Forty Eight Years (48) after the life of Dr. King was snuffed out by an assas­s­in’s bul­let at the Lorraine hotel in Memphis Tennessee ‚the ques­tion remains whether we are any near­er the dream Dr King gave his life for.
Sure America has had it’s first Black President . Yes a lot of white Americans vot­ed to elect and re-elect President Obama and for that we can all be encour­aged as it regards race rela­tions. Nevertheless the National envi­ron­ment has been sour and uneasy to say the least since his ascen­dan­cy to the presidency.

This sense of unease and dis­qui­et of course did not come from the peo­ple who elect­ed the pres­i­dent, it was cre­at­ed by those who nev­er vot­ed for him. The dis­qui­et emanat­ed from that per­cent­age of white America which is opposed to Obama not because of his poli­cies . In fact even if he sup­port­ed every pol­i­cy they embraced they would move away from those pol­i­cy posi­tions as if they nev­er sup­port­ed them.
At the same time there is a sense of deni­a­bil­i­ty which per­me­ates their rhetoric when they are con­front­ed with those facts they sim­ply come up with argu­ments which make sense to no one, not even themselves.

We must face the con­se­quen­tial truth that America has a very long way to go in remov­ing from the minds of many the desire to excel at the expense of oth­ers. We must con­tin­ue to labor in the pur­suit of edu­cat­ing those still in the dark that they can feel good about them­selves with­out debas­ing others.
Most impor­tant­ly as a peo­ple we the descen­dants of African slaves must endeav­or to change our own cir­cum­stances through our actions rather than look to oth­ers to fix our problems.

Despite the hard work of the mar­tyrs who strug­gled and are gone before us one of the biggest prob­lem we face today is lack of edu­ca­tion. We sim­ply refuse to take advan­tage of edu­ca­tion­al oppor­tu­ni­ties avail­able to all.
Immigrants come to America from Africa, Asia, The Caribbean and oth­er parts of the globe pen­ni­less and their American born chil­dren become Governors and Senators. Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley, Marco Rubio and oth­ers are tes­ta­ment to that fact.
As long as the doors to schools and col­leges are not board­ed up and we are not barred by troops from enter­ing, what is the rea­son our young peo­ple are not grad­u­at­ing high school much less attend­ing college?

The real­i­ty is that it is incred­i­bly dif­fi­cult to get our peo­ple (even the so-called edu­cat­ed) to read any­thing which does not have enter­tain­ment val­ue. Our con­ver­sa­tions are dom­i­nat­ed by the mun­dane and the periph­er­al. Music Videos , Movies, Video Games, World star Hip Hop and the lat­est tele­vi­sion shows which debas­es our peo­ple seem to be what even those who pur­port to have a sense of direc­tion is drawn to.

The big buzz today is that there are not enough recog­ni­tion of black tal­ent by Hollywood this they say is reflect­ed in the lack of nods toward films which has black Actors. I got­ta tell you I could not care a Rat’s behind about their movies I nev­er watch them any­way. What amazes me is the fact that a nation of rough­ly 50 mil­lion peo­ple (with­ing a nation) are so depen­dent that we expect oth­ers to do for us what we ought to do for ourselves.
Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith are threat­en­ing to boy­cott the Oscars but is that the way to go?

In my sub­ur­ban coun­ty there are hard­ly any black films in the the­aters, so I’m told. But let me ask you this how dif­fi­cult is it for black mil­lion­aires to see these slights as poten­tial oppor­tu­ni­ties for suc­cess? How dif­fi­cult is it for peo­ple of col­or to start com­pa­nies which makes, dis­trib­ute and show black films ? Why must we con­stant­ly be in the busi­ness of foist­ing our­selves on oth­ers ? They built their movie stu­dios and the­aters let them have it. For the year 2015 Black Americans spent over a tril­lion dol­lars on goods and ser­vices . Literally all of that mon­ey went right back into the hands of the monied class.
Are you telling me that we can­not do a bet­ter job of build­ing our own wealth ?

The National Basket Ball Association has made many oth­er­wise pover­ty strick­en Blacks past and present incred­i­bly rich. So too has the (NFL) and Major league Baseball, Bot to men­tion the music Industry and yes the very same Hollywood.

Yet for the most part that wealth has been used sole­ly for las­civ­i­ous­ness and immorality.
The result is that a large num­ber of Blacks earned incred­i­bly large sums of mon­ey yet they end up broke.
Whose fault is it that you make tens of mil­lions some­times hun­dreds of mil­lions and end up broke?
There is no deny­ing there are still large inequities in the sys­tem how­ev­er the way to beat those inequities is to do for your­self , ren­der­ing their slights inconsequential.
When you do for your­self oth­ers come run­ning to you . Just ask the Jews about how that is done in America.….…
We keep mak­ing excuse after excuse and blam­ing the peo­ple who for­ev­er abused us . We plead to his bet­ter angel, If he had a bet­ter angel would we be where we are today?

Even those of us who want to make change are enam­ored with the idea of con­fer­ences and meet­ings to dis­cuss pret­ty much when to have a meet­ing to find a way for­ward. In the end when a sim­ple cost ben­e­fit analy­sis is done all we suc­ceed at was hav­ing meet­ings and conferences.
How about we just have a change of atti­tude? How about we shuck the fan­cy suits and hats and put on some dirty jeans roll up our sleeves put our shoul­ders to the wheel and take our future into our own hands?

Every year mil­lions of Zebras and Wilderbeasts trek across the African plains search­ing for food and water. The two groups gen­er­al­ly trav­el togeth­er because they depend on each oth­er, if for noth­ing else the sheer num­bers which pro­vides secu­ri­ty from predators.
True there is strength in num­bers yet real preda­tors who need to eat are not total­ly deterred. So the Lioness and oth­er preda­tors bide their time watch­ing and await­ing the right oppor­tu­ni­ty to pounce and pounce they do.
On the weak stragglers .
The injured strag­gle who lags behind.
The ones that some­how refus­es or are unable to keep up with the pack.

In try­ing to com­mu­ni­cate the mes­sage of self reliance and sur­vival to my boys I often­times used the Serengeti as a teach­ing tool to make my point.
Unfortunately whether we want to face the stark real­i­ty or not this plan­et is a large Serengeti.
All of us has deci­sions to make some of those deci­sions are as impact­ful as life and death.
For Black peo­ple across the Globe from the Australian Aborigine to the Kiwi’s In New Zealand, whether it be the peo­ple in the Caribbean, those on the moth­er­land , those liv­ing in the Americas and all places in between.
We must decide whether we decide to eat or be eaten.
No one will feed us.
No one will keep us safe, but ourselves.

Trump says he is angry at the way his coun­try is going , ANGRY, ANGRY, ANGRY.
What is he angry about ? The econ­o­my is doing greater than it did for the two Bush terms.
Mitt Romney promised if he won in 2012 he would deliv­er 6% unemployment.
Guess what unem­ploy­ment is at 5%.!
They said they would deliv­er $3 per gal­lon gas .
Guess what gas is under $3 per gallon.
Oh by the way when the facts stared the liars in their dis­gust­ing faces they claim many peo­ple sim­ply stopped look­ing for jobs.
That idio­cy the Lame stream media is all too delight­ed to run with .
Well guess what those peo­ple who stopped look­ing for work have stopped eat­ing and they have also stopped living .
What liars?

The Auto indus­try has nev­er been stronger. More than 15 mil­lion Americans who did­n’t, now have health insur­ance as a result of the Affordable Care Act.
The mar­kets are doing excep­tion­al­ly well, oth­er than the recent down­swing because of the drop in crude prices.
Obama end­ed two wars and under his watch Osama Bin Laden .….…. well you know.
On these pages I have sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly cat­a­loged the tri­umphs and achieve­ments of President Barack Hussein Obama so I won’t attempt to list them all in this Article. Simply put this pres­i­dent is one of America’s finest and most respect­ed around the world.
No amount of hate­ful rhetoric can change that!!!
And oh by the way, he accom­plished it all against the most intran­si­gent obstruc­tion­ism from those opposed to his presidency.
Former Vice President Al Gore gave the nation George Bush as a result of his sil­ly refusal to embrace Bill Clinton’s accomplishments.
Of course Clinton’s pres­i­den­cy was dogged by the Monica Lewinsky débâ­cle but most­ly about a Ken Starr white-water inves­ti­ga­tions which wast­ed in excess of 30 mil­lion dol­lars with tax-pay­ers left with noth­ing to show for it.
Democrats would be well advised to embrace President Obama’s record of accom­plish­ments rather than appear to be run­ning away from them because Republican talk­ing points indi­cate we should not trust our lying eyes.

There is no malaise as the lying Republicans want you to believe. There is no malaise as the incom­pe­tent lame stream media wants you to

believe.
The fact is America’s stand­ing has nev­er been high­er in the world. America has restored work­ing rela­tion­ships with Cuba after over 50 years of a failed pol­i­cy of Blockade of the Cuban econ­o­my, it’s now up to the Republican Congress to lift the embargo.
Don’t hold your breath for those arro­gant war­mon­gers to do the right thing.
The Iran nuclear issue has been nego­ti­at­ed, despite the lying Republicans and Israel’s Netanyahu’s best efforts to scut­tle the deal and push the plan­et to a third world war.
Today Iran has began the process of dis­man­tling parts of it’s nuclear pro­gram and ship­ping out parts of the infrastructure.

So they are angry but what they are angry about is that Obama has kept the world from a war with Iran which potentially

would have snow-balled into a total con­fla­gra­tion engulf­ing the entire planet.
They are angry that for pos­ter­i­ty Obama will be cred­it­ed with sav­ing the economy.
They are angry that for pos­ter­i­ty Obama will be cred­it­ed with sav­ing the Auto Industry.
They are angry that for pos­ter­i­ty Obama will be cred­it­ed with giv­ing Universal Health care to mil­lions of Americans ‚some­thing many oth­er Presidents have tried and failed at.
They are angry at rela­tions with Iran .
They are angry at rela­tions with Cuba.
They are angry Obama does not buy Netanyahu’s inces­sant warmongering.
They are angry that their rich pup­pet-mas­ters like Boeing and Northrop Grumman which churn out weapons of war can­not make tril­lions based on man­u­fac­tured ille­gal wars.
They are angry that Black-water can­not receive hun­dreds of bil­lions so they can get kick-backs while the tax­pay­ers foot the bill.

