National Security Minister Peter Bunting signed a depor­ta­tion order against a Curaco nation­al Shurendy Quant in 2013 whom he labeled a drug king­pin and kicked his ass out of Jamaica and I say “BRAVO MINISTER”.
Quant was a pas­sen­ger trav­el­ling in a taxi­cab which the police stopped and searched in St Ann in which gan­ga was found the cab­driv­er claimed the wed was his.

Quant who was not a legal Jamaica res­i­dent was tak­en to the Police Narcotics Division in Kingston where depor­ta­tion pro­ceed­ings were com­menced against him despite the incom­pe­tent police not charg­ing him with a crime.T
his was an egre­gious error you nev­er release any­one in a sit­u­a­tion like this with­out charge let them go to court and let the court decide whether the cab dri­ver is lying about own­ing the weed.

Incredibly, though Quant was in the coun­try ille­gal­ly he was able to amass a legal team to fight his depor­ta­tion pro­ceed­ings which saw a Magistrate decide to hold Saturday court to try and stave off his depor­ta­tion before the date decid­ed on by the Minister.
How unusu­al is that?
Jamaican courts love crim­i­nals, not just Jamaican crim­i­nals , it does not mat­ter where they come from they find all sorts of bull­shit argu­ments to delay justice.
So the courts of appeals took on the Minister lam­bast­ing him for send­ing Quant packing.

Now retired court of appeal pres­i­dent Seymour Panton, in the rul­ing, said he was “sur­prised” that the min­is­ter “does not know that a res­i­dent mag­is­trate may prop­er­ly sit and dis­pose of mat­ters on days oth­er than those that have been gazetted”.
The court also slammed Bunting for claim­ing igno­rance of an order by the Supreme Court bar­ring Quant’s depor­ta­tion. “In light of the inte­gral func­tion the min­is­ter plays in the depor­ta­tion of an alien, the asser­tion that he was igno­rant of the court’s order stay­ing his order is curi­ous. It is cer­tain­ly odd, in light of the cru­cial role he plays or ought to play in a depor­ta­tion, that he did­n’t acquaint him­self with the out­come of the proceedings,”.
Panton ram­bled on that the Minister should have com­mend­ed the mag­is­trate for hold­ing court on a Saturday because the Minister and Police found it odd the kind of accom­mo­da­tion which was afford­ed this accused alien.

Needless to say this pub­li­ca­tion sup­ports the Minister whole­heart­ed­ly, screw the Cangaroo crim­i­nal cod­dling court and Panton .
Literally every week Jamaican nation­als are deport­ed back to the coun­try from sev­er­al coun­tries, why the hell should Jamaica not do the same?
Why should we accom­mo­date a for­eign­er with every spe­cial accom­mo­da­tion we can and worse who the hell was this guy that he gen­er­at­ed such a flur­ry of support?
Good one Minister Bunting.

JAMAICA MUST TACKLE WAVE OF POLICE KILLINGS
This was the head­line Amnesty International post­ed on its web­site March 8^th 2012 , that head­line is still there almost three years later.
Additionally the London based Human Rights Group pro­ceed­ed to say .…

Quote; The killing of 21 peo­ple by Jamaican police in just six days must be sub­ject to a thor­ough inquiry, Amnesty International said as it called on the author­i­ties to mount an effec­tive inves­ti­ga­tion into recent and past police oper­a­tions. Six of the killings took place dur­ing a sin­gle police oper­a­tion in Denham Town, West Kingston, on 5 March. A 13-year-old girl died after report­ed­ly being caught up in the cross-fire between police and crim­i­nal sus­pects. Forty five peo­ple have been killed by police in Jamaica so far in 2012, accord­ing to press reports. “The recent wave of police killings in Jamaica is shock­ing but unfor­tu­nate­ly not unprece­dent­ed,” said Chiara Liguori, Caribbean researcher at Amnesty International. “The prob­lem is that police con­tin­ue to enter mar­gin­al­ized inner-city com­mu­ni­ties as if every­one there was a crim­i­nal sus­pect.” The last time such lev­els of police vio­lence were record­ed was dur­ing the state of emer­gency in May 2010 in West Kingston, where 76 peo­ple were killed over two days dur­ing an oper­a­tion by secu­ri­ty forces. Almost two years on, no one has yet been held respon­si­ble for those killings, and an inves­ti­ga­tion car­ried out by the Public Defender is still to be con­clud­ed. “If human rights abus­es such as police killings go unpun­ished, it will only open the door for more abus­es to take place,” said Chiara Liguori. Jamaica also has a bad record in terms of hold­ing those respon­si­ble to account and pro­vid­ing jus­tice and repa­ra­tions to vic­tims’ fam­i­lies. Out of more than 2,220 fatal shoot­ings by police record­ed between 2000 and 2010, only two offi­cers have been convicted.

Amnesty International acknowl­edged that the cre­ation of the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) in August 2010 has been a cru­cial step towards enhanc­ing inves­ti­ga­tions of abus­es by the secu­ri­ty forces. However, the orga­ni­za­tion believes author­i­ties in Jamaica must ensure INDECOM is pro­vid­ed with suf­fi­cient resources and col­lab­o­ra­tion from oth­er state agen­cies to con­duct effec­tive inves­ti­ga­tions that actu­al­ly lead to jus­tice for the vic­tims. Amnesty International’s research on police killings in Jamaica found that effec­tive inves­ti­ga­tions are ham­pered by a lack of inde­pen­dence in the bal­lis­tic and foren­sic ser­vices and by lim­it­ed resources which often con­tribute to the lack of jus­tice. “Faced with anoth­er wave of killings by the secu­ri­ty forces in West Kingston, the Jamaican author­i­ties must take deci­sive steps to fight impuni­ty,” said Chiara Liguori.“They should make all need­ed resources avail­able to ensure a prompt, inde­pen­dent and effec­tive inves­ti­ga­tion of the recent killings and appoint an inde­pen­dent com­mis­sion of inquiry to ensure that all human rights vio­la­tions com­mit­ted under the state of emer­gency do not go unpun­ished.“https://​www​.amnesty​.org/​e​n​/​l​a​t​e​s​t​/​n​e​w​s​/​2​0​1​2​/​0​3​/​j​a​m​a​i​c​a​-​m​u​s​t​-​t​a​c​k​l​e​-​s​h​o​c​k​i​n​g​-​w​a​v​e​-​p​o​l​i​c​e​-​k​i​l​l​i​n​gs/

It’s dif­fi­cult to tell the exact num­ber of Jamaicans who have been mur­dered in Jamaica since this state­ment was first released by the watch­dog group who cer­tain­ly were not killed by the Island’s secu­ri­ty forces .
However using crime sta­tis­tics pro­vid­ed by the police it is safe to say approx­i­mate­ly 4,800 Jamaicans have been report­ed killed since then.

There is a dis­tinct slant in the way this report was writ­ten to cre­ate false perceptions.The lan­guage is inflam­ma­to­ry and sug­ges­tive. The text devoid of bal­ance or con­text in which police killings occur in Jamaica.
Even if the state­ment was to be giv­en the time of day based on what one could argue is rea­son­able cause for con­cern, the lack of objec­tiv­i­ty and the gen­er­al one-sided slant of the report makes the writer and the Publication sig­nif­i­cant­ly less wor­thy of one’s time.

The report which offered a sweep­ing indict­ment and not much more, was equal­ly devoid of cred­i­bil­i­ty as it relates to the facts. No men­tion was made of the envi­ron­ment in which these police killings occurred.
No men­tion was made of the num­ber of offi­cers shot and killed.
There was no men­tion of the num­ber of offi­cers shot and injured
There was no men­tion of the fact that on aver­age 1600 homi­cides occur annually.
The very same decade would have seen rough­ly 16,000 Jamaicans slaugh­tered by criminals.
What the one-sided piece of pro­pa­gan­da-nar­ra­tive was con­cerned about was the num­ber of crim­i­nals killed by police.
Police and law abid­ing Jamaicans be damned.

The Website the Guardian Reports the fol­low­ing since we actu­al­ly start­ed watch­ing inci­dents of police mur­der in the United States after the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson Missouri.
Fact: In the first 24 days of 2015, police in the US fatal­ly shot more peo­ple than police did in England and Wales, com­bined, over the past 24 years.
According to data col­lect­ed by the UK advo­ca­cy group Inquest, there have been 55 fatal police shoot­ings – total – in England and Wales from 1990 to 2014.
Fact: There has been just one fatal shoot­ing by Icelandic police in the country’s 71-year his­to­ry. The city of Stockton, California – with 25,000 few­er res­i­dents than all of Iceland com­bined – had three fatal encoun­ters in the first five months of 2015.
Fact: Police in the US fatal­ly shot more peo­ple in one month this year than police in Australia offi­cial­ly report­ed dur­ing a span of 19 years.

Zambrano-Montes was killed in February by offi­cers respond­ing to reports that he was throw­ing rocks at cars. The inci­dent was caught on video, with 17 shots fired; accord­ing to police, “five or six” struck Zambrano-Montes.

In Finland, accord­ing to chief inspec­tor Jukka Salmine, police fired just six bul­lets in all of 2013.By the num­bers: US police kill more in days than oth­er coun­tries do in years.

