One of the tragedies of the PNP’s dom­i­nance of the polit­i­cal land­scape over the last four decades as I have point­ed out time and again is the way it’s can­cer­ous ten­ta­cles has cor­rod­ed and cor­rupt­ed every stra­ta of the society.
In one of the most polit­i­cal yet cyn­i­cal­ly-disin­gen­u­ous dis­play of this cor­ro­sive influ­ence is a state­ment put out by the pri­vate sec­tor orga­ni­za­tion on the issue of the Government hedg­ing oil prices at US$66 per barrel.
In it’s state­ment the Private Sector Organization defend­ed the actions of the Government to hedge oil prices at US$66 per barrel.
The sub­se­quent and con­tin­u­ing drop in oil prices have report­ed­ly already cost the Government in excess of US$20 mil­lion or rough­ly Jam $2.4 bil­lion.

The PSOJ in it’s defense of the Government used the most shock­ing­ly asi­nine met­ric imaginable .
The Organization clear­ly showed that it was pre­pared to sac­ri­fice what­ev­er cred­i­bil­i­ty it may have left in a vul­gar and des­per­ate attempt to resus­ci­tate the image and cred­i­bil­i­ty of the Simpson Miller Administration.

“In light of the hedge strat­e­gy, the Government effect­ed last year by pur­chas­ing an option to buy eight mil­lion bar­rels of oil at US$66, it means the coun­try has lost US$20 mil­lion in fees for the con­tract option. Oil will, how­ev­er, be sup­plied at the cur­rent mar­ket price”. “The only way that we can be sure of an event is after it has hap­pened. In oth­er words much of the com­men­tary today is being made from hind­sight (which is 20/​20). Buying a stock after the price has increased will not give you the ben­e­fit of the price rise, or what is the sense of buy­ing insur­ance after a cat­a­stroph­ic event. And, because an event might not hap­pen, would you then not insure against it,” the PSOJ argued.

This state­ment in and of itself shows the con­tempt these well placed oper­a­tives have for the intel­lect of the Jamaican people.
For the Tsunami of unin­formed who trav­eled from across the Country to Half-Way-Tree decked out in orange and red regalia this state­ment is Gospel . For the rest of us how­ev­er, it is a slap in the face and an affront to our senses.

Smart Investors pick stocks based on the fol­low­ing criteria.
(1) Payout Ratio: According to experts In gen­er­al the low­er the pay­out ratio the bet­ter because the more the com­pa­ny is pay­ing out in div­i­dends the less they are using to build up cash, pay off debt and invest in grow­ing the business.
(2) Dividend growth rate:The Dividend Growth Rate mea­sures the per­cent of growth a div­i­dend has expe­ri­enced over a cer­tain peri­od of time. While many reports will use an annu­al­ized fig­ure, it’s safer to use a five-year div­i­dend growth rate. The longer peri­od of time will give a bet­ter indi­ca­tion of over­all per­for­mance and allow minor ups and downs to bal­ance out.
(3) Yield: high yields can be risky and aren’t always the wis­est invest­ment options.
(4) Net Income Growth rate: Net Income Growth is a mea­sure of the rate of growth in prof­its when com­pared to the pre­vi­ous time period.
(5) ROI : Return On Investment, is impor­tant because it shows an investor how long it will take to earn their mon­ey back from their ini­tial invest­ment. It is com­posed of both the div­i­dend pay­ments and the increase in stock price. It is desir­able for both of these to show a sta­ble, upward trend.

The afore­men­tioned are just a few of the indi­ca­tors indus­try experts say sol­id investors need to look at before they invest in a stock.
Based on the fore­gone the metaphor about stock buy­ing is inap­plic­a­ble, there are clear guide­lines to invest­ing in stock options.
The Insurance angle made even less sense.
Purchasing Insurance because the pur­chas­er under­stands poten­tial future risks is the exact oppo­site of what the Administration did.
The Administration Insured when all the indi­ca­tors sug­gest­ed that the coun­try would final­ly get a break from the suf­fo­ca­tion of high oil prices.
Individuals and cor­po­ra­tions insure against even­tu­al­i­ties, it is not the same as hedg­ing oil prices when all the indi­ca­tors showed that there would be con­tin­ued dete­ri­o­ra­tion of oil prices .
The idea of hedg­ing prices is not nec­es­sar­i­ly a bad idea eco­nom­i­cal­ly speaking.
It becomes a bad thing when the peo­ple mak­ing the deci­sions do not under­stand mar­ket indicators.
It appears that the deci­sion mak­ers suf­fered from this malady.

Here are just a few of the indi­ca­tors which does not require much expertise.
(1) Three of the World’s largest economies were using less import­ed Oil. The United States the world’s largest con­sumer of oil was using more nat­ur­al gas and in the process import­ing less oil.
The United States was also diver­si­fy­ing it’s ener­gy portfolio.
China the world’s sec­ond largest econ­o­my was already show­ing signs of a slowdown .
Brazil an emerg­ing econ­o­my was rely­ing less and less on import­ed fos­sil fuel and invest­ing in and con­sum­ing more diver­si­fied energy.
The Iran nuclear deal was in the works as well which when con­sum­mat­ed would mean a lot more oil on the world market .
Overall there were many more indi­ca­tors which any person/​s mak­ing the deci­sion to hedge oil prices at US$66 per bar­rel should not have missed.

This is an inde­fen­si­ble act of incom­pe­tence or poten­tial­ly a lot more than meets the eye. Once upon a time the Jamaican pri­vate sec­tor was a rep­utable orga­ni­za­tion which rep­re­sent­ed the pri­vate sec­tor regard­less of who formed the Government.
Over the years all of that seem to have van­ished leav­ing in it’s stead anoth­er arm of the PNP as is the case in lit­er­al­ly every sec­tor of nation­al life includ­ing the clergy.

During the Presidential Elections of 2008 and 2012 Hawaii born Barack Obama was exco­ri­at­ed by the Tea-Party Patriots and Republicans that he was dis­qual­i­fied from being President of the United States because accord­ing to them he was born in Kenya.
Only it was a lie !!!

Orly Taitz, a California lawyer led the “birther” move­ment against Obama the Nation’s first black President on no evi­dence which indi­cat­ed that Obama was born any­where but Hawaii.
The birther move­ment was a mod­ern day ver­sion of the slav­ery era “show me your papers” to which Obama even­tu­al­ly capitulated.
The Birther move­ment failed to gain enough trac­tion to make a dent in the impres­sion the broad­er American elec­torate had of Obama.
The move­ment sput­tered and petered out after President Obama was re-elect­ed in 2012 ‚which to some degree speaks to the motives behind the movement .

At the helm of the birther move­ment was the for­mer Alaska Governor and one time Republican Vice-Presidential can­di­date Sarah Palin and present Presidential Candidate Donald Trump who rev­eled in the birther con­tro­ver­sy until President Obama made a com­ic spec­ta­cle of him at a White House Correspondence Dinner. Previous to that event the President had labeled the Republican blow-hard a “Carnival-Barker”.

Ironically hard­ly any of the so-called front-line Republican elect­ed offi­cials spoke out about the inap­pro­pri­ate­ness of the Birther movement.
Those who did­n’t remain silent on racial grounds remained silent because in their minds it was good politics.
For Republicans pol­i­tics trumps every­thing, that includes Country, it includes decen­cy as well.

Republicans prob­a­bly nev­er con­tem­plat­ed this game being played on them and not by a Democrat but one of their own.
This cycle under­stand­ably, there is no slith­ery slimy Orly Taitz lead­ing the cav­al­ry into bat­tle to pro­tect the American Presidency from a Manchurian Obama, whom they all knew was a legit­i­mate American cit­i­zen. This time around it’s Trump the Republican front-run­ner lead­ing the Birther move­ment against can­di­date Ted Cruz who was born in Canada to a Welsh-American moth­er and a Cuban father.

Trump may be a Racist turd who want­ed to de-legit­imize Barack Obama using race as a dis-qual­i­fi­er but unfor­tu­nate­ly for Cruz and the Republican estab­lish­ment Trump is also an ego-mani­a­cal self pro­mot­er who is uncon­strained by par­ty labels.

Donald Trump remained Donald Trump noth­ing changed about the Trump Republicans embraced when he made those scur­rilous attacks on the President’s right to his nationality.
So when the very same Donald Trump lashed out at a surg­ing Ted Cruz in Iowa they were shocked. Many Republicans who were silent or cheer­ing Trump when he attacked Obama’s cit­i­zen­ship were up in arms against Trump while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly down­play­ing the ques­tions he raised about Ted Cruz’s Canadian birth and citizenship.

Ted Cruz did not renounce his Canadian cit­i­zen­ship until it was expe­di­ent for him to do so.
Every Republican inter­viewed on the issue hur­ries to brush the issue aside claim­ing there is noth­ing there despite the fact that Ted Cruz was born in Canada.
How is it a non-issue when he was born in a for­eign coun­try but the guy who was born on American soil was ques­tioned until he self verified?

No Republican believes the birther issue has mer­it after Trump stepped up his attacks on Cruz after his Iowa defeat.
What a dif­fer­ence Party and col­or makes in America?
Despite attempts to brush the birther issue under the car­pet it is by no means a set­tled issue because the courts have not ruled on it .

Cruz’s own for­mer Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe calls Cruz a “fair weath­er orig­i­nal­ist” and accused him of “con­sti­tu­tion­al hypocrisy,”.
Speaking of Cruz to CNN Laurence Tribe said “Ironically, the kind of jus­tices he says he wants are the ones that say he’s not eli­gi­ble to run for pres­i­dent,” Tribe argued. “This is impor­tant because the way this guy plays fast and loose with the Constitution, he’s a fair weath­er orig­i­nal­ist.”
Professor Tribe a con­sti­tu­tion­al law pro­fes­sor at Harvard stu­dents include President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Chief Justices John Roberts and Associate Justice Elena Kagan.

The com­ments were so riv­et­ing and illu­mi­nat­ing of Cruz’s hypocrisy that his cam­paign refused to respond, hop­ing it would blow over..
These are seri­ous issues the so-called main-stream media should be address­ing, yet they just left it there in true CNN fash­ion and allowed the issue to go away.

Even though the Supreme Court has­n’t ruled on Cruz’s eli­gi­bil­i­ty to be pres­i­dent of the United States Republicans who nev­er miss an oppor­tu­ni­ty to wrap them­selves in the Flag and pro­claim their love for the con­sti­tu­tion has no prob­lem with Cruz.
Conversely Barack Obama an American born Black man was harangued and exco­ri­at­ed until he had to pro­duce his papers.….
America has a very long way to go despite the rhetoric.….….….

Even as large crowds are not nec­es­sar­i­ly a good indi­ca­tor of elec­tion results in Jamaica, the Jamaica labor par­ty should use the mas­sive PNP crowd in Half-Way-Tree Sunday as a moti­va­tion to get out the Vote.
The Labor Party wins when Jamaicans are fed up with the old­er polit­i­cal par­ty. Unfortunately for the Labor par­ty a trend has emerged in the way it is treated.
When things gets real­ly real­ly bad and the vot­ers can­not bear any more they vote the Labor par­ty in to fix the problems.
Kinda like the Americans flir­ta­tious rela­tion­ship with it’s old­er Republican Party, when they screw up they vote the Democrats in to fix things. Once things are back to nor­mal they resume the unhealthy rela­tion­ship with the Republicans.
As soon as Jamaicans bel­lies are filled and they are com­fort­able they wan­der off once again into the dan­ger­ous dal­liance with the PNP.
Ultimately the PNP has fig­ured out how to keep Jamaican vot­ers com­ing back to the par­ty by feed­ing them sweet cot­ton can­dy of lies promis­es and false promis­es. Just a taste of sweet which nev­er fills them up, they are kept in per­pet­u­al hope each elec­tion cycle, the mir­a­cle is just around the next cor­ner. Like the pied piper of Hamlin they fol­low like Rats and are led off the cliff into an ocean of despair and disappointment.
It’s almost like the Biblical sto­ry of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Despite hav­ing every­thing at their fin­ger­tips, despite the plen­ty, Eve wan­dered off into a illic­it and mon­u­men­tal­ly con­se­quen­tial affair with the Devil

In com­ing to terms with the love affair Jamaicans have with the People’s National Party it’s impor­tant to under­stand that the (PNP) is the old­er of the two major polit­i­cal parties.
It is also impor­tant to rec­og­nize the sig­nif­i­cance Jamaicans place on the con­cept of a sup­posed Independent Jamaica , even though sub­stan­tive­ly Jamaica remain a depen­dent nation teth­ered to Britain and major lender agen­cies in crit­i­cal ways.
Of no less­er sig­nif­i­cance is the mythol­o­gy sur­round­ing Norman Manley’s con­tri­bu­tion to the Island’s Independence as opposed to his Cousin Alexander Bustamante.

It is impor­tant that for his­tor­i­cal con­text, when we con­sid­er the empha­sis which cer­tain seg­ments of the Jamaican pop­u­la­tion places on Manley’s cre­ation of the (PNP) , we also remem­ber that Alexander Bustamante was instru­men­tal in the cre­ation of the PNP and was a found­ing member.
Alexander Bustamante broke away from the PNP in 1939 when he decid­ed that the par­ty’s demo­c­ra­t­ic social­ist rhetoric was too rad­i­cal. He went on to form the Jamaica Labor Party a mod­er­ate cen­trist party.
After Britian decid­ed to drop Jamaica and oth­er for­mer colonies after World War Two, Norman Manley became Premier or Chief Minister in 1955.
However after the elec­tions of 1962 the Jamaica labor Party defeat­ed the People’s National Party. Alexander Bustamante ascend­ed to the Premiership of the Island.
Later that year the British Parliament passed the Jamaica Independence Act of 1962.
Alexander Bustamante became the very first Prime Minister of the new­ly Independent Jamaica.

Jamaicans have a cer­tain loy­al­ty to those they view as cru­cial to their sense of self deter­mi­na­tion . The (PNP) has done a great job of bur­nish­ing the resume’ of it’s past lead­ers and their accom­plish­ments , in some cas­es over-hyp­ing them, the JLP has done a hor­ri­ble job telling it’s story.
It was shock­ing to see the Island’s Prime Minister on a polit­i­cal stage on Sunday January 31^st refer­ring to Norman Manley as the father of the Nation with­out a men­tion of Bustamante.
The Jamaica Labor Party under Edward Seaga , Bruce Golding and Andrew Holness failed dis­mal­ly, despite extend­ed peri­ods in politic obliv­ion to build sup­port for the par­ty based on the tri­umphs and accom­plish­ments of its’ for­mer lead­ers, like Bustamante, Dr, Herbert Eldemire , Hugh Shearer, Robert Lightbourne and others.
It’s intel­lec­tu­al lazi­ness to assume that the ground-swell of sup­port the PNP enjoys is based on the expec­ta­tion of free­bies only.
It’s impor­tant to under­stand the lens through which PNP sup­port­ers see Norman and Michael Manley.
The Jamaica Labor Party failed to edu­cate the Island’s peo­ple about it’s champions.
In fact the JLP has allowed the lie that the par­ty is a rich man’s par­ty to stick and set­tle in.

It was Alexander Bustamante who spent almost two years locked up in prison for stand­ing up for work­ers rights.
It was Bustamante who fought tooth and nail to keep Jamaica out of the West Indies Federation which lumped ten for­mer British Colonies into a sin­gle enti­ty bear­ing the afore­men­tioned name. Norman Manley led the Island into the Federation which was vast­ly unpop­u­lar with most Jamaicans.
Norman Manley was lat­er forced as Premier to hold a ref­er­en­dum on the issue which saw Jamaica opt­ing out of the Federation which lat­er col­lapsed after Trinidad and Tobago also opt­ed out.
So much for father of the Nation !
Where would Jamaica be were it not for the vision­ary ideas of Bustamante?
For the Revisionist Historians who like to talk about what Manley means to Jamaica , let it be known Norman Manley sold Jamaica ‘s sov­er­eign­ty to the West Indies Federation .
Bustamante gave Jamaica Nationhood.

Let s begin the process of mobi­liz­ing Laborites into Teams. Identifying team-lead­ers, moti­vate them , give them areas of responsibility.
Equip each team with appro­pri­ate trans­porta­tion, let them report into a cen­tral hub/​series of hubs with­in each constituency.
Each hub must com­mu­ni­cate on the progress being made in get­ting vot­ers out to the polls and get­ting them back home again.
Whenever prob­lems occur if these team lead­ers can­not han­dle the prob­lem a high­er tiered lead­er­ship group must jump into action.
Failure is not an option.
Jamaica is a small coun­try , each parish , each region must dial into this concept .
Failing this kind of orga­niz­ing the JLP must get com­fort­able for anoth­er long peri­od of polit­i­cal opposition.

WHERE DOES THE JLP GO IN THE EVENT OF A FEBRUARY 25^th LOSS?

I shud­der to think through this ques­tion but it’s a ques­tion that needs ask­ing and even though many of my friends may be mad at me I have decid­ed to ask it anyway.
What hap­pens on February 25^th if the Simpson Miller PNP is returned to power?
How would the JLP present itself going forward?
Would it con­clude that the Jamaican peo­ple are unwill­ing to make the nec­es­sary adjust­ments from a depen­dent elec­torate to one which embraces the excit­ing chal­lenges of a free peo­ple teth­ered to the con­cept of the free market?
Does it low­er it’s col­lec­tive head in defeat , giv­ing in to the nar­ra­tive that Jamaica is PNP Country?
Does a defeat­ed JLP con­clude that the Jamaican elec­torate is too far gone to be re-rout­ed in its’ thinking?
Does the JLP look at itself and try to fig­ure out how come it has failed to com­mu­ni­cate it’s mes­sage of pros­per­i­ty to a Generation weaned on the belief that Government is it’s benefactor?

All of these are crit­i­cal ques­tions to con­sid­er in under­stand­ing why a failed Administration would have been seen as a bet­ter alter­na­tive to the par­ty of pros­per­i­ty and growth?
What would the JLP do in it’s role as Constitutional oppo­si­tion, after all 5 years is a very long time?
Does the Party give up on the people ?
Does the par­ty con­clude that the elec­torate is sim­ply not sophis­ti­cat­ed enough to under­stand what’s best for it ?
Or does it throw out the play-book and dive in as the PNP has done, to hell with a growth agen­da, lets win elections?
It’s impor­tant that these issue are giv­en sound con­sid­er­a­tion by the par­ty after all in a Democracy par­ties may be pow­er­ful but come elec­tion day the peo­ple hold the power.
Let’s chew on these pos­si­bil­i­ties and pon­der the con­se­quences when we talk about the two par­ties are the same or I’m not voting.
If you think Jamaica is trans­formed now allow the PNP to have anoth­er 5 years and you can kiss the coun­try we all know and love goodbye.

WHY DOES IOWA GET TO START ?

Nothing hap­pens in a vac­u­um in American pol­i­tics there is always an under­ly­ing sto­ry , some motive under­neath what meets the eyes.
That cer­tain­ly per­tain to the Political Primaries of both polit­i­cal Parties.
Search as I might I have not found a plau­si­ble rea­son behind Iowa a deep rur­al farm state of 3,107,126 and New Hampshire a New England state with a pop­u­la­tion of 1,326,813 get­ting to go first in select­ing American Presidents.
Additionally it’s then on to Nevada , South Carolina and Alabama ?
I won­dered why large pop­u­lous States like California, New York, Ohio, New Jersey, and even Florida which has large mixed pop­u­la­tions does­n’t get first dibs.
Just won­der­ing whether, even as we cham­pi­on the genius of the American polit­i­cal sys­tem, we real­ize the sys­tem was rigged from the start to ensure that states with large­ly homo­ge­neous white pop­u­la­tions gets to sieve through or weed out whom they don’t want , in many cas­es decid­ing the nom­i­nee through resources or the lack there­of and per­cep­tions before the large pop­u­lous states with “those oth­er peo­ple” get to have a say. ?

Just ask­ing ?

If ever there was a case for a fixed Election date in Jamaica the spec­ta­cle which played out on the world stage in Half-Way-Tree Square Sunday night was it.
This Medium has been call­ing for a fixed elec­tion date for years , so too has the Jamaica Labor Party which forms the polit­i­cal oppo­si­tion on the Island.
I have not researched the rea­son that the Opposition Party sup­port a fixed date for National elec­tions but on a per­son­al note I believe a fixed date pre­vents the Prime Minister of whichev­er par­ty from manip­u­lat­ing the process.
It was despi­ca­ble, the lev­el of crass­ness we saw attached to the process last night it should nev­er be repeat­ed ever again.

Well known Columnist and PNP sym­pa­thiz­er Gordon Robinson final­ly got it right. In his Gleaner Column today titled ” Circus Clowns Come To Half-Way Tree”
Robinson said Quote : ”

As I watched the PM announce the elec­tion date to a sea of orange-clad PNP sup­port­ers, I only felt depres­sion. If ever there was an adver­tise­ment for fixed elec­tion dates, it’s the song-and-dance rou­tine that’s char­ac­terised this six-month elec­tion cam­paign. To have a February elec­tion only because the PNP is at last ahead in the polls exposes:

- an infu­ri­at­ing­ly dis­grace­ful, self-serv­ing, unpa­tri­ot­ic, nar­cis­sis­tic con­tempt for Jamaica; AND

- the anti-demo­c­ra­t­ic, total­i­tar­i­an, unjust nature of the laws that allow this to happen.

The Prime Minister could have called Elections 6 months ago . Now grant­ed she had until ear­ly 2017 to call elec­tions, Miller opt­ed not to call nation­al elec­tions because the poll results were not in her favor. As per the grapevine it is under­stood that the Labor par­ty had a lead of up to six (6) per­cent­age points at the time.
Now I must con­fess if I was in her shoes I would not have called elec­tions either. For the die-hard died-in-the wool Kumreds[sic] who will argue that there is no truth to the fact that she did not call it because of the polls, please explain what was her rea­son for push­ing “local gov­ern­ment elec­tions” back over a year.
Many argue now that the ques­tion­able Don Anderson poll which gives the PNP a four per­cent­age points over it’s rival JLP has buoyed the Prime Minister to seek a new man­date at this time. That may be true, but the bit­ter real­i­ties which are sure to emanate from the upcom­ing bud­get was sure to play into the deci­sion mak­ing process of the Prime Minister.

Large scale lay­offs, price increas­es and more tax­a­tion are sure to fol­low the new budget.
Simpson-Miller does not want that kind of anger in the elec­torate going into an election.
No politi­cian of any “P” should have the pow­er to await favor­able poll results or oth­er fac­tors to deter­mine when National elec­tions are called.
No sin­gu­lar per­son should have that pow­er regard­less of Party label, that pow­er should rest with the people.
Politicians should per­form then face the elec­torate at a time of the elec­torate’s choos­ing, not a time politi­cians choose.

Politicians should serve the peo­ple, not their par­ty’s or per­son­al inter­est. When we allow the gar­ish and vul­gar dis­play of our polit­i­cal process which was on dis­play last night we allow politi­cians to cement the belief we serve them rather than the oth­er way around.
Several months ago I spoke to a fam­i­ly friend regard­ing the state of affairs on the Island, he lives there I don’t . I asked him why it was that there is no social upheaval despite the mas­sive ero­sion in the val­ue of the local cur­ren­cy , the astro­nom­i­cal­ly high crime rate, the ever increas­ing impov­er­ish­ment of the work­ing class, the crum­bling infra­struc­ture, and the mas­sive cor­rup­tion with­in the Administration?
He respond­ed “the coun­try is falling apart but the peo­ple are con­tent” !!!

“THE PEOPLE ARE CONTENT”

How could a sane elec­torate be con­tent I asked ? He shrugged his shoul­ders and shook his head in exas­per­a­tion . Are these peo­ple sim­ply to be dis­missed as Circus Clowns ” accord­ing to Kumred [sic] Gordon Robinson? Or is there some­thing deep­er going on accord­ing to the very same Kumred]sic] Robinson?
“Jamaica was put on elec­tion alert by Peter Phillips in July 2015 and has since been fed a steady diet of putrid, pop­ulist pol­i­tics until, over­stuffed with ran­cid rhetoric, they’re just look­ing for a ready recep­ta­cle in which to regurgitate”.
I am more inclined to believe that peo­ple are fed up because of the con­stant rhetoric and the con­stant wait­ing they would have turned out to watch paint dry.

Will Jamaicans go out on February 25^th to return Portia Simpson Miller and com­pa­ny to Gordon House as the major­i­ty par­ty? That is yet to be seen.
It is in-advis­able that any­one pre­tend to know what a large crowd in Half-Way-Tree square means as far as what par­ty will win the elections.
Both Michael Manley and Edward Seaga would attest to that.
Furthermore mass meet­ings like these are gen­er­al­ly pop­u­lat­ed with peo­ple who are bused in from across the country.
Nevertheless it is impor­tant not to dis­count mas­sive crowds as incon­se­quen­tial to the debate.
If peo­ple are sat­is­fied they may not have a rea­son not to go out and sup­port their party.

Which brings us to the ques­tion of what could poten­tial­ly cre­ate that sup­posed con­tent­ment in the electorate?
If the coun­try is in a bad a shape as every­one say it is … and it is.
Maybe the elec­torate have sim­ply giv­en up on what it expects for Jamaica.
Maybe it has re-adjust­ed its expec­ta­tion of what can be achieved.
Maybe it does­n’t care about the mis­ery index any­more. Maybe the present elec­torate sim­ply does­n’t know any bet­ter. Maybe it has got­ten used to beg­ging for the remit­tance monies it receives from abroad. Maybe it likes where it is between the remit­tance and the 7 days per week par­ty­ing whats not to like?
Come to think about it, the Jamaican elec­torate have nev­er been a sophis­ti­cat­ed one . In 1980 despite par­ty loy­al­ties they turned out and vot­ed their bel­lies. In the biggest elec­tion loss ever, the PNP was kicked out of office in a 51 – 9 drub­bing . Many peo­ple believed Michael Manley lost his seat but was allowed to save face by keep­ing it.

Despite the rhetoric of “jamaica a pnp kun­try’ Kumreds[sic] for­got ide­ol­o­gy and vot­ed their bel­lies, they want­ed food on shop and super­mar­ket shelves.
After the eco­nom­ic advance­ments and the rel­a­tive peace and sta­bil­i­ty of the Seaga years Kumreds[sic] went back to ide­ol­o­gy with filled bel­lies and cloud­ed mem­o­ries they re-elect­ed Michael Manley in 88 and Jamaica’s fate was sealed.
The peo­ple who came of age out of the 70’s era of Manley-ism in Jamaica and the younger gen­er­a­tion swal­lowed hook-line-and-sinker the notion that Government is bene­fac­tor . They nev­er lived under a sys­tem of free mar­ket, as such they look to Government to pro­vide jobs. They expect Government to play sig­nif­i­cant roles in their lives. It is a depen­den­cy syn­drome which trumps Nationalism.
Jamaicans are large­ly Nationalistic when it comes to sports. Nationalism be damned when they are required to set aside par­ty polit­i­cal affil­i­a­tions and vote in the inter­est of Country.
That may explain the cult-like loy­al­ty with which PNP sup­port­ers fol­low their par­ty. To them par­ty means food on the table, not pay­ing rental for the house in which they live, not pay­ing for water, not pay­ing for electricity.
It means col­lect­ing salaries for jobs they do not go to. It means rid­ing on a bus with­out pay­ing fare because a pnp time and a pnp kuntry”.
As long as they are able to eat today at the expense of the coun­try’s tomor­row , tomor­row be damned.

Manley’s indoc­tri­na­tion of the pop­u­lace into believ­ing that peo­ple who worked and achieved mate­r­i­al suc­cess were evil Capitalists changed the moral com­pass of our country.
When PNP hacks speak about peo­ple green with envy , they are talk­ing about what Manley’s phi­los­o­phy did for our country.
Eight Years of Seaga and four years of Golding-Holness was nev­er going to be enough to reverse that indoctrination.
A dozen years bro­ken by an unprece­dent­ed 14 ¹⁄₂ years was nev­er going to be enough to re-focus a pop­u­la­tion reared on free­bies and the expec­ta­tion of it.
That may bet­ter explain the sup­posed Tsunami of Kumreds[sic] .
To them there is no oth­er way.

At a huge PNP Rally held in Half Way Tree St Andrew Sunday January 31 Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller announced that Nomination day will be on February 9^th and Elections will be held on February 25^th.

For the ben­e­fit of Jamaica vot­ers will now go to the polls and decide what direc­tion they want for their coun­try. The PNP has held pow­er over 28 of the last 40 years , Jamaica has pre­cious lit­tle pos­i­tives to show for it.
The Island’s econ­o­my is in shambles .
The pro­duc­tive sec­tor has been dec­i­mat­ed. Serious crimes are at an all time high. The Infrastructure is crum­bling and there are real­ly no new infra­struc­ture being put in place out­side the high­ways being put in place by the Chinese which Jamaicans can­not afford to dri­ve on. Hotels are all owned by Foreigners. Most of the Island’s assets have been sold by the Administration and the monies siphoned off .
The Island’s cur­ren­cy has lit­er­al­ly no value .
Yes the PNP talks about pass­ing IMF tests , that is the Administration’s high water mark. Unfortunately for the peo­ple when a coun­try is pleas­ing the IMF it is pain­ing the people.
The peo­ple now have a deci­sion to make . On February 25^th Jamaicans will once again go into the vot­ing booths and decide the course of the Island for the next 5 years .
May God help them.……

The Political sil­ly sea­son is upon us , not just in the great big USA but in our lit­tle Island Jamaica as well.
Already sharp Political elbows are being thrown, not just in great big neigh­bor in the north but the fledg­ling lit­tle democ­ra­cy to the south many of us call “yaad”.
Donald Trump The American Republican front-run­ner is seem­ing­ly invin­ci­ble, no mat­ter whom he diss­es , and diss he has.
Megan Kelly, Mexicans, Immigrants, Women, Blacks, Muslims, the dis­abled, all his oppo­nents, and any­one who cri­tique him, Never mind those who dare crit­i­cize the Donald.
Trump seem to be coat­ed in Teflon , no mat­ter what he does no one seem to care, his star ris­es all the same. One of the themes com­ing out of the Republican camp this sil­ly sea­son is that peo­ple are tired of polit­i­cal correctness .
The ever sleep deprived look­ing Dr. Ben Carson has gone as far as to sug­gest that polit­i­cal cor­rect­ness will be the death of us all. The good Doctor has­n’t yet got­ten around to explain­ing just how that would come about but I’m sure if he can stay awake long enough he will get around to telling us.

Ironically as the Republicans demand that they be allowed to say what they want America’s tiny neigh­bor to the South seem to be going the oppo­site direction.
Media Houses are intim­i­dat­ed and afraid to crit­i­cize the Portia Simpson Miller Administration which has stum­bled from one cor­rup­tion and graft scan­dal to another .
In fact the Courts from all appear­ances are a rub­ber-stamp to the People’s National Party’s agenda.
The Courts are par­ty to the admin­is­tra­tion’s agen­da which cre­at­ed a chill­ing atmos­phere on the free speech rights of Jamaicans to speak with­out fear of being hauled before the courts and ordered to pay what they don’t have for libel and slander.
Cliff Hughes a Journalist found out the hard way that even as a Journalist you can’t say what you wish in Jamaica, or at least you can’t say any­thing about the PNP or Percival Patterson the Islands sec­ond worst prime Minister.
Hughes was ordered to pay Patterson huge sums of mon­ey for an incon­se­quen­tial sto­ry which would have been laughed at in coun­tries where the law ruled and not men.
Patterson was not able to show how he was hurt by the non-sto­ry , nev­er­the­less the courts award­ed him a huge sum cour­tesy of Hughes.
In Jamaica the Political class is above crit­i­cism. You either pay what you don’t have or you get a bul­let, or both

I’m unsure whether the media hous­es are more ter­ri­fied of the courts or the real­i­ty they may be invad­ed by orange clad thugs , dragged into the streets and killed if they dare crit­i­cize the Administration in Kingston.
Obviously Jamaica Labor Party Councilor Winston Maragh haven’t yet received the memo.
Speaking at a mass JLP Rally in Lionel Town in Clarendon Maragh made the fatal error of crit­i­ciz­ing Michael Manley, a for­mer PNP prime Minister.
Maragh labeled Manley an “idiot” for the harm he did to the econ­o­my dur­ing the 70’s PNP Administration.
Manley who destroyed the Island’s econ­o­my between 1972 and 1980 was thrown out of office in 1980 but was returned to pow­er in 1988. Many believed it was dur­ing Manley’s last time at the helm that he deliv­ered the coup ‑de grace or the death knell to the economy.
Personally I believe the Percival Patterson stew­ard­ship was the most inher­ent­ly cor­rupt in the his­to­ry of Jamaica, but back to the story.
The back­lash was swift ‚the People’s National Party Secretariat, the PNP Women’s Movement and the PNP Youth Organisation (PNPYO) all demand­ed that Maragh apologize .
They also want the polit­i­cal Ombudsman to inves­ti­gate Maragh for call­ing the late Prime Minister an idiot.

I HAD TO LAUGH.

In it’s release the groups said Quote.
Michael Manley is a hero to mil­lions of Jamaicans and it is an insult to us all to hear this degrad­ing and dis­mis­sive ref­er­ence to a man who has put Jamaica on the polit­i­cal world map, who spear­head­ed the fight against Apartheid in South Africa, and who was instru­men­tal in chang­ing how Jamaica, the Caribbean and the rest of the devel­op­ing world was viewed,”.
Okay you peo­ple real­ly need to get over the idol wor­ship . Michael Manley was no hero except to you half-baked cur­ry goat social­ist. By the last cen­sus esti­mates I believe that the Island’s pop­u­la­tion is up to around 2.7 mil­lion so if you are say­ing all Jamaicans believe Michael Manley is a hero, it sim­ply high­light the depth of the stu­por you are in .

I have a feel­ing though that the argu­ment will be that you are speak­ing of Jamaicans at home and abroad .
Well most of the peo­ple who left Jamaica did so because they refused to con­tin­ue to live in pover­ty brought on by a failed ide­ol­o­gy long dis­card­ed by even the most rigid Communist states.
On that basis I hard­ly believe that argu­ment has any weight.
Did Michael Manley have good ideas yes.
Is Manley a hero ?
Hell no .
There is a com­mon strat­e­gy of obfus­ca­tion used by many of the old guard pseu­do social­ist that are left over from the cold war era. They con­vince them­selves and try to con­vince oth­ers that the Manley’s mytho­log­i­cal worth to Jamaica and the Caribbean Region is such that the aver­age Jamaican and the aver­age CARICOM cit­i­zen is unable to grasp it intellectually .
What utter arro­gance and total nonsense’.

Mister Manley had ter­rif­ic ideas, Project Land Lease, Housing Trust, Equal pay for women, Jamal, No bas­tard chil­dren to name a few. One of the things which made me proud to be Jamaican was Manley’s unflinch­ing fight against the apartheid sys­tem in Southern Africa and around the globe.
His lead­er­ship toward that end was exem­plary and unquestionable.
Conversely Mister Manley’s inabil­i­ty to dis­cern when not to fight and who not to fight with wrecked the Jamaican economy .
His reck­less ‚total­i­tar­i­an rhetoric ‘those who do not agree with him should board one of the five flights per day to Miami wrecked the pro­duc­tive sec­tor and cre­at­ed a brain-drain which has­n’t sub­sided since.
He goad­ed the pro­duc­tive sec­tor to leave and they did just that and they left with their money.
His brig­ands entered Police sta­tions and removed pris­on­ers from police cus­tody and the police were pow­er­less to lift a fin­ger to stop it. Under Michael Manley’s régime know cop-killers were shut­tled out of the coun­try to Cuba and even­tu­al­ly to Canada and oth­er countries .
Manley brought the once bea­con of demo­c­ra­t­ic prin­ci­ples in the Caribbean to a total­i­tar­i­an state dur­ing the 70’s when he locked up a large part of the polit­i­cal oppo­si­tion under trumped up charges.
Michael Manley will for­ev­er be remem­bered for bring­ing our coun­try as we knew it to the brink of chaos and collapse.
The free­ness men­tal­i­ty which char­ac­ter­ized Manley’s lega­cy has had dis­as­trous con­se­quences which the Island has nev­er recov­ered from .
The cumu­la­tive destruc­tion the Manley reign had on Jamaica may nev­er be total­ly known in terms of dol­lars and cents .
What we do know is that with­out equiv­o­ca­tion Michael Manley made a mess of Jamaica.
Those who deny it, unwit­ting­ly dis­qual­i­fy them­selves as seri­ous par­tic­i­pants to this debate.
At least Michael Manley apol­o­gized for his antics .
It’s time those who wor­ship at the altar of the Manley name come to terms with reality.

All signs seem to point to National Elections being announced in Jamaica soon. The Island’s Prime Minister who said she was await­ing her Master’s touch to announce the date of the Elections, has since said that her mas­ter has already touched her. If one can set aside the third grade idio­cy of the notion that some­thing as crit­i­cal as Elections can be left up to a sim­ple-mind­ed per­son­’s whim, then we may progress to the con­se­quences of the next poll.

Several major indi­ca­tors have been point­ing to the immi­nence of National elec­tions the least of which is a sched­uled mass ral­ly for Half-Way-Tree Square this Sunday January 31^st. Probably more impor­tant than any­thing the Administration in Kingston says or does, are the com­ments com­ing from American Officials respond­ing to ques­tions from the Jamaican media at the US Embassy in Kingston.

We’re focused on co-oper­a­tion; so as long as we’re actu­al­ly con­tin­u­ing to co-oper­ate, we’ll work with any­body who’ll co-oper­ate with us,” said Juan Gonzalez, deputy assis­tant sec­re­tary for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the US State Department.
“We’re com­mit­ted to work­ing with who­ev­er is in pow­er after the next round of elec­tions,” said US Ambassador to Jamaica Luis Moreno.
The Americans most like­ly knew the Election date before the infan­tile head of the Jamaican Government did but that is anoth­er Article.

The more impor­tant issue for the Island going for­ward above all else, is whether the peo­ple are will­ing to con­tin­ue on a path of cor­rup­tion, lack of account­abil­i­ty, gross incom­pe­tence and mis­man­age­ment entrenched in the present People’s National Party (PNP) Administration.
Or change course for the mar­ket style poli­cies of the Opposition Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) if that par­ty can unshack­le itself from the cling­ing residue of Elitism and arrogance.

The fact is that with new IMF dic­tates there will be lay­offs and much more of the bit­ter pills Jamaicans have been forced to swal­low for decades under PNP lead­er­ship. Massive deval­u­a­tion of the local cur­ren­cy will bring con­tin­ued and ever increas­ing pover­ty, forc­ing even more Jamaicans below the pover­ty line .
Crime will go up expo­nen­tial­ly because of the con­tin­ued dete­ri­o­rat­ing eco­nom­ic con­di­tions but also as a result of the Administration’s reluc­tance to sup­port robust law-enforce­ment and it’s con­tin­ued affil­i­a­tions with the crim­i­nal underworld.

Though dif­fi­cult and harm­ful a con­tin­ued rela­tion­ship with the IMF is to Jamaica, a new Labor Party Administration does not have the lux­u­ry of end­ing the rela­tion­ship with the fund with­out dis­as­trous con­se­quences. Jamaica’s over four Billion US Dollar debt to the fund and oth­er lend­ing Agencies does not leave a poten­tial labor par­ty admin­is­tra­tion much option.

So where do we go from here?
A JLP win would mean a con­tin­u­a­tion of the Island’s asso­ci­a­tion with the IMF. There will be lay­offs and pre­sum­ably addi­tion­al deval­u­a­tion of the cur­ren­cy. All of which will instant­ly be blamed on the JLP sup­posed incom­pe­tence. The truth is a PNP vic­to­ry will change none of these events either.

This is the rea­son the PNP will call elec­tions any day now.
They want this elec­tion behind them before these inevitable aus­ter­i­ty mea­sures begin to bite.

The dif­fer­ence in the approach­es between the JLP and PNP in this regard will be a PNP con­tin­u­a­tion of the IMF pro­gram with the , graft , cor­rup­tion, crime and oth­er vices and noth­ing out­side liv­ing hand to mouth as against tak­ing the med­i­cine with a clear plan toward an end-game which weans the Island off the IMF and places it on a path to prosperity.
That does not mean that the JLP does­n’t have it’s own Demons .
The Party will have to learn humil­i­ty. Many in Bustamante and Shearer’s Party are arro­gant and pow­er-hun­gry and should not have any say in state pow­er. Ultimately the peo­ple will have a choice to make this time stay with the sta­tus-quo or vote into pow­er the Opposition with it’s own vices.

I initially felt like brushing aside the ignorant comments FOX analyst Stacey Dash made by merely attaching the label “house Negro” to her. Then I realized the crucial role some house Negroes played in relaying information to the underground railroad which invariably gave thousands a sense of relief if not total freedom.

“I’m an African-American quar­ter­back that may scare a lot of peo­ple because they haven’t seen noth­ing that they can com­pare me to.” — Cam Newton Cam Newton addressed the racial ele­phant in the room on Wednesday. Good for him. And good for us. We need to name it until it stops. Cam was defend­ing him­self against reac­tions to his cel­e­bra­tions specif­i­cal­ly that cap an NFL career of racial dou­ble-stan­dards. In the next 10 days we will debate about all the hate and bla­tant racism (Warren’s Moon’s words) that Cam has received since he stepped into this league. We will rehash the scout­ing report hit jobs, the hits on Cam’s intel­li­gence, and crit­i­cism of his dabs and dances that are more over-the-top than the beloved Lambeau Leap. And we should. But this con­ver­sa­tion must go beyond Cam. We need to dis­sect, scru­ti­nize, and ana­lyze all the white quar­ter­backs in these play­offs with a Super-Cam lens. Let’s start with a whiter 6′5″ quar­ter­back: Carson Palmer. “Retweet this if you picked off Carson Palmer tonight” went the tweet by @RoFlo.

NEWTON CAN JOIN EXCLUSIVE CLUB IF HE WINS MVP, SUPER BOWL

According to Twitter, Palmer set a new play­off record with 842 inter­cep­tionsagainst the Panthers. Palmer’s unfair social beat­down aside, it seems like eons ago Palmer was get­ting seri­ous MVP con­sid­er­a­tion. Going into the sea­son’s last game, some jour­nal­ists at ESPN and else­where were pick­ing Palmer. A not so quite sci­en­tif­ic ESPN poll of 58,000 fans picked Tom Brady. The diplo­mat­ic Washington Post called it a tie. Can’t we all get along? No. We can’t.

Forget the tech­ni­cal points that 1) No. 2) Cam’s cast of jour­ney­men wide receivers resem­ble Ella Fitzgerald more than Larry Fitzgerald, and 3) the Panthers’ 15 – 1 near-per­fect record is just not per­fect enough. The real MVP debate tragedy is if Cam had Carson’s career, there would be no debate. Cam would have been dri­ven out of the league by 2012 after Palmer post­ed his third straight los­ing sea­son going 12 – 28. Not Cam or any black quar­ter­back can pull off a career come­back like Carson’s… or Alex Smith’s… or Ryan Fitzpatrick’s. No black quar­ter­back in NFL his­to­ry has ever reeked as much as these guys and lived to throw about it. Ever.

For NFL white quar­ter­backs, the “Freedom to Fail” is the whitest trait of all. This post­sea­son may as well be called The White Privilege Playoffs. Cam can be utter­ly amaz­ing, but here is what Cam can’t do:

Cam Can’t Be Carson Palmer

Not off-the-field either. If Cam refused to report to camp after a 4 – 12 sea­son and forced a trade like Carson did with the Bengals, he would be brand­ed a “me-first” diva and pos­si­bly gone from the league. And if one of Cam’s cel­e­bra­tion’s includ­ed Carson’s crotch-taunt­ing moves, then more than one moth­er would be send­ing a “let­ter-to-the-edi­tor” about her now cor­rupt­ed kid. Palmer’s sec­ond chances are par for the course for No. 1 QB picks who are white. Before giv­ing up, Tim Couch received 59 starts before the Browns gave up, and David Carr got a whop­ping 79. Even her­ald­ed No. 2 picks get long looks. Five teams took a chance on Rick Mirer, and all-time bust/​head case Ryan Leaf had four teams sign him before he vol­un­tar­i­ly quit the game.

Cam Can’t Be Alex Smith

Smith, also a for­mer No. 1 pick, has devel­oped into a fine quar­ter­back — far more than a “game man­ag­er.” But he was down­right ter­ri­ble his first five sea­sons (see 51 TD pass­es in 50 starts). Despite near­ly iden­ti­cal sta­tis­tics and a high­er pass­er rat­ing with Smith over his first three years, for­mer No. 1 pick JaMarcus Russell was boot­ed out of the NFL.

After five years Smith’s team record was 19 – 31, almost the oppo­site of Vince Young’s 30 – 17 start­ing record. Young, who has seen his life spi­ral to the depths and was recent­ly arrest­ed in Austin, Texas for a DWI, played in two Pro Bowls, but played only one more sea­son after. Instead of being nur­tured like Smith, Young was benched for the slight­est mis­take by coach Jeff Fisher for Kerry Collins — who went 26 – 50 over his last nine sea­sons. Fisher, who pre­ferred to draft Matt Leinart, remains employed with the Rams despite five straight los­ing sea­sons — unchar­tered waters for African-American coach­es (an arti­cle for anoth­er day).

Whether it be easy jokes about Russell’s “weight” or Young’s “atti­tude,” crit­ics always have “rea­sons” — just nev­er com­par­isons (see ear­ly off-field trou­bles and alco­holism of Collins). The point is, if Cam had per­formed like Smith had the last five years, he would be out of the NFL with no short­age of “rea­sons” from the scouts. It’s all right here from Nolan Nawrocki’s report: “Very disin­gen­u­ous — has a fake smile, comes off as very script­ed and has a self­ish, me-first make­up. Has an enor­mous ego with a sense of enti­tle­ment that con­tin­u­al­ly invites trou­ble and makes him believe he is above the law — does not com­mand respect from team­mates and will always strug­gle to win a lock­er room … Lacks account­abil­i­ty, focus and trust­wor­thi­ness — is not punc­tu­al, seeks short­cuts and sets a bad exam­ple. Immature and has had issues with author­i­ty. Not depend­able.” The book would be closed on Cam like JaMarcus and Vince fol­lowed by: “See — he toooold you about Cam! Now shut up and stop play­ing the race card!”.

And Geno Smith Can’t Be Ryan Fitzpatrick

Okay. Fitzpatrick did­n’t tech­ni­cal­ly make the play­offs, but the Jets were the only win­ning NFL team this year that did­n’t. Their 10 wins, supe­ri­or to two play­off teams, marked the first win­ning sea­son in Ryan’s 10-year career and 33 – 55 record. After an 8 – 8 rook­ie sea­son that saw both flash­es of inex­pe­ri­ence and promise, Smith’s poor sec­ond sea­son has many writ­ing his NFL obit­u­ary. And while I have my own doubts about Smith, it would be nice to see him in an offense with Brandon Marshall — a huge fac­tor in Fitzpatrick’s resur­gence. This off­sea­son Ryan will cash in his “Freedom-to-Fail” for 10 – 12 mil­lion a year. But for­get Smith, even Donovan McNabb’s Hall-of-Fame wor­thy pedi­gree could­n’t get any “Freedom-to-Fail” love. After McNabb request­ed his release from the Vikings in 2011 to sign on with a vet­er­an team, he had no takers.
No Black QB Can Be the Texans’ Brian Hoyer

For NFL QB’s, “undraft­ed” is code for “white.” Hoyer’s abysmal play­off per­for­mance was one for the ages. It requires a coach see­ing your poten­tial that that no one else sees. In Hoyer’s case, he was cut three dif­fer­ent times by the Patriots, Steelers, and Cardinals. Naturally, his for­mer Patriot coach Bill O’Brien gave him a fouth chance to make good, and was reward­ed with four inter­cep­tions and a 15.9 pass­er rat­ing (not a mis­print) in the wild-card round.
Read more here: Cam Newton isn’t afford­ed the free­dom to fail like so many white quar­ter­backs who came before him

THE MORE THINGS CHANGE THE MORE THEY REMAIN THE SAME IN JAMAICA

Police offi­cers in Savanna-La-Mar car­ry­ing out their duties were alleged­ly assault­ed by a Parish Councillor (whom have not been named by the media).
So what we do know is that a PNP Councillor attacked the police who were in the process of remov­ing ven­dors from the streets as they have been man­dat­ed to do by their command.
According to the offi­cer in charge of the Parish David White the no-name Councillor point­ed his fin­gers into the face of offi­cers and assault­ed them
He came on the scene and start­ed ver­bal­ly abus­ing the police, point up his fin­ger in the police face and tell them to low the peo­ple dem,”
White claimed that the Councillor’s actions result­ed in a street brawl neces­si­tat­ing the need for rein­force­ment. He alleges the scum-bag will be charged with assault­ing and obstruction.
Yada , yada , yada,
“We are tak­ing strong actions against him. The Police Federation has been sum­moned, too, because the police were abused and assault­ed by him,”
“The idea was to arrest the coun­cil­lor on the scene and offer him sta­tion bail but it was decid­ed instead to pro­ceed by way of summons”.

Okay after these com­ments I had no fur­ther need to hear what this Superintendent had to say until there is an arrest . First of all why is he sit­ting behind a desk talk­ing about this why is this piece of garbage not found beat­en to pulp and sit­ting his ass in a jail cell?
“Summons” Why should he be sum­moned , why spe­cial priv­i­lege ? The courts will do noth­ing to him so he should have been beat­en to a pulp that’s the way to send a strong mes­sage , not talk about it.
That’s the way to send a mes­sage to these ass-wipes, you do not do it through the courts because the courts are a cesspool of crim­i­nal acquiescence.
This scum com­mit­ted an assault on offi­cers which should be a Felony , only in Jamaica it is a mis­de­meanor, they know it that’s why they do it.
He hin­dered Governmental Administration which ought to be a felony , in Jamaica it’s not , he knows it.
He insti­gat­ed a riot which ought to be a Felony, in Jamaica it’s not, he knows it.
So what should the police do?
Exact your own brand of jus­tice, because as I have said con­sis­tent­ly, the law sand the Criminal courts are more crim­i­nal than courts.
Beat him to a pulp then throw him in jail.
That’s the way to send a mes­sage, not by mak­ing bull­shit pro­nounce­ments. What the hell is the Federation going to do . The Administration in Kingston is a crim­i­nal Enterprise . To pre­tend it’s not is to stick one’s head into the sand and pretend.

This is exact­ly what their leader and Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller did in 88 when her band of red T‑shirt motor­cy­cle brig­ands arrived to steal bal­lot box­es from the White Hall Avenue All-age School and real­ized real quick it was not going to hap­pen, dif­fer­ent kind of cops who did not give a shit who was on the oth­er end we would use what­ev­er force nec­es­sary includ­ing lethal force regard­less of the offend­er. , The dif­fer­ence is that the three Cops stand­ing at the gate myself includ­ed, made it known to her it was­n’t going to hap­pen. Rolling and bawl­ing in the streets did not faze us. One step toward the School gate and she and any­one with her would be in cuffs.
George Pang arrived imme­di­ate­ly and took her aside and asked her “wha di f**k unu a du a dead unuh cum up ya fi dead , u nu si say a nu play police dem ya”
The apolo­gies which fol­lowed were effu­sive. The dif­fer­ence was three police offi­cers who were not def­er­en­tial to any­one. We enforced the laws, Period !!!

The top of the stream is dirty the rest is auto­mat­i­cal­ly dirty, you can­not make it right with the crop of crim­i­nals who run the coun­try and so the police must do what they must to enforce the laws until our coun­try is wran­gled from the bunch of crim­i­nals who now run the show.
At the same time I can­not begin to say how dis­gust­ed I am at the Commanding Officer and his comments.
You know what peo­ple respect Superintendent White?
Actions , not words, talk is cheap.….
If the entrenched Garrisons pre­vents a change in our coun­try then it may be time to con­sid­er oth­er means to take back our coun­try from these criminals.

A guy I went to High School with tagged me in a social media post yes­ter­day (was­n’t sure why). The post fol­lowed a pic­ture he post­ed of the run-down, dilap­i­dat­ed Post Office build­ing in Guys Hill Saint Catherine where we went to High School.
Guys Hill is tucked away in the cool Hills of Saint Catherine on the bor­ders of Saint Ann and St Mary. Guys Hill – is named after Richard Guy, who it is thought served with Generals Penn and Venables in the con­quest of Jamaica in 1655, and who was grant­ed land there.

I’m not sure what year the Guys Hill post office was built, what I do know is that many of those facil­i­ties were built dur­ing the colo­nial peri­od before Jamaica became an inde­pen­dent nation[sic]. Which sug­gest to me that despite all we know about the Colonial pow­er and it’s many neg­a­tives they built things.
Anyway there were quite a few com­ments about paint­ing the post office. Several well-inten­tioned posters offered up ideas of small dona­tions to paint the place.
I com­ment­ed that the con­di­tion of the facil­i­ty offers every­one an oppor­tu­ni­ty to decide whether our coun­try was pro­gress­ing or regress­ing. After all pre­cious lit­tle has been done to improve these facil­i­ties for the next gen­er­a­tion after they were hand­ed to us by the British.
Upon which the shit hit the fan.

I nev­er real­ized that the rea­son I was tagged was because the orig­i­nal poster believed I could help to bring atten­tion to the sit­u­a­tion, or more like­ly offer up some funds, for what that’s worth. I found out soon enough that nei­ther the orig­i­nal poster nor some of the blog­gers were con­sci­en­tious Jamaicans who want­ed to see sit­u­a­tions improve, but that the group was large­ly a bunch of hyper par­ti­san PNP hack-tivist. [sic]

I was imme­di­ate­ly accused of being neg­a­tive and cam­paign­ing for the oth­er party .
The oth­er party?
I did not even real­ize this was a par­ty polit­i­cal issue, I’m so naïve’ . I was dumb-struck I would have been one of the very first to con­tribute in a small way toward improv­ing the appear­ance of the facil­i­ty. When I com­ment­ed that the cit­i­zens have a right to expect some degree of ser­vice for the tax­es they pay I did not know I could be accused of being against the project.

I fun­da­men­tal­ly believed that all Jamaicans would be as offend­ed as I was that since Independence the black lead­er­ship of our coun­try has sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly failed.
Don’t get me wrong it is high­ly com­mend­able that any cit­i­zen or group of cit­i­zens would want to take it onto them­selves to do what Government failed to do.
What is not kosher is to attack peo­ple who are deter­mined to hold gov­ern­ments respon­si­ble for their failures.

What was con­firmed to we yes­ter­day is what I have always know, Jamaicans are quite will­ing to cut their polit­i­cal par­ty slack regard­less of their failures.
Obviously the polit­i­cal admin­is­tra­tions under­stand this and are hap­py to con­tin­ue the sta­tus quo know­ing the peo­ple are unwill­ing to hold them accountable.

This is the image of the facil­i­ty I used as lit­tle boy in grade school , over forty years lat­er it remains the same. Sure I could ral­ly some friends to paint this thing but would a coat of paint change the cir­cum­stances of the fail­ures inher­ent here laud­able though it would be?
No , so I did not do that, what I per­son­al­ly did was to attack the more sub­stan­tive issues of pro­vid­ing the school it’s very first com­put­er for which they were very grate­ful, even as I con­tin­ue my efforts to help in big­ger ways.

In the mean­time how­ev­er it does not pre­vent me from agi­tat­ing, mil­i­tat­ing, com­plain­ing, urg­ing, and cussing for greater account­abil­i­ty in the Island’s gov­ern­ment and greater bang for the buck of the people.
It is what I did as a teenage school­boy, being a pest and a thorn to the Parish Councillor and the now deceased mem­ber of par­lia­ment E K Powell until they grew tired of me. Those efforts result­ed in the pave­ment of the Bonnett road­ways for the first time in the District’s history .
Additionally Bonnett received elec­tric­i­ty under the rur­al elec­tri­fi­ca­tion pro­gram for the very first time putting our dis­trict on par with Guys Hill and oth­er well known com­mu­ni­ties . Previously no one knew where Bonnett was.

Those efforts though not sole­ly my own, caused rep­re­sen­ta­tives of one par­ty to approach me years lat­er to rep­re­sent that par­ty in rep­re­sen­ta­tion­al pol­i­tics at the local Government lev­el . I polite­ly declined, I was not about to be a part of a club I hat­ed and abhorred.
I was nev­er one to cut peo­ple slack when they have a respon­si­bil­i­ty to per­form and fail to do so.
Placing a coat of paint on crum­bling infra­struc­ture is com­mend­able it shows that the cit­i­zens want things to have a bet­ter appearance.
A bet­ter appear­ance how­ev­er does not negate the crum­bling infra­struc­ture under­neath. It is symp­to­matic of the wider Jamaican soci­ety’s fail­ure to hold the Governing PNP account­able for it’s failures.

As I have writ­ten repeat­ed­ly the PNP is like cot­ton can­dy, to the peo­ple, sweet to the taste , leaves them want­i­ng more, cre­ates a thirst and is ulti­mate­ly bad for their health. A poten­tial coat of paint though com­mend­able does the eyes some good but the greater good is served when those empow­ered to act are held account­able for their actions or lack thereof.
We can ill-afford to cause polit­i­cal affil­i­a­tions to blind us to the immense harm which this Government has done to our country.
No amount of paint by a polit­i­cal hack and his friends will cov­er up this fail­ure because elec­tions are imminent.
In that regard I refused to be used in the process of plac­ing lip­stick on a pig .

“CRIME WILL GO DOWN THIS YEAR”
So say Deputy Commissioner of Police George Quallo in speak­ing to the Jamaican Media.
Quallo told the Media that the slight decrease in mur­ders last year was attrib­ut­able to the increase of police com­man­ders on the streets.
“From some time last year we have re-ener­gised the man­age­ment struc­ture, and once you re-ener­gise the man­age­ment struc­ture then it fil­ters right down to the last draw­ing man on the ground.”

Huh ?

What does that even mean in the con­text of crime reduc­tion? I am going to assume that the Deputy Commissioner knows some­thing he is not speak­ing to but this state­ment does­n’t jive , at least in my estimation.
If you ener­gize the Management struc­ture, ( what the hell does that even mean) and mur­der begin to trend down­ward the thing to do is to keep re-ener­giz­ing the man­age­ment structure.
Right?
Okay I believe what the(DCP) is telling the Media is some­thing most in-tune cops past and present already knew and some­thing this medi­um have been speak­ing to since it’s inception.
That (1) the Police High Command is bloat­ed. And (2) It has been inef­fec­tive and non-productive .
There I guess I just fig­ured out what re-ener­gize means in that sense, I have to laugh with myself some­times when I try to make sense of the utter­ances of the Police high command.
In the inter­est of real dis­clo­sure I was not a con­formist young police offi­cer , I nev­er liked the peo­ple in com­mand . For the most part I thought most of them were in posi­tions of lead­er­ship based sole­ly on their length of service.
I thought most were ego-mani­a­cal incom­pe­tents. I still do hav­ing left over 24 years ago ..
So there !!!
Now things have changed no one can accuse the larg­er high com­mand of being dunces, how­ev­er the many edu­cat­ed offi­cers who now grace the upper ech­e­lon of the force arguably know pre­cious lit­tle about Law-Enforcement , mod­ern day polic­ing, and the ever-evolv­ing con­cept of polic­ing , not to men­tion tac­ti­cal and inves­tiga­tive policing.
So yes they are able to speak in a way peo­ple were not accus­tomed to hear cops speak but the lan­guage they speak though more gram­mat­i­cal­ly cor­rect , is tech­ni­cal­ly the same gib­ber­ish as before.
It’s essen­tial­ly the same bull-shit in a bet­ter packaging.
That is if you pre­fer lis­ten­ing to bull-shit in bet­ter English as opposed to Patios…

Police can­not guar­an­tee a south­ward trend in seri­ous crimes unless it has a strate­gic plan in place in place. This plan requires a series of things to hap­pen before that trend may be realized.
It is sim­ple non­sen­si­cal gib­ber­ish to sug­gest that because some kha­ki dressed peo­ple are forced to get up off their fat ass­es and be more vis­i­ble to the pub­lic mur­ders have trend­ed downward.
The very same Police high com­mand have told us that many of the mur­ders on the Island are relat­ed to the ongo­ing Lotto-scam which the very police allowed to devel­op into a can­cer which has now metas­ta­sized into some­thing they can­not control.
It would be incred­i­bly inter­est­ing to hear DCP Quallo explain just how these recent­ly ener­gized senior cops have impact­ed these killings.
I want­ed to quip that the only way they could impact those mur­der stats is if they are active­ly involved>(bad joke , I’m sorry).
The oth­er killings are (1) Domestic affairs which require edu­ca­tion those are social issues. Then(2) mur­ders com­mit­ted from Robberies etc.

Homicides com­mit­ted as a by-prod­uct or con­tin­u­a­tion of oth­er felonies like Burglaries, Robberies, Rapes, or even the drug trade are the homi­cides Police are best able to have an impact on. Strategies must be devel­oped around hav­ing a no-non­sense approach to drug-deal­ing , imple­ment­ing strate­gies to pre­vent Burglaries , and Robberies by cur­tail­ing the move­ment of known offenders.
This is where an ener­gized high com­mand could be use­ful by uti­liz­ing the resources it has at it’s dis­pos­al more effectively.
This means hav­ing police patrols sit­ting out­side known hot-spots. Photograph every­one who enter cer­tain know drug spots, it is some­times use­ful that peo­ple know they are being photographed.

Confiscate unreg­is­tered high speed motor­cy­cles. Effectively set up spot checks on the main thor­ough­fares , it is use­ful to have senior offi­cers in com­mand of spot-checks to elim­i­nate the pos­si­bil­i­ty of bribe-taking.
There is much the police can do despite the short­ages and lack of resources. What they should not do is blow hot air up the nation’s backside.
Of course the Government and the Opposition Party has sab­o­taged the police every step of the way . Don’t be fooled the occu­pant of Jamaica House hates the hell out of cops because offi­cers always stood in her ways so she could not have her way as mem­ber of par­lia­ment of a Garrison community.
Of course the Labor Party and it’s friends designed and insti­tut­ed (inde­com) which is to crime what fer­til­iz­er is to plants.
Does the Jamaican police need over­sight ? Hell yes they do , just not (inde­com) as configured,.
Poorly thought out with no con­sid­er­a­tion or input from law enforce­ment bad law which Bruce Golding gave to the Nation to put police in their place.

Crime in Jamaica can be con­tained even with the efforts of the Administration to ham­per law-enforce­ment. It can be reduced with police doing policing.
I under­stand that they have not passed new effec­tive laws to put seri­ous offend­ers in prison and keep them there.
I under­stand that the Criminal courts are more crim­i­nal than they are courts by their lib­er­al acts.
I under­stand the depart­ment does not have ade­quate resources to get the job done but you cops serv­ing now should see what we had over two decades ago.
A cohe­sive strat­e­gy with clear­ly defined goals and a path to achiev­ing them through sus­tained atten­tion to detail is how Jamaica’s mur­der num­bers will come down and stay down.
No amount of bang-gut kha­ki-clad-clowns on the streets will.

The scene is set Ocho Rios Jamaica , Traffic Police offi­cers decides to arrest a sub­ject alleged to be a bus conductor.They do not shoot the sub­ject they use non-lethal means, in this instance pep­per spray to sub­due a bel­liger­ent, resist­ing , non-coöper­a­tive subject .
Policing one ‑o-one right ?
No!
He should be hand­cuffed with his hands behind his back. The ever present crowd of know it all which just hap­pen to gath­er, always default toward sup­port­ing the crim­i­nal being arrest­ed. The ever present cries of Police abuse , and the non­sen­si­cal com­plaints of “a wah dem a arres di poor man fah”?
If you have to ask maybe you should mind your damn busi­ness and if not you should ask at the per­il of an arrest for Obstruction.
How about that officers?
The laws does not have much puni­tive teeth but you have the laws use them .
Arrest these jack­ass­es who refus­es to move or active­ly hin­ders Governmental administration
Never mind that over 1200 of them had their brains blown out in the year 2015 by crim­i­nals and their per­pet­u­al bitch­ing and cry­ing for bet­ter policing.
They do not want crim­i­nals shot.
They don’t want crim­i­nals hit with batons.
They don’t want crim­i­nals pep­per sprayed.
Regardless of the vio­lence of the per­son being arrested.
Maybe they don’t get to have a say , how about going about your jobs deci­sive­ly officers?
This leaves ratio­nal peo­ple to con­clude that for the most part Jamaicans are pret­ty much crim­i­nal sup­port­ing peo­ple with shit for brains.
Seriously !!!
Previously cops would sim­ply have shot the resist­ing sub­ject , in many cas­es they had no choice, Jamaican crim­i­nals are vio­lent­ly aggres­sive, they have no com­punc­tion about inflict­ing psy­chi­cal harm and death on police offi­cers , both in and out of uniform.
Officers some­times gen­er­al­ly had no non-lethal means of sub­du­ing suspects.
The Government sim­ply did not sup­ply any . Those with pre­dis­posed notions of break­ing the laws and test­ing police were gen­er­al­ly of the mind­set that they would not be shot. They gam­bled on the fact that they would assault offi­cers and sim­ply walk away.
Well in many cas­es the tales of cops beat­en to a pulp are many and var­ied in bars and oth­er gath­er­ing places.
However some who made that tac­ti­cal gam­ble are not around to par­take in the glo­ry of telling those tales and wal­low­ing in the glow of ado­ra­tion from their friends.
They are in anoth­er place.

Now pic­ture that the Jamaican police are scared shit-less because the Government is filled with crim­i­nals and crim­i­nal associates.
In addi­tion to that they have a pletho­ra of anti-police groups whose jobs it is to agi­tate and mil­i­tate against Police . This is noth­ing new this is the way things always have been in Jamaica.
The Police have done a ter­ri­ble job of recruit­ing and main­tain cred­i­ble offi­cers in the depart­ment. True this start­ed when the big-foot offi­cers used their posi­tions as per­son­al fief­doms to sti­fle and harangue tal­ent­ed young peo­ple who want­ed to make polic­ing their career.
When you jux­ta­pose that with tar­di­ness in the mid ‑man­age­ment of the force it is no sur­prise that the police became cor­rupt and the nation con­tin­ue to expe­ri­ence astro­nom­i­cal rise in crime.
The force is far from what it could be but con­trary to what for­mer Commissioner Owen Ellington and his suc­ces­sor want the pub­lic to believe the prob­lem with­in the force is not the fault of the young peo­ple com­ing into the depart­ment and under 5 years service.

Young peo­ple can­not cor­rupt a sys­tem which has the prop­er pro­ce­dures in place to weed out or pre­vent their entry in the first place.
It is disin­gen­u­ous to per­pet­u­ate the myth that the force is being made bad by young recruits. It is the fail­ure of the senior man­age­ment of the force which places the force in this predicament.
Lets face it, shit flows down-stream. When a team per­forms poor­ly it’s not the team which gets fired, the coach­ing staff has to go.
Whatever ails the team is the fault of those who man­age the team. You do not build a house from the rafters down , you build from the foun­da­tion up.
Commissioner Carl Williams and his offi­cer corp would have the nation believe the prob­lem he faces may be laid at the feet of the brave young peo­ple who step for­ward to take the risk of pro­tect­ing the public .
He ought to be ashamed of him­self. The offi­cers of the depart­ment are demor­al­ized and demo­ti­vat­ed because the Commissioner of police and the senior offi­cer corp has not stood up for them.

The Commissioner has not stood up to (inde­com) as that Agency push­es to gain more and more pow­er toward it’s end what­ev­er that end is.
In the face of inces­sant adver­sar­i­al agi­ta­tion against the force by (inde­com) and Terrence Williams , nei­ther Commissioner Williams, the senior offi­cer’s Association nor the Police Federation has thrown down the gaunt­let mak­ing it known they will not be pushed around.
The mis­take they made was to fill the depart­ment with very well edu­cat­ed peo­ple which on the face of it is not a bad thing , only they are not police offi­cers. They wear Police Uniform and say things which sound like polic­ing but they aren’t cops.
Cops are a spe­cial breed .……Many of the kha­ki-clad brigade are using the depart­ment as a means to a pay­check . Nothing more, many have nev­er made an arrest, nev­er pre­sent­ed a case to be pros­e­cut­ed but they have com­mands and are dic­tat­ing to street cops.
It’s utter and total bull-shit. Period.
You don’t make a pig a chris­t­ian by plac­ing it in a church , you turn the church into a pig-pen.
The police depart­ment has always had smart and tal­ent­ed peo­ple with­in it’s ranks , that is where the oppor­tu­ni­ties should have been pre­sent­ed to those peo­ple to emerge for high­er lead­er­ship in a non-cor­rupt , non-nepo­tis­tic way.
If lead­er­ship comes from the rank in a holis­tic way the pos­si­bil­i­ty of resent­ment, ani­mos­i­ty and dis­en­chant­ment is great­ly reduced.

ENGINE OF SOCIAL ENGINEERING
(1) Of course the offi­cers at the head of the force today are smart qual­i­fied peo­ple but do they know much about crime-man­age­ment, crim­i­nal jus­tice, lead­er­ship , crim­i­nal investigations ?
The crime fig­ures cer­tain­ly does not reflect it.
The Police Department is now an Agency for social engi­neer­ing. It now boasts a senior offi­cer ‑corp which has more degrees that arguably any devel­oped coun­try police depart­ment per capita.
In fact the JCF is adver­tis­ing it’s var­ied tal­ent pool on social media , Lawyers, Teacher’s , Refrigeration tech­ni­cians , etc, etc, but who the hell is catch­ing the criminals?
A man alleged­ly kills two cops a month ago and the police hier­ar­chy offered up a mil­lion dol­lars in reward mon­ey , thus far there has been no tak­ers, that sum has been increased to 1.5 mil­lion still no tak­ers and the cop-killer is still out there .
Before this fias­co of a force emerged we went out and either brought cop killers to jus­tice or brought jus­tice to them , their choice.
When a cop got killed we knew who the killers were through our net­work of infor­mants. These scum were in a hur­ry to have their crim­i­nal lawyers and their mom­mas pas­tor bring them in before we got to them.
Today they don’t give a rat’s ass .

(2) Then there is the issue of wom­en’s rep­re­sen­ta­tion in the force. Lets be real women have served in the police depart­ment and has done a ter­rif­ic job. No one should seek to negate that sac­ri­fice. No one should try to min­i­mize the efforts of those brave women some of whom have paid the ulti­mate price in ser­vice to country.

The nation and the police hier­ar­chy has not done near­ly enough to pre­pare these brave women to serve and be equal part­ners in ser­vice when they step out on the mean streets of any Jamaican city, town or hamlet.
The year is 2016 police offi­cers can­not wear skirts and be effec­tive in deal­ing with bel­liger­ent ever increas­ing­ly vio­lent criminals .
As crim­i­nals con­tin­ue to resist arrest , offi­cers will be forced more and more to take them to the ground and be engaged in rough strug­gles to place them in handcuffs.
Too many Jamaican female offi­cers in this regard are win­dow dress­ing, a lux­u­ry their male coun­ter­parts can ill afford.

Whenever I speak on this sub­ject there are peo­ple who tell me that train­ing is good. Well they aren’t, offi­cers have peo­ple stand­ing so close in encoun­ters where they are deal­ing with aggres­sive crim­i­nals a bystander can sim­ply grab one of the offi­cers weapons and cause sig­nif­i­cant harm to officers.
Prisoners are not hand­cuffed with their hands behind their backs.
Officers do not act deci­sive­ly which leaves the impres­sion they are inca­pable, uncer­tain or both.
That’s a lack or weak­ness in their training.
Mister Commissioner it’s nev­er the peo­ple you com­mand . The prob­lem rests with you and your senior offi­cers who are unable to get the job done.
Stop demo­niz­ing the young offi­cers who have to inter­face with the crim­i­nal sup­port­ing pub­lic while you sit in your air-con­di­tioned officers.

Jada Pinkett Smith has exer­cised her right to sit out the Oscars this year, in fact Jada said she won’t even watch . Mrs Smith made her deci­sion along with oth­ers like Filmmaker Spike Lee who are upset at the lack of recog­ni­tion by the Academy, of films fea­tur­ing Black Actors for the sec­ond year in a row.
Will Smith has come out in sup­port of his wife’s posi­tion and as is to be expect­ed this has start­ed tongues wag­ging regard­ing the valid­i­ty of their actions.
British Actress Charlotte Rampling has opined that all the talk of an Oscars white­wash is actu­al­ly anti-white. “It is racist to whites,” Rampling told Europe 1. “One can nev­er real­ly know, but per­haps the black actors did not deserve to make the final list.”

Well it cer­tain­ly takes a with­ered up old bene­fac­tor of a life­time of white priv­i­lege to know what racism is , does­n’t it?
Most dis­turb­ing, yet total­ly not sur­pris­ing is the response from for­mer Fresh Prince Actor Janet Hubert. Hubert played Will’s ini­tial aunt Viv on the sit­com “The fresh prince of Belair” .
Janet Hubert is report­ed to har­bor lin­ger­ing ani­mos­i­ty toward Will Smith for being forced out of the hit sit­com and replaced with Daphne Maxwell Reid.
Hubert took to the inter­net in a home made video blast­ing the Smiths on January 18^th.
Quote, “People are dying. Our boys are being shot left and right. People are starv­ing. People are try­ing to pay bills,”. “And you’re talk­ing about some motherf**king

actors and Oscars. And it just ain’t that deep.”
Hubert claimed that her rant had noth­ing to do with sour grapes but if you have to say it ain’t about sour grapes .…..
It prob­a­bly is sour grapes.
That aside why is it that when­ev­er a Black per­son stand up in defense of their core belief the very first per­son to attack is anoth­er black person?
I mean does miss Hubert even under­stand the optics of this ? Or are we always too pre­oc­cu­pied with our own cir­cum­stances sub­se­quent­ly we mis­place our anger by lash­ing out at the very peo­ple who are try­ing to do some­thing about the sys­tem­at­ic and entrenched prob­lems of race in America?
After all try­ing to save a crit­ter with a leg caught in a trap does not insu­late the sav­ior from a bite from that critter.
A crit­ter remain a crit­ter regard­less of what you do for it.

In a classy response to Ms Hubert’s intem­per­ate out­burst Jada Pinkett Smith said her boy­cott of the Feb. 28 award show “isn’t real­ly about the Oscars.”
“Considering that Alabama had its high­est recruit­ment for the KKK for Martin Luther King’s birth­day, I hope that we as African Americans can find a way to get along and step together,” .
“This whole Oscar con­tro­ver­sy isn’t real­ly about the Oscars. Really, in my plea to ask all com­mu­ni­ties and peo­ple of col­or to take back our pow­er is so that we can use it in all sec­tors of our com­mu­ni­ty, and right now, specif­i­cal­ly with African-American peo­ple, we have some very seri­ous issues that I think we as a peo­ple have to move togeth­er on.” “I’m hop­ing we can find ways to step togeth­er in this instead of find­ing ways to fight each oth­er. I got love for everybody.

I sup­port Will and his wife for stand­ing on the courage of their con­vic­tions. Conversely Miss Hubert’s response is more in line with what ene­mies of our race wants to see ‚. Not just the fight­ing among our­selves , but the crass unin­tel­li­gent ghet­to char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of each oth­er which usu­al­ly has it’s Genesis in some­thing far deep­er or which has no rela­tion­ship to her juve­nile out­burst. Speaking out against injus­tice in the Oscars is not divorced from oth­er injus­tices of which miss Hubert her­self speaks .
It is not a zero sum game . They are all inex­tri­ca­bly linked . Black peo­ple are quite con­ver­sant that the two issues are not mutu­al­ly exclusive.
We are quite capa­ble of walk­ing and chew­ing gum as miss Hubert seem unable to understand.

There are some things which sim­ply defy logic .
Sarah Palin blames her son’s trou­bles with the law on, you guessed it .….
President Obama !!!
Palin’s son who was arrest­ed on domes­tic abuse charges , blames his arrest on what she char­ac­ter­izes as the President not tak­ing care of vet­er­ans return­ing from Iraq.
Pardon me please but the fact that we are talk­ing about a total idiot like Sarah Palin speaks vol­umes about all of us includ­ing the writer.

In char­ac­ter­is­tic dis­joint­ed ram­ble Palin speak­ing to an Iowa crowd as she endorsed Donald Trump said
“He is the mas­ter of the art of the deal,” Palin said. “He is the one who would know what to negotiate”.“He is from the pri­vate sec­tor, not a politi­cian,” “Can I get a hal­lelu­jah? He knows how to lead the charge. So troops hang in there, he’s on the way.”“ Are you ready for a leader that will com­mand our troops and go kick ISIS’ ass,”? 

Set aside the fact that we are talk­ing about this incon­se­quen­tial hate-mon­ger, here are a few things we should remem­ber while she crit­i­cizes and blames the President for.
(1)Palin sup­port­ed Bush’s ille­gal war in Iraq.
(2) President Obama did not.
(3) President Obama end­ed that war did this lunatic even know President Obama end­ed the war . The very same war she bliss­ful­ly but igno­rant­ly sup­port­ed and is all jol­ly about celebrating?
Here’s the Irony , while she was talk­ing about vet­er­ans return­ing from war with mal­adies she was in the same breath beg­ging for anoth­er war. Are you ready for a leader that will com­mand our troops and go kick ISIS’ ass,”?
I mean we knew she was dumb but real­ly , how dumb is this nincompoop?

While Sarah Palin palls around with fel­low right-wing hate-mon­ger Donald Trump, her daugh­ter con­tin­ue to have out of wed­lock chil­dren and her son is get­ting arrested.
Maybe she should spend some time look­ing after her fam­i­ly and less time being a hater.
I believe that’s a good place for her to start.
Sheesh I did not even know that this idiot was still around..

The inci­dents of Police abuse in the United States is reach­ing epi­dem­ic pro­por­tions . Some of the encoun­ters are absolute­ly pre­pos­ter­ous yet shock­ing­ly the cops involved are not held account­able for their crimes.
On the rare occa­sion there is any sem­blance of com­pen­sa­tion to the vic­tims and their fam­i­lies the tax pay­ers foot the bill.
Police Departments across America, most­ly in large met­ro­pol­i­tan cen­ters pay out astro­nom­i­cal sums of tax­pay­ers mon­ey for the actions of abu­sive cops.
What that means is that cit­i­zens are taxed to the lim­it to set aside funds to pay vic­tims who have been assault­ed and killed by aggres­sive cops while they walk away with­out any penal­ty and in many cas­es con­tin­ue over and over again to assault and kill citizens.

The Courts and pros­e­cu­tor’s offices are all in on the abuse . Prosecutors refuse to pros­e­cute because of the work­ing rela­tion­ships they have with police but more impor­tant­ly many are scared of the pow­er­ful police unions.
Additionally District Attorneys are behold­en to police Unions for mon­e­tary sup­port when they are up for elec­tion and re-election.
This it seem to me is a clear con­flict of inter­est, yet many in this coun­try arro­gant­ly argue this is the best jus­tice sys­tem anywhere.
It maybe the best sys­tem , but for whom? It cer­tain­ly is a very good sys­tem which shields and pro­tects agents of the state who abuse and kill citizens .
Throw the race fac­tor into the mix and it becomes a lit­tle clear­er why African-Americans can hard­ly get jus­tice with­ing the sys­tem which some naive­ly assumes is built for their pro­tec­tion. There is no mys­tery behind the rea­sons the few cops who find them­selves in trou­ble opt for tri­al by judge than face a jury. This is anoth­er perk the aver­age American does not get.
Judges will move the goal-post and twist them­selves into pret­zels to set cops free. When the evi­dence is so out­ra­geous they can­not but con­vict they give them a slap on the wrist. It’s built into the system.

The first Chicago offi­cer put on tri­al for a fatal shoot­ing in near­ly 20 years was found not guilty of invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter by a judge who hand­ed out a direct ver­dict, mean­ing he made the deci­sion from the bench before even hear­ing argu­ments from the defense. Chicago police offi­cer Dante Servin was charged with invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter after shoot­ing over his shoul­der at a group of peo­ple behind his car as he was going the wrong way down a one way street after an alter­ca­tion, killing 22-year-old Rekia Boyd. The judge, Dennis Porter, ruled that the charge was inap­pro­pri­ate, because it was­n’t severe enough. Porter argues Servin should’ve faced a mur­der charge. His solu­tion to the pros­e­cu­tor appear­ing to give pref­er­en­tial treat­ment to the cop? To throw out the charges and, appar­ent­ly, pre­vent pros­e­cu­tors from com­ing back with stiffer charges.
It is easy to say, ‘Of course the defen­dant was reck­less. He inten­tion­al­ly shot in the direc­tion of a group of peo­ple on the side­walk. That is real­ly dan­ger­ous … and in fact Rekia Boyd was killed. Case closed,’ ” Porter wrote. “It is easy to think that way, but it is wrong.” That’s because Illinois law says that inten­tion­al­ly fir­ing a gun at some­one on the street “is an act that is so dan­ger­ous it is beyond reck­less,” Porter wrote. “It is inten­tion­al and the crime, if any there be, is first-degree mur­der.” Porter acknowl­edged that it was “per­haps even unfor­tu­nate” that nei­ther side would have “clo­sure” on whether Servin was jus­ti­fied in open­ing fire that night, but he said he had no choice under the law but to dis­miss the charges.

NYPD Sergeant Eliezer Pabon is charged (Departmentally )with using “unjus­ti­fied force” against a hand­cuffed boy Javier Payne, 15 on May 17, 2014. “A sur­veil­lance cam­era at Hookah Spot on Arthur Ave. cap­tured the action as Pabon rushed at the hand­cuffed youth fac­ing the win­dow, and in a clear­ly unpro­voked action, struck the teen with his left arm. Payne slammed up against the win­dow which explod­ed on impact. Payne, now a 9^th grad­er at Health Opportunity High School in Manhattan, under­went emer­gency surgery to remove pieces of glass from his heart. The teen said he is self-con­scious and embar­rassed by the scar on his chest. “I get sharp pains in my chest some­times because of the way I move my arm,” he said.
The Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson an African-American filed no crim­i­nal charges against the thug cop.

How can these peo­ple stand in any court­room and pre­tend to speak on the issue of jus­tice when they defame every scin­til­la of the word justice?
How do they in good con­science stand before banks of cam­eras and grand­stand about crim­i­nals when they them­selves ought to be locked up and the keys destroyed?
These Prosecutors and Judges who pros­ti­tute the high call­ing to sit in just judge­ment of oth­ers dirty the call­ing under the altar of nepo­tism and cronyism.
It’s despicable !!!
Staten Island New York ♦ Ferguson Missouri ♦ Chicago Illinois ♦ Houston Texas ♦ Bronx New York♦ Cleveland Ohio♦ Beaver Creek Ohio ♦
All across the coun­try the con­tin­ued the unchecked inci­dences of police abuse are aid­ed and abet­ted and fur­thered in pros­e­cu­tor’s offices and judges chambers.
Those in the Legislatures make the unjust laws but it’s the Prosecutors and the judges who allow the abuse to continue.