Yea there is anger out there in Republic-top­ia , and for good rea­son because for the 7 years Barack Obama has been President they have not been able to make war or wreak destruc­tion on the rest of the world under false pretenses.
They have not man­aged to kill thou­sands of men ‚women and chil­dren in wars of choice.
So ignore what you hear from the idi­ot­ic buf­foon who looks like an oven roast­ed duck, the over­weight dis­re­spect­ful self-aggran­diz­ing moron from across the Hudson riv­er or even from the two Hispanics who suf­fer from iden­ti­ty crises.
Nothing will change what our first Black President has accom­plished and for that we are proud.
Let them be ANGRY.…..

Do you see a poten­tial President here?
I don’t !!!

I nev­er quite ful­ly under­stood the des­ig­na­tion “Minority” giv­en most­ly to peo­ple of African ances­try in the United States.
Yea , yea, I under­stand that because Blacks do not make up the major­i­ty we are referred to as minori­ties. There is just some­thing in that word which seemed dis­parag­ing and pejorative .
Okay I also under­stand your claim that I am too sen­si­tive about race but I did not cre­ate the game I am just play­ing the hand I was dealt.
According to http://​www​.worl​dome​ters​.info/​w​o​r​l​d​-​p​o​p​u​l​a​t​i​on/ The world’s pop­u­la­tion is rough­ly 7.4 billion.
According to the ultra con­ser­v­a­tive web­site Vdare​.com Whites Down To 10% Of World Population By 2060— Does It Matter? In 1950, whites were 28 per­cent of world pop­u­la­tion and Africans 9 per­cent, a ratio of three-to-one. In 2060, the ratio will remain the same. But the col­ors will be reversed. People of African ances­try will be 25 per­cent of the world‘s pop­u­la­tion. People of European descent will have fall­en to 9.8 per­cent. More arrest­ing is that the white pop­u­la­tion is shrink­ing not only in rel­a­tive but in absolute terms. Two hun­dred mil­lion white peo­ple, one in every six on earth — a num­ber equal to the entire pop­u­la­tion of France, Britain, Holland and Germany — will van­ish by 2060. The Caucasian race is going the way of the Mohicans.

We are head­ing toward the day when whites will no longer make up the major­i­ty of the pop­u­la­tion in the United States . And U.S. chil­dren will get there soon,

accord­ing to a new U.S. Census Bureau report. The agency also say the over­all U.S. pop­u­la­tion will grow old­er — and grow more slow­ly — in com­ing years.
The loss of Caucasian num­bers in the United States are par­al­lel­ing Caucasian num­bers in gen­er­al globally.
When you hear the loud­mouth Fascists Donald Trump and the oth­er nean­derthals in the Republican Party dem­a­gogue immi­grants , don’t for one moment believe this is sim­ply a mat­ter of immi­gra­tion policy.
You know the com­mon refrain “secure the bor­ders , we are not opposed to legal Immigration , we are only opposed to ille­gal immi­gra­tion” ? No one can argue with any nation when they say they want to secure their bor­ders. Set the real and present dan­ger of ter­ror­ism aside, it is a legit­i­mate argu­ment as it relates to une­d­u­cat­ed, sick, unskilled and God knows who else comes in if the doors are thrown open. No coun­try no mat­ter how rich can afford to do busi­ness that way.

However we found out that the argu­ment about secur­ing the bor­ders before Republicans would work with President Obama was a fraud­u­lent ruse. Obama took the bait, he placed more Border patrol agents at the south­ern bor­ders than Bush or Clinton did com­bined. Additionally Obama deport­ed more immi­grants who made mis­takes, more who com­mit­ted crimes and more whose only sin was want­i­ng a bet­ter life, than the two pres­i­dents which pre­ced­ed him.
It still was not enough to bring Republicans to the table to dis­cuss a com­pre­hen­sive Immigration reform bill. In fact President Bush 43^rd was sup­port­ive of Immigration reform, his par­ty did not sup­port him . His broth­er Jeb who is now a can­di­date for President once sup­port­ed a path to cit­i­zen­ship through immi­gra­tion reform he does­n’t men­tion it anymore.
So too was Marco Rubio the son of immi­grants, now he does­n’t men­tion it any­more he sim­ply par­rot the right wing talk­ing points of hatred and xenophobia.
The more President Obama did in meet­ing the demands of the right the more they moved the goal post until he was forced to rec­og­nize that no mat­ter what he did they were not gen­uine­ly inter­est­ed in com­ing to the table in sup­port of com­pre­hen­sive Immigration reform, so he pro­ceed­ed with an Executive order.

WHY…

The Islamaphobia we hear from the Fascist-right is attrib­ut­able to the fear of ter­ror car­ried out in the name of Islam. That is a whole sep­a­rate debate. The Xenophobia how­ev­er is attrib­ut­able to the declin­ing num­ber of whites in the world and more-so in America.
“Making America great again” means, ” mak­ing America white again”.
The rise of a polit­i­cal neo­phyte a total buf­foon, has noth­ing to do with the car­ni­val bark­ing buf­foon. If a dog was say­ing the things the car­ni­val bark­ing buf­foon was say­ing they would be lin­ing up behind that dog. It has noth­ing to do with the mes­sen­ger and every­thing to do with the message.
The Republican par­ty under­went a com­plete purge after Barack Obama took office in 2009. Gone are all of the ratio­nal thinkers, those who remained have had to sell their souls, (what they had left) al la John McCain to appear far right. Others like Jeb Bush , well you be the judge.

FEAR.…

Republicans are unafraid to turn on each oth­er if the lit­mus test is not met, if any­one in the par­ty dare be hon­est and forth­right . There is no place in the repub­li­can par­ty for any­one will­ing to debate with Democrats or more specif­i­cal­ly the pres­i­dent, or dis­agree with­out ran­cor and agree when there is no rea­son to be disagreeable.
Nicky Haley South Carolina’s Republican Governor found out just two days ago when her response to the President’s state of the Union address was not divi­sive, hate­ful, and angry enough.
In fact when she spoke about her par­ty’s anger prob­lem right wing hate machine Anne Coulter sug­gest­ed that Donald Trump deport Nicky Haley the first Indian American Governor who is amer­i­can by nat­ur­al birth and can­not be legal­ly deport­ed anywhere..
That kind of rhetoric offers a win­dow into the soul of the par­ty which is now large­ly an out­right white Supremacist party.
The few oth­ers in the par­ty not of Caucasian blood-line seem to be doing every­thing not to be noticed or men­tioned al la Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz .
Of course Trump is not going to give Cruz a pass he is gonna let him know what he believes con­sti­tute a real American.
And it cer­tain­ly is not a Canadian born Hispanic who took on the per­sona of a south­ern Caucasian.
The Republican Party has no place for any­one not a white Anglo-Saxon . Just ask Secretary of State Colin Powell, Former RNC chair­man Michael Steele and a whole slew of others.
The Republican par­ty is the par­ty of big Corporations and white Supremacy , it’s no won­der they believe in the two, most of the wealth in America is con­trolled by white men.
That Party is going to be a lot more rabid as the num­ber of non-whites in America increas­es. Look for the rhetoric to become a lot more bel­liger­ent and caus­tic , it’s just get­ting started.

Long before Black Lives Matter activists arrived on the scene. Long before Barack Obama was first elect­ed President send­ing the White under­class into a pan­icked fren­zy, or prob­a­bly a fren­zied panic.
Long before cell-phones had cam­eras, America rolled along as the police­man of the world dic­tat­ing it’s ver­sion of moral­i­ty to the rest of the hea­then world.[sic]
Bush invad­ed a Sovereign Iraq sup­pos­ed­ly to find weapons of mass destruc­tion. When none was found.….….…. because there was none, the nar­ra­tive changed to spread­ing democ­ra­cy. No one both­ered to chal­lenge America’s right to dic­tate to every­one else how they should live much less whether America had the legal, or more impor­tant­ly the moral author­i­ty to chas­tise any­one else.
America’s Black under­class long abused and mar­gin­al­ized, com­plained and marched and burned and com­plained some more about police killing and abus­ing them and no one lis­tened , no one cared.

America is a place in love with Law-Enforcement, some of it’s most beloved Actors played the role of valiant Sheriff’s, US Marshals and tough police officers.
Hollywood glo­ri­fied law-men on the sil­ver screen. Television stu­dios run cop shows like America’s most want­ed and Cops inces­sant­ly. The glo­ri­fi­ca­tion of the cop cul­ture is complete.
Turn on your tele­vi­sion and two clicks of the chan­nel and you are sure to find a cop show, the good guys always win.
The con­stant psy­cho­log­i­cal bom­bard­ment drills into those who watch the cops are the good guys. One is hard pressed to walk away feel­ing any­thing but some sort of love or affin­i­ty for the sup­posed good guys.

Juxtapose that with the lit­er­al in which there is a whole cat­e­go­ry of peo­ple you do not like. Why would you care or be both­ered when your hero take out the garbage?

Understanding white America’s posi­tion on police bru­tal­i­ty is not that dif­fi­cult , it may all have been summed up in the first paragraph.
At the height of the civ­il rights strug­gle Dr. King said the main prob­lem for the Negro in America was that of Police abuse.
Today more than half a cen­tu­ry after Dr.King died the num­ber one prob­lem fac­ing African-Americans in America is Police abuse.
Whether it’s,.…
♦ Ferguson Missouri.
♦ Cleveland Ohio.
♦ Akron Ohio.
♦ Beaver Creek Ohio.
♦ Columbia South Carolina.
♦ Houston Texas.
♦ Staten Island New York.
♦ Brooklyn New York. And all places between and beyond there is no dif­fer­ence in the way police treat Black cit­i­zens , in fact there is no dif­fer­ence in the way the states treat Black cit­i­zens. Why should the police be expect­ed to respect the rights of African Americans when the states clear­ly and unequiv­o­cal­ly do not?
BUNDY RANCH STANDOFF &OREGON WILDLIFE TAKEOVER THE MOST VIVID EXAMPLES YET THERE ARE TWO DIFFERENT STANDARDS IN AMERICA…

After Ferguson ignit­ed into a full-scale move­ment a few pro­gres­sive Organizations start­ed tak­ing a more seri­ous look at police killings across America.
As a result of their work we learned that the prob­lem of American police killing unarmed civil­ians was far worse than we thought.
The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) said it has no record of the amounts of American cit­i­zens or non-cit­i­zens police kill each year.
Law enforce­ment Agencies across the coun­try are not required by law to report how many peo­ple they kill.
In fact they are not required by law (in this sup­posed coun­try of laws) to report for accu­rate account­ing when they kill someone.
How can a coun­try which prides itself on the rule of law, not care about the wel­fare of it’s own cit­i­zens even at the per­il of their ulti­mate demise?
Is there a rea­son that the thou­sands of police agen­cies across the coun­try were nev­er required and still aren’t required to report to Federal Authorities when they kill someone?