Despite the fact that American crim­i­nals are some­times heav­i­ly armed, in many cas­es where police mer­ci­less­ly shoot cit­i­zens the sit­u­a­tion is as such that cops in oth­er coun­tries would have faced mur­der charges had they act­ed similarly.
In many cas­es sit­u­a­tions are esca­lat­ed by police them­selves in the United States in order to arrest or cre­ate false jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for assault­ing and killing cit­i­zens usu­al­ly Blacks or latino.
As a for­mer Jamaican Police Officer myself who dealt with dan­ger­ous and deter­mined crim­i­nals and was shot in the line of duty I have looked at video inci­dent after inci­dent and end­ed up with the same conclusion.
In many cas­es where American cops use lethal force, even when they pre­tend to be reluc­tant to use it,they even­tu­al­ly end up using it and in the end it still could have been avoid­ed, à la the killing of Khijame Powell etal.

In oth­er words even in sit­u­a­tions where life is not in dan­ger, the sus­pect has nowhere to go and dia­logue can be used, they even­tu­al­ly talk but end up killing sus­pects because he stepped for­ward with a knife, or as they clas­si­cal­ly say in police jar­gon “he lunged at them”.
The media gen­er­al­ly gob­ble up that lie and not only present it as fact, they defend and metas­ta­size it into believ­abil­i­ty and authenticity.
The only com­po­nent nec­es­sary to pre­vent some of these killings is time. Police offi­cials are reluc­tant to spend the nec­es­sary time to de-esca­late sit­u­a­tions because killing some­one who yells at them is so eas­i­ly and read­i­ly jus­ti­fied in America. So they rapid­ly esca­late minor sit­u­a­tions use lethal force and walk away.
No mat­ter how much one speak on police atroc­i­ty in America he would not even begin to scratch the sur­face of what real­ly goes on just below the surface.
Whether it’s cops rid­ing up and sum­mar­i­ly shoot­ing 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland Ohio then cal­lous­ly neglect­ing to ren­der first aid, or the count­less peo­ple, most­ly Black Americans who have been sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly sent to prison on trumped up charges it’s all the same.
Or worse the sys­tem­at­ic crim­i­nal col­lu­sion and lack of will which exist in Prosecutor’s office and the bla­tant refusal to pros­e­cute mur­der­er cops à la Eric Garner etal.

IN ALL OF THIS AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HAS BEEN MOSTLY SILENT

In all of this Amnesty International has been large­ly silent save and except where it is too embar­rass­ing to remain silent like when events erupt­ed in Ferguson Missouri.
Amnesty inter­na­tion­al’s pre­oc­cu­pa­tion seem large­ly to rest with small impov­er­ished nations with cor­rupt Governments who are afraid to speak out of fear because they are oth­er­wise inher­ent­ly corrupt.
So the mas­sive ille­gal killings by police in the United States and the atroc­i­ties being met­ed out to Palestinians in their home­land by occu­py­ing Israelis is sim­ply par for the course for Amnesty International.

The empha­sis in Jamaica is not about catch­ing and bring­ing crim­i­nals who mass-mur­der cit­i­zens to jus­tice, the empha­sis has shift­ed to find­ing police at fault who go after the mur­der­ous demons.
Criminals in some cas­es are stupid.
Not always, Jamaican crim­i­nals are usu­al­ly very savvy they under­stand how to ful­ly exploit weak­ness­es in the crim­i­nal Justice sys­tem and they do.
They under­stand that the hands of the police are tied because a few pre­ten­tious “uncle tom n*****s” , or as my friend calls them “boasie slaves” think crime can be wished away.
Others like the “crim­i­nal lawyers” [dual-mean­ing] who stand against any changes to the present sys­tem are reap­ing a wind­fall. They have a win-win sys­tem in place, they win when police go after the thugs, they win when the (inde­com act) goes after officers.
What’s not to like ?

Answer: When the child is Black and the shoot­er is a police officer.

Welcome to America, where #BlackLivesMatter is a trend­ing hash­tag, but police impuni­ty is a lethal real­i­ty of Black life.

There’s an old say­ing that the def­i­n­i­tion of a con­sul­tant is “some­one who bor­rows your watch to tell you what time it is.” That is true when it comes to police experts as well. Cops and pros­e­cu­tors come from the same cul­ture. So it sur­pris­es no one that the experts hired by Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty to inves­ti­gate the fatal shoot­ing of Tamir Rice are read­ing the time from the watch sup­plied by law enforce­ment and have come to the same con­clu­sions as the coun­ty police and (let’s be hon­est) McGinty him­self: that the shoot­ing was “rea­son­able.”

You’re not like­ly to find any law enforce­ment per­son with­in a 100-mile radius who would dare speak out and say what we all know: This went down bad­ly (not just “trag­i­cal­ly,” as one of the experts put it) and the offi­cers should be held account­able. Law enforce­ment cul­ture does­n’t allow for peo­ple to break ranks with­out con­se­quences. So please, let’s not call these hired con­sul­tants “inde­pen­dent” or “out­side” experts. Their per­spec­tive is whol­ly with­in the law enforce­ment world.

An inde­pen­dent inves­ti­ga­tion would have asked the ques­tion: If the 911 caller could see that the “sus­pect” was a child and the gun “prob­a­bly a fake,” why could­n’t trained police offi­cers see that? An out­side per­spec­tive would have tak­en note that police arrest white sus­pects with real guns all the time with­out fir­ing a shot, let alone killing the sus­pect with­in two sec­onds of arriv­ing on the scene. And any observ­er who real­ly believes that Black lives mat­ter as much as white lives would have expressed out­rage that the two offi­cers involved did not admin­is­ter first aid to Rice after he was shot. He died the next day, and it’s a more than rea­son­able ques­tion whether the offi­cers’ cal­lous dis­re­gard for his life was the dif­fer­ence between life and death.

Also rel­e­vant to those of us out­side the warped world of police cul­ture: last December the Cleveland Police Department was hit with a report by the Department of Justicecrit­i­ciz­ing the exces­sive use of force by offi­cers and the unnec­es­sary use of weapons. In May, white Cleveland police offi­cers sued their own boss­es for being dis­crim­i­nat­ed against in favor of Black offi­cers on the same force. They say that the brass treats them more harsh­ly than Black offi­cers after use-of-force situations.

In a cul­ture like that, where cops feel aggriev­ed because they are cops, and feel espe­cial­ly aggriev­ed because they are white cops, it’s no won­der that the coun­ty police who inves­ti­gat­ed the Rice shoot­ing have issued no rec­om­men­da­tion and that the hired experts found the shoot­ing “rea­son­able.”

Which brings us back to McGinty, the pros­e­cu­tor. He is tak­ing the now famil­iar “neu­tral” approach to indict­ing the cop who shot Rice, an aban­don­ment of a pros­e­cu­tor’s actu­al job that seems to apply only in cas­es where cops have shot a Black per­son. Add to that McGinty’s fail­ure to con­vict Officer Michael Brelo in the 2012 police killing of an unarmed Black cou­ple and I’m sure the Cleveland Police Department sees, like the rest of us do, that the writ­ing is on the wall for yet anoth­er pros­e­cu­to­r­i­al fail­ure when the police kill Black people.

There is noth­ing remote­ly “rea­son­able” about any of this
See orig­i­nal sto­ry here : Question: When Is Shooting a 12-Year-Old Child Reasonable?

IT’S REALLY NOT THAT COMPLICATED TO FIGURE OUT.

Darwinian Evolution the­o­ry would have you believe that giv­en enough time mon­keys evolved into Humans of course now they don’t any­more so our mon­keys stay, well mon­keys. That “the­o­ry” also wants you to believe cer­tain ground crea­tures even­tu­al­ly grew wings and ulti­mate­ly flew.
Despite the fact that there is no evi­dence to sup­port this coka­me­nie there is broad sup­port and accep­tance of this nonsense.
The truth of the mat­ter is that cre­ation­ism and evo­lu­tion are not opposed but are actu­al­ly both log­i­cal and true.
Of course species evolve into larg­er, vari­a­tions of them­selves. Humans do too, giv­en time our skin col­or becomes lighter, or dark­er depend­ing on the cli­mat­ic con­di­tions to which we are exposed and oth­er char­ac­ter­is­tics which may define the changes we go through.
One thing is sure regard­less of those changes humans remain humans though dif­fer­ent in pig­men­ta­tion lan­guage or size or oth­er defin­ing characteristics.
In short, if you plant corn for a tril­lion years it will nev­er evolve into apples, it remains corn.
Those who want you to believe in Darwin’s fal­la­cy will read­i­ly tell you that you should believe them that over bil­lions of years tril­lions even, a sin­gle cell evolved into all life forms as we know it.
Never mind that even if this was remote­ly pos­si­ble Darwin nev­er both­ered to say who or what cre­at­ed that cell.
Darwinians denounce those who see the evi­dence of cre­ation around them and “believe”, that a great God cre­at­ed it all but ask us to believe their the­o­ry with­out a shred of evidence.
Essentially one should only believe what they believe and if you don’t then you are a pre­his­toric nean­derthal who will like­ly change into anoth­er crea­ture giv­en time.
I will go with the mass of evi­dence which sur­rounds me instead of some cocka­manie unproven, un-prov­able crock.!!!

THE MASS KILLINGS IN JAMAICA

You know crime is out of con­trol in Jamaica when the Island’s Prime Minister actu­al­ly man­ages to com­ment , or maybe it’s just that General Elections are imminent.
I was per­son­al­ly shocked that the elo­quent and articulate,[sic] yet media shy Prime Minister, the Honorable Portia Simpson Miller spoke out against the killing of six peo­ple the seri­ous injury to four oth­ers and the torch­ing of their home in Hanover a cou­ple of days ago.
I did not expect her to com­ment after all the killings of sev­er­al Police offi­cers recent­ly was not wor­thy of a sin­gle word of con­dem­na­tion from the esteemed leader of the Country.
I guess six killed in a sin­gle inci­dent is the response but­ton who knows.
See sto­ry here :https://​mike​beck​les​.com/​p​o​l​i​c​e​-​h​o​l​d​-​h​a​n​o​v​e​r​-​m​a​s​s​a​c​r​e​-​s​u​s​p​e​ct/
Out of ideas the Minister of National secu­ri­ty default­ed to the con­ve­nient talk­ing point .
“This is a mur­der which is gen­e­sised in the lot­to scam”.
Even if the killings are a direct result of the infa­mous lot­to scam does that make the killing of these vic­tims any less consequential?
The Minister and Police Commissioner were quick to attempt to deflect the seri­ous­ness of the con­tin­ued mass killings by say­ing that by and large the major­i­ty of peo­ple get­ting killed are in some way affil­i­at­ed with the scam.
I guess on that basis we should all just move on noth­ing to see here.
This is a weak attempt at deflect­ing atten­tion away from the seri­ous­ness of the ram­pant killings in the small Island nation of 2.7 million.

The peo­ple have become dis­in­ter­est­ed and detached from the dai­ly killings cal­loused and unre­spon­sive to the per­pet­u­al assault.
There is a sense of res­ig­na­tion if you will, a sense of expec­ta­tion and maybe even antic­i­pa­tion of the vio­lent killings which occur each day out­side these mass killings which jars the social con­science of ordi­nary people.
Absent a seri­ous fix entire indus­tries have sprung up which prof­it from the blood letting.
Funeral Parlors are every­where, Sound sys­tem own­er­ship and even bands have emerged to cel­e­brate those who are killed.
Vendors depend on the funer­als to sell their wares in order to survive.
It is now a way of life which is now dif­fi­cult to stop there may be a lack of polit­i­cal will “to stop di peo­ple dem food.”
The thing is that no one knows exact­ly when their per­son­al num­ber will be called. It is a crazy kind of Russian roulette which Jamaicans have come to accept as normal.

Of course mur­ders are hap­pen­ing with fright­en­ing fre­quen­cy and alacrity some will read­i­ly tell you. Being the def­i­n­i­tion of Patriots they are quick to tell you that even in America there are mass killings as if America is a good barom­e­ter with which to reg­is­ter com­mons sense best prac­tices as it relates to how crime and crim­i­nal­i­ty is best handled.
The Jamaicans who quick­ly jump to the “even in America” nar­ra­tive fail to rec­og­nize that America is awash in killings , includ­ing mass killings because of it’s igno­rance and stub­born alle­giance to a sec­ond amend­ment to the con­sti­tu­tion which has seen bet­ter days.
It makes no sense to have over 300 mil­lion guns on the streets , one gun for every man woman and child in America, there­fore default­ing to the United States as a ref­er­ence point is ludicrous.

For decades Jamicans glo­ri­fied mass-mur­der­ers every­one got in on the act the Media being the chief con­duit and cheer­leader. The “bad-mad” cul­ture is glo­ri­fied and prop­a­gat­ed yet Jamaicans feign shock and out­rage when young men grow up want­i­ng to be gang­sters and young ladies want to be their paramours.
Even if the nur­tur­ing of the homi­ci­dal cul­ture was been done while there was a par­al­lel effort which saw appro­pri­ate laws passed and the Police trained equipped and sup­port­ed the gang­land cul­ture would still win out because there are just too many young impres­sion­able minds involved.
Contrast that with the cre­ation and glo­ri­fi­ca­tion of the Garrison cul­ture at the high­est ech­e­lons of soci­ety to the most impov­er­ished ghet­tos and the sys­tem­at­ic yet strate­gic denun­ci­a­tion of the rule of law and those who enforce them.
The chick­ens have sim­ply come home to roost.
If you plant corn for a tril­lion years don’t be sur­prised when you receive a har­vest of corn.
It will always be corn don’t act so surprised !!!

How do you know it’s elec­tion time in Jamaica?
You can tell when the Government goes around hand­ing out token gifts to var­i­ous Government Agencies As was the case where a $3 mil­lion com­put­er cen­tre, out­fit­ted with Wi-Fi access, was offi­cial­ly hand­ed over to the Mobile Reserve. The com­put­er cen­ter also owned all the high-end prod­ucts with Best Monitors Under $200 (All Under Budget).

The dona­tion was estab­lished through fund­ing from the Universal Service Fund (USF), and involved col­lab­o­ra­tion between the Ministry of National Security and the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining.

How con­ve­nient that this com­put­er lab is being made avail­able to the Mobile Reserve at this time?
The mobile Reserve has always been the back-bone of the JCF , incred­i­bly what we are learn­ing as a result of this gift is that that nerve cen­ter was not computerized.
Why is that?
How insult­ing to the men and women who do the heavy lift­ing through the years that now this Administration con­ve­nient­ly see fit to bring 10 old com­put­ers and a lit­tle wi-fi expect­ing that they will be revered for what should have been in place for decades.

The Commissioner of Police Carl Williams expressed appre­ci­a­tion to the Ministries on behalf of the 700 mem­bers of the Mobile Reserve, not­ing that the facil­i­ty will help to advance effi­cien­cy and pro­mote the pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment of the team.
“Duh”
Guaranteed every sin­gle offi­cer work­ing at the Mobile Reserve owns a smart­phone or two , many may actu­al­ly own per­son­al com­put­ers each and every per­son there most assured­ly is effi­cient in the use of the technology.
What’s at stake here is that this appease­ment gift is appro­pri­ate­ly timed to influ­ence a large swath of police offi­cers direct­ly at a time when gen­er­al elec­tions are imminent.
What bet­ter place to set up a bunch of out­dat­ed old desk­top com­put­ers and the promise of wi-fi than the place which hous­es the largest con­cen­tra­tion of cops?
At the same time every lit­tle politi­cian made sure they crawled out from under their rock to get their faces in the picture.

It is nau­se­at­ing and insult­ing to say the least, notwith­stand­ing many police offi­cers in Jamaica will fall for it as well as many who have already left. They will nat­u­ral­ly see this as rea­son for great cel­e­bra­tion despite the cyn­i­cal polit­i­cal play in what should have been stan­dard pro­ce­dure decades ago.

“I freed a thou­sand slaves I could have freed a thou­sand more if only they knew they were slaves”.

Harriet Tubman

Oh well.…

The head of the NYPD’s Patrolmen Benevolent Association the Union which rep­re­sents rank and file cops is known for mak­ing out­ra­geous state­ments against cit­i­zens irre­spec­tive of the charge or alle­ga­tions lev­eled against his members.
His com­ments has become so out­ra­geous and out­landish that he is now seen as a total moron who no one lis­tens to anymore.
Patrick Lynch has lost all cred­i­bil­i­ty even some of the very peo­ple whom he rep­re­sents wants to see the back of this igno­rant goon.

The lat­est inci­dent in which Lynch showed just how igno­rant a Jack-Ass he is involves the case of mis­tak­en iden­ti­ty involv­ing for­mer ten­nis star James Blake.

Mister Blake was grabbed by NYPD cop James Frascatore out­side a New York City hotel as he stood wait­ing on his ride to take him to an event. Frascatore was seen on video grab­bing and slam­ming Blake to the pave­ment before cuff­ing him.

The NYPD lat­er said it was a case of mis­tak­en iden­ti­ty . The Department alleges that Frascatore and oth­er cops were involved in a sting oper­a­tion which involved the inves­ti­ga­tion of cred­it card fraud and a sus­pect who resem­bled mis­ter Blake.
Of course the NYPD can­not just go up to an alleged cred­it card sus­pect and arrest him , every sus­pect must be vio­lent­ly thrown to the ground as ini­tial pun­ish­ment before a tri­al or conviction.[sic]

The Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) which inves­ti­gat­ed the mat­ter ruled that Frascatore used exces­sive force in effect­ing the arrest, which I remind you was a wrong arrest to begin with. The 4 year vet­er­an of the NYPD Frascatore is report­ed to have sev­er­al oth­er com­plaints of exces­sive force pend­ing against him.

Despite this, Patrick Lynch spout­ing the same garbage we are used to said, the CCRB gave Blake’s case spe­cial treatment.
The union head went fur­ther say­ing that Frascatore did noth­ing wrong and even shook hands with Blake after real­iz­ing he was not the sus­pect­ed cred­it card fraud­ster his plain­clothes NYPD team was seeking.
Frascatore “detained the per­son the way he’s trained to do — hand­cuff him,” he said. “There was a pat on the back, a hand­shake and every­one left. This police offi­cer respond­ed to his training.”
So there for those who did not know accord­ing to Patrick Lynch the NYPD is trained to throw peo­ple to the ground and kneel on them even before they are sure they are involved in com­mit­ting an offence.
And oh by the way after a vio­lent unlaw­ful arrest cit­i­zens should be hap­py to receive a hand­shake and a pat on the back.
The nerve of this absolute idiot.

NOT TO BE OUTDONE
Meanwhile anoth­er thug in uni­form , the head of the Captains Endowment Association Roy Richter charged bias in anoth­er rul­ing against anoth­er mem­ber of the NYPD .
Richter was com­ment­ing on the case involv­ing for­mer lieu­tenant Brian McCaughey now Captain, pro­mot­ed even though there was an out­stand­ing alle­ga­tion of improp­er use of force against him .

Brian McCauhey was accused of point­ing his gun at two skin­ny kids harm­less­ly play­ing tag on a Brooklyn street — and pro­fane­ly order­ing the pair to drop face down.

“Motherf — –, get on the ground!” a hyped-up Brian McCaughey shout­ed with his weapon need­less­ly drawn, accord­ing to rel­a­tives of two boys and oth­er sources. He then hand­cuffed 13-year-old Kesean Smalls as fright­ened 12-year-old Jahniel Hinds cow­ered behind his moth­er on the evening of Sept. 13, 2013, accord­ing to fam­i­ly mem­bers. Minutes ear­li­er, the boys were play­ing tag out­side their homes on Quincy St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Hinds bolt­ed in ter­ror as his friend Smalls was cuffed and grilled by anoth­er cop, fam­i­ly mem­bers said. “We were play­ing. As we were run­ning towards each oth­er that’s when they start­ed aim­ing their guns and everything,”

The boys were only released when one of their moms inter­vened. Needless to say in this case also the cops were too stu­pid to real­ize they had the wrong per­sons. In this case accord­ing to New York Daily News report they were four blocks from where they were sent. Another case of mis­tak­en identity.
McCaughey, who was a lieu­tenant at the time of the inci­dent, plead­ed guilty and agreed to the dock­ing of 30 vaca­tion days as his penal­ty in the case inves­ti­gat­ed by the Citizens Complaint Review Board. NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton must still sign off on the deal. “Pointing a gun at two young boys, who had done noth­ing oth­er than play tag on their own street, was a reck­less use of force that trau­ma­tized them and cre­at­ed an extreme­ly dan­ger­ous sit­u­a­tion,” said CCRB exec­u­tive direc­tor Mina Malik.

Rather that shut his stu­pid mouth and have this mat­ter go away Richter revealed once again that NYPD cops do not believe the laws apply to them.They clear­ly see them­selves above the laws. They fun­da­men­tal­ly believe they are part of a spe­cial club which makes them immune to being held accountable.
In respond­ing to the ver­dict Richter said “It reveals their true bias against any­one wear­ing a uni­form and their need for pub­lic flog­gings at the expense of due process of rights of officers,”.

An igno­rant state­ment com­ing from the lips of a moron.
McCaughey plead guilty to the charges.
There are no alle­ga­tions of impro­pri­ety in the way the inves­ti­ga­tions were con­duct­ed by the CCRB.
Totally unlike the thou­sands of inno­cent peo­ple who have been wrong­ly framed and impris­oned on trumped up and con­coct­ed evi­dence by mem­bers of the NYPD.
Every year more and more cit­i­zens are being released from pris­ons after evi­dence comes to light of the crim­i­nal con­duct NYPD cops engage in to send inno­cent peo­ple to jail for crimes they did not commit.
Most shock­ing in all this is that this par­tic­u­lar cop was pro­mot­ed despite hav­ing an unre­solved case involv­ing exces­sive use of force against him.
How can any­one trust these thugs in uni­form ? Nevertheless it seem to be the norm for all the union heads with­in the NYPD . The head of the Sergeants Union Ed Mullins open­ly called Mayor Bill de Blasio a nincompoop.
Clearly these boys are lit­tle more than glo­ri­fied thugs who have zero respect for duly con­sti­tut­ed author­i­ty be it over­sight of what they do or even the city-wide elect­ed lead­ers who are their bosses.
Yet every­day they demand respect from the very peo­ple who pay their salaries and pro­vide gen­er­ous pen­sion and health plans for them and their families.
It’s a darn disgrace.….

Opposition Jamaica Labor Party mem­bers walked out of the Parliament two days ago to reg­is­ter their dis­gust at the lies of the Simpson Miller Administration as it relates to the pro­posed £25 mil­lion pound ster­ling gift from Britain toward help­ing to build a prison in Jamaica.
According to the deal the Island would be oblig­at­ed to take in excess of 300 pris­on­ers present­ly serv­ing time in British Prisons.
What seemed to have elud­ed many includ­ing the Administration is that the Island would be con­trac­tu­al­ly oblig­at­ed to take back all Jamaicans who are con­vict­ed of crimes in England going forward.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly that non-cit­i­zens of Britain who com­mit crimes in Britain should pay for their crimes in Prison, just not at the expense of British taxpayers.
It does not get any clear­er than that.
It’s impor­tant to note that this deal has been float­ed before to the Golding Administration and was shot down by that Administration.
Then we won­der why Bruce Golding was forced out of offi­cer? Anyway.….
Also on the table is the nag­ging issue of repa­ra­tions for slav­ery a top­ic which has gar­nered loud­er and loud­er calls of late .
Cameron stead­fast­ly said he would not address the issue as his Administration and his coun­try are more con­cerned with build­ing rela­tion­ships going for­ward rather than dwell on things of the past.
How utter­ly con­ve­nient for Cameron the off­spring of Slaver hold­ers to not want to pay for their crimes but I digress?

The “Trojan horse” £25 mil­lion pound ster­ling offer will be an impos­si­ble lure to the hun­gry fish of an Administration in Kingston.
Even as the Minister of National Security Peter Bunting lit­er­al­ly swears that the mon­ey offered is not a gift and goes to great lengths to con­vince the Nation no deal has been signed, he seemed unable to con­tain the glee at the prospect of receiv­ing the money.

“… It’s not a gift. They have been very clear that this sub­stan­tial con­tri­bu­tion towards the build­ing of the new prison is con­di­tion­al upon us pass­ing leg­is­la­tion, suc­cess­ful­ly nego­ti­at­ing a pris­on­er trans­fer agree­ment, and then mak­ing it oper­a­tional,” Bunting told reporters at yes­ter­day’s Jamaica House press brief­ing. However, despite the rag­ing debate, it could take up to a year before the coun­try knows if Britain will give Jamaica the promised £25 mil­lion to build the new penal facility,

Immediately after say­ing that the very same Peter Bunting who said no deal has been signed and the mon­ey is not a gift went on to say .…
“There can be a win-win sit­u­a­tion in this because it costs about £6,000 to keep a pris­on­er in a Jamaican facil­i­ty ver­sus £25,000 in a UK facil­i­ty, so there is suf­fi­cient scope for there to be a win-win if and when we get to nego­ti­at­ing the pris­on­er trans­fer agree­ment itself,”

Okay so there you have it.
Administration oper­a­tives are busy , with cal­cu­la­tors out, they are sali­vat­ing at the prospect that some­how Britain will trans­fer the equiv­a­lent of of  £25,000 per inmate the pur­port­ed cost of tak­ing care of one pris­on­er per year in Britain as opposed to Jamaica where they sup­pos­ed­ly spend £6,000 to take care of one pris­on­er for the year.
The Politicians in the PNP already sees this as an oppor­tu­ni­ty to siphon off £19.000 pound ster­ling per inmate to do with it what they choose. You decide whether this will go into the pub­lic cof­fers to take care of the nation’s busi­ness as against dis­ap­pear­ing into their pockets.

The ques­tions then becomes how long will Britain be pre­pared to send the equiv­a­lent of £25,000 per inmate to Jamaica after the PTA?
After the last pris­on­er has been trans­ferred will Britain be pre­pared to pay for their incar­cer­a­tion for the dura­tion of the time they are incarcerated?
Will Britain con­tin­ue to pay Jamaica to incar­cer­ate Jamaicans who com­mit crimes and are con­vict­ed in England?
It is impor­tant that we keep in mind that the rea­son the Brits are engag­ing in this offer is to reduce, not increase cost to British taxpayers.
This deal also allows Britain to cre­ate the nec­es­sary diver­sion so they do not have to dis­cuss the burn­ing issue of Reparations.

The Government is not telling the Nation the truth. The fact is that the Portia Simpson Miller Administration is seri­ous­ly engaged to push­ing this deal for­ward if the peo­ple allow it.
Of course the Jamaican peo­ple will be bom­bard­ed with the scur­rilous nar­ra­tive that the Nation’s jails are old and decrepit by their well placed operatives.
The truth of the mat­ter is that regard­less of the state of the Nation’s penal facil­i­ties it is not up to England or any oth­er out­side source to build pris­ons in Jamaica.
Jamaica achieved it’s inde­pen­dence from Britain in 1962 .
Since 1972 The Jamaica Labor Party has held office for a measly 12 years .
This means that out of 43 years the Governing PNP has held office a stun­ning 31 years.
The inept­ness, cor­rup­tion, incom­pe­tence, and thiev­ery of the Governing Administration has reduced the qual­i­ty of life in the Island to worse that that of many devel­op­ing countries.
Why has the PNP not built a sin­gle prison in 31 years?

The val­ue of the Nation’s cur­ren­cy is now worth expo­nen­tial­ly less than peren­ni­al under­achiev­ing Haiti .
The sit­u­a­tion in the coun­try is dire yet the vast major­i­ty of the peo­ple are either too stu­pid or too hyp­no­tized and indoc­tri­nat­ed to see that they have been giv­en a 6 for a 9.
Once again what the PNP Administration is after is anoth­er pay­day for them and their phan­tom con­trac­tors who con­trol the Garrisons.
They are going to try to hur­ry this leg­is­la­tion argu­ing that the deal is time sen­si­tive, fail­ing which Britain will walk away from the deal.
I say let them walk away.
This Administration should not be allowed to sell or make deci­sions on anoth­er sin­gle blade of grass from our country.
It does not require a great deal of thought,If the Portia Simpson Miller Administration believes in trans­paren­cy and account­abil­i­ty let the mat­ter be placed on the bal­lot in the upcom­ing elec­tions and let the peo­ple decide whether they want Britain to build a prison in Jamaica to incar­cer­ate Jamaicans.

It has been my argu­ment all along, if the Brits want to help Jamaica build a prison we accept the deal , but they keep the Jamaicans who are con­vict­ed of crimes in Britain until they have served their sen­tences after which Jamaica has no choice but to accept her nation­als.
If Jamaica accept the deal as it is pre­sent­ed it auto­mat­i­cal­ly means that any Jamaican who com­mits a crime in England will be sent back to do their time in Jamaica into per­pe­tu­ity.
It’s just that sim­ple.
Again might I remind every­one they are send­ing them back to Jamaica to save Britain mon­ey .
Subsequently they have made the tac­ti­cal gam­ble, that Jamaica a poor coun­try will not be able to resist the lure of the mon­ey they offer.
It is inher­ent­ly a bad deal that Jamaica should not even con­sid­er.
Secondly, even if Britain presents the deal as I artic­u­lat­ed it ought not remove from the table the just issue of reparations.

Thank you Madam Prime Minister.

National Security Minister Peter Bunting told the Jamaican Parliament that he has not signed any agree­ment which would see the trans­fer of 300 Jamaicans serv­ing time in Prisons in the United Kingdom to the Island.
Opposition Leader Andrew Holness vehe­ment­ly dis­agrees , say­ing that from his under­stand­ing it is a done deal . Holness points to the web­site of the British Prime Minister’s Office which says a deal has been struck.
Bunting shoots back saying >

“There is no guar­an­tee at this time that this admin­is­tra­tion will sign a pris­on­er-trans­fer agree­ment with the UK. The Government of Jamaica will only sign the pris­on­er-trans­fer agree­ment after ade­quate pub­lic edu­ca­tion and debate and the enact­ment of new leg­is­la­tion in the Jamaican Parliament,” Bunting said. “In fact, we will start this process with the estab­lish­ment of a Special Select Committee that will receive writ­ten and oral sub­mis­sions on this issue by tech­ni­cal experts and all inter­est­ed par­ties, includ­ing civ­il soci­ety and the diaspora,”

The back and forth prompt­ed an Opposition walk­out from the House of Representatives yes­ter­day. So who are we to believe ?
Opposition spokesper­son on National Security Derrick Smith said, had it not being for the Visit of the British Prime Minister and his sub­se­quent state­ments the entire mat­ter would have been kept in the dark.
Smith went on to say that for­mer Prime Minister Bruce Golding refused an offer for the pris­on­er trans­fer, Smith said that the British Government has now found a “weak and des­per­ate gov­ern­ment that would be pre­pared to accept the proposal”.

When the rub­ber meets the road this entire proposal/​scam by the British Government is a “Trojan Horse” sur­rep­ti­tious­ly wrapped up in a decep­tive £300m pack­age designed to appease the Caricom com­mu­ni­ty which has got­ten more and more vocal about repa­ra­tions in recent times.
Handing out a measly £300m to the Caribbean com­mu­ni­ty once and for all silences the calls for jus­ti­fi­able repa­ra­tions for hun­dreds of years of slav­ery, while it allows Britain to dump its prob­lems on the impov­er­ished caribbean Island.

The ques­tion that Jamaica’s rep­re­sen­ta­tives must ask them­selves is this, would Jamaica be allowed to return British nation­als who com­mit­ted crimes in Jamaica to Britain where they have bro­ken no laws to serve out their sentences?
The prob­lem is far more com­pli­cat­ed than just a trans­fer of Jamaicans to serve out their sen­tence in the coun­try of their birth.
These peo­ple will have to be fed and tak­en care of , this includes med­ical and den­tal care who will pay for that? Even if Britain were to some­how agree to feed and assume the cost of health care for them, this does not begin to scratch the sur­face of the prob­lem for Jamaica were the coun­try to go down that road.
The con­se­quences of the sub­se­quent release of these peo­ple onto the Jamaican streets is incalculable.
Might I remind the Jamaican author­i­ties that British prime Minister David Cameron said and I quote “Of course crim­i­nals should pay for their crimes just not at the expense of British tax­pay­ers”!
Such unmit­i­gat­ed gall by Cameron, who does he expect to take care of his trash?

It’s not the first time that European soci­eties have decid­ed to open the doors of their pris­ons and release onto oth­er regions the dregs of their soci­ety. Spain pro­vid­ed the Criminal Christopher Columbus with three tiny ships and a crew of pris­on­ers . This was win , win for Ferdinand and Isabella, if Columbus returned with the promised car­go of Gold and oth­er pre­cious stones as he promised it’s great , if he did­n’t oh well, they no longer had to deal with the killers and rapists they sent with him on his voyage.

The British did not stop dump­ing it’s most despi­ca­ble mass-mur­der­ers and rapist to the new nation of the United until after the American civ­il war.
When the bru­tal­i­ty of slav­ery and Jim crow and the total ignominy of what hap­pened to the Arawaks in Jamaica and Native-Americans and even­tu­al­ly Black Africans in the United States and oth­er parts of the world are con­sid­ered, one gets a bet­ter under­stand­ing of why things hap­pened the way they did.
These new nations were not pop­u­lat­ed by decent peo­ple as their his­to­ry books would have you believe, they were pop­u­lat­ed with Europe’s dregs .

With that in mind it is impor­tant that Jamaica rec­og­nize that this is sim­ply his­to­ry repeat­ing itself .
Under no cir­cum­stances should Jamaica accept a sin­gle per­son that did not com­mit any crime in Jamaica.
I under­stand the lure of £25m . Some will rea­son­ably argue that if Jamaica refuse to accept the mon­ey even­tu­al­ly when the pris­on­ers con­clude their sen­tences they will be deport­ed to Jamaica in which case we will still get them back just not the money.
They will also make the argu­ment that the pris­ons are old and over­crowd­ed. All of these are legit­i­mate arguments.
However as a Sovereign nation we must stand on our own feet . Jamaica must improve Governmental account­abil­i­ty, improve trans­paren­cy , con­trol crime there­by improv­ing eco­nom­ic activ­i­ty. Then and only then will our coun­try be able to take care of the needs of the people.
Solutions to our coun­try’s prob­lems will not come from others.
In this case it cer­tain­ly will not come from a £25m gift wrapped Trojan horse.

Christopher Harper-Mercer, 26, who moved to Oregon from the Los Angeles sub­urb of Torrance, California, was offi­cial­ly iden­ti­fied on Friday as the assailant in the ram­page at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, which ranks as the dead­liest among dozens of U.S. mass shoot­ings in the past two years. According to Reuters new Agency.
Information com­ing to the fore indi­cates Mercer was born in Britain but came to the United States as a young child.
Reports indi­cate he had a month long stint in the US Army but was ter­mi­nat­ed before he even became a soldier.
According to Reuters, The shoot­er left behind a “mul­ti­page, hat­ed-filled” state­ment in the class­room, accord­ing to a Twitter mes­sage from an NBC reporter, cit­ing mul­ti­ple law enforce­ment sources who were not iden­ti­fied. CNN, cit­ing sources, said the state­ment showed ani­mos­i­ty toward blacks.

CNN insist it will not show Mercer’s face on it’s net­work nei­ther will it men­tion his name. The rea­son CNN gives for this posi­tion is that Mercer want­ed noto­ri­ety and the net­work would not help him to get that noto­ri­ety. Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin, who has vowed nev­er to say the gun­man’s name, declined to com­ment when asked about the writ­ings at a news conference.
This writer total­ly see how the dead Christopher Mercer will be ben­e­fit­ting from his face being on tele­vi­sion and his name being men­tioned on their air. [sic]

It’s inter­est­ing to note that the same Sheriff John Hanlin wrote to Vice President Joe Biden Two years ago, Hanlin was one of hun­dreds of sher­iffs around the coun­try who vowed to stand against new gun con­trol leg­is­la­tion. In a January 15, 2013, let­ter to Vice President Joe Biden, he wrote, “Gun con­trol is NOT the answer to pre­vent­ing heinous crimes like school shootings.”
After the shoot­ing John Hanlin was ques­tioned about his stance in response he said he will not deal with that issue as he is occu­pied with deal­ing with the events at hand.
So we decid­ed to pro­duce John Hanlin’s let­ter to the Vice President of the United States.

According to reuters report­ing ‚The first thing cus­tomers enter­ing the Gun Shop in Roseburg Oregon see is a life-sized card­board cutout of President Barack Obama with a Middle Eastern scarf around his head and a badge pinned to his chest that reads: “Gun sales­man of the year.”
The cus­tomers and sales staff in this store, locat­ed 10 miles (16 km) from Umpqua Community College, where a gun­man killed nine peo­ple and injured nine oth­ers on Thursday, said they were hor­ri­fied by the shoot­ings. But they were not buy­ing the president’s argu­ment that guns were the problem.
Note that that let­ter was addressed to Vice President Biden and not the President of the United States.
The threat­en­ing tone of the let­ter can­not be ignored
But what is even more reveal­ing is the sen­tence which reads thus.“We are Americans” sug­gest­ing by infer­ence that the President of the United States is not American.

The penul­ti­mate para­graph amount­ed to noth­ing less than an out­right threat against the pres­i­dent and the duly con­sti­tut­ed author­i­ty of the Federal Government.
These are the back­wa­ter hicks who are polic­ing America’s streets and sup­pos­ed­ly uphold­ing the nation’s laws.
According to Police six guns were recov­ered at the scene of the shoot­ing and sev­en more recov­ered from the home of Christopher Harper-Mercer . A total of 13 guns which they insist were all pur­chased legally.
Yet many with­in the com­mu­ni­ty includ­ing cops insist the prob­lem is not guns it is men­tal illness.
Imagine if some­one with an Arab sound­ing name had com­mit­ted this act ?
The President of the United states point­ed to the dis­con­nect in America as it relates to the noise sur­round­ing gun con­trol as against the num­ber of Americans killed in inci­dents not char­ac­ter­ized as ter­ror­ist acts each year.
According to Vox​.com Deaths from gun vio­lence vs. deaths from ter­ror­ism, in one chart
More than 10,000 Americans are killed every year by gun vio­lence. By con­trast, so few Americans have been killed by ter­ror­ist attacks since ⁹⁄₁₁ that when you chart the two togeth­er, the ter­ror­ism death count approx­i­mates zero for every year except 2001. The point President Obama is mak­ing is clear: We spend huge amounts of mon­ey every year fight­ing ter­ror­ism, yet are unwill­ing, at the nation­al lev­el, to take even minor steps (like requir­ing back­ground checks on all gun sales nation­al­ly) to stop gun violence.

Never mind that this creep who took the lives of those unsus­pect­ing peo­ple also expressed hatred toward Black people.
As America spends Trillions pro­tect­ing against the “bogey­man Islam” the facts are unmis­take­able the real killing of Americans are being done by Americans, right here in America.
Islamic hatred and Xenophobia will not change those num­bers there is a large part of the American pop­u­la­tion which is hell­bent on self destruc­tion fuelled by racial hatred. They have a blind alle­giance to the sec­ond amend­ment to the con­sti­tu­tion only because that amend­ment suits their insane desire to own a mul­ti­plic­i­ty of weapons of mass destruction.
Weapons which they believe gives them the abil­i­ty to con­trol oth­ers through fear by force of arms. Unfortunately for every­one those weapons are killing every­one , not just those they hate but them and their chil­dren as well.
This 26 year old killer had 13 guns.
How many is enough?
Don’t expect this insan­i­ty to end any­time soon if ever.

The Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) is angry at Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller for refus­ing to allow her­self to be inter­viewed par­tic­u­lar­ly after the vis­it of British Prime Minister David Cameron.
In a release the (PAJ) said “The dis­grace­ful posi­tion tak­en by Jamaica House” to restrict media access to Simpson Miller, who “has giv­en very few in-depth inter­views dur­ing her term in office which would allow indi­vid­ual jour­nal­ists to ade­quate­ly probe her ideas and policies”.
 “The prime minister’s stead­fast refusal to face the media is unprece­dent­ed in mod­ern times, and is con­temp­tu­ous of and dis­mis­sive of the Jamaican press to an unbe­liev­able degree,” 
“We urge Jamaica House to begin to pay the local press the respect it deserves, and to imme­di­ate­ly begin to sched­ule reg­u­lar press con­fer­ences with the Prime Minister, for the ben­e­fit of the pub­lic which we serve,”.

Old Jamaican proverb. Never pick a fight with some­one who buys ink in a barrel.
Has this proverb lost it’s lit­er­al meaning?
Old Jamaican proverb . The pen is might­i­er than the sword.
Has this proverb lost it’s lit­er­al meaning?
In Jamaica’s case it has, because local Journalists have default­ed to intel­lec­tu­al lazi­ness and par­ty polit­i­cal affil­i­a­tions which has ren­dered the press inca­pable of unearthing and expos­ing the truth as it should.
The Jamaican Press has for the most part aligned itself as does most oth­er sec­tors of the balka­nized Jamaican soci­ety to one or the oth­er of the coun­try’s two main polit­i­cal parties.

Even as it crit­i­cizes the Prime Minister for not mak­ing her­self avail­able to answer ques­tions the (PAJ) has allowed it’s bruised ego to cloud the real issue of the Administration’s dis­dain and lack of respect for the Jamaican people.
The fact is that this has noth­ing to do with the Press and every­thing to do with the Jamaican people.
The press miss­es the boat even as it is cor­rect in its assess­ment of Miller This is not about respect or the lack there­of for the press.
The press is in the busi­ness of pro­vid­ing infor­ma­tion to the pub­lic not about gar­ner­ing respect for itself.
The issue here is the Administration’s con­tempt for the right of the peo­ple to know what it is sup­pos­ed­ly doing on their behalf.
It is fair to con­clude that the Administration is not act­ing on behalf of the public.
And on that basis it believes it has no oblig­a­tion to be accessible.
One can­not refuse to be account­able to his/​her bosses.

Slavery was abol­ished in Jamaica in 1834, since then our nation has strug­gled with pover­ty despite the indomitable spir­it of our peo­ple. This is due large­ly to forces from with­in even though our small nation is vul­ner­a­ble to out­side forces as all small depen­dent nation are.
Jamaica is blessed with almost ide­al con­di­tions for Agriculture .
The Natural beau­ty of Jamaica makes our Island a mag­net for vis­i­tors who can­not wait to soak up the warmth of the Jamaican sun, relax in the warm caribbean waters and enjoy our great food and music.
Additionally our peo­ple are known for their warmth and kind­ness par­tic­u­lar­ly to vis­i­tors to our shores.

No one knows exact­ly how many African peo­ple died on the jour­ney from the west coast of Africa, through the mid­dle pas­sage to the west­ern world.
Some esti­mates vary from a few mil­lions to 100,000,000 people.
No one knows exact­ly how many died as a result of mal­treat­ment by slavers.
What we do know is that slav­ery was hor­ri­ble , oner­ous and a blythe on all humanity.
Africans are not the only peo­ple to have been enslaved through­out his­to­ry . Africans may have been the lat­est peo­ple to be sub­ject­ed to the degrad­ing, indig­ni­ty of slavery.

Today there are mount­ing demands by many in the Caricom com­mu­ni­ty as well as in Jamaica for those Britain to pay repa­ra­tions to the region for slavery.
Committees have been set up with­in Caricom and indeed in Jamaica to press for reparations.
It’s incred­i­bly dif­fi­cult to argue with the legit­i­ma­cy of those claims.
After Slavery some plan­ta­tion own­ers were actu­al­ly com­pen­sat­ed for the loss of their human prop­er­ty. Despite this the con­ver­sa­tion sur­round­ing the need for Britain to pay repa­ra­tions to the Islands of the west Indies have not gained any traction.
The fact is that the Caribbean has no means of enforc­ing it’s demands for those repa­ra­tions. So the effort amounts to pre­cious lit­tle more than spit­ting in the sky.
We all know what hap­pens when we do that..

Recent com­ments by British Prime Minister David Cameron who offered to assist Jamaica in build­ing a new prison to the tune of (£25m)twenty five mil­lion pounds, did not inspire confidence.
Neither was the Jamaican Prime Minister able to move the ball dur­ing Cameron’s vis­it to the Island this week.
The pur­pose of the prison accord­ing to David Cameron is to end the stand­off between Jamaica and Britain on the sub­ject of the trans­fer of Jamaican pris­on­ers back to Jamaica.
The British prime Minister said it is “absolute­ly right” that for­eign crim­i­nals were prop­er­ly pun­ished but not at the expense of the “hard-work­ing British taxpayer”.
It’s not as if the argu­ments for repa­ra­tions are not jus­ti­fied and indeed legit­i­mate, how­ev­er in light of exist­ing con­di­tions the prag­mat­ic thing to do is make the point and move on.
Failing which we run the risk of cre­at­ing an entire gen­er­a­tion of Jamaicans who will spend their lives think­ing that some­how they will some­day be enriched by repa­ra­tions paid out to them by Britain for hun­dreds of years of slav­ery.
Legitimate though the demands are , we can do expo­nen­tial­ly more harm by dwelling on this than if we make our point and move on .

The first order of busi­ness is that England can­not afford it.
Secondly we have no means of enforc­ing our demands, so they will not con­sid­er it.
One per­son dis­cussing the issue refers to wait­ing for repa­ra­tions as “fool’s gold”.

I agree with that assess­ment it is a dis­trac­tion which allows local and region­al politi­cians to divert atten­tion from their acts of cor­rup­tion , tar­di­ness and incom­pe­tence. 
The British Prime Minister said the rea­son they are will­ing to help build the prison is to elim­i­nate cost of hous­ing Jamaican crim­i­nals at British tax­pay­ers expense.
That pol­i­cy deci­sion is dia­met­ri­cal­ly opposed to reparations.
Not only are they unwill­ing to pay repa­ra­tions they are unwill­ing to house crim­i­nals who com­mit crimes in their coun­try. They are quite pre­pared to dump Jamaican nation­als liv­ing in England back on the Island.

In light of those real­i­ties it is in Jamaica’s best inter­est and indeed the wider Caribbean to ensure that those elect­ed to lead do not con­tin­ue to steal and waste scarce pub­lic resources.
The com­mit­tees set up to exam­ine this dis­trac­tion would be bet­ter used toward ensur­ing that Politicians can­not con­tin­ue to steal tens of mil­lions of dol­lars while polit­i­cal oper­a­tives with­in the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly dis­tort the process until they are even­tu­al­ly set free on the rare occa­sion one is prosecuted.
The last thing Jamaica needs is anoth­er get rich quick diver­sion to enslave the minds of young peo­ple. Too many are already trapped in the men­tal prison of Lottery scams, Robbery and mur­der as a way of life.

In an Article writ­ten today on the issue of David Cameron’s vis­it to Jamaica yes­ter­day I high­light­ed what I char­ac­ter­ized as “idio­cy” on the part of Jamaica and indeed the entire Caribbean in believ­ing that the British Government will pay repa­ra­tions for slav­ery. In address­ing the Jamaican Parliament today Cameron said what I thought he would say.
Quote : Slavery was “abhor­rent in all its forms ‚I do hope that, as friends who have gone through so much togeth­er since those dark­est of times, we can move on from this painful lega­cy and con­tin­ue to build for the future.” Cameron also announced £25m in British aid for a new Jamaican prison and a £300 mil­lion devel­op­ment pack­age for the Caribbean which will pro­vide grants for infra­struc­ture projects, includ­ing roads and bridges. Cameron said his vis­it — the first by a British prime min­is­ter in 14 years — was to “rein­vig­o­rate” ties between the coun­tries, and that he want­ed to con­cen­trate on future rela­tions rather than cen­turies-old issues.

There you have it !!!
According to the BBC​.com David Cameron rules out slav­ery repa­ra­tion dur­ing Jamaica visit

In 1833, Britain eman­ci­pat­ed its enslaved peo­ple and raised the equiv­a­lent of £17bn in com­pen­sa­tion mon­ey to be paid to 46,000 of Britain’s slave-own­ers for “loss of human prop­er­ty”. University College London has com­piled a data­base of those com­pen­sat­ed. Among those list­ed is General Sir James Duff, who it is claimed is a first cousin six times removed of David Cameron. He was award­ed com­pen­sa­tion worth around £3 mil­lion in today’s terms. Others who received com­pen­sa­tion include the ances­tors of nov­el­ists George Orwell and Graham Greene, as well as dis­tant rel­a­tives of Arts Council chair­man Sir Peter Bazalgette and celebri­ty chef Ainsley Harriott.

Conversely Caricom and more local­ly in Jamaica the argu­ments have been that Britain should pay repa­ra­tions to the Islands for the injus­tice of slavery.
National com­mis­sions set up to con­sid­er the issue of repa­ra­tions has cal­cu­lat­ed sums could run into tril­lions of dollars.
Does any sane per­son believe Britain is about to pay out Trillions of dol­lars to the Caribbean for the ignominy of slavery?
Bert Samuels, a mem­ber of Jamaica’s National Commission on Reparations, appeared more or less, less ine­bri­at­ed, telling local media that Cameron needs to atone, to apol­o­gise per­son­al­ly and on behalf of his country”.

Wider afield in Caricom’s repa­ra­tions com­mis­sion chair­man Sir Hilary Beckles wrote in an open let­ter in the Jamaica Observer that the UK must “play its part in clean­ing up this mon­u­men­tal mess of Empire”.
Hilary, Hilary, Hilary if you are seri­ous about Caricom issues please drop the con­found­ed Colonial “Sir” from your name .
That way your argu­ments against the region’s for­mer colo­nial mas­ters will res­onate with more credibility.
Clearly Hilary Beckles is not one of my favorite Beckles. (no relation).
As I have said before the British Government will not pay out repa­ra­tions for Slavery . The Caribbean region would prob­a­bly have a chance on col­lect­ing on that bill if the region had a pow­er­ful mil­i­tary which could seri­ous­ly threat­en Britain through force of arms. Then and only then would they seri­ous­ly con­sid­er pay­ing for their crimes.
In the absence of that Caribbean lead­ers are bet­ter served by elim­i­nat­ing cor­rup­tion from their ranks.
In Jamaica’s case, eschew­ing gar­ri­son pol­i­tics, strength­en­ing edu­ca­tion­al insti­tu­tions, elim­i­nat­ing gov­ern­ment cor­rup­tion and bureau­cra­cy and attack­ing crime will invari­ably lead to a bet­ter way of life for all Jamaicans.

Policing is as much using com­mon sense in the way offi­cers pro­tect the pub­lic as it is enforc­ing the nation’s laws . There is no one right way to fight crime so it’s a process of learn­ing and grow­ing, some­thing which is marked­ly miss­ing from polic­ing in Jamaica these days.
Having spent almost a decade of my life polic­ing the streets val­leys and by-ways of Jamaica I learned it can be the most dif­fi­cult place to police based on the propen­si­ty of some of the peo­ple to be bel­liger­ent and dis­re­spect­ful to the rule of law but I also found out just how lov­ing, kind and good Jamaicans could be dur­ing that decade.

One of my philoso­phies as a young offi­cer was that you stop some­thing before it gets too big after which you can­not con­trol it. Unfortunately this has­n’t always been the mantra of the high com­mand in my time and it cer­tain­ly was­n’t the core belief of some cops who saw no evil , heard no evil but cer­tain­ly spoke a lot of evil.
As time pro­gressed we saw way too many got involved in evil.
Over the last few years we heard some rather con­trar­i­an views on how crime is to be approached as if crim­i­nal­i­ty is a new phenomenon .

Of course crim­i­nals evolve as does the rest of us. Cyber crimes are now some­thing law enforce­ment agen­cies are forced to grap­ple with . This was not on the menu of things law enforce­ment had to deal with three decades ago. Nonetheless, even as Police depart­ments acquire and train com­pe­tent peo­ple so they may stay ahead of crim­i­nals, for the most part law enforce­ment still require com­mon sense and a lot of give and take.

When you stop the first guy sell­ing “bag weed” on the cor­ner you pre­vent anoth­er and anoth­er from com­ing there to do the same.
If you allow one guy to sell bag weed on the cor­ner because it’s just weed right?[sic] you will lat­er have to deal with the fall­out from com­pet­ing guys vying for turf.
Guys vying for turf use guns to defend turf , so now you have to deal with shoot­ings and homicides.
Additionally oth­er deal­ers of more potent drugs now see the free for all and they decide they too will ped­dle their wares and of course peo­ple are now addict­ed to the hard core drugs.
When peo­ple are addict­ed they rob , they steal. Cars are bro­ken into . Houses are bro­ken into. People are held up at gun­point, female addicts turn once pris­tine neigh­bor­hoods into dens of prostitution.
All of this would have been avert­ed if the Police did their job and stopped the first guy from sell­ing bag weed on the corner.
To hell with stop­ping peo­ple food . Just look at where not stop­ping peo­ple’s food got Jamaica. I wish I had a dol­lar for each time I heard Police offi­cers who were paid to enforce the laws open­ly deride offi­cers who actu­al­ly do what they are paid to do. It is not cru­el­ty to save peo­ple from them­selves. And yes Police some­times have to save peo­ple and their com­mu­ni­ties from themselves.

Nevertheless dur­ing my time I was able to extract a valu­able stream of action­able intel­li­gence from a few of those who sell weed on the corner.
Here’s how !!!
Many a guy on the cor­ner sell­ing Icy-Mint , Cigarettes, Red Stripe Beer and even coconut jel­ly was also sell­ing Ganga !!!
My method was to stop and order a jel­ly upon which the man would cut it and give it to me. I would sit down with him tell him that I know he is sell­ing weed. This would almost cer­tain­ly evoke howls of “no affi­ca no sah , mi nah sell nu weed sah” !!.
I then tell him okay I will search every­thing you have and every inch of grass in sight when I find it you can­not come back to sell any­thing here tomorrow.
For the cyn­ics yes you can do it the Town and Community Act gives Police wide latitude .……
This result­ed in res­ig­na­tion 100% of the time “okay affi­ca whe you wan mi fi du fi yu”. 
My response , I want to know every­thing that goes on here , if you don’t tell me you sell noth­ing here anymore.
“Okay affi­ca”.
The same is true of the squeegee man, they want to oper­ate make them informers.

I then pay for my Jelly and leave. Yes I pay for my jel­ly , it is impor­tant that you have char­ac­ter if you want to be respect­ed and if you want them to do what you ask.
Those who served with me know this is no idle talk we knew who com­mit­ted every crim­i­nal act in our police area because we had a net­work of will­ing informants.
Now deceased Supt Of Police Anthony Hewitt called me to his office as head of crime police area 5 and mar­velled at the qual­i­ty of intel­li­gence I was able to glean using sim­ple com­mon sense techniques.
Ever month DSP Hewitt gave me an enve­lope with a twen­ty dol­lar bill to enhance the process .
Back then twen­ty dol­lars could buy a few drink of whites for some of my informants.

I want to see police offi­cers in Jamaica get back in touch and endear them­selves to the pub­lic again we did it before it can be done again. During the 80’s and ear­ly 90’s there were oth­er fac­tors at play it was­n’t just polic­ing which kept crime at a min­i­mum , then we had 300 homi­cides per year we thought the skies were falling.
Today Jamaica records an aver­age of 1600 homi­cides each year and peo­ple shrug as if it is par for the course.
I wish they could actu­al­ly see the bod­ies of 1600 dead rel­a­tives friends and friends of friends laid out side by side , maybe that would have add shock val­ue, who knows ?

A case of sim­ple rob­bery involv­ing a Clerk of the courts at the Spanish Town Court house in Saint Catherine has the Minister of Justice Mark Golding con­firm­ing that Permanent Secretary in the Justice Ministry, Carol Palmer, has been tasked to renew dis­cus­sions with the Police High Command to see what else can be done to improve security.
The Director of Public Prosecution has weighed in by call­ing for greater secu­ri­ty to be put in place to pro­tect pros­e­cu­tors and sup­port staff.
Not to be out­done the Permanent Secretary in the Justice Ministry Carol Palmer said every effort is being made to relo­cate a num­ber of cour­t­hous­es and the Spanish Town cour­t­house is high on the list. Palmer indi­cat­ed that the Ministry has already iden­ti­fied prop­er­ty in Central Village on the out­skirts of Spanish Town, St Catherine, for the relo­ca­tion of the Spanish Town Courthouse.

All of this hoopla came out of a sin­gle inci­dent in which a female Deputy DPP was in the process of remov­ing files from her car out­side the cour­t­house when a man approached her and demand­ed mon­ey. She com­plied and the man left. A case of sim­ple robbery !!!
No men­tion of a weapon of any kind, a rob­bery notwith­stand­ing because the vic­tim hand­ed over her prop­er­ty out of fear.
There is no evi­dence that the Clerk was tar­get­ed because she is a clerk, from all indi­ca­tions the rob­bery was sim­ply a ran­dom act because the oppor­tu­ni­ty pre­sent­ed itself to the perpetrator.
Jamaicans of all walks of life are exposed to these acts of vio­lence dai­ly. In the major­i­ty of the cas­es vic­tims are sub­ject­ed to egre­gious acts of vio­lence asso­ci­at­ed with oth­er acts of crim­i­nal­i­ty upon their per­sons. Under no cir­cum­stances do we hear a response from the Justice Minister, his per­ma­nent sec­re­tary nor the Director of Public Prosecution weigh­ing in all at the same time.
This act of sim­ple rob­bery has evoked respons­es which includes actions as dras­tic as remov­ing the Courthouse from it’s present loca­tion to one deemed safer.
Even though those plans may have well been in the works mak­ing that argu­ment now in this instance shows us two things>
(1) That Justice is quite pre­pared to cow­er in fear and seek greater pro­tec­tion from those who would wreak may­hem on soci­ety , rather than take deci­sive actions to fix the nation’s crime prob­lem , using a heavy hand if necessary .
(2) That some lives mat­ter sig­nif­i­cant­ly more than others .

Thus far this year over 800 Jamaicans met their deaths at the hand of crim­i­nals. Additionally sev­er­al Police offi­cers have been killed both in the line of duty and off duty.

Constable Crystal Thomas was gunned down on a bus going home after fin­ish­ing her tour . No one heard from any of the pub­lic offi­cials men­tioned here.

Constable Curtis Lewis lost his leg and his life in a spot check , nei­ther the Justice Minister nor any oth­er mem­ber of the Government had any words of com­fort for Constable Lewis’ family .

Neither was there any words of assur­ance for the fam­i­ly of con­sta­ble Lyndon Barrett.
If our nation is to move for­ward this sense that some lives mat­ter more than oth­ers must come to an end .This sense of pan­ic sur­round­ing a case of sim­ple rob­bery involv­ing a pros­e­cu­tor as against the cal­lous mur­der of over 800 cit­i­zens involv­ing police offi­cers must also come to an end.

No life is more impor­tant that the oth­er. So the (“dut­ty foot man pon di cana is jus as impor­tant as di man from cher­ry garden”).
This dis­gust­ing prac­tise of valu­ing some lives while under­valu­ing oth­ers must end now. Certainly peo­ple who earn a liv­ing from tax­pay­ers dol­lars should not be allowed to pro­mul­gate that practise.
It’s time for the Government to take a stand against crim­i­nal­i­ty begin­ning with crim­i­nals with­in in it’s own ranks. There is a com­mon per­cep­tion that the rea­son crime has over­run the coun­try is direct­ly linked to the crim­i­nals with­in the Governing admin­is­tra­tion and indeed with­in the oppo­si­tion party.
On that basis maybe it’s time International lend­ing Agencies tie the grant­i­ng of loans to Governments like that in Jamaica to demon­stra­ble ded­i­ca­tion to elim­i­nat­ing crime and cor­rup­tion from with­in their ranks and nations as a whole.
No coöper­a­tion on the erad­i­ca­tion of crime and cor­rup­tion no loan. The sin­gle largest imped­i­ment to the devel­op­ment of Jamaica is it’s seri­ous crime prob­lem which is hav­ing a crip­pling effect on com­merce and sub­se­quent­ly the qual­i­ty of life in Jamaica.

The theft of a Motorcycle from a Police Station would nor­mal­ly evoke scorn and dis­dain by Jamaicans who hate every­thing about Police. However the theft of a motor­cy­cle from the Junction police sta­tion in St Elizabeth Jamaica did not gar­ner the nor­mal diar­rhea of dis­dain­ful com­ments from them this time, the fact is that police vehi­cles have been swiped from Police precincts all across the Globe.

In the mean­time accord­ing to some reports Supt of Police Landford Salmon has tak­en the deci­sion to sus­pend all dance par­ties and round robins in the Parish until the person/​s who stole the Motorcycle return it to the station.
I must say that it’s kin­da sad that the Police are forced to resort to mea­sures like these to bring about the return of the motorcycle.
It says the police real­ly has no intel­li­gence sources . And it says the police have no idea who took it. That aside, as a young detec­tive I have told peo­ple to return stolen mer­chan­dize to a cer­tain spot or else.….…..
One case involved a stolen Kawasaki motor­cy­cle which turned up on Knutsford Boulevard in New Kingston.
The sec­ond instance was when a fur­ni­ture fac­to­ry at the cor­ner of Grant’s Pen Avenue and Morgan Lane was bro­ken into and emp­tied of every piece of furniture.
I vis­it­ed the cor­ner grabbed a cer­tain guy and told him the fur­ni­ture bet­ter turn up in a place where I can find them in a cou­ple of hours or else.….…

Of course after return­ing to the sta­tion I received a phone call and yes an open lot in Grants Pen became an open air fur­ni­ture store.
Not only was the fur­ni­ture returned but I received addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion on one man who decid­ed to try his luck and not return his ill-got­ten din­ing Room furniture.
Because he was well know to me he prob­a­bly expect­ed that I would look the oth­er way. I did look away as he was sen­tenced to two years for receiv­ing stolen property.

Today Superintendent Salmon prob­a­bly does­n’t have the pow­er to deliv­er on or else .…..
God knows there are more than enough shit-heads who pon­tif­i­cate about rights and what’s legal yet they are duplic­i­tous­ly and con­spic­u­ous­ly silent as the blood of the inno­cent flows unchecked.
But he still has the pow­er to deny per­mits for dances and round robins and I salute him for rec­og­niz­ing that it is in his hands to use. There ought to be some degree of col­lec­tive respon­si­bil­i­ty for this out­ra­geous degree of crim­i­nal­i­ty on the Island.

I just watched a video of my good friend Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of crime Élan Powell talk about his mur­der clear-up rate. Powell said over 450 peo­ple has been charged with mur­der since the begin­ning of the year. He stat­ed that the Department is bring­ing 45% of mur­der­ers to jus­tice . He promis­es to do even bet­ter by bring­ing the mur­der clear-ups to 51% by year’s end, even as he bemoans the fact that his clear-ups does not get into the media narrative.

As much as I am aware of the chal­lenges fac­ing ACP Élan Powell and his offi­cers, it gives me the chills to think that 55% of the peo­ple who actu­al­ly kill oth­er human beings as well as their asso­ciates, includ­ing those who con­tract the trig­ger-men are actu­al­ly walk­ing around with­out consequence.
Over 800 Jamaicans have been killed since the begin­ning of the year.
The Police have pre­cious lit­tle with which to fight crime and Jamaicans love to par­ty at the same time no one has a Constitutional right to hold dance par­ties and round robin tour­na­ments. I applaud Superintendent Salmon for his forth­right resolve in tak­ing this action, he will prob­a­bly bow to pres­sure soon , more than like­ly by the very peo­ple above him.

He may not be able to do it (ad infini­tum) but it is cer­tain­ly a brave move from this officer .
Cynics be damned.