June 2013, in a stun­ning and incom­pre­hen­si­ble deci­sion the US Supreme Court in a 5 – 4 ide­o­log­i­cal deci­sion struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act in the case of Shelby vs Holder.
Holder being, Eric Holder the then sit­ting Attorney General of the United States.
The Ruling freed up nine states, most­ly in the South, to change their elec­tion laws with­out advance fed­er­al approval.
“Our coun­try has changed,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for the major­i­ty. “While any racial dis­crim­i­na­tion in vot­ing is too much, Congress must ensure that the leg­is­la­tion it pass­es to rem­e­dy that prob­lem speaks to cur­rent con­di­tions..“
In lay­man’s lan­guage, [the law worked too well so it’s time for us to roll it back]. Never mind that there is an inces­sant assault against the vot­ing rights of racial minori­ties today in dif­fer­ent forms in dif­fer­ent states.

December 2018 the People’s National Party announced it no longer sup­ports the states of emer­gency in the Parish of Saint James because what­ev­er the police are doing now they can pro­ceed along the same path with­out the emer­gency pow­ers which gives them the author­i­ty to lock up vio­lent crim­i­nals for extend­ed peri­ods of time with­out charge.
Now here is the sober­ing real­i­ty. The state of emer­gency was declared in St James as a direct result of a vio­lence lev­el which was unprece­dent­ed.
The extent of the killings was such that it scared the rich hote­liers who were skit­tish about their bot­tom line.
Now, as I have said in a pre­vi­ous arti­cle there are only two or three rea­sons why vio­lent crime would take a pre­cip­i­tous 72% drop in the parish of St James and those rea­sons are (a) the vio­lence pro­duc­ers have tak­en flight (b) they are locked up by the police or © a com­bi­na­tion of both (a&b).

We can have a debate about the con­sti­tu­tion­al­i­ty of lock­ing up killers we have no evi­dence to charge crim­i­nal­ly and I am pre­pared to debate the legit­i­ma­cy of doing so.
Desperate time calls for des­per­ate mea­sures. If a state is to sur­vive by tak­ing dras­tic mea­sures what bet­ter time to do so than send a mes­sage through how it treats its most vio­lent crim­i­nals?
We may talk until we are blue in the face as the Nation’s Opposition par­ty has done about not break­ing the law to enforce the law. We may even pull out graphs and dia­grams using graphs to make our point as to why we believe there is no need for a con­tin­u­ance of the mea­sures.
Or we can talk to the peo­ple who are on the ground, the peo­ple who live in the com­mu­ni­ties and are ter­ri­fied that if the pow­ers are removed which gives the secu­ri­ty forces the author­i­ty to hold vio­lent crim­i­nals, their com­mu­ni­ties will in short order be awash in their blood and that of their loved ones.

What I find dis­gust­ing and indeed mind-numb­ing­ly igno­rant is the argu­ment being used by the PNP, that a drop in homi­cide in 2018 ought not be cel­e­brat­ed because on the Government’s watch last year 1616 homi­cides were report­ed to the police.
The con­tention being, since the JLP presided over the 1616 num­ber in 2017, it should receive no cred­it for the fact that hun­dreds few­er have been mur­dered this year.
So if there was any doubt in any­one’s mind about the polit­i­cal nature of the PNP’s deci­sion to pull its sup­port, the lat­ter con­tention ought to put those doubts to rest.

In the final analy­sis, the reduc­tion in mur­ders this year what­ev­er the final count turns out to be should give no one com­fort that the state had to flood the streets with the bod­ies of secu­ri­ty per­son­nel to real­ize few­er homi­cide num­bers in spe­cif­ic geo­graph­i­cal areas.
The take­away from this is that sure, the crim­i­nals are run­ning away from the secu­ri­ty forces when they flood the streets in force, but as soon as they deter­mine the move­ments of the secu­ri­ty per­son­nel they are right back at work killing and doing what­ev­er else they do.

So clear­ly the solu­tion is not in flood­ing the streets with bod­ies, even though that has an effect tan­ta­mount to that of cot­ton can­dy.
The prob­lem is that a nation can­not sur­vive on cot­ton can­dy but the coun­try’s lead­ers are too heav­i­ly invest­ed in the idea of fillers and fast food stop­gap meth­ods to take the time to pre­pare the right kind of diet which will give the nation sus­te­nance for gen­er­a­tions to come.
The prob­lem here is that the nations une­d­u­cat­ed are cry­ing out for lead­er­ship and the edu­cat­ed which are sup­posed to give that lead­er­ship are self-cen­tered moron­ic idiots who have their heads too far up their own ass­es to do any­thing about crime.
It behooves them to take a lis­ten to Damion Crawford, but the self-impor­tant bour­geoisie are reluc­tant to pull their heads from their ass­es and lis­ten to any­one but the sound of their own voic­es.
And so we get an echo cham­ber of non­sense from the very same dogs chas­ing their sil­ly tails.