tial and they must not be destroyed, but be assist­ed as they evolve. Do you real­ly believe that Vaz would do some­thing delib­er­ate­ly on the big stage to call for ret­ri­bu­tion and vio­lence? Give the youth a break!

I see the same trend of com­ments and con­dem­na­tion of young Dayton Campbell. Let him speak. Intelligent peo­ple can­not remain silent in the face of igno­rance. When and where he com­mits an error, do not fail him, help him to over­come that prob­lem. Where is that vil­lage that is expect­ed to raise the youth? It is a pity that in this sea­son of polit­i­cal cam­paigns there is this empti­ness of knowl­edge and rea­son in the poor nar­ra­tives of 21-cen­tu­ry pol­i­tics in Jamaica. In times like these we real­ly miss the incom­pa­ra­ble Michael Manley. The truth buried will rise again.

Louis E.A. Moyston
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As some­one who has more than once had the good for­tune of hav­ing an essay being des­ig­nat­ed Letter of the day I am dis­s­a­point­ed that the Gleaner thinks a let­ter which ask that the Jamaican peo­ple give a pass to a mem­ber of par­lia­ment because of his age is wor­thy of pub­li­ca­tion , much less let­ter of the day.
This let­ter is in and of itself the heart of what is wrong with Jamaica. No amount of quot­ing famous peo­ple changes that…
Vaz is not a youth he is a mem­ber of par­lia­ment and one who is in posi­tion to influ­ence real young people.
Making excus­es for him does noth­ing to help him, it shows the dement­ed state of men­tal retar­da­tion of those who excuse his behavior.
By the end of this year the very same youths will have mur­dered in excess of 1200 of their coun­try­men and women.
This writer and the Gleaner should be ashamed at want­i­ng to give a pass to some­one who have craved and pur­sued leadership.
Dwayne Vay is 34 years old , at his age I had com­plet­ed 10 years as a police offi­cer and had moved on and was 3 years into the sec­ond stage of my life.
Had any young police offi­cer wrong­ly killed or wound­ed a mem­ber of the pub­lic would the let­ter writer and the Gleaner be so benevolent?
Most police offi­cers are giv­en the enor­mous task of mak­ing life and death deci­sions at the ten­der age of 18 years-old.
Surgeons oper­ate dai­ly, some are younger than Dwayne Vaz, were one of them reck­less and end­ed up jeop­ar­diz­ing patien­t’s lives would he receive the same char­i­ta­ble pass?
I believe we all know the answer to these ques­tions, which brings us then to why should a sit­ting mem­ber of par­lia­ment be held to a less­er stan­dard of responsibility?

The let­ter writer is free to write what­ev­er he wants. As an opin­ion writer myself I write what I feel like . The prob­lem how­ev­er is when a news­pa­per which ought to know bet­ter ele­vates a let­ter with that kind of con­tent being ful­ly con­ver­sant of Jamaica’s bloody past as it relates to polit­i­cal vio­lence, it shows a cer­tain lev­el of reck­less­ness unwor­thy of the pub­lic’s trust.
Vaz made the sopho­moric com­ments on a stage in Montego Bay . Days lat­er six peo­ple were shot one killed in a dri­ve by shoot­ing in the very same city.
I am not sug­gest­ing there was a con­nec­tion between Vaz’s state­ments and the shoot­ings but it brings to the fore the volatile nature of the sit­u­a­tion with the pro­lif­er­a­tion and abun­dance of guns in the hands of peo­ple who are not smart enough to not use them in polit­i­cal killings.

Jamaica did “low di yute dem” , by the end of this year well over 1200 Jamaicans will have been killed by criminals.
Let that sink in for a bit.
The coun­try is a ver­i­ta­ble killing field , imag­ine 1200 bod­ies laid out side by side and imag­ine that car­nage in a nation 4411 square miles and a pop­u­la­tion of 2.7 million.
Then imag­ine just how ten­u­ous the sit­u­a­tion is.
No the youths can­not be allowed to do as they please the nation tried it and look where it got us.
Dwayne Vaz is no youth he is a grown man and he must be held account­able for his actions like every­one else.
I’m still await­ing a response from Jamaica house maybe ‚just maybe the Prime Minister will final­ly real­ize she is the Prime Minister of all Jamaicans and not just for the PNP.

On assum­ing office as Prime Minister of Jamaica after the ear­ly exit of belea­guered Prime Minister Bruce Golding Andrew Holness said he would ask the Leader of the Opposition Portia Simpson Miller to walk the Garrisons as a sign of peace and togetherness.
Holness felt this was impor­tant giv­en our coun­try’s vio­lent polit­i­cal past.
True to his word on October 27^th Andrew Holness sent a let­ter to Portia Simpson Miller as a sign of good­will and coöperation.
To the best of our knowl­edge Andrew Holness received no for­mal response from the then leader of the polit­i­cal opposition.
HOLNESS’ INVITATION TO WALK THE GARRISONS.

This pub­li­ca­tion was enthused at the change in tone and atti­tude of the new­ly installed prime Minister . As a for­mer cop and a Jamaican who have wit­nessed first­hand the rav­ages of polit­i­cal vio­lence on our peo­ple and cul­ture, I felt though not a panacea Holness’ atti­tude to Governance was an impor­tant first step in the rec­on­cil­i­a­tion process for the Jamaican peo­ple as one peo­ple, despite our dif­fer­ing polit­i­cal affiliations.

I was not sur­prised how­ev­er that Portia Simpson Miller did not for­mal­ly respond to the entreaties of the then Prime Minister to present a unit­ed front in the inter­est of our country.
At the time I said the People’s National Party and Portia Simpson Miller could not take up the Prime Minister’s offer to show togeth­er­ness as Garrisons were Portia and Portia the Garrisons.
I opined then that the woman the mass­es refer to as  Sista P was mere­ly an oppor­tunis­tic vira­go and a polit­i­cal hustler.
I had seen her in action over the years and thus I believe my char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of her was and still remain an exer­cise in charity.
OF GARRISONS CONCESSIONS AND DEBATES.

The People’s National Party con­struct­ed an elab­o­rate scheme to con­trol state pow­er begin­ning in the ear­ly 70’s , the idea was to use pop­u­lar pro­grams and laws which would have mass grass root appeal, sup­pos­ed­ly in the best inter­est of the poor­er class.
This cre­at­ed a cult-like fol­low­ing of the par­ty which remain to this day despite the fact that Jamaica’s depar­ture from the poli­cies of the 60’s cre­at­ed a coun­try and peo­ple who are expo­nen­tial­ly worse off than before the social exper­i­ment of the 70’s and 90’s.
It was the foun­da­tion on which Michael Manley’s Democratic Socialism was built.
♦ Project Land Lease.
♦ No bas­tard children.
♦ Micro Dams.
♦ The Cuban Schools.
♦ Free education.
♦ JAMAL.
Were just a few of the pro­grams which gar­nered mass sup­port for Michael Manley and the People’s National Party.
Though not nec­es­sar­i­ly bad ideas these ideas were poor­ly exe­cut­ed and exploit­ed fur­ther which inevitably cre­at­ed a con­tem­po­rary cul­ture of depen­den­cy on Government as bene­fac­tor and crime as a sub­sti­tut­ing enti­ty to fill the space where pol­i­tics fell short.
Free hous­ing , Free elec­tric­i­ty Free mon­ey, was icing on the cake and out the door went the con­cept of hard work edu­ca­tion and the entre­pre­neur­ial spirit .

On the basis of the afore­men­tioned, had Portia agreed to the dis­man­tling of gar­risons she would be agree­ing to dis­man­tlig her pow­er base.
That was not about to hap­pen and young Andrew Holness would not be allowed to change the entrenched order of eat a food through polit­i­cal patronage
It was not sur­pris­ing then the response she gave to Holness’ invi­ta­tion was infor­mal­ly and col­lo­qui­al­ly yet eas­i­ly predictable.
The “PNP nu have nu gar­ri­son mi nu see no walls inna mi constituency”
GARRISONS DON’T ALL HAVE WALLS
Anyone famil­iar with Miller can­not be sur­prised or even dis­ap­point­ed with the mind­less parochial­ism of her response yet it evoked a cer­tain degree of sad­ness at least to this writer ‚that one so high­ly placed could be so inher­ent­ly stu­pid in not rec­og­niz­ing the impor­tant sym­bol­ism such a ges­ture would have cre­at­ed for the younger genration.
All was not lost how­ev­er, for the most part many Jamaicans of both major polit­i­cal par­ties had decid­ed that killing each oth­er in the name of pol­i­tics was not some­thing they want­ed to con­tin­ue doing.
It was encour­ag­ing to see that Jamaicans of both polit­i­cal stripes had decid­ed that though they still liked killing each oth­er they would not con­tin­ue to do so in the name of politics.

It should come as no sur­prise then that because the leader of the People’s National Party did not demon­strate the matu­ri­ty , intel­li­gence or com­mon sense to eschew vio­lence and it’s nur­tur­ing grounds, that the next Generation of PNP lead­ers would see vio­lence as a viable path toward achiev­ing polit­i­cal ends.
The irony in all of this is that the peo­ple are smarter than their leaders.
The peo­ple have already made the deci­sion to eschew Political violence.
Unfortunately Portia Simpson Miller still have not received that memo, and cer­tain­ly not the idi­ot­ic lit­tle moron Dwayne Vaz the mem­ber of Parliament from Central Westmoreland the seat once occu­pied by the lat­er Roger Clarke,.
At the time Vaz was ele­vat­ed to Clarke’s seat the Jamaica Observer did an elab­o­rate sto­ry on the life of the then 33 year-old from his birth in 1981 to win­ning the by- elec­tion, it Article was a cloy­ing love-fest . As the con­clu­sion to the lengthy trib­ute to Vaz’s life sto­ry the writer Desmond Allen Observer Executive edi­tor crowed .

On December 11, 2014, Dwayne Vaz took his seat in the Jamaican par­lia­ment, proud­ly wear­ing his cre­den­tials as a young, good-look­ing, hard-work­ing, peo­ple-lov­ing per­son — a vir­tu­al tem­plate on how to make a Jamaican politi­cian — and vow­ing to fol­low in the large foot­steps of his late polit­i­cal god­fa­ther, Roger Clarke.
http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​C​e​n​t​r​a​l​-​W​e​s​t​m​o​r​e​l​a​n​d​-​s​-​D​w​a​y​n​e​-​Vaz – A‑politician-s-tem­plate_18631433

Yah about that ?

Speaking on a plat­form at a PNP ral­ly in St James recent­ly in front of a large PNP crowd the sup­posed young, good-look­ing, hard-work­ing, peo­ple-lov­ing per­son — a vir­tu­al tem­plate on how to make a Jamaican politi­cian ‑peeled off the Sheep cos­tume and revealed for all and sundry the Wolf hid­ing inside.
Responding to a fire at the PNP con­stituen­cy office Dwayne Vaz showed the dirty filthy under­bel­ly of PNP pol­i­tics and the fuel which dri­ves it, vio­lence and intimidation.
Quote “a baby strength dem have” He then went on to start singing the con­tro­ver­sial lyrics of the Kartel’s vio­lence song, “Wha’ Dem Feel Like”, as the sound sys­tem played the song writ­ten and per­formed by dance­hall dee­jay, Vybz Kartel, who was con­vict­ed of mur­der in April, 2014 and includes lines like: “Puzzle up mi gun inna jef­fery hype/​Mek we step like a cen­tipede and tek the lead inna war/​A weh dem feel like, dem skin too tough fi bleed”.
Weh Dem Feel Like

Clearly a call to arms , and to return to the dark days of 8oo + dead in the name of pol­i­tics as we have seen in the past.
Communities as impreg­nable balka­nized bas­tions of polit­i­cal exclusivity.
Since then the naïve exu­ber­ant lit­tle pup have walked back the dan­ger­ous state­ments but the dam­age may have already been done .
Not sur­pris­ing­ly, not a sin­gle word from the leader of the par­ty to the lit­tle upstart “no this is not what we are about, this is not where we want to go”.
Of course her per­for­mance as Parish Councillor, Minister and now as Prime Minister can only rea­son­ably be val­i­dat­ed through the gar­ri­son cul­ture and the dumb­ing-down of the already illit­er­ate unin­formed masses.
Is it any won­der then that as always when it real­ly counts the stooge in Jamaica House is duplic­i­tous­ly silent?

Over the years we have seen both polit­i­cal par­ties in Jamaica do things which begs the age old ques­tion “are Jamaican author­i­ties seri­ous about reduc­ing and ulti­mate­ly erad­i­cat­ing crime’?

Lets get some­thing straight here the gov­ern­ing admin­is­tra­tion has been hor­ri­ble stew­ards of the nation’s affairs . This is not just about the econ­o­my and the moral deca­dence which char­ac­ter­izes Jamaican. The Party has active­ly con­tributed to crime direct­ly both by omis­sion and commission.

The Opposition Labor Party has had less time at the tiller but there is ample evi­dence of the con­tri­bu­tion the Labor par­ty has made to the crime cul­ture on the Island as well.
Which brings us to the Police.
The Police depart­ment rel­e­gat­ed itself to lap­dog sta­tus for the polit­i­cal class, Commissioners and rank and file has come and gone but the mind­set remain the same.
The depart­ment has a PhD at the helm but the mind­set through­out the con­stab­u­lary seem to be that of a defeat­ed sec­ond class cit­i­zen­ry, brow­beat­en, and bat­tered into accept­ing it’s lot.
Attrition is high, by some accounts over 600 offi­cers left the depart­ment in a sin­gle year. There has to be a rea­son for this , par­tic­u­lar­ly in a coun­try where jobs are as hard to come by as find­ing a politi­cian with good character.
Which begs the ques­tion, why are offi­cers going through the train­ing only to dump the depart­ment at the slight­est oppor­tu­ni­ty for an out?

Jamaicans have always been a peo­ple high­ly fas­ci­nat­ed by posi­tions and pow­er . The big­ger heads men­tal­i­ty is an inte­gral part of the Island’s pop­u­lar culture.
The Police Commissioner is a PhD and he may be the ben­e­fi­cia­ry of more respect from the self appoint­ed Elites than his pre­de­ces­sors but there is still a nag­ging sense that the police are mere yaad bways , unwor­thy of respect.
Don’t get me wrong, over the years the Police have done more than enough to earn the dis­re­spect of the most for­giv­ing and pious Angels.
The list of charges against the police leaves well think­ing observers includ­ing for­mer offi­cers stunned that offi­cers could be engaged in some of the crimes they are accused of committing.
♦Contract killings ♦ Extra-Judicial killings ♦ Robbery ♦ Rape. ♦ Conspiracy ♦
The list of crim­i­nal engage­ments by offi­cers defies logic.

As a for­mer cop I could argue that the JCF is not the only police agency strug­gling with those issues .
As a Christian I could argue the char­ac­ter of peo­ple every­where are more sus­pect because over­all good val­ues and best prac­tices are sim­ply not been taught and where taught are not been adhered to.
I could make those argu­ments but they would not be fair argu­ments to make, peo­ple deserve bet­ter police services.

However as we look at the crimes and miss-steps of the police we have to look at the pop­u­la­tion and it’s role in all of this .
Have the Jamaican pub­lic been respect­ful and embrac­ing of law enforcement?
Have the peo­ple embraced or shown an under­stand­ing of the role law-enforce­ment plays in a demo­c­ra­t­ic society?
On both counts the answer is no.
The Island built a cul­ture of ani­mos­i­ty , resent­ment and oppo­si­tion to law enforce­ment. From as far back as the cre­ation of the Police ser­vices after the Morant Bay Rebellion Jamaicans arguably decid­ed they would have an acri­mo­nious rela­tion­ship with those who enforce the laws.
The JCF which was born out of the ash­es of the rebel­lion was seen as a tool of the pow­er­ful cre­at­ed to oppress the underclass.
Despite the fact that the British left and the police became the sons and daugh­ters of the work­ing class the per­va­sive cul­ture of oppo­si­tion to police remained.

The para­dox­i­cal jux­ta­po­si­tion of the emer­gent Rastafarian counter cul­ture and the ani­mos­i­ty toward polic­ing did noth­ing to help the young nation with the large illit­er­ate under­class to under­stand the need for sup­port­ing and nur­tur­ing the rule of law.
A cold war devel­oped between the cannabis smok­ing Rastafarians and the police. The result was that the oppor­tunis­tic politi­cians of the day saw an oppor­tu­ni­ty to dri­ve a wedge between police and peo­ple for polit­i­cal gain and they exploit­ed it to the max.

HOUSE COMMITTEE URGES INCREASED POWERS FOR INDECOM BOSS

Fast for­ward to today and the (inde­com) Act, bal­loon­ing mur­der rates , cops leav­ing in droves , Terrence Williams and politi­cians of both polit­i­cal par­ties are either too stu­pid to under­stand the dam­age they are doing or they intend to destroy the Force, grow crime and turn the coun­try over to terrorists.
As it was in the begin­ning, politi­cians of both par­ties are join­ing togeth­er to give even more pow­er to (inde­com) rather than empow­er and out­fit the police to go after crime.

In the end Jamaica is well on it’s way to end up where it sets out to be, a par­adise for crim­i­nals. You sim­ply can­not expect to have good out­comes from bad strate​gies​.Talk to Jamaicans and 9 out of 10 hates police even though they have rel­a­tives who were, or are cops. Many have no idea why they hate cops , they sim­ply do , they were raised that way.
Ironically when they live abroad they are respect­ful of offi­cers and those who aren’t end up on(ice) planes with a one way tick­et back home.
They know in their host coun­tries their dis­re­spect­ful shenani­gans are best left at home.
In the age of ter­ror bomb­ings and behead­ings, pur­vey­ors of anar­chy and may­hem from across the globe are always look­ing for places to plant their flags.
Soon and very soon Jamaicans of all stripes and sta­tions will come to real­ize the fol­ly of their ways , by then it will be too late.
For all intents and pur­pos­es it may already be.

You do not build a nation with­out secur­ing the population.
You do not build a nation with­out estab­lish­ing a foun­da­tion of laws for the pro­tec­tion of the population.
From ear­li­est record­ed his­to­ry this was understood.
Jamaican lead­ers have shit for brain so this eludes them but the peo­ple have been com­plic­it and they deserve every inch of what they get.

In what seem to be unprece­dent­ed killing of peo­ple by American police more and more peo­ple are get­ting a look at what cops actu­al­ly do while they are not look­ing, of course they claim to be doing it in the name and sup­pos­ed­ly for the pub­lic’s protection.
As a for­mer cop myself I know too well the dan­gers inher­ent in the job. At the same time I find it offen­sive that any­one would use the risks asso­ci­at­ed with law enforce­ment as a rea­son to com­mit murder.
I say this despite doing polic­ing in Jamaica one of the most vio­lent and dan­ger­ous places to do polic­ing , and oh by the way being shot in the line of duty.

So I real­ly am not deterred by killer cops wher­ev­er they ply their trade, nei­ther am I mind­ful of their rabid incon­se­quen­tial sup­port­ers who sup­port the mur­der they vis­it on defense­less citizens.
The attack the vic­tim strat­e­gy will nev­er deter me from speak­ing out against police killing inno­cent peo­ple and lying about it . I believe that on every occa­sion a cop kills a mem­ber of the pub­lic and lies to jus­ti­fy that ille­gal killing the vic­tim and his/​her fam­i­ly is slaugh­tered twice.
As I said in a con­ver­sa­tion just this morn­ing the argu­ment that police offi­cers do not leave home and go out to kill peo­ple is utter and total bullshit.
To those mak­ing that argu­ment I say lis­ten to the lan­guage of the white cops who are caught on tape telling unarmed mem­bers of the black com­mu­ni­ty “I will fuck­ing kill you, open your mouth and I put a fuck­ing bul­let in you head” !!!
Does that equate to intent in law ?
Intent can be expressed, inferred or implied , guess what ? Expressed intent is the most cred­i­ble . So when a cop tells some­one I will kill you and does that it exact­ly proves intent. What bet­ter way to know a per­son­’s inten­tion that the words which the per­son utter?
Only that they are not charged with mur­der as they should be , like every oth­er mem­ber of the pub­lic would be.

Murder is the unlaw­ful killing of a human being by anoth­er human being with mal­ice aforethought .
Guess how we prove malice?
Malice is proven by the words or deeds which pre­ced­ed the act.
So when a cops says’I will fuck­ing kill” you and does he com­mits mur­der why he is not pros­e­cut­ed for the crime rests with the peo­ple who chose to remain igno­rant of what is being done in their names.
In America there will nev­er be out­cry about the mass of police mur­der by the broad­er soci­ety as long as the vic­tims are Blacks and Latinos.
It serves their pur­pose well , they defend it because these uni­formed killers car­ry out the sado­masochis­tic slaugh­ter that they them­selves would like to engage in.

Thus far this year cops have killed every (8) hours Let that sink in. Law enforce­ment in the US killed 92 times more peo­ple than a coun­try with near­ly 1.4 bil­lion peo­ple. Cops Have Killed Every 8 Hours in 2015, Sending At Least Three People to Early Graves Per Day Read more at http://​the​freethought​pro​ject​.com/​c​o​p​s​-​k​i​l​l​e​d​-​8​-​h​o​u​r​s​-​2​0​1​5​-​e​a​r​l​y​-​g​r​a​v​e​s​-​d​a​y​/​#​A​P​A​F​i​v​z​6​r​s​r​u​A​u​X​T​.99.
Police have killed rough­ly over a (1000) peo­ple for the year 2015 and it still is not over.
As of March 6^th, just a lit­tle over two months into 2015, there has been at least 191 indi­vid­u­als killed by police in the United States since the year began. That’s 191 peo­ple divid­ed by 65 Days which equals 2.93. This aver­ages out to three peo­ple killed by police each day or 1 life tak­en every eight hours by Law enforcement.
So Far In 2015 Police Have Killed Three People A Day.

One of the great­est bit of hypocrisy sur­round­ing this whole police abuse of cit­i­zens is what Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy did in what is known as the
Leahy Amendment.

In the final days of the first ses­sion of the 105^th Congress, the House and Senate approved H.R. 2159, the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs for Fiscal Year 1998. In a major vic­to­ry for human rights and arms con­trol pub­lic inter­est groups, the Leahy Amendment sur­vived the con­fer­ence com­mit­tee and remained in the final version.
The amend­ment, locat­ed in Section 570 of the bill, states the fol­low­ing: “None of the funds made avail­able by this Act may be pro­vid­ed to any unit of the secu­ri­ty forces of a for­eign coun­try if the Secretary of State has cred­i­ble evi­dence that such unit has com­mit­ted gross vio­la­tions of human rights, unless the Secretary deter­mines and reports to the Committees on Appropriations that the gov­ern­ment of such coun­try is tak­ing effec­tive mea­sures to bring the respon­si­ble mem­bers of the secu­ri­ty forces unit to jus­tice: Provided, That noth­ing in this sec­tion shall be con­strued to with­hold funds made avail­able by this Act from any unit of the secu­ri­ty forces of a for­eign coun­try not cred­i­bly alleged to be involved in gross vio­la­tions of human rights: Provided fur­ther, That in the event that funds are with­held from any unit pur­suant to this sec­tion, the Secretary of State shall prompt­ly inform the for­eign gov­ern­ment of the basis for such action and shall, to the max­i­mum extent prac­ti­ca­ble, assist the for­eign gov­ern­ment in tak­ing effec­tive mea­sures to bring the respon­si­ble mem­bers of the secu­ri­ty forces to jus­tice so funds to the unit may be resumed.”

Obviously abuse of human rights and dig­ni­ty only hap­pen in oth­er coun­tries because I have not heard a sin­gle word , nei­ther have I head of any leg­is­la­tion from either Patrick Leahy or any­one else on the mass slaugh­ter of black and brown

peo­ple in America not to men­tion the cumu­la­tive assault on their dig­ni­ty and self respect daily.
How about a bill which bans fund­ing to police depart­ments which abuse the rights of citizens?
How about a bill which goes after killer cops who have lengthy records of abuse and no action is tak­en to rid the depart­ment of them .?
It is not enough for Mayor Rahm Emanuel to say “I own it , it hap­pened on my watch” , it was Emanuel and oth­er offi­cials who sought to keep the vis­cous cold-blood­ed slaugh­ter of Laquan McDonald under wraps.

Laquan McDonald could be alive today if the aggres­sive racist piece of human garbage parad­ing as a police offi­cer was removed from the depart­ment long ago .
Jason Van Dyke report­ed­ly had over (20) com­plaints of abu­sive and harm­ful behav­ior to the pub­lic and in one case a mem­ber of the pub­lic was even award­ed thou­sands of dol­lars yet no action was tak­en against Van Dyke, he was allowed to keep wear­ing the uni­form of a police officer.
Emanuel is not sor­ry for the killing of this trou­bled teen , he is sor­ry the facts were forced out into the open by jour­nal­ists who stayed true to their com­mit­ment and calling.
Can Emanuel, the Prosecutor or police offi­cials say the same ?

In the age of round the clock talk about ter­ror­ism and the demo­niz­ing of Muslims when mis­guid­ed zealots com­mit mass mur­der while hid­ing behind reli­gion, it is easy to dis­re­gard the home grown ter­ror­ism right here by a dif­fer­ent kind of ter­ror­ist oper­at­ing under the ban­ner and with the pro­tec­tion of the law.
Chicago cop Jason Van Dyke fired (16)bullets into the body of 17 year old trou­bled teen Laquan McDonald. He kept fir­ing even as the teen’s body lay on the ground twitch­ing . It was the most egre­gious exam­ple yet of police ter­ror­ism I have ever seen.
Van Dyke fired (16) bul­lets at Laquan McDonald even as McDonald was felled by the very first shot.
The first bul­let was ille­gal because he had no rea­son to fire his weapon.
The (15) bul­lets Van Dyke fired after McDonald was down was reck­less, depraved, indif­fer­ent , vicious­ly mur­der­ous, cal­lous yet they revealed the lev­el of mur­der­ous intent Jason Van Dyke har­bored for the peo­ple he col­lect­ed a salary to pro­tect and serve.

It is the same sick dement­ed yet bla­tant risqué will­ful­ness with which Staten Island cop Daniel Pantaleo mur­dered Eric Garner.
The same casu­al unmind­ful delib­er­a­tion with which Ferguson Missouri cop Darren Wilson vicious­ly fired and fired and fired until Michael Brown was a bul­let rid­dled mass of human remains.
The sick cal­lous dis­re­gard for black and brown lives are well doc­u­ment­ed from the uncon­scionable slaugh­ter of (12)year Tamir Rice to the man who evad­ed police on the Saw Mill River Parkway who had no weapon but end­ed up killed by police anyway.
White shoot­er Dylan Roof slaugh­tered (9) peo­ple who wel­comed the dement­ed sav­age into their prayer meet­ing he was cap­tured alive.
On and on we see white priv­i­lege at work in the most egre­gious and shame­less way , they don’t even try to defend it, cer­tain­ly not since Barack Obama ascend­ed to the presidency>
It is a white-lash[sic] at the temer­i­ty of a black man to attain the high­est fortress of white Supremacy, they can’t get to him but they will get to those they can. Some argue the slaugh­ter has been going on for­ev­er we were just not aware at the breadth, width and depth of it , nei­ther were we aware of the heights to which Racism is still entrenched in the society.
Until you begin to lis­ten to Senior Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia you prob­a­bly thought you could trust the courts to be just. Now you get an idea of what peo­ple of col­or are up against in this land of the free home of the brave.
The advent of social media and cam­era phones have seis­mi­cal­ly changed the par­a­digm, they do not deny it much any­more they sim­ply enforce it.

Alternet​.org said this.
White shoot­ers live and maybe get a Whopper on the way to jail. Black sus­pects don’t get the same roy­al treatment.
A bit of an under­state­ment how­ev­er the web­site said .Privilege con­sists of unearned advan­tages. Privilege is a sys­tem of pow­er rela­tion­ships. And priv­i­lege con­sists of all of the incon­ve­niences, chal­lenges and oppor­tu­ni­ties denied that a per­son does not have to ever think or wor­ry about.Warped White Privilege and the Planned Parenthood Killer.
Amid the (24) hour mass hys­te­ria sur­round­ing the issue of Islamist ter­ror­ism , far more whites are killing every­one else in America and far more police killings are occur­ring than peo­ple killed by Muslims.
Those are the irrefutable facts.
They have no shame , they nev­er did. They killed the Indians. They killed mil­lions dur­ing the slave trade .They killed mil­lions more after and they will kill as many more as they are allowed to kill. It’s in their DNA.

In a short yet to the point let­ter to the Editor of the Daily Gleaner promi­nent Lawyer Howard Hamilton QC wrote Wednesday.

No more blood must be shed in the game of pol­i­tics. For every drop of blood spilled, I will per­son­al­ly hold every politi­cian — from the prime min­is­ter and oppo­si­tion leader to all their affil­i­ates and under­lings — respon­si­ble for their action or inac­tion to pre­vent the loss of life. We can­not, as a nation, grow in this back­ward man­ner and hope to achieve any­thing. Is Vision 2030 to be for­got­ten and thrown aside once an elec­tion is to be announced? Will Vision 2030 mis­sion be changed to ‘live, work and die in Jamaica’? To the lead­ers of this coun­try, we need answers and will be hold­ing you all account­able for fur­ther loss of life, whether it be in Newlands or Beverly Hills.

Over the years Howard Hamilton and I have had our dis­agree­ments around some issues large­ly about the way our coun­try should be policed. This is under­stand­able, Hamilton’s voca­tion as a crim­i­nal defense lawyer is dia­met­ri­cal­ly oppo­site to my ear­ly years as a police officer.
THE ROAD TO HELL
Despite our dis­agree­ments on some pol­i­cy I have nev­er heard any­one ques­tion the integri­ty of Howard Hamilton . This is why I’m prompt­ed to respond point­ed­ly to mis­ter Hamilton’s rather impor­tant yet short letter.

When smart peo­ple of good char­ac­ter sits by and refuse to step for­ward in the vac­u­um of lead­er­ship that vac­u­um will be filled by idiots and peo­ple of poor character.
Is there a place on earth where this is more true than Jamaica?
Maybe not!!!
We have the lead­er­ship we have because the best peo­ple grew com­fort­able and dis­in­ter­est­ed . This embold­ened the most cor­rupt least tal­ent­ed to step for­ward and force them­selves on us even­tu­al­ly con­vinc­ing us to place them in posi­tions of trust.
In the process we stood by and watched as our moral com­pass is rede­fined by the worst among us. Our econ­o­my is dec­i­mat­ed. Our Infrastructure aban­doned and crum­bling . Education for our chil­dren unsup­port­ed. Healthcare in sham­bles. Agriculture non-exis­tence. Tourism mis­man­aged and is now lit­er­al­ly all all-inclu­sive which ben­e­fits only a few. Our pro­duc­tive sec­tor gasp­ing for the air of sur­vival and secu­ri­ty ? Well we can only rem­i­nisce about the days when Jamaica was a nice place to live.
To those who say it is nice now,I say unless you know you don’t know.

Despite my fin­ger point­ing I too must also look in the mir­ror and reeval­u­ate the deci­sion I made when I was asked to step for­ward and enter rep­re­sen­ta­tion­al politics.
On that occa­sion I said no.
I have nev­er regret­ted that decision.

It is par for the course now since Obama took office, far right big­ots, xeno­phobes and misog­y­nist creeps crawl out of their holes and launch vile attacks against every­one who isn’t white Anglo-Saxon.
Some peo­ple are now look­ing at the mild­ly lit­er­ate Donald Trump and say­ing this guy is a Misogynistic , Racist, Xenophobe as if trump rep­re­sent some­thing nev­er before seen in America.

I asked in a pre­vi­ous Article , why are every­one act­ing sur­prised about this rhetoric? Why are peo­ple act­ing like they are sur­prised at Trumps’ rise?
Trumps rise was pre­ced­ed by the rise of anoth­er Racist Xenophobe, the idiot from Alaska.
Their modus operan­di is the same, two vile igno­ra­mus­es who should nev­er be giv­en a plat­form and micro­phone but for igno­rant racist who are look­ing for a mouth­piece they were Godsends .
Donald Trump was born with a plat­inum spoon in his mouth the son of a wealthy New York Developer.
Trump lied that he owes his wealth to hard work and a mil­lion dol­lar loan from his father how­ev­er Trump has been the recip­i­ent of his

father’s enor­mous wealth.
The web­site bad​gop​.com point­ed out succinctly ..

Donald Trump Would Be Richer If He Never Touched Inheritance.
Donald Trump is fond of brag­ging about what a great busi­ness­man he is. As such, he claims he would be able to revive the American econ­o­my, nego­ti­ate bet­ter trade deals with our com­peti­tors, and ham­mer out air­tight for­eign pol­i­cy agree­ments that would prove America means business.
“Had the celebri­ty busi­ness­man and Re­pub­lic­an pres­i­den­tial can­di­date in­ves­ted his even­tu­al share of his fath­er’s real-es­­tate com­pany in­to a mu­tu­al fund of S&P 500 stocks in 1974, it would be worth near­ly $3 bil­lion today, thanks to the mar­ket’s per­form­ance over the past four dec­ades. If he’d invest­ed the $200 mil­lion that For­bes mag­a­zine deter­mined he was worth in 1982 into that index fund, it would have grown to more than $8 bil­lion today.”

So much for mak­ing deals and being a pow­er-bro­ker, the loud­mouth baboon nev­er miss­es an oppor­tu­ni­ty to make excus­es that his sev­er­al Bankruptcy fil­ings were busi­ness fil­ings and that he nev­er filed for per­son­al bank­rupt­cy protection.

The fact is that the orange haired baboon is not run­ning for per­son of the year , he is run­ning for the pres­i­den­cy, his three busi­ness bank­rupt­cy fil­ings can­not be the mod­el for America.
Countries do not get to file Bankruptcy time and again .

Lets cut to the chase does any sane per­son believe Sara Palin was qual­i­fied to be next in line for the Presidency?
Does any sane per­son believe Donald Trump is qual­i­fied to be the com­man­der in chief of the most pow­er­ful mil­i­tary in the world?
On both accounts the answer is no , so we must look at the rea­son these cretins surged into the front pages in their respec­tive cycles and have been foist­ed on the con­scious­ness of voters.

Having a wealthy father gets one draft defer­ments, huuuuuge[sic] inher­i­tance and a sense of enti­tle­ment but it cer­tain­ly does not make one smart.
I have heard from some quar­ters that Donald Trump is a smart man . I’ve also heard that Ben Carson is a smart man , I haven’t quite rec­on­ciled in my mind the con­cept of smart­ness being reduced to a sin­gle sub­ject matter.
Neither men have a clue about the way the world works, nei­ther do they know the issues…
So this time its Sarah Palin in drag pos­tur­ing as pres­i­den­tial tim­ber for the xeno­pho­bic right.
It almost seem that one has to be absolute­ly stu­pid to be con­sid­ered as a viable can­di­date on the moron­ic right.

What makes Donald Trump rel­e­vant to the idiot right is what made Palin consequential .
Extreme racist big­otry and mind-numb­ing stupidity.
Right wing can­di­dates must poss­es the gall to say the most despi­ca­ble offen­sive racist things about every­one not a white right wing nut job.
And most of all they must have a will­ing­ness and an eager­ness to dis­par­age, demo­nize and dis­re­spect President Barack Obama.
Palin made it an art-form, Trump has sim­ply picked up the baton and is run­ning with it.
It was liken­ing the afford­able care Act to slav­ery and being dis­parag­ing of the President which made Ben Carson a can­di­date, like oth­er also-ran, like Herman Cain it won’t be long before peo­ple strug­gle to recall Carson’s name or that he actu­al­ly ran.
Of course Carson will go down in his­to­ry as a trai­tor who joined the ene­mies of our race to dem­a­gogue the first black pres­i­dent, instead of being remem­bered for being a bril­liant surgeon.

Lets not pre­tend that we don’t know what this dem­a­goguery is about. It was always about hat­ing and blam­ing oth­er peo­ple for their fail­ures. You know the Blacks the Immigrant Hispanics and now the Muslims …It’s about hate.
Almost every day there is a mass shoot­ing in America and they are large­ly com­mit­ted by white men who claim Christianity as their religion.
When these mis­cre­ants kill no one judges Christianity and shouldn’t.
No one demo­nizes their race and shouldn’t .
They are sim­ply talked about as men­tal­ly ill individuals.
But you can’t use facts to counter the rhetoric of the will­ful ignorant.

Yesterday I wrote about the grow­ing prob­lem of attacks on police offi­cers by lit­er­al­ly every­one they approach in Jamaica. I made it clear that the( inde­com) Act embold­ens crim­i­nals to act with impuni­ty which is evi­dent from the dras­tic rise in seri­ous crimes includ­ing homicides.
As if that’s not bad enough there is grow­ing evi­dence of peo­ple who would oth­er­wise not chal­lenge law enforce­ment offi­cers in the law­ful exe­cu­tion of their duties lit­er­al­ly attack­ing and throw­ing punch­es on cops even when they are stopped for breach­ing the Island’s traf­fic laws..

There are instances where a par­tic­u­lar offi­cer was attempt­ing to con­fis­cate an unli­censed motor­cy­cle as he is oblig­ed to do by law . The dri­ver stead­fast­ly refused to sur­ren­der the motor­cy­cle. He threat­ened the offi­cer, threw punch­es, got back on the motor­cy­cle and rode off leav­ing a jeer­ing crowd to ridicule the officer.
The offi­cer’s female part­ner stood harm­less­ly by and watched.
Window dressing!!!!

It is appalling to watch the lev­el of law­less­ness which is occur­ring in Jamaica while the Administration in Kingston and the half-baked idiot who sits in Jamaica House does noth­ing to take back the streets from the crim­i­nals who have the police on the run.
The aver­age per­son on the streets have zero fear of the laws which are large­ly archa­ic and pos­es zero deter­rent effect to would be criminals.
On the rare occa­sion that crim­i­nals are appre­hend­ed and the evi­dence is over­whelm­ing that it can­not be thrown out the cor­rupt left­ist judges which pop­u­late the bench lit­er­al­ly slaps crim­i­nals on the wrist and sim­ply turn them loose back into society.
This in and of itself is a ter­rif­ic recruit­ment tool for the crim­i­nal underworld.
Jamaica’s young men and in some cas­es young women are drawn inex­orably to a life of crime. A sim­ple cost ben­e­fit analy­sis shows that crime pays in Jamaica.

A young man who walks into a busi­ness place and robs a mil­lion dol­lars has very lit­tle chance of ever get­ting caught in Jamaica anymore.
If how­ev­er he is caught and by some stroke of luck he is con­vict­ed in the social­ist court sys­tem he is like­ly to be slapped with a fine of fifty thou­sand dol­lars at most.
Why would this young man not rel­ish a life of crime?
To the causal observ­er this may seem like a crim­i­nal jus­tice which is fail­ing . To the avid watch­er who pays atten­tion it is far more sinister.
The Governing PNP encour­ages crime and cor­rup­tion. Every aspect of it’s func­tions is a tan­gled web of crim­i­nal­i­ty and corruption .
The award­ing of Government con­tracts is a pigs trough of cor­rup­tion , graft and pay­offs to crim­i­nal thugs who deliv­er large swath of votes to the PNP from par­ty strongholds.

My pre­ten­tious coun­try­men will scoff at the notion that our beloved Island is no dif­fer­ent than a sub-Saharan enclave ruled by crim­i­nal warlords.
There absolute­ly is not much difference,Jamaica sim­ply has a bet­ter lay­er of veneer.
The mass­es of the unin­formed unwit­ting­ly believe that the coun­try is on a path to devel­op­ment. The fact is that from the Prime Minister to the thug in the gar­risons the sys­tem works they are reap­ing the rewards of crime and corruption.
For every­one else they have carte blanch to go out and get theirs by what­ev­er means necessary.
And they do , this allows the com­mon man to make a liv­ing in the crim­i­nal under­world or col­lo­qui­al­ly “eat a food” while the Government starves law enforce­ment of resources, sup­port, and leg­is­la­tion which would seri­ous­ly impact crime in a pos­i­tive way for well mean­ing Jamaicans.

This crude yet effec­tive strat­e­gy gave the People’s National Party con­trol of state pow­er for 31 of the last 43 years.
Today the People’s National Party still con­trol state power.
In what may cer­tain­ly be unprece­dent­ed time in office in a coun­try not con­sid­ered a dic­ta­tor­ship the PNP using those worse prac­tices through the 70’s to present day has dec­i­mat­ed the pro­duc­tive sec­tor, cre­at­ed a riv­er of brain drain, evis­cer­at­ed the nation­al cur­ren­cy , presided over mas­sive moral and infra­struc­tur­al decay and dri­ven the entire mid­dle class into poverty.

In the mean­time Forbes projects the Island’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller to have a Net Worth of $20 Million. Portia Simpson Miller Net Worth.

Speaking on the strate­gies being employed in com­bat­ing crime in Saint James, the new mur­der Parish, Senior Superintendent of police Steve McGregor told one of the dai­ly news papers he and his team will be work­ing assid­u­ous­ly to remove pros­ti­tutes from the streets par­tic­u­lar­ly along Harbor street and the area known as the hip-strip.
McGregor high­light­ed the high lev­el of unruly behav­ior, some­thing we spoke about yesterday.
“Right now it is a chal­lenge because it is a very undis­ci­plined town­ship and the town has been allowed to behave this way for some time, so the fact that we are now tight­en­ing the noose on them as it relates to their behav­ioral pat­tern, we are get­ting a chal­lenge from them. But we are up to the task and we are going to police the town­ship the way that we are doing because we are find­ing that this is send­ing a good mes­sage to the gen­er­al parish as it relates to discipline,”.

Of course the police are being challenged .
Of course they have been allowed to behave that way for sometime.
It goes to the Government’s pol­i­cy of allow­ing peo­ple to break the law while cre­at­ing the impres­sion it wants low­er crime.
The fact is that the Governing admin­is­tra­tion in Kingston is inher­ent­ly corrupt .
In a coun­try of laws most of it’s mem­bers would have been doing seri­ous time in prison.
So even though I com­mend the Senior Superintendent for at least rec­og­niz­ing that tack­ling qual­i­ty of life offences is a good way to root out more seri­ous crimes,to the aver­age per­son it seem sil­ly talk­ing about lock­ing up pros­ti­tutes while mass mur­der­ers are walk­ing around untouched.

What the Nation needs to see(not hear) is a ruth­less assault on mass killers many of whom have exe­cut­ed sev­er­al inno­cent peo­ple and have paid no price.
This would require lead­er­ship and there is real­ly no seri­ous lead­er­ship at the top of the Constabulary.
What we see com­ing from the top lead­er­ship is the same old boot-lick­ing bull­shit which has char­ac­ter­ized pre­vi­ous police com­mis­sion­ers tenure.
The first order of busi­ness is that offi­cers must know that when they go out to enforce the laws they have the full back­ing of the law in car­ry­ing out their duties.
That includes sup­port from the Government, the Chief con­sta­ble and the police federation.

The Commissioner of Police acknowl­edges the threat lev­els against offi­cers and offers his full sup­port for offi­cers who take action to pro­tect their lives from vicious crim­i­nal assault.
When has Commissioner Williams or the Officer Corps of the JCF ever stood with offi­cers being per­se­cut­ed by the Government through (inde­com)?
The threat to police though real and ever present is not con­fined to offi­cers being shot down sim­ply because they are offi­cers. It is inher­ent every­day in the sim­plest inter­ac­tions they have each day in the pur­suit of their duties.
In no oth­er coun­try but Jamaica would a motor­cy­clist kill a cop ‚sev­er­ing one of his legs after ram­ming him when sig­naled to stop and seri­ous leg­is­la­tion not be enact­ed to make sure it does not hap­pen again.
In Jamaica it’s noth­ing , just anoth­er dead cop.
Cops are assault­ed and the crowds laugh and the per­pe­tra­tor walks away free as a bird.
Officer takes action he faces crim­i­nal charges.

This is the real Jamaica , not the con­trived Jamaica they show to the world in the tourist board repet­i­tive ads. Our coun­try is not get­ting bet­ter it is slid­ing fur­ther and fur­ther into anarchy.
The first step toward stop­ping the destruc­tion of our coun­try is remov­ing the crim­i­nal­ly cor­rupt admin­is­tra­tion from power .

As crime con­tin­ue to rise in Jamaica because of the INDECOM Act chill­ing effect on offi­cers abil­i­ty to do their job, more and more peo­ple on the streets are being extra aggres­sive and vio­lent against police officers.
Time after time we see sim­ple traf­fic stops esca­late to dan­ger­ous sit­u­a­tions, usu­al­ly because some­one wants to show off to bystanders who usu­al­ly play the role of agitators.

Frequently we high­light instances of Police offi­cers unlaw­ful­ly killing cit­i­zens and oth­er­wise abus­ing the rights of cit­i­zens par­tic­u­lar­ly in the United States.
Conversely we see an oppo­site sit­u­a­tion devel­op­ing in Jamaica where the Police are sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly being attacked by peo­ple who have no fear of consequence.

In instance after instance we see videos of police offi­cers on the streets try­ing to do their jobs being seri­ous­ly attacked by men who sim­ply want to show bystanders that they will not sub­mit to arrest.
Officers are fac­ing seri­ous risks to their per­sons and are clear­ly hes­i­tant because they do not want to be accused of using exces­sive force.
This sit­u­a­tion is unten­able, for­get about ris­ing crime, offi­cers have absolute­ly no oblig­a­tion to be assault­ed for doing their jobs.

It is impor­tant that offi­cers under­stand that despite what the vil­lage lawyers say “an assailant does not have to have a weapon to pose seri­ous harm to an officer’.
Let me reit­er­ate, the laws guar­an­tee offi­cers the pow­er to use what­ev­er force is nec­es­sary to pro­tect their lives or that of oth­ers. That force includes but is not con­fined to lethal force.
You may shoot to kill an assailant swing­ing at you with intent to harm you,. If an assailant suc­ceeds in knock­ing an offi­cer to the ground the next step is that he will take the offi­cer’s weapon and use it on him/​her.
You are jus­ti­fied in using dead­ly force on an assailant swing­ing at you.

The Commissioner of Police is a lack­ey whose chief func­tion it appears is to issue state­ments about police offi­cers being under threat, yet he does absolute­ly noth­ing to shore up sup­port for the men and women under his com­mand who are in mor­tal dan­ger every day they go out to pro­tect the lives and prop­er­ty of others.
The Police Federation is a neutered mon­grel which yelps inces­sant­ly but has teeth of rub­ber when it counts.

The first thing the Commissioner of Police should do to pro­tect offi­cers is to ensure that as soon as an offi­cer calls for back­up rein­force­ments are there imme­di­ate­ly or with­in two to three min­utes thereafter.
There is no greater deter­rent than an assailant know­ing more cops are on the way in sec­onds and his ass will be sub­dued one way or the other.
Physical assault is nev­er far away from police offi­cers. In Jamaica it is a blood­sport, peo­ple do it so they can brag about it.
It is time that offi­cers make it clear they will not tol­er­ate attack on their per­sons irre­spec­tive of who want to inves­ti­gate or the impo­tence and incom­pe­tence of the Commissioner of Police.

If the Government does not pro­vide tasers to sub­due poten­tial assailants offi­cers should not bear that bur­den through their shed blood.
Officers should nev­er abuse the rights of cit­i­zens how­ev­er if a sus­pect attacks an offi­cer he/​she must nev­er hes­i­tate to use their weapon. Whether or not the assailant is armed. Use the weapon you are giv­en, shoot to kill, period.
This lev­el of law­less­ness has sim­ply got to stop.

Each Election cycle in the United States Republicans out-right­ly uses Black Americans as a wedge to win white votes.
I am sure it was worse in the ear­ly years before Nixon’s “south­ern strat­e­gy” , Reagan’s launch­ing his cam­paign in the south . Bush’s “Willie Houghton” attack against Michael Dukakis to name a few .
With that in mind I see no rea­son to believe that Republicans will be any dif­fer­ent this cycle.
One would hope that since we are now in 21^st cen­tu­ry that maybe, just maybe com­mon decen­cy would apply and the white men run­ning for the pres­i­den­cy on the right would show some class , decen­cy and intelligence.
Unfortunately despite the fact that Blacks are the most sol­id and loy­al part of the Democratic base Democrats are not shy about throw­ing the black com­mu­ni­ty under the bus to cur­ry favor with white vot­ers either.
Political watch­ers will recall Bill Clinton’s “Sister Soulja” diss,and even the incon­se­quen­tial Martin O’malley’s “all lives mat­ter” in response to the black lives mat­ter movement.

With all of the hate­ful rhetoric com­ing from Republican can­di­dates Donald Trump , Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee Ben Carson and oth­ers I won­dered what was gained from the meet­ing between the Black Ministers who met with Trump on Monday?
One spokesper­son speak­ing on behalf of the black min­is­ters said Trump was not a racist. I have no idea why a group of self serv­ing Negros would line up to say a rabid dis­eased racist is no racist?
But then again I also won­dered why slav­ery last­ed that long in this coun­try until I saw and heard the views of some Black Americans.

It was­n’t the first time that a bunch of black reli­gious char­la­tans had lined up to sup­port the orange-haired buf­foon. At a press con­fer­ence pri­or to a ral­ly in Norcross, Georgia, Donald Trump was sur­round­ed onstage by black pas­tors and min­is­ters sup­port­ing his can­di­da­cy. One pas­tor took the micro­phone and said Trump would make “a hell of a chief executive”:

“I can’t think of a bet­ter per­son, a bet­ter leader to lead this coun­try to where America needs to go.”

“I want to dis­pel this notion that Donald Trump is a racist,” he con­tin­ued. “We’re not here as token blacks. We’re here because we want to sup­port him… We believe him and his leadership.”
Another said Trump could be trust­ed to look after Christians in this coun­try and pro­tect their spir­i­tu­al needs. In response to a ques­tion, Trump said he has not met with the Black Lives Matter group. No one both­ered to men­tion to the Clown that he had recent­ly berat­ed Bernie Sanders for not dis­re­spect­ing black lives mat­ter activists, nei­ther was it impor­tant to the bible thump­ing har­lots who lined up to deceive their own peo­ple in God’s name.
I found out long ago that it was not a good idea to fight for the American black because he has no desire to excel beyond the low­est rung of the ladder.
You dis­agree ? Look at what they have done with the gains secured by Thurgood Marshall, Martin King , Medger Evers Malcolm X and the count­less oth­ers who made the ulti­mate sacrifice.

For those So-called Ministers a meet­ing with “Massa”, I mean Trump, was enough to cause them to for­get all of the dis­parag­ing things Trump said about President Obama and the Black lives mat­ter move­ment , or even that he refers to black peo­ple as “the blacks”.
As long as “Massa“met with them they felt all was right with the world he was no racist screw those Activists in the streets chant­i­ng and march­ing for justice.
If only you were like me “Massa” would accept you too[sic].
The only prob­lem for the black min­is­ters is that they were mere props for the fur­ther­ance of the Trump hate machine.
I mean if Trump can meet and rub shoul­ders with “The Blacks”, the most despised and reviled and they can come out and say Mister Trump is no Racist who cares what the “rapists and mur­der­ers” from Mexico think, right?

It was a bril­liant stroke of genius by the Trump cam­paign, of course those well attired Black Ministers had no prob­lem being the dis­play Mannequins. In fact the whole stroke of genius went com­plete­ly over their heads.
As long as we refus­es to place val­ue on our­selves oth­ers will val­ue us or bet­ter yet deval­ue us. As long as a pho­to-Op with “Massa” makes us feel all is well with the world we are con­demned to con­tin­ue being the man­nequin for all to hang their designs on.

The inane spec­ta­cle known as black Friday is now over for this year. The ginned up spec­ta­cle of big sav­ings to con­sumers seem slow­ly to be dawn­ing on peo­ple as a just anoth­er scam by big business.
CNBC reports that the large stores were pret­ty full but with most­ly young peo­ple who seemed more curi­ous than they were shopping.

“I don’t think this is the tar­get shop­per that every­body’s look­ing for today,” said Deloitte’s Kate Ferrara, who arrived at South Shore Plaza in Braintree, Massachusetts, at 6 a.m .“People were shop­ping, but over­all, it was pret­ty calm”. Steve Barr, with Price-water­house Coopers, said ear­ly indi­ca­tions are that in-store sales will be flat, with the big win­ners being online stores and shop­pers. He ques­tioned how stores that are offer­ing 50 to 70 per­cent off this ear­ly in the sea­son will be able to sur­vive long term. “My con­cern would be for the long-term ben­e­fit of the retail­ers this just has­n’t been the hol­i­day shop­ping week­end that they were hop­ing for,” he said.

In the inter­est of fair­ness I must con­fess that I am the oper­a­tor of a small busi­ness which makes the big box stores my sworn enemy.
In an effort to cre­ate a lev­el of par­i­ty cham­bers of com­merce across the coun­try have cre­at­ed small busi­ness Saturday as a way to get peo­ple to shop small­er main street busi­ness­es which have been the life-blood of America for hun­dreds of years.
Unfortunately for most small busi­ness oper­a­tors like myself who appre­ci­ate the ges­ture it’s gen­er­al­ly too lit­tle too late . By Saturday morn­ing all of the mon­ey is already spent. Unfortunately for cities and com­mu­ni­ties small busi­ness-own­ers are unable to hire peo­ple because even though black Friday sales seemed flat shop­pers are not flock­ing back to small stores, they are spend huge sums online.

Technically this reduces gross receipts to an even small­er group of real­ly wealthy peo­ple as the pro­ceeds are chan­neled to only a select group of peo­ple and cre­ates returns night­mares for online shoppers.
Whether this is a com­ing to it’s sens­es by the shop­ping pub­lic is yet to be seen .
I per­son­al­ly doubt it but remain hopeful .
Even if small busi­ness peo­ple like myself do not reap any mean­ing­ful rewards from peo­ple com­ing to their sens­es it brings me some com­fort if peo­ple stop mak­ing spec­ta­cles of them­selves while the very rich fat­ten their wallets.

YOU ARE A BLACK PERSON LIVING IN AMERICA.…

You believe the Police are there to pro­tect you. You believe Prosecutors will pros­e­cu­tor offenderS regard­less of who they are. You believe also that Judges are tru­ly inde­pen­dent tri­er of facts who will not allow affil­i­a­tions to col­or the way they dis­pense justice.
Here’s the skin­ny you are a fool.
Obviously four hun­dred years of rabid racism has taught you noth­ing if you chose not to wake up you are guar­an­teed anoth­er four hun­dred which will be worse that the pre­vi­ous if you can pic­ture that.

CITY OF CHICAGO FIRES INVESTIGATOR BECAUSE HE REFUSES TO FALSIFY POLICE BRUTALITY COMPLAINTS TO ABSOLVE COPS OF GUILT.

The city of Chicago fired an inves­ti­ga­tor because he refused to fal­si­fy police bru­tal­i­ty com­plaints to make offi­cers appear inno­cent of any wrong­do­ing, fur­ther rais­ing sus­pi­cions that the Chicago Police Department (CPD) is a cor­rupt police force. Investigator and for­mer police com­man­der Lorenzo Davis, 65, was released from the Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA) after refus­ing to alter case find­ings indi­cat­ing sev­er­al instances of unjus­ti­fied use of police force. The IPRA announced Davis’ ter­mi­na­tion on July 9, and accused him of hav­ing “a clear bias against the police.” The IPRA also said that Davis was “the only super­vi­sor at IPRA who resists mak­ing request­ed changes as direct­ed by man­age­ment in order to reflect the cor­rect find­ing with respect to OIS.” Considering the CPD’s past of heinous cor­rup­tion, it’s rea­son­able to believe that Davis was oust­ed because he didn’t cov­er up the behav­ior of dirty cops. The Chicago PD has earned a noto­ri­ous rep­u­ta­tion for cor­rup­tion and racism that has exist­ed for decades. Even the high­est-rank­ing police offi­cials in Chicago are sus­pect­ed of being cor­rupt. “I did not like the direc­tion the police depart­ment had tak­en,” said Davis. “It appeared that offi­cers were doing what­ev­er they want­ed to do.” Listen to WBEZ’s report.

Most if not all American Police Departments are actu­al laws onto them­selves . I don’t mean they are inde­pen­dent of Political manip­u­la­tion , I mean that they oper­ate with impuni­ty in most cas­es con­trary to the rule of law with­out fear of consequence.
To many Black cit­i­zens the police are mere thugs in uni­form with the legit­i­ma­cy of the law to back them.
Former Commander Lorenzo Davis refers to many with­in the Chicago Police Department as “race sol­diers”, he should know. However what exist in Chicago exist in Missouri, In Texas, In new Mexico, In Florida , In New York and every nook and cran­ny of the United States.

JUDGE LET COP WALK AFTER DEADLY SHOOTING .LEGAL EXPERTS SAY REASONING IS INCREDIBLE.
A Cook County judge acquit­ted Chicago police offi­cer Dante Servin of sev­er­al homi­cide-relat­ed charges for the fatal shoot­ing of an unarmed woman stand­ing out­side with some friends near his home. It was the first time in 15 years that a police offi­cer had been charged in Chicago for a fatal shoot­ing. And the court­room atten­dees explod­ed in out­rage as Judge Dennis Porter announced Servin was not guilty on all charges for killing 22-year-old Rekia Boyd. But Porter’s rul­ing was par­tic­u­lar­ly con­found­ing because of bizarre rea­son­ing that some legal experts are call­ing “incred­i­ble.” In an opin­ion that lament­ed Servin was nev­er charged with the more severe crimes of first- and sec­ond-degree mur­der, Porter sug­gest­ed he was acquit­ting Servin and send­ing him home with­out any pun­ish­ment because the invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter charge against him was actu­al­ly not severe enough. Servin was off duty when he fired the shots. He encoun­tered a group gath­ered in an alley while dri­ving through in his Mercedes sedan. As he drove the wrong way down the alley after an alter­ca­tion, he said he thought he saw one of the men reach for a gun and fired sev­er­al shots over his shoul­der at indi­vid­u­als who had their backs to Servin. Servin hit 22-year-old Rekia Boyd in the back of the head, killing her. “He was con­stant­ly shoot­ing,” Icka Beamon tes­ti­fied, who was in the alley that night and ran for cov­er. “He was try­ing to kill all of us.” Porter, the Cook County judge pre­sid­ing over the case, agreed that Servin was act­ing inten­tion­al­ly when he fired his gun. In fact, he said in his rul­ing, Illinois courts have long held that when a defen­dant “intends to fire a gun, points it in the gen­er­al direc­tion of his or her intend­ed vic­tim, and shoots, such con­duct is not mere­ly reck­less,” but “inten­tion­al” and “the crime, if any there be, is first degree murder.”

In a bizarre turn of rea­son­ing, Porter sug­gests that since the first-degree mur­der charge is not on the table, and the crimes with which he was charged — invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter and reck­less dis­charge of a gun — require that Servin was reck­less, Servin can­not be con­vict­ed of any crime at all. Lamenting that both sides might “ben­e­fit from some clo­sure on this ques­tion,” he nonethe­less con­cludes that the law com­pels him to acquit Servin of all charges. Porter’s rea­son­ing doesn’t clear­ly square with sev­er­al fun­da­men­tal prin­ci­ples of crim­i­nal law, accord­ing to legal experts. The con­cepts of “reck­less­ness” and “intent” are crim­i­nal law con­cepts that describe what is an ele­ment of almost every crim­i­nal offense — state of mind. In homi­cide cas­es, for exam­ple, state of mind (known as mens rea) is direct­ly cor­re­lat­ed to the sever­i­ty of the crime — offens­es that require mere “reck­less­ness,” or “con­scious­ly disregard[ing] a sub­stan­tial and unjus­ti­fi­able risk” — typ­i­cal­ly car­ries a low­er pun­ish­ment than mur­der crimes, which require the pros­e­cu­tor to prove intent, because inten­tion­al acts assume a high­er lev­el of malice.

Porter asserts that a defen­dant who does some­thing inten­tion­al­ly could not have also been reck­less, and thus should not be con­vict­ed of any­thing at all. But this dis­tinc­tion between reck­less­ness and intent “real­ly doesn’t make any sense at all,” University of Illinois law pro­fes­sor Marareth Etienne told ThinkProgress. At least under the nation­al crim­i­nal law stan­dard known as the Model Penal Code that all first-year law stu­dents are taught in Criminal Law 101, a high­er state of mind such as intent “always proves a low­er lev­el,” in this case, reck­less­ness. Recklessness “just means that you were aware of a risk and you didn’t take the prop­er pre­cau­tion. So clear­ly if you shoot at some­body and you shot in a crowd you’re aware of a risk that they’re gonna die,” Etienne said. “This is incred­i­ble!” University of Illinois Director of Trial Advocacy J. Steven Beckett said. “It appears to me that a less­er includ­ed offense was ignored because the proof of the greater offense was obvi­ous. This put pros­e­cu­to­r­i­al deci­sion-mak­ing under scruti­ny beyond any­thing imag­in­able.” In oth­er words, the pros­e­cu­tors were pun­ished for not hav­ing charged Servin with a more severe crime. Even more remark­able, Porter came to this deci­sion in what is known as a “direct­ed ver­dict” before he even heard the defense’s arguments.

“When a motion for direct­ed ver­dict is made by the defense, the evi­dence must be con­sid­ered in the light most favor­able to the pros­e­cu­tion,” Beckett points out. “What the judge did here appears to be just the oppo­site!” Etienne points out sev­er­al adverse con­se­quences that would result if Porter’s under­stand­ing of the law pre­vailed. A defen­dant charged with invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter could get on the stand and make the very argu­ment Porter now makes: I am not guilty of a crime of reck­less­ness because I did this on pur­pose. “And by the way my tri­al has start­ed so dou­ble jeop­ardy. You can’t go back and charge me with an inten­tion­al killing.” Double jeop­ardy is the con­sti­tu­tion­al notion that an indi­vid­ual can’t be charged twice for the same offense, and legal experts seemed to agree that dou­ble jeop­ardy means Porter’s rul­ing can’t be appealed, and that pros­e­cu­tors from the same juris­dic­tion can’t file charges a sec­ond time around. The oth­er adverse con­se­quence is that most of the plea deals pros­e­cu­tors now make with defen­dants wouldn’t make much sense: A defen­dant is charged with first-degree mur­der, for exam­ple, but pleads guilty to the less­er offense of invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter. “And that’s done all the time,” said Etienne. Porter does cite sev­er­al Illinois cas­es for his con­clu­sion. These cas­es pri­mar­i­ly deal with the issue of jury instruc­tions in the reverse sit­u­a­tion when some­one charged with a more severe intent crime wants a jury to con­sid­er a less­er offense. A mur­der defen­dant, for exam­ple, wants the judge to also instruct the jury that they can find the defen­dant guilty of the less­er crime of invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter rather than mur­der. The judge rejects the defendant’s argu­ment, on the ratio­nale that this is a crime of intent, and not a less­er crime of reck­less­ness. But Etienne points out that this is a very dif­fer­ent legal argu­ment. “To dis­miss a case where reck­less­ness was charged because intent was proven. That’s a dif­fer­ent ques­tion,” she said, while con­ced­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ty that Illinois courts would come out a dif­fer­ent way on this question.

Timothy P. O’Neill, a pro­fes­sor at John Marshall Law School in Chicago, ques­tions Porter for anoth­er, dif­fer­ent rea­son. “I respect Judge Porter, but at the same time I think he maybe made the case a lit­tle bit more dif­fi­cult than it had to be,” O’Neill said. Even if Servin intend­ed to fire the gun, he seem­ing­ly didn’t intend to hit Boyd. He instead intend­ed to hit the man whom he believed was pulling a gun out of his waist­band. “You can do inten­tion­al acts and still be found guilty of invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter based on results,” O’Neill said. Both O’Neill and Etienne agreed that Servin could have, and per­haps should have, been charged this time around with mur­der — a crime that requires intent. “But that does NOT mean that it is legal­ly impos­si­ble to also find it could have been invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter: the defen­dant com­mit­ted vol­un­tary acts that reck­less­ly killed an unin­tend­ed vic­tim,” O’Neill said. “That is invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter.” http://​thinkprogress​.org/​j​u​s​t​i​c​e​/​2​0​1​5​/​0​4​/​2​1​/​3​6​4​9​0​4​3​/​j​u​d​g​e​-​l​e​t​s​-​c​o​p​-​w​a​l​k​-​d​e​a​d​l​y​-​s​h​o​o​t​i​n​g​-​t​h​o​u​g​h​t​-​c​h​a​r​g​e​s​-​w​e​r​e​n​t​-​s​e​v​e​r​e​-​e​n​o​u​gh/

It’s impor­tant to note that the lat­est case of egre­gious police mis­con­duct hap­pened in Illinois the State the President calls home. And in Chicago a city run by the President’s for­mer Chief of staff Rahm Emanuel a Democrat.
The killing of trou­bled 17 year old Laquan McDonald by City of Chicago Cop Jason Van Dyke result­ed in a mas­sive cov­er-up involv­ing the Mayor the Prosecutor’s office and the Police who went as far as to crim­i­nal­ly delete crit­i­cal footage from a busi­ness place which cap­tured the exe­cu­tion of the 17 year old teen by Van Dyke.
Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said Van Dyke had been on site less than 30 sec­onds and out of his car for six sec­onds, when he start­ed shooting.
However despite this clear knowl­edge that Jason VanDyke who had in excess of 20 com­plaints against him for abus­ing cit­i­zens had exe­cut­ed Laquan McDonald no crim­i­nal charges were brought by the Prosecutor ,

The mur­der­ous cop was still allowed to con­tin­ue oper­at­ing as a police offi­cer. Despite clear abu­sive and vio­lent ten­den­cies Van Dyke was allowed to con­tin­ue being a cop. Even after the city set­tled with at lest one mem­ber of the com­mu­ni­ty he caused seri­ous injury to. The city of Chicago pro­posed and reached a $5 mil­lion set­tle­ment in April to the moth­er of Laquan McDonald even though she did not even file a law­suit against the city for the mur­der of her son.
The Mayor , the Prosecutor and the Police brass knew it was a hor­ren­dous mur­der yet they fought tooth and nail to cov­er up the atro­cious behav­ior of a man whom they all knew sum­mar­i­ly exe­cut­ed anoth­er human being. The city’s man­ager’s were equal­ly as duplic­i­tous in approv­ing a 5 mil­lion dol­lar sum of tax­pay­ers mon­ey so a mur­der­ing punk could remain in uniform.
As a for­mer police offi­cer I am offend­ed when I see media hous­es like CNN bring on cops to tell view­ers why it’s nec­es­sary to fire 16 bul­lets into anoth­er human being who is armed with a small pen knife when the first shot spun him around and he fell pos­ing no dan­ger to any­one( not that he did before the shots).

A police offi­cer’s job is not to kill peo­ple, their job is to pro­tect and serve.
Members of the pub­lic are not ene­my com­bat­ants cops do not need to keep fir­ing until a per­son shows no sign of life.
CNN and oth­er cor­po­rate medi­um of mis­in­for­ma­tion are asym­met­ri­cal­ly wag­ing a war against black com­mu­ni­ty as well bring­ing cops, retired cops and cop-apol­o­gists on to con­vince a gullible pub­lic that cops need to treat civil­ians as com­bat­ants on a battlefield.
Even wars have rules of engage­ment, trag­i­cal­ly for the Black Community in America police do not seem to need to observe any rules of engagement
Jason VanDyke opened fire on Laquan McDonald imme­di­ate­ly after arriv­ing on by all accounts includ­ing the damming video of the incident.
He fired and kept fir­ing until the prostate vic­tim stopped twitch­ing . .….….…Sixteen shots in all it was a pub­lic execution.
None of the oth­er offi­cers fired a sin­gle shot. The crim­i­nal defense lawyer for Van Dyke lied that his client feared for his life the video shows oth­er­wise. An offi­cer afraid for his life does not advance on the per­son you are afraid of as Van Dyke did in the video.
The Prosecutor did not charge the killer cop with cap­i­tal mur­der until after a judge forced them to release the video.
The cov­er-up is mind bog­gling in this case the entire sys­tem in Chicago was pre­pared to cov­er up this heinous execution.
But no per­son of col­or should be sur­prised at this , it has been hap­pen­ing for hun­dreds of years and indeed cer­tain­ly before the advent of mobile cam­eras and video devices.

This killing is just anoth­er in a long line of police killing of peo­ple with­out jus­ti­fi­ca­tion. It is eeri­ly rem­i­nis­cent of the killing of 12 year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland.
It smacks of a cal­lous, bla­tant, con­temp­tu­ous ‚dis­re­spect­ful dis­re­gard for human life. Those who argue that Blacks are killing Blacks shows a seri­ous lack of com­mon sense . It is the job of the police to bring black mur­der­ers to jus­tice they are paid to do so. The pris­ons are filled with black gang-bangers. What does that have to do with police murder?
We do not pay police to com­mit mur­der . Rahm Emanuel spoke of the impor­tance for peace after the video was released, yet Emanuel is dis­mis­sive of the Black Lives Matter Movement , declar­ing last month,” this move­ment has made a hard job even hard­er for law enforce­ment It is hav­ing an impact on the safe­ty we want to see through­out the city of Chicago,” .
Nothing like legit­imiz­ing these pow­er crazed big­ots they turn on you in a jiffy. This from a guy who Chicago Black res­i­dents turned out in droves and elect­ed to office.

What author­i­ty did Chicago police have to enter the burg­er King and erase damn­ing evi­dence from a secu­ri­ty camera?
Now that we know the offi­cers lied about the sequence of events what action will be tak­en against them?
What action will be tak­en against those who delet­ed the video of the exe­cu­tion from the sys­tem of a pri­vate company?
Will the Police Union now come out and apol­o­gize for lying that Laquan McDonald lunged at Van Dyke?

None of this will hap­pen because we live in a police state where the laws are stretched and recon­fig­ured to accom­mo­date police killings.
No one knows exact­ly how many peo­ple police kill in America each year. In light of recent hap­pen­ings some orga­ni­za­tions have begun look­ing seri­ous­ly at just how many peo­ple American police are exe­cut­ing in their name on an annu­al basis.
There are no uni­formed stan­dards of report­ing cop killings, none is required . It was always left up to cops to decide when to kill peo­ple and they do not even have to report it to fed­er­al authorities
Video Vigilantism is now slight­ly begin­ning to scratch the sur­face of this grotesque under­bel­ly of police atroc­i­ties and it reveals some­thing many would like to pre­tend is not happening.

Unfortunately some see it as nec­es­sary to con­trol and even exter­mi­nate Blacks from the equa­tion. This is a dou­ble edged sword how­ev­er as police are killing whites as well with alarm­ing alacrity and frequency.
Maybe just not with such depraved indif­fer­ence but soon col­or won’t matter.
Batons,pepper-spray and tasers are mere­ly used as instru­ments of tor­ture for American cops once a sus­pect is peace­able in hand­cuffs not tools to sub­due vio­lent suspects.
In oth­er coun­tries includ­ing Britain police are able to encir­cle sus­pects who are armed with machetes and swords with­out fir­ing a sin­gle shot. Generally when a sus­pect is in pub­lic act­ing strange armed with swords, machetes or small fold­ing knives[sic] there is usu­al­ly some­thing more going on as was the case of Laquan McDonald. The rul­ing is that he had PCP in his sys­tem whether this is true or not we may nev­er know. Who knows what to believe from these Agencies anymore?
If a per­son is act­ing irra­tional­ly it is all the more rea­son to try to deesca­late .Whatever hap­pened to try­ing to resolve issues ?
Why are American cops so deter­mined to kill?

The cou­ple was spot­ted out­side their New York City home on Sunday, with Camille cling­ing to her hus­band’s arm. The 78-year-old come­di­an was dressed down in a white sweat­shirt with the words “Hello Friend” print­ed on it, while Camille wore a long grey coat. Hello Friend is the name of the foun­da­tion the Cosbys set up in hon­or of their late son, Ennis Cosby, who was killed in a failed rob­bery attempt in 1997.

The sight­ing marks the first time in six months that the come­di­an has been pho­tographed. The last pub­lic sight­ing of Cosby was in May dur­ing his appear­ance at Selma High School in Alabama, where he pro­mot­ed education.

Over 50 women have now accused the embat­tled come­di­an of sex­u­al assault. He has denied all wrong­do­ing and has nev­er been charged with a crime.

Last December, Camille defend­ed her hus­band of over 40 years, after the num­ber of women accus­ing him of sex­u­al assault began to grow.

“A dif­fer­ent man has been por­trayed in the media over the last two months,” she said in the state­ment. “It is the por­trait of a man I do not know. It is also a por­trait paint­ed by indi­vid­u­als and orga­ni­za­tions whom many in the media have giv­en a pass. There appears to be no vet­ting of my husband’s accusers before sto­ries are pub­lished or aired. An accu­sa­tion is pub­lished, and imme­di­ate­ly goes viral.”

“None of us will ever want to be in the posi­tion of attack­ing a vic­tim. But the ques­tion should be asked — who is the victim?“she added.

In November 2014, super­mod­el Beverly Johnson briefly talked about Camille, after she claimed Cosby drugged her in 1986 at his home when she came to read for a part on The Cosby Show. Johnson said that when she called to con­front the come­di­an using the pri­vate num­ber he gave her, she was shocked to hear Camille answer the phone.

“A lit­tle shocked, I quick­ly iden­ti­fied myself to her in the most respect­ful way pos­si­ble and then asked to speak to Bill,” Johnson wrote for Vanity Fair. “Camille polite­ly informed me that it was very late, 11 p.m., and that they were both in bed together.”

WATCH: Three New Bill Cosby Accusers Come Forward, Including a Former Mrs. America

Cosby recent­ly had a legal win on Nov. 13, when Judge Debra Katz Weintraub tem­porar­i­ly stayed an order for him to sit for a depo­si­tion in accuser Janice Dickinson’s defama­tion civ­il suit against him. Cosby’s depo­si­tion was orig­i­nal­ly sup­posed to take place on Nov. 23 in Boston, Dickinson’s attor­ney, Lisa Bloom,exclu­sive­ly told ET ear­li­er this month.

Cosby was already ordered to give a depo­si­tion on Oct. 9 in the case of Judy Huth, who claims in a law­suit that he molest­ed her at the Playboy Mansion in 1974 when she was 15. It was ruled the details of that depo­si­tion are to be sealed from the pub­lic until Dec. 22, so the court can decide which por­tions may or may not be kept confidential.

Read more here :Bill Cosby Steps Out for First Time in Six Months, Wife Camille Remains By His Side by Antoinette Bueno 3:50 PM PST, November 24, 2015