The United States has pon­tif­i­cat­ed on this issue of sup­posed law enforce­ment abuse of cit­i­zens in oth­er nations for decades. They have lec­tured the Chinese , the Cubans, the Iranians , the Jamaicans and every­one else over whom they want to exert moral superiority.
So too has the United States pon­tif­i­cat­ed on the issue of human rights across the Globe when the most despi­ca­ble and vir­u­lent brand of racial dis­crim­i­na­tion has been per­pet­u­at­ed and still con­tin­ue across America like it“s 1920.
In fact Democratic Vermont US Senator Patrick Joseph Leahy cham­pi­oned a Bill which cuts fund­ing to law enforce­ment agen­cies which are accused of abuse in coun­tries where America extends finan­cial largess. Jamaica has felt the pinch of that bill.

WHICH BRINGS US TO THE REAL QUESTION…

If the United States is con­cerned about police killings why has­n’t the American states moved to ensure that their myr­i­ad police depart­ments are held account­able for killing their citizens?
Why has­n’t state Legislatures moved to ensure that there are no ambi­gu­i­ties about when an offi­cer of the law may use his/​her weapon?
They haven’t and they won’t because the peo­ple being killed are not important.
Not only unarmed Blacks are being killed . Unarmed Latinos and whites as well are being killed. Yet black men are being mur­dered at a far more alarm­ing rate than peo­ple of oth­er races. Yet despite the mass out­cry and unrest they con­tin­ue to kill peo­ple under dubi­ous cir­cum­stances and lie that they feared for their lives or that they thought the per­son had a weapon.

For the year 2015 , despite a micro­scope on Police they still man­aged to kill 1202 peo­ple while we are looking.
It’s not just about police killings. It is far worse. It’s about police killing unarmed cit­i­zens some­thing which would nev­er be tol­er­at­ed in most of the places where America seeks to over­lord on moral­i­ty and ethics.
If they man­age to kill twelve hun­dred and two peo­ple (1202) while the eyes of the world are watch­ing just how many were they killing while no one both­ered to look ?
Just stop for awhile and think about the bod­ies of one thou­sand two hun­dred and two dead Americans laid out side by side.Then imag­ine for a minute that they were killed by the very peo­ple whom are paid to pro­tect life.
Houston I believe we have a seri­ous epi­dem­ic of state spon­sored murder.

The names of some of those killed by police in 2015 and 2014 by police . If this does not shock you I don’t know what will.

It’ is now 21 days since 52-year-old Corporal Kenneth Davis, who was once employed as a body­guard to for­mer Prime Minister Edward Seaga, and Craig Palmer, a 35-year-old con­sta­ble assigned to the Denham Town Police Station, were gunned down as they engaged in a friend­ly game of domi­noes at Poor-Man’s cor­ner in St. Thomas.
As news of the killings rocked the up com­ing Christmas fes­tiv­i­ties the Island’s Police Commissioner Dr. Carl Williams vis­it­ed with the fam­i­lies of both slain offi­cers . Investigators have iden­ti­fied the sus­pect behind the attack that has trig­gered island-wide shock and anger as Marlon ‘Duppy Film’ Perry, a res­i­dent of Phillipsfield, Yallahs.

According to news reports“Perry is sus­pect­ed to be a key play­er in the drugs-for-guns trade between Jamaica and Haiti and is linked to more that 15 mur­ders across the island,” The police say they are ask­ing Perry and two oth­er men, iden­ti­fied as Jason Foster, 21, of Albion in the parish, and a man known only as ‘Patta’, also of a St Thomas address, to imme­di­ate­ly turn them­selves over to the Yallahs police.
More fright­en­ing­ly the mem­bers of Perry’s gang are alleged to be in the coun­try illegally.
This is why it’s imper­a­tive that the police look under every rock to ensure that these killers do not come to Jamaica kill police offi­cers with their Jamaican coun­ter­parts then flee the juris­dic­tion with­out consequence.

At the time of the killing the com­mis­sion­er said no stones would be left un-turned in the effort to bring the killers of the two offi­cers to justice.
Personally my pref­er­ence would be to bring jus­tice to them but that’s just me.
So because I have no way of help­ing to bring jus­tice to these ver­min I have to sup­port the Commissioner’s plan of bring­ing them to jus­tice, and oh by the way the Commish is scared shit­less of the lit­tle turd Terrence Williams over there at (INDECOM) .
Doesn’t com­mis­sion­er Williams have a PhD?
No not that Williams !!!
The real Commissioner . Well I hope the Commissioner start rec­og­niz­ing that he has a head for more than just wear­ing that nice cap the tax-pay­ers gave him.
At every turn Williams is get­ting out-maneu­vered by the oth­er Williams, oh well you fig­ure out what I mean.

Anyway back to this thing about leav­ing no stone un-turned.
I haven’t been to Jamaica in the last 21 days but I sure as hell have called peo­ple and every­one I spoke to told me that all the stones in their com­mu­ni­ty are exact­ly the way they have always been.
They haven’t seen no police nor any­one else in their com­mu­ni­ties look­ing under rocks.
So Commissioner Carl Williams I mere­ly want to ask you this, “when do you plan on start look­ing under rocks for these two filthy cop-killers”?
Are you so afraid of the lit­tle piece of shit Terrence Williams that you are afraid to send out your offi­cers to exter­mi­nate these two scum­bags from the face of the earth?
Last time I checked Terrence Williams did not lose any loved one, so please mis­ter com­mis­sion­er get up off your ass and turn them young offi­cers loose so they can find these two pieces of garbage and most impor­tant­ly make sure their friends will nev­er think of doing any­thing like this again.
I believe you have enough bul­lets use them.
Words are mere words they do noth­ing to bring jus­tice to these two fam­i­lies, screw the cyn­ics and the damn critics.

For years after the pass­ing of Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers and oth­er stal­warts of the Civil Rights era many in the African amer­i­can com­mu­ni­ty got fat and lazy.
Not in a lit­er­al sense but they grew con­tent believ­ing the strug­gles were over. In the ear­ly Nineties when I first set foot on American soil I said to fam­i­ly mem­bers and friends “Black Americans are squan­der­ing the gains made by the valiant mar­tyrs who had gone on before and they would pay dear­ly for it”.

I was utter­ly stunned at two things in particular .
(1) That Black ‑Americans were open­ly cavort­ing with those who despised them and demo­niz­ing those who have stepped for­ward and offered them­selves as tips on the arrow for social change.
(2) That Black-Americans allowed the very same peo­ple who enslaved, bru­tal­ized, raped and mur­dered their fore-par­ents and abus­es them still, to dic­tate to the them who their lead­ers should be.

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were cer­tain­ly no Dr King or Malcolm X , But Dr. King and Malcolm X were not paragons of virtue either. They were mere men who were weak and guilty of their own short-com­ings as well..
So I was lit­er­al­ly stunned that Black peo­ple would open­ly crit­i­cize and demo­nize these two men they way they did and for the most part many of them had no rea­son for doing so beyond that some white man on Television had a prob­lem with either men.

Jamaica’s Marcus Garvey found out just what that felt like long before Malcolm X and Doctor King arrived on the scene . Seeing the plight of the black man in America Garvey fig­ured the best course for the black man was to sep­a­rate him­self from America which invari­ably means going back to Africa.
Garvey through his back to Africa move­ment the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) orga­nized to get blacks back to Africa he did more than talk about it through his move­ment the (UNIA) he start­ed the Black Star Liner ship­ping line between 1919 and 1922.

The ship­ping line was cre­at­ed to facil­i­tate the trans­porta­tion of goods and even­tu­al­ly African Americans through­out the African glob­al econ­o­my. It derived its name from the White Star Line, a line whose suc­cess Garvey felt he could dupli­cate.^[1] Black Star Line became a key part of Garvey’s con­tri­bu­tion to the Back-to-Africa move­ment. It was one among many busi­ness­es which the UNIA orig­i­nat­ed, such as the Universal Printing House, Negro Factories Corporation, and the wide­ly dis­trib­uted and high­ly suc­cess­ful Negro World week­ly newspaper.

The Black Star Line and its suc­ces­sor, the Black Cross Navigation and Trading Company, oper­at­ed between 1919 and 1922. It stands today as a major sym­bol for Garvey fol­low­ers and African Americans in search of a way to get back to their home­land. It is not to be con­fused with the Black Star Line, the state ship­ping cor­po­ra­tion of Ghana.wikipedia.

Before Garvey could free the black man J Edgar Hoover placed the brakes on him. It was incon­ceiv­able that a black man should have that much pow­er. It was even more dan­ger­ous for a black man to teach the Negro that he was no one’s doormat.
In 1919, J. Edgar Hoover and the BOI charged Marcus Garvey and three oth­er offi­cers with mail fraud. The pros­e­cu­tion stat­ed that the brochure of the Black Star Line con­tained a pic­ture of a ship that the BSL did not own. The ship pic­tured was the Orion, which in the brochure was renamed the Phyllis Wheatley, and at the time was going to be bought by the BSL, but which they did not yet own.^[7]The fact that the ship was not owned yet by the BSL war­rant­ed mail fraud. “In 1922, Garvey and three oth­er Black Star Line offi­cials were indict­ed by the U.S. gov­ern­ment for using the mails fraud­u­lent­ly to solic­it stock for the recent­ly defunct steamship line.”^[8] The Jury only con­vict­ed Garvey, not the oth­er three offi­cers, and he was sen­tenced to five years in prison. In 1927, President Calvin Coolidgedeport­ed Garvey back to Jamaica.^{[8]Wikipedia.}

Reports indi­cate Marcus Garvey was angry that some of the very peo­ple he had worked to free from their men­tal shack­les allowed them­selves to be used as pawns to bring him down. In 1927, President Calvin Coolidge deport­ed Marcus Garvey back to Jamaica.
It’s time the American Black as well as every black every­where fig­ure out a way to chose their own lead­ers and desist from fol­low­ing those who hate us for the col­or of our skin.

There is much to be said about the plight of Black America in the con­text of what the fifty mil­lion or so peo­ple haven’t done to change the tra­jec­to­ry of over four hun­dred years of oppres­sion, tyran­ny and murder.
Not one for pass­ing the buck or talk­ing about what “the man” has done to us I have always sought to look inward­ly at what we African peo­ple haven’t done to ensure we climb out of the abyss of dis­ad­van­tage and make sure that nev­er again will our proud race be degrad­ed and abused the way it has been by others.
Notwithstanding I must con­tin­ue to point to the bla­tant dis­par­i­ty in the ways laws are enforced in the United States which one could argue cre­ate a cer­tain sense of despair in peo­ple of col­or in America.

After Michael Brown was exe­cut­ed by Ferguson Missouri cop Darren Wilson the pre­dictable no pros­e­cu­tion, decades of despair and abuse boiled over into rage and may­hem turn­ing the streets of that town into a war-zone.
Of course it may rea­son­ably be argued that it was the author­i­ties which turned the town into a bat­tle­field with tanks and armored per­son­nel car­ri­ers against abused American cit­i­zens cry­ing out for jus­tice in their own land.
Despite rhetoric to the con­trary the Blacks had mil­i­tary style tac­tics used against them as the American Government did in Philadelphia as recent as 1985.

The use of the mil­i­tary against the peo­ple is pro­hib­it­ed by the con­sti­tu­tion, so it was not called a mil­i­tary assault on the peo­ple it was called police.
Never mind that the tac­tics, weapon­ry and every­thing else was clear­ly mil­i­taris­tic and of course the peo­ple did not count as cit­i­zens most were Black.
Instances of raw aggres­sion by States Government against African Americans are well know and well doc­u­ment­ed in this Country when­ev­er they dare stand up against the tyran­ny and acts of bar­bar­i­ty against their per­sons by agents of the var­i­ous states.
On these pages I have long argued that the Black man must start tak­ing respon­si­bil­i­ty for his own coun­try and his own her­itage, once he does that it will be dif­fi­cult for him to accept on a con­tin­uüm the bar­barism being per­pet­u­at­ed against him.
Republican Presidential can­di­date Barry Goldwater in 1964 said ““Extremism in the defense of lib­er­ty is no vice, mod­er­a­tion in the pur­suit of jus­tice is no virtue!”
If these argu­ments have mer­it, why then are Blacks demo­nized and fur­ther abused when they seek jus­tice? Shouldn’t jus­tice look the same for all people?

In April 2014, the Bureau of Land Management acted on a court order to seize the cattle of southern Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy. Hundreds of western men and women traveled to the area outside Bunkersville, NV to stand with Cliven Bundy.
There are various accounts as to the legitimacy of the Government’s actions against Cliven Bundy the Rancher at the heart of the conflict. Conversely there is also the little issue of picking up arms against the Government whether one is right or wrong. Yet in all of it the main stream media seem to have been issued strict orders not to show pictures or talk about events there as the Federal Government backed down from the Militiamen.

Emboldened by the Federal Government’s lack of back-bone Cliven Bundy’s sons led a militia to Oregon where they commandeered a woldlife reserve. The anti-government militiamen dug in despite the ranchers they claimed to be defending denounced their actions and turned themselves in to the law.

The Militia began the siege in protest of the jail­ing of Dwight Hammond, 73, and his son Steven, 46, con­vict­ed of arson for set­ting fire to fed­er­al land. The Militia-men are heav­i­ly armed and warned they will defend them­selves if the author­i­ties use force to dis­lodge them.
Thus far we have heard no call to bring out the nation­al guard to route them from their ille­gal armed occu­pa­tion of Government property.
We have not seen a Military build-up against these domes­tic terrorists.
Bear in mind that these men are armed and have vowed to kill Federal Agents>
Black demon­stra­tors are armed with plac­ards but their protests are met with mas­sive force and aggression.

As we watch these events unfold the so-called main stream media is deaf­en­ing­ly silent in the face of what is open war­fare against the Government by what are clear­ly domes­tic terrorists.

At the begin­ning of this Article I point­ed to the two dif­fer­ent jus­tice sys­tems in America, one for white men and the oth­er for every­one else. Now the racist dem­a­gogues are silent. There are no vir­u­lent gib­ber­ish drip­ping from their ran­cid lips about loot­ers and peo­ple doing dam­age to Government prop­er­ty. The fact that schools in the Oregon Area have been closed with kids unable to go to school is no big deal.
None of the right wing imbe­ciles are talk­ing about shoot­ing them down which are the demands when Black lives mat­ter activists stand up against agents of the Government who wan­ton­ly vio­late their rights.

Sheriff David Ward said the pro­test­ers’ ulti­mate goal was “to over­throw the coun­ty and fed­er­al gov­ern­ment in hopes to spark a move­ment across the United States.” The Hammonds have set them­selves apart from the armed move­ment, and from Bundy in par­tic­u­lar. The father and son have both already served sev­er­al months in jail for arson, but a judge in October ordered them back to prison to serve the remain­der of their sen­tences after they lost an appeal. The Hammonds were con­vict­ed after start­ing what they said was a con­trolled fire on their ranch in Harney County.

The fire spread and con­sumed 139 acres (56 hectares) of fed­er­al land. Witnesses at their tri­al said that Steven Hammond had ille­gal­ly slaugh­tered deer on fed­er­al prop­er­ty dur­ing a hunt­ing expe­di­tion and then hand­ed out match­es in order to “light up the whole coun­try on fire,” accord­ing to a Justice Department state­ment. So far, there has been no vis­i­ble police pres­ence at the reserve, where sev­er­al armed men in vehi­cles are guard­ing the entrance while oth­ers kept watch from a look­out tow­er. Schools in the area have been closed for the week. Online, pub­lic opin­ion was sharply split on what was quick­ly dubbed the #Oregonstandoff, with many brand­ing the takeover an act of domes­tic ter­ror­ism, while oth­ers saw an act of resis­tance against gov­ern­ment oppres­sion. (Mialonline​.com)
So how does the gov­ern­ment jus­ti­fy assault­ing one race and bow­ing to the other?
It does­n’t, it sim­ply hope that Black Americans will con­tin­ue to be the stu­pid door­mats they have always been , more con­tent with vic­tim-hood than victory.

Once again American Authorities are warn­ing of the like­li­hood that ter­ror groups like ISIL will see the Caribbean region as fer­tile soil from which to launch attacks.
According to Media reports General John Kelly, com­man­der of the Miami-based US Southern Command, or SouthCOM, told reporters Friday at the Pentagon that about 150 Islamic extrem­ists left the Caribbean region to join Islamic State fight­ers in the Middle East last year, about 50 more than in the pre­vi­ous year.
He esti­mat­ed that about 150 rad­i­cals have attempt­ed to join the Islamic State group as of this year, up from his esti­mate last year of rough­ly 100. Last year, Kelly told the United States Congress that those who suc­ceed in reach­ing Islamic State group ter­ri­to­ry “get good at killing and pick up some job skills,” such as work­ing with explo­sives and behead­ing ene­my fight­ers for pro­pa­gan­da purposes.

While we con­sid­er this it is impor­tant to note that this Medium have been call­ing on the Caribbean Islands to do more to deal effec­tive­ly with crime and hope­less­ness by elim­i­nat­ing Government graft and cor­rup­tion which are some of the fac­tors fuel­ing dis­en­chant­ment with­in the youth populations.
English speak­ing Caribbean Nations like Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados have made it known they will not tol­er­ate crim­i­nal­i­ty on their shores with­out fight­ing back.
In fact sev­er­al mem­ber-states with­in the Caribbean com­mu­ni­ty have proac­tive­ly tak­en steps to lim­it the access of peo­ple they deem National Security risks.
Some have gone fur­ther by pre­vent­ing even some musi­cal artiste from enter­ing their coun­tries or per­form­ing because of the con­tent of their music.
Jamaica is prob­a­bly most impact­ed by the actions tak­en by the pro­gres­sive strate­gies insti­tut­ed by oth­er Islands.
Still it appears Jamaican author­i­ties are inca­pable of under­stand­ing the need to treat crime and law­less­ness as a mat­ter of top priority.
Jamaica polit­i­cal lead­ers con­tin­ue to feed the pop­u­la­tion the Nationalistic gob­bledy­gook which sound good to the local pop­u­la­tion but has no use in the broad­er Caribbean much less the rest of the world.

When oth­er coun­tries are bar­ring your nation­als because they fear the crime they bring you can talk all the trash you want but you know you got a problem.
As many includ­ing this writer has warned , the time is now for Jamaican author­i­ties to extri­cate them­selves from crim­i­nal con­nec­tions and pre­pare law enforce­ment to deal effec­tive­ly with this loom­ing and immi­nent threat.
This includes stiffer and more strin­gent penal­ties for vio­lent crim­i­nals. Instituting manda­to­ry min­i­mum sen­tences for cer­tain cat­e­gories of vio­lent crimes. Keeping accused mur­der­ers in jail until they are tried. Training and equip­ping the police to deal effec­tive­ly with ter­ror­ism and vio­lent crimes. Paying the police com­men­su­rate with the work they do which will reduce cor­rup­tion in law-enforce­ment. Improve the mech­a­nisms by which inves­ti­ga­tions are done and upgrad­ing pros­e­cu­to­r­i­al capabilities.

Eliminating sup­port for local crim­i­nals by politi­cians and polit­i­cal par­ties. Drafting and pass­ing leg­is­la­tion which seri­ous­ly penal­izes politi­cians found with crim­i­nal asso­ci­a­tions. Increase oppor­tu­ni­ties for the Island’s young peo­ple, includ­ing manda­to­ry two years (2) mil­i­tary ser­vice for those not going to college.
Personally I am tired of implor­ing our own Jamaican politi­cians to pull back from the cor­ro­sive prac­tices of thiev­ery and malfea­sance which caus­es young peo­ple to have scant regard for the rule of law.
If the events of 2010 did not inform their con­sciences and con­scious­ness then it is prob­a­bly safe to say pret­ty soon we will see ISIL and oth­er ter­ror groups oper­at­ing cells from this beau­ti­ful Island.

I’m lit­er­al­ly annoyed at writ­ing about this but I am doing so any­way because I would have missed a cru­cial oppor­tu­ni­ty to speak the truth in the face of mon­u­men­tal hypocrisy .
Chris Gayle’s corny com­ments to Mel McLaughlin:
“I want­ed to come and have an inter­view with you as well, that’s the rea­son why I’m here, Just to see your eyes for the first time. It’s nice, So hope­ful­ly we can win this game and we can have a drink after. Don’t blush, baby.”
Corny, ill-timed, inap­pro­pri­ate in those cir­cum­stances ? Yes.
Disrespectful ♦ Crass ♦ To the absurd, Sexually preda­to­ry? No.
Australian Television Reporter Mel McLaughlin said “I’ve not spo­ken to (Gayle) per­son­al­ly, I know he issued an apol­o­gy, I accept that and I just want to move on.”
But the Media is obsessed with this non-sto­ry and refus­es to let it die. Even in Jamaica it has become dried kin­dling for the fires of fem­i­nism while on the broad­er inter­na­tion­al scale it can only be seen for what it is.
Race driven.

The con­tin­ued pil­ing-on Chris Gayle con­tin­ues and will prob­a­bly con­tin­ue for the fore­see­able future with var­i­ous and sundry hav­ing all kinds of opin­ions and mak­ing all kinds of accu­sa­tions against the for­mer West Indies crick­et captain.
Characterizations includes ♦Disrespectful ♦ Crass ♦ To the absurd, Sexually predatory.
Now and for all intents and pur­pos­es new alleged vic­tims will be crawl­ing out of the wood-work to make their own alle­ga­tions against Mister Gayle, already one such alle­ga­tion has been made to which Chris Gayle seem to be proac­tive in fight­ing back by going to court against those who pub­lished the allegations.
Can any­one say Bill Cosby?

Was it dis­re­spect though?

The notion that a sin­gle ill-advised com­ment to some­one of the oppo­site sex is tan­ta­mount to sex­ism , sex­u­al harass­ment or is sex­u­al­ly preda­to­ry is bullshit.
Chris Gayle may be stuck in the past as it relates to accept­able soci­etal norms. He will have to bring him­self up to par rather quick­ly if he wants to con­tin­ue on the International scene. Already it is prov­ing real­ly cost­ly for him financially.
The tele­vised apol­o­gy he gave was proof-pos­i­tive that Chris cer­tain­ly has a far way to go in under­stand­ing the nuances of the new world in which we live.
That apol­o­gy cer­tain­ly did more harm than good in a sit­u­a­tion in which a word­ed apol­o­gy sent to the lame-stream media would have been more effective.

The quick dis­patch with which two mur­der accused were charged with killing (JUTC) bus dri­ver Albert Barnes aid­ed by CCTV tech­nol­o­gy should give the police, busi­ness and home own­ers and most impor­tant­ly the Government rea­son to believe crime in Jamaica can be brought under control.
Police are not mir­a­cle work­ers, as such Investigators have to have a series of things work­ing in their favor in order for them to effec­tive­ly solve seri­ous crimes like homi­cides. And yes one can­not dis­count the impor­tance of a lit­tle luck even with the best sci­en­tif­ic evi­dence and eye­wit­ness­es to crimes.

In small crime rid­den nation-states like Jamaica where resources allo­cat­ed to polic­ing are scarce and in many cas­es non-exis­tent, it is dou­bly impor­tant that stake­hold­ers help in their own per­son­al secu­ri­ty and that of their property.
Gone are the days when stake­hold­ers can stand by believ­ing it is up to law enforce­ment alone to guar­an­tee their secu­ri­ty in an ever chang­ing and more vio­lent world.

The fact that these two mur­der­ers were brought into cus­tody so swift­ly is a teach­able moment for all involved includ­ing the crim­i­nal-cod­dling courts which is like­ly sali­vat­ing at sum­mar­i­ly turn­ing these vio­lent mur­der­ous ver­min back onto the streets to kill again even as they too will pay lip-ser­vice to the astro­nom­i­cal mur­der rate on the Island.
Jamaica is one of the few coun­tries where alleged mur­der­ers are allowed out on bail. I am not exact­ly sure just where else in the world mur­der­ers are allowed out on bail but I will do due dili­gence to come up with answers for that question.
I’m not par­tic­u­lar­ly impressed with talk about “inno­cent until proven guilty” from nei­ther the vil­lage lawyers nor the trained ones who col­lect pay­checks to free these scum.
The rights of an accused mur­der­er can­not be guar­an­teed at the expense of the wider soci­ety which is not accused of any wrong doing.
It fol­lows there­fore that those accused of mur­der be kept locked up even while we ensure they are not abused or vio­lat­ed. Societies sim­ply have to err on the side of caution.

The Jamaican Judicial branch of Government is the antithe­sis of com­mon sense. The major­i­ty of those sit­ting on the crim­i­nals and and the appeals bench are flam­ing ide­o­log­i­cal lib­er­als who have zero respect for the feel­ings of peo­ple vic­tim­ized by bru­tal criminals.
Not to be out­done the Legislative branch which is large­ly a bunch of crim­i­nal defense lawyers dou­ble-dip­ping as leg­is­la­tors ‚are even worse than their con­tem­po­raries on the bench.
The con­tempt I have for both group, if felt by more Jamaicans would ensure a more account­able and safer Jamaica for all.
The leg­isla­tive branch failed to attach the nec­es­sary puni­tive teeth to the penal code.
The Judicial branch turn crim­i­nals loose based on it’s warped Utopian world-view. The abil­i­ty of judges to sup­plant the rule of law with their indi­vid­ual views must now come to an end.
Even though some in lead­er­ship posi­tion both blind and intel­lec­tu­al­ly chal­lenged sing the prais­es of the Island’s judges those very judges must take respon­si­bil­i­ty for their indi­vid­ual and col­lec­tive role in fur­ther­ing the mur­der of inno­cent Jamaicans by their uncon­scionable lib­er­al stance on the Bail Act.
It’s time for manda­to­ry min­i­mum sen­tenc­ing for cer­tain cat­e­go­ry of crimes.

NOTICE SHOOTERS IN CUSTODY

According to the Jamaican Police two men are in cus­tody for the December 21^st shoot­ing of Dr. Raymoth Notice the for­mer Mayor of Spanish Town.
Notice was alleged­ly shot while wash­ing his car at his home near the town of Bog Walk in St. Catherine.
This page applaud the police in the arrest of the two men whose names have not been released, even as I ques­tion how they are able to bring cas­es like these involv­ing well con­nect­ed peo­ple to clo­sure this swift­ly and effi­cient­ly while the same is non-exis­tent for poor­er less influ­en­tial Jamaicans.
I am not privy to the cir­cum­stances with­in the Investigations which pre­cip­i­tat­ed the speedy arrest of the two indi­vid­u­als in cus­tody, nev­er­the­less as a mat­ter of con­science I implore the police to attach the same lev­el of impor­tance ‚alacrity and urgency to oth­er case involv­ing Jamaicans who do not have the ben­e­fit of high name recognition.
For it’s in the fair and equi­table dis­pen­sa­tion of jus­tice that all our peo­ple will feel that they too mat­ter, that they have a stake in our coun­try which invari­ably will make them part­ners in the fight against crime.

POLICE CHARGE TWO WITH KILLING OF (JUTC) DRIVER

The Half-Way-Tree Police have report­ed charg­ing Garfield Walters, 22, and George Ballentine, 28, both of Bedward Gardens, with the killing of Albert Barnes.
According to Jamaican media Barnes was dri­ving a JUTC bus along Bedward Crescent, Kingston 7 on December 29 when explo­sions were heard. He was lat­er found with a gun­shot wound to the chest and was tak­en to hos­pi­tal where he died while being treated.
According to Police Walters sur­ren­dered to the Yallahs Police in St Thomas on Friday, January 01, while Ballentine was picked up by the police dur­ing an oper­a­tion in August Town, St Andrew on January 04. The police say a .380 semi-auto­mat­ic pis­tol and 24 rounds of ammu­ni­tion were tak­en from Ballentine.

The police are yet to say whether they are able to deter­mine if the weapon tak­en from Ballentine was the one used to kill mis­ter Barnes.
So the police do have the abil­i­ty to solve crime in Jamaica when there is pub­lic pres­sure to solve a par­tic­u­lar case. On that basis Jamaicans must demand that going for­ward the police attach the very same lev­els of impor­tance to each and every mur­der they are tasked with solving.
I ful­ly under­stand that not every mur­der will be solved, yet I am con­fi­dent that though woe­ful­ly under-staffed , under-equipped, and under-paid the police can bring more crim­i­nals to justice.
This of course will require greater moti­va­tion and appre­ci­a­tion from the polit­i­cal boss­es and greater under­stand­ing of polic­ing and lead­er­ship from the brass of the force.

Policing has changed in Jamaica some say for the bet­ter, thus far the crime num­bers tell a dif­fer­ent story.
A known mur­der­er caught with a gun in custody?
The fear of being hauled before the courts on mur­der charges has crip­pled the police’s abil­i­ty to effec­tive­ly remove mur­der­ers from the streets with the knowl­edge they will nev­er return .
Lets not kid our­selves these vis­cous killers will not be put away by the present crop of crim­i­nal cod­dling judges who sits on the Island’s benches.
For the lib­er­al élite on the Island that is progress.
In the end the lib­er­al social­ist courts will find a way to dis­cred­it the evi­dence against these two scum­bags and they will be returned to the streets to kill again and again.
By the way even before they are returned to the streets per­ma­nent­ly they will be let loose on bail.
It is safe to assume these two have killed before, maybe sev­er­al times pri­or to killing mis­ter Barnes.
The case will drag on and on and on until it is tossed from the dock­et that is the way killers are reward­ed in Jamaica.

DUPPY FILM STILL AT LARGE HOWEVER

In the mean­time the cop-killer (dup­py film) is no clos­er to being caught today than when he snuffed out the lives of two police offi­cers at Poor Man’s Corner in St. Thomas last December.
What this blog­ger has heard is large­ly talk from one mem­ber of the police hier­ar­chy whom I per­son­al­ly know could not catch a fly stuck to a glue pad.
Why are the fam­i­lies of slain offi­cers not sub­ject to the same cour­tesy of atten­tion giv­en to the Notice and Barnes family?
In oth­er coun­tries when a cop is killed police drop every­thing and attend to bring­ing that cop-killer to justice.
Why is the same lev­el of atten­tion not being brought to bear on find­ing and elim­i­nat­ing (dup­py film)?
Why is this cop killer’s body not on a slab at Maddens?
As police offi­cers when you bring these unapolo­getic killers in you are ser­vic­ing the needs of the soul-less social­ist élite.
Officers must decide whether they are going to con­tin­ue risk­ing their lives for them while pay­ing no atten­tion to the killers of their fall­en comrades.

The Jamaican Court of Appeal has a new President in the per­son of Justice Dennis Morrison QC.
Morrison was sworn in at Kings House yes­ter­day January 4^th.
Morrison comes from the Defense side of the Isle which seem to be the case every time a judge is cho­sen to hold high office in Jamaica.
Probably more sig­nif­i­cant is that Morrison lec­tured and tutored at the Normal Manley Law School and was President of the Jamaica Bar Association.
In this hum­ble blog I have con­sis­tent­ly point­ed out that though no sin­gle issue is respon­si­ble for the over­all crime sit­u­a­tion on the Island there is much to be said about the lax and lib­er­al stance of the Jamaican court sys­tem regard­ing vio­lent criminals.
There is hard­ly any place more lib­er­al than the Norman Manley Law School or the University Campus of the west Indies.
Juxtapose that with the fact that Morrison comes from the crim­i­nal defense side of the Isle, it offers key insights into where crim­i­nal appeals will be going in the near future.
The Island’s crim­i­nal defense lawyers and their clients has much to cel­e­brate in this appointment.
It can­not be over-empha­sized that if the rule of law is to be main­tained the Courts at every lev­el must uphold it’s end of the bar­gain, a task at which it has failed dismally.
Which has led this writer to con­clude that in all seri­ous­ness it can­not be that the courts wants crim­i­nals off the streets as many well mean­ing Jamaicans do and all should in light of the court’s actions over the decades.

Addressing the swear­ing in event the Island’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller said quote:
“A cohe­sive soci­ety is the fun­da­men­tal plat­form on which invest­ments are attract­ed and sus­tain­able eco­nom­ic growth is built. A cohe­sive soci­ety requires that our peo­ple believe in their hearts that the sys­tem pro­vides them with access to jus­tice when they require it,”
The speech-writer gets it but did Miller under­stand what she read?
Here’s the part which real­ly got me pissed, Simpson miller acknowl­edged the chal­lenges faced by those who work toward the deliv­ery of jus­tice, while mak­ing men­tion of the vol­ume of cas­es which gets to the courts on a dai­ly basis.
“With the awe­some vol­ume of their work, which forces the appel­late judge to work late into the night and invari­ably on week­ends, we can­not over-empha­size the grat­i­tude and appre­ci­a­tion we have for our nation’s judges,” .
I won­der how those cas­es end up in the courts?
No men­tion of the haz­ardous and crit­i­cal job the police does not a sin­gle men­tion of their sacrifice.
No police no damn case before the kan­ga­roo courts so the lib­er­al social­ists on the bench­es can turn them loose.

So I want to speak direct­ly to you serv­ing mem­bers of the police depart­ment who are run­ning behind this clown risk­ing your lives for her and her régime, here’s what it comes down to.
She does not care one shit about you even to men­tion the sac­ri­fice you make.
She does not care about your mur­dered colleagues.
On every occa­sion that offi­cers are mur­dered this clown is silent.
To be dissed even as you sac­ri­fice is hurt­ful, to be dissed by her sim­ply takes the cake.
You can be dissed by better.…..

JUSTICE: The qual­i­ty of being just; right­eous­ness, equi­table­ness, or moral-right­ness: Dictionary​.com.

VENGEANCE: pun­ish­ment inflict­ed in retal­i­a­tion for an injury or offense :Merriam-Webster.

Whether its the con­niv­ing cal­cu­la­tive release of infor­ma­tion on the week­end by Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Dononan Jr, that there would be no crim­i­nal charges against the cop who used an out­lawed choke-hold to mur­der Eric Garner .
Or whether it’s Cleveland Prosecutor Tim McGinty fol­low­ing the same tact announc­ing in the calm of the Yuletide sea­son that there would be no charges against the cop who sum­mar­i­ly gunned down 12 year-old Tamir Rice the duplic­i­ty is the same.

When is it ever legal or law­ful to gun down a 12 year-old child and no one is held account­able, and in par­tic­u­lar one who is trained to pro­tect life ?
Or are they?
There are a cou­ple of things which went wrong that can­not be denied or brushed aside by McGinty.
(1) Why did the dis­patch­er not tell patrol (offi­cers going to the scene) that the caller to the 911 cen­ter had inti­mat­ed that the gun may have been a fake?
(2) Why did the two cops not pull up at a safe dis­tance and order Rice to drop the weapon?
(3) Why did the offi­cers lie that they ordered Rice to drop the weapon when clear­ly they did not?
(4) Wasn’t it clear after they shot the child they knew it was bad so they lied to cov­er up what they did?
(5) Why did they not ren­der first aid to the dying 12-year-old even as a pass­ing FBI Agent stopped by and attempt­ed to resus­ci­tate the mor­tal­ly wound­ed child?
(6) Should the fam­i­ly of Tamir Rice just go away and shut up even though Timothy Loehmann who killed their son was deemed unfit by anoth­er police depart­ment and the Cleveland brass knew about it?

Timothy Loehmann was specif­i­cal­ly fault­ed for break­ing down emo­tion­al­ly while han­dling a live gun. During a train­ing episode at a fir­ing range, Loehmann was report­ed to be “dis­tract­ed and weepy” and incom­mu­nica­tive. “His hand­gun per­for­mance was dis­mal,” deputy chief Jim Polak of the Independence, Ohio, police depart­ment wrote in an inter­nal memo. The memo con­cludes with a rec­om­men­da­tion that Loehmann be “released from the employ­ment of the City of Independence”. Less than a week lat­er, on 3 December 2012, Loehmann resigned. According to the Gaurdian​.com Cleveland offi­cer who fatal­ly shot Tamir Rice judged unfit for duty in 2012.

JUST ANOTHER SMALL OBSERVATION !
Not speak­ing to Bill Cosby’s inno­cence or guilt in the litany of sex­u­al alle­ga­tions against him, I still won­der just how author­i­ties can dredge up infor­ma­tion to sub­stan­ti­ate crim­i­nal charges against the embat­tled come­di­an even though in all of the cas­es save one the statute of lim­i­ta­tions have expired.
Might I add also that even in the sin­gle case in which Cosby is charged crim­i­nal­ly the statute is slat­ed to expire in a month.
What is the rush at all cost to charge Cosby with a crime?
Speaking at a press con­fer­ence after the charges Prosecutors said it was their duty to file charges. Umph I won­der why it;s nev­er their duty to bring charges when Black peo­ple are mur­dered but it’s always their duty to move moun­tains when the sus­pect is black?

A MILLION DOLLAR BAIL FOR 78 OLD BILL COSBY AND THE SURRENDER OF HIS PASSPORT ON A SINGLE COUNT OF AGGRAVATED INDECENT ASSAULT.
How iron­ic that a 2004 case of aggra­vat­ed sex­u­al assault can be made out against a black man but even when we see mur­der with our own eyes we are told we should not believe what we see?
Two sep­a­rate jus­tice sys­tems and they are unashamed , it is dis­gust­ing , it is insult­ing, it is nauseating.

Whether or not Bill Cosby is guilty of the alle­ga­tions against him is irrel­e­vant in this con­text, it is the absolute dou­ble stan­dards and the das­tard­ly inequity in a crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem which prides itself on the notion of fairness .
It is and has always been a farce and a fraud.

After 9 parish­ioners were sum­mar­i­ly slaugh­tered as they sat in Bible study in their Church base­ment in Charleston South Carolina by deranged beast Dylan Roof, the head of the FBI James Comey said he had already dis­count­ed ter­ror­ism. According to Comey, the lack of polit­i­cal moti­va­tion for the killer’s actions mean’t the alleged shoot­er was not a domes­tic terrorist. 

Comey went on to say ‘Terrorism is act an of vio­lence done or threat­ens to in order to try to influ­ence a pub­lic body or cit­i­zen­ry so it’s more of a polit­i­cal act and again based on what I know so more I don’t see it as a polit­i­cal act. Doesn’t make it any less hor­rif­ic the label but ter­ror­ism has a def­i­n­i­tion under fed­er­al law,’.

The FBI direc­tor’s own char­ac­ter­i­za­tion is an astound­ing indict­ment of him, it goes to the heart of how race fac­tors into every aspect of the jus­tice sys­tem from the low­est munic­i­pal­i­ty to the high­est cor­ri­dors of the supreme court.
♦Dylan Roof went to the Church that evening to kill Black people.
♦ Roof’s stat­ed inten­tion was to do the killings which he hoped would spark a race war.
Comey said ter­ror­ism is an act of vio­lence done or threat­ens to in order to try to influ­ence a pub­lic body or citizenry.
Dylan Storm Roof exact­ly intend­ed and expect­ed that the killing of 9 inno­cent peo­ple as they sat in Bible study that evening would influence(a pub­lic body or cit­i­zen­ry), Black peo­ple to retal­i­ate against whites spark­ing a race war.
The only log­i­cal rea­son one could deduce from Comey’s own words that Dylan Roof does not qual­i­fy as a domes­tic ter­ror­ist is that Comey does not believe Black Americans are (1) A pub­lic body or (2) qual­i­fy as cit­i­zens of the United States.

THIS IS BARACK OBAMA’S (FBI)DIRECTOR…
Addressing cops in Chicago Comey would blame Black Lives Matter activists for cops not doing their jobs.

Comey described a “chill wind” that had gone through law enforce­ment in the wake of viral videos of the police over the past year. Comey’s remarks seemed to be an endorse­ment of the so-called “Ferguson effect,” which sug­gests that exces­sive scruti­ny of law enforce­ment is to blame for the uptick in crime. Comey said offi­cers in one major city felt “under siege” because they were being record­ed when they exit­ed their vehi­cles. “They were hon­est and said they don’t feel much like get­ting out of their cars,” Comey said accord­ing to the Huffingtonpost​.com Ryan J Reilly.

First off Cops who do not feel like get­ting out of the tax­pay­ers cars should find alter­na­tive employment.
The idea that hold­ing police offi­cers account­able for their actions is tan­ta­mount to plac­ing them under siege is incred­i­bly insult­ing to the intel­lect of Black peo­ple who have for hun­dreds of years have been the vic­tims of police abuse and ter­ror in this country.
What are black and brown cit­i­zens to do then sim­ply shut up and look away as their sons and daugh­ters, moth­ers and fathers are being killed with­out offer­ing up any resistance?
It is insan­i­ty on the part of the Black pop­u­la­tion to have faith in the FBI to con­duct fair and impar­tial inves­ti­ga­tions on their behalf in light of this entrenched racial intran­si­gence and lack of empa­thy com­ing from the very mouth of the direc­tor himself.

TAMIR RICE
After tak­ing a whole year to make a rul­ing on the mur­der of (12) year old Cleveland Ohio child Tamir Rice, Prosecutor Tim McGinty in the peace quite and seren­i­ty of the Yuletide sea­son announced that his Grand Jury has decid­ed that there will be no charges against Timithy Loehmann the offi­cer who shot and killed twelve year old Tamir Rice.
Now as a father or four sons and mul­ti­ple nephews all of whom are strap­ping black men my heart bleeds for this family .
As a for­mer Police offi­cer , the broth­er of a for­mer police offi­cer, the Uncle to a young California Police Officer and cousins and friends who are still serv­ing police offi­cers, I am painful­ly aware of the police offi­cers side of the sto­ry as well.
There is an old say­ing in America which goes like this , “If a pros­e­cu­tor wants to indict a ham sand­wich he can”.
The grand jury process was cre­at­ed to pro­tect the integri­ty of the process pre­vent­ing inves­ti­gat­ing offi­cers from being biased when they inves­ti­gate inci­dents involv­ing their col­leagues. It has become just a tool for pros­e­cu­tors, (Mark Garagos defense Attorney).

Tim McGinty did not want those cops pros­e­cut­ed so he used his office as defense coun­sel for Timothy Loehmann, that is the gen­er­al con­sen­sus by a large per­cent­age of ratio­nal thinkers who watched this process play out.
When the Prosecutor goes out of his way to use the office to hire wit­ness­es to argue against an indict­ment which he is sup­posed to be seek­ing it is a gross insult to the process and a slap in the face of the fam­i­lies which are left behind to grieve for their loved ones.
If Prosecutors are going to sub­vert the very process they are sworn to pro­tect where does it leave cit­i­zens whom are abused by the Government?
Prosecutors have a respon­si­bil­i­ty to do their jobs fair­ly and objec­tive­ly. There is nev­er any hes­i­tan­cy or con­flict when they have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to pros­e­cute mem­bers of the pub­lic, and there is a cer­tain glee when they get to pros­e­cute Black citizens.
It fol­lows there­fore that if they can­not pros­e­cute cops for com­mit­ting crimes they should step aside. If pros­e­cu­tors can­not extri­cate them­selves from the cozy rela­tion­ships they share with police to effec­tive­ly uphold the laws as is required by their oath then the very oath they take is a lie.
Standing in the way of the appoint­ment of spe­cial pros­e­cu­tion just so they can pro­tect crim­i­nal behav­ior by cops is crim­i­nal conduct.
A pros­e­cu­tor who is over­ly chum­my with the police should nev­er have the pow­er to cir­cum­vent the process with his/​her own bias­es to pro­tect a guilty police offi­cer from prosecution.
It is incred­i­bly harm­ful to the process, the fam­i­lies who are left behind to grieve and it is harm­ful to police offi­cers who have to go out dai­ly and patrol dan­ger­ous neighborhoods.

WHERE HAVE WE SEEN THIS BEFORE?

Richmond County District Attorney Daniel Donovan, Jr did not want NYPD cop Daniel Pantaleo indict­ed for mur­der­ing Eric Garner in the process Donavan used his office as defense coun­cil for Pantaleo ‚all the time giv­ing the fam­i­ly of mis­ter Garner the impres­sion that the Grand Jury he impan­eled would be fair and impartial.
In the end we all know Donovan did the exact oppo­site, he made sure that the cop-apol­o­gist grand jury he put togeth­er would not indict. Cops are not held account­able on Staten Island a bas­tion for cops , and fire­fight­ers and their fam­i­lies. Is that Justice ?
In fact Donovan’s office did not even request an indict­ment , which is the sole pur­pose for pros­e­cu­tor impan­el­ing a grand jury in the first place.
Tim McGinty did not ask for an indict­ment either yet both char­la­tans came out and offered plat­i­tudes and nuanced cocka­mamie to the fam­i­lies of the mur­dered victims.
“There is no ques­tion that a grand jury will do pre­cise­ly what the pros­e­cu­tor wants, vir­tu­al­ly 100% of the time,” says James Cohen, a law pro­fes­sor at Fordham University who spe­cial­izes in crim­i­nal pro­ce­dure. “This was, as was the case in Missouri, orches­trat­ed by the prosecutor.”

According to the web­site Gothamist​.com While most legal experts believed that the grand jury did not have enough evi­dence to prove a mur­der charge, the grand jury could have charged Pantaleo with manslaugh­ter or crim­i­nal­ly neg­li­gent homicide.

“In this case, you had video­tape, and the video­tape is pret­ty darn clear,” Cohen says. “The video showed that the offi­cer engaged in a long-pro­hib­it­ed con­duct, a choke­hold, and it does­n’t seem to make any dif­fer­ence to the jury. And that’s because the pros­e­cu­tor decid­ed that there should be no indict­ment for any crim­i­nal behavior.”

Randolph McLaughlin, a law pro­fes­sor at Pace Law School and civ­il rights attor­ney, agreed.

“The grand jury is a tool of the pros­e­cu­tor. At a min­i­mum, it was neg­li­gent, it was reck­less, it was some lev­el of homi­cide. Surely they could have indict­ed this offi­cer on any num­ber of charges and let the pub­lic hear, let a tri­al hap­pen, expose to the light of day what went on here. This man is a pub­lic ser­vant, and he com­mit­ted these acts as a pub­lic ser­vant, wear­ing the uni­form of a pub­lic ser­vant, and he should be called to account for it.”

When a mem­ber of the pub­lic com­mits an offence whether it’s inten­tion­al or not that per­son gen­er­al­ly has to go before a court of law to answer for what he or she has done. It is through that process that infor­ma­tion is aired out , boils are lanced and anger sub­sides through the fair and equi­table dis­pen­sa­tion of justice.
It can­not be that some peo­ple , (sta­tion incon­se­quen­tial) are immune from that process when they break the laws.
No one should be above the laws, when that hap­pens anger brews and ani­mos­i­ty develops.
This has been the way white men in America does busi­ness for hun­dreds of years when it comes to deal­ing with oth­ers and par­tic­u­lar­ly their hat­ed Black Countrymen.
Is that inju­di­cious use of pow­er going to be sus­tain­able into perpetuity?
What do they expect will hap­pen when the peo­ple aggriev­ed rise up and say no more?

Whether a police offi­cer’s con­duct is crim­i­nal or not in sit­u­a­tions where pub­lic out­cry is intense it ought not be the pre­rog­a­tive of pros­e­cu­tors to cir­cum­vent the process by which jus­tice is arrived at. It makes a mock­ery of the process and a das­tard­ly lie that this is the best there is anywhere.
Best for whom?
Police offi­cers have an extreme­ly dif­fi­cult job . They are gen­er­al­ly asked to make split sec­ond deci­sions as a mat­ter of life and death. They are asked to deal with the worst of the worst , and they are asked to run to dan­ger when the rest of us run from it.
I know this all to well and it is with that knowl­edge that I speak fair­ly on the sub­ject , under­stand­ing both sides of the equation.

Laws in the United States are incred­i­bly lib­er­al in favor of police offi­cers . Additionally there is much pub­lic sup­port for the role and work of police offi­cers across the board even in cas­es where it clear­ly ought not be so.
It is with that in mind that police offi­cers should be mind­ful that they do not betray the trust and con­fi­dence placed in them . It is also impor­tant that polic­ing be done with open minds and a lack of prejudice.
It is nev­er okay to kill some­one and sim­ply say I’m sorry.
Sorry does not bring a dead per­son back.
Prosecutors who mis­use their office to short cir­cuit the process by pro­tect­ing crim­i­nal behav­ior does more harm to the process than the errant cops themselves.
This must stop.

The hypocrisy of the Jamaican media is astounding.
For years the lit­tle radio-heads and their more self absorbed con­tem­po­raries in the Editorial rooms of the news­pa­pers, and tele­vi­sion sta­tions open­ly sup­port­ed chaos in the streets.
The Police could do noth­ing right when they enforced the traf­fic laws the very bas­tards who sit in these lit­tle rooms in these lit­tle media out­lets would open­ly sup­port insur­rec­tion against law enforce­ment for doing their job.
The loud mouth ghet­to queen Barbara Gloudon many years ago told a caller to stone police sta­tions because the caller had a grouse against the police.
We would lat­er see police sta­tions burned to the ground and police offi­cers murdered.

In the eight­ies anoth­er of the lit­tle shit­heads open­ly referred to police offi­cers as” jonkro” because one of their crack-addict­ed col­league was accost­ed while try­ing to pur­chase crack cocaine in Barbican square.

These lit­tle self appoint­ed cham­pi­ons of the poor nev­er both­ered to think through events before they pon­tif­i­cat­ed and took sides. Police offi­cers enforc­ing traf­fic laws were by default oppres­sors for doing exact­ly what they were paid to do.
Nevertheless Monday December 28^th the Gleaner Editorial page laments that the police have sur­ren­dered the streets to lawlessness.
Quote…

“Most of Jamaica’s roads, par­tic­u­lar­ly in urban areas, are a free-for-all, where legal bus­es and taxis bore and race and pick up and drop off pas­sen­gers at will. The ille­gals, or ‘robots’, make a mock­ery of the law and under­mine those who invest their time and mon­ey by fol­low­ing pro­ce­dure, only to be out­jos­tled and out­prof­it­ed in plain sight of the police — jeop­ar­dis­ing the very state-owned bus ser­vice. Molynes Road, Red Hills Road, Half-Way Tree and down­town Kingston are cen­tres of anar­chy. If Dr Williams’ men have aban­doned the streets to rogues and bad­men, they could at least tell us”. Editorial: Have Police Given Up The Streets?

Word of advice to the Gleaner…
The shit is just begin­ning to hit the fan , just wait a lit­tle more, you want to see anar­chy just wait.
The (inde­com) Act which all of you clam­ored for is just begin­ning to set­tle in.
While it set­tles in police offi­cers are check­ing out at the first oppor­tu­ni­ty. This year alone over 600 cops will sim­ply lay down arms and walk away , leav­ing the coun­try to it’s own devices.
Maybe (inde­com) or some of the lim­it­less sup­ply of know-it-all blab­ber mouths will step up and defend the coun­try against the bur­geon­ing crim­i­nal under­world which has cement­ed itself in the country.
Just wait until the new gen­er­a­tion of vipers arise, these are they which will have come up in the age of (inde­com), They know police won’t touch them, restrain , or con­strain them , many of you will be run­ning to the hills as Marcus Garvey predicted,looking for a place to hide.
You want­ed (inde­com) you got (inde­com) and you have the lit­tle self-aggran­diz­ing Napoleonic Fuehrer at the helm you all want­ed so zip it!

lit­er­al­ly every traf­fic encounter between police and traf­fic offend­ers result in an esca­la­tion because the peo­ple are gross­ly law­less and undis­ci­plined thanks to the aid­ing and abet­ting of the media which encour­aged then to fight with police and dis­re­gard laws.
The com­mon refrain is that the “police a stap dem food.” Of course in Jamaica” every man affi eat food“no mat­ter how they go about it.
“Anything a any­thing” right?

For decades right wing talk radio in America encour­aged big­ots and xeno­pho­bic mal­con­tents to spew all kinds of racist invec­tive at peo­ple they deem dif­fer­ent, peo­ple they love to hate. Today the gen­er­a­tion of whites com­ing of age are just as racist and maybe more vio­lent­ly so than those which exist­ed in the 50’s and 60’s .

As a child grow­ing up in Jamaica talk radio was laced with anti-police invec­tive. Ronald Thwaites, Wilmott Perkins, Barbara Gloudon, Garnett Roper and a host of oth­er nit-wits made careers from the pro­mul­ga­tion of anti-police propaganda>
Now that the chick­en have come home to roost the very Media which watered the plants of anar­chy are in lamentation.
What bull?

Responding to the killing of two police offi­cers as they played a game of domi­noes at Poor-Man’s-Corner St Thomas United States Ambassador to Jamaica said this.

“In this sea­son of peace and togeth­er­ness, it is heart­break­ing to see these and oth­er sense­less mur­ders. To the mem­bers of the Jamaica Constabulary Force and oth­er law enforce­ment offi­cers across this island who risk your own safe­ty to pro­tect our lives I salute you. “I urge you to con­tin­ue to con­duct your duties hon­or­ably and pro­fes­sion­al­ly with­out fear or favor,” Moreno said in a release. “Too many times this year we have mourned the loss of offi­cers of the law and cit­i­zens mur­dered by vio­lent crim­i­nals. I want to echo the words of Commissioner of Police Dr Carl Williams: ‘As a nation, we must band togeth­er to pre­serve the rule of law and the safe­ty, secu­ri­ty, and human rights of every Jamaican.’ The United States will stand firm­ly with the police and peo­ple of Jamaica to stem this bloodshed,”.

This is not the first time Moreno has spo­ken out stri­dent­ly at the killing of the Island’s police offi­cers . At the bru­tal slay­ing of con­sta­ble Crystal Thomas Moreno spoke out harsh­ly against the lev­el of crim­i­nal­i­ty and the need to sup­port the efforts of law enforce­ment on the Island.
US GOVT STANDS WITH JAMAICAN POLICE BUT DOES THE JAMAICAN GOVT?

One hear­ing of the slaugh­ter of the offi­cers I was gripped with rage, it was the very first time in the 24 years since I left law enforce­ment that I wished I was able to pull on a pair of com­fort­able jeans , lace up my com­bat-boots, dou­ble check my Browning and ensure my two extend­ed clips are in good work­ing order , grab my M16 assault rifle with the retractable stock, my radio and see who was will­ing to come with me.
There is so much to be said about the state of affairs in Jamaica that it makes one feel almost resigned to the fact that our beau­ti­ful coun­try is pret­ty much already a failed state.

I real­ized if you wear a cer­tain fra­grance after a while you don’t smell it any­more . The same is true for many in Jamaica who smile and tell you just how won­der­ful things are, they sim­ply can­not smell the shit anymore.
As is cus­tom­ary the killing of police offices nev­er gets a men­tion from the nations high­est polit­i­cal office, nor from the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the British Monarch.
To some extent men­tion­ing the fact that the Prime Minister have not a sin­gle word of con­dem­na­tion for the bru­tal slay­ing of offi­cers gives the impres­sion that I believe the occu­pant of that office have the men­tal capac­i­ty to under­stand the impli­ca­tions of these acts so I won’s say more about that.

As we speak Police Officers are engaged in pro­tect­ing the life of that imbe­cile and they are doing so over and above that which is required. Many are gophers and in most cas­es yard boys. Irrespective of the slight and dis­re­spect they will duti­ful­ly con­tin­ue to place their lives on the line to pro­tect and defend.
I’ll not speak to that either save and except to say in the strug­gle for jus­tice and equal­i­ty we will nev­er be able to untan­gle some from the degrad­ing con­fines of the slave plantation.

I would be remiss if I did not address the lax men­tal­i­ty of the offi­cers which result­ed in their deaths. Of course every­one should be able to sit in their com­mu­ni­ty with friends and enjoy a friend­ly game of domi­noes with­out fear of dying in a hail of bullets.
On the oth­er hand we can­not wish away the present state of affairs which exist in many parts of the world today , Jamaica being no exception.
A sense of aware­ness and real­ism should be para­mount to all , par­tic­u­lar­ly in Jamaica and more so those whose task it is to deal with those realities.

In my com­mu­ni­ty I don’t hear of many inci­dents of crime, even so I teach and cau­tion my fam­i­ly nev­er to be caught say­ing “I nev­er thought it could hap­pen here”>.
Most crimes are inci­dents of oppor­tu­ni­ty, peo­ple take advan­tage of oppor­tu­ni­ties when they believe they will get away with exploit­ing others.
It’s just com­mon sense not to leave ones’ self open to exploitation.
There are uncon­firmed reports at least one of the mur­dered offi­cers may have been threat­ened. If this is true it means some­one had a pre­med­i­tat­ed desire to elim­i­nate him. Why give some­one an easy oppor­tu­ni­ty to elim­i­nate you?
People have to get on with liv­ing their lives even with threats hang­ing over them I know , but sit­ting at a shop play­ing domi­noes is cer­tain­ly not the best way to pro­tect one’­self from harm.
Many years ago while I was a young offi­cer sta­tioned at the Constant Spring Police Station I received cred­i­ble intel­li­gence that a cer­tain Punk who comes from a fam­i­ly of law break­ers father includ­ed want­ed to elim­i­nate me because of the work I was doing in the Grant’s Pen area.
At that time there was no police sta­tion in Grants Pen .
Dadrick Henry , Parra Campbell myself and oth­ers were the Police sta­tion there.
That very night I strapped up and decid­ed I was going to head out I was nev­er a cop who know­ing­ly allowed crim­i­nals to threat­en me and sit on the intelligence.

It was just me and one , he know who he is I won’t men­tion his name he still lives in Jamaica. I always believed police must cul­ti­vate infor­mants, that was how I sourced the intel­li­gence. Secondly I believed firm­ly in hav­ing local knowl­edge. I will know where to find you at your mother;s house and yes at “yu gyal house”. Police need to know that these scum­bags are fiends so they won’t stay far from the women that enable them, both their moth­ers and those who sleep with them.
I knew where this scum­bag would be and at about mid­night me and One walked along the Shortwood Road gul­ly down to a foot­bridge which bridges both sides of the gully.
I expect­ed him to be in his girl’s lit­tle shack , he was­n’t , he was sit­ting on a log under a sin­gle lamp post , the lone light glowed omi­nous­ly in the warm sum­mer night.
By the time he saw us we were three feet away there was nowhere to run.
He began to blab­ber how he did­n’t want to die and peo­ple hat­ed him and want­ed the police to kill him. He was dressed in a cut-off pair of pants and wife beat­er under­shirt. While he blabbed his blad­der failed and the pissed snaked along as it mixed with the dirt like a mean­der­ing riv­er head­ing nowhere in particular.
My Partner was not par­tic­u­lar­ly as char­i­ta­ble as I was but I pre­vailed , I told the lit­tle punk as he looked down the bar­rel of my M16 Rifle “even if you thing of step­ping to me I will find you and I will kill you , there is no place for you to hide from me”>
We left him stand­ing there piss still stream­ing down his legs.

I nev­er quite got the idea of issu­ing warn­ings to police offi­cers about ele­vat­ed lev­els of threats against their lives. This is the new fan-dan­gled bull-shit UWI polic­ing I guess , every cop in Jamaica is always in mor­tal dan­ger just by virtue of being a police offi­cer. There is no ele­vat­ed threat lev­el Jamaica is a crim­i­nal cod­dling, crim­i­nal sup­port­ing society.
In a soci­ety as ours law enforce­ment is always going to be the ene­my. Every cop good or bad is always in mor­tal danger.
Police Officer Lattibudier was shot and injured , while con­va­lesc­ing at home they went to his home and killed him in his bed . This was almost thirty(30) years ago.
The  pot-bel­lied high com­mand does the depart­ment a dis-ser­vice by talk­ing about ele­vat­ed threat lev­els against cops.
Police offi­cers must be in the lead in under­stand­ing and dis­play­ing a sense of aware­ness. Even if two cops are at a local joint hav­ing a friend­ly game of domi­noes both offi­cer can­not be play­ing at the same time one per­son must be fac­ing out ready to act. These are sim­ple things which every offi­cer under­stood to the best of my recollection.
Twenty four years after leav­ing law enforce­ment when­ev­er I am seat­ed in a restau­rant, church or wher­ev­er I try as best as I can to be in a posi­tion in which I can best react to threats so I may pro­tect my life and that of my fam­i­ly. Yes 24 years lat­er, I’m old enough to know how to do it and young enough to get it done.

One gets the sense the Commissioner of Police Dr Carl Williams is a good man and one of integri­ty. It seem he means well but he is not the kind of leader who can get mem­bers of the JCF to where they should be in terms of being a com­pe­tent force which will be able to pro­tect their own lives much less pro­tect the public.
Let’s be rea­son­able a lot of peo­ple deserve the shit the killers deal out, cops can do noth­ing right for them. Notwithstanding there are still good peo­ple liv­ing in Jamaica who deserve a Government which is not a crime syn­di­cate and a com­pe­tent police force they can trust and support.

The rain falls on the just and on the unjust. When the day comes in which our Country has good prin­ci­pled lead­er­ship and good com­pe­tent law enforce­ment the police-hat­ing ass-wipes will also ben­e­fit but such is life.
The Commissioner of Police says and does all of the right things in terms of step­ping up and vis­it­ing with the fam­i­lies of slain police offi­cers but the Commissioner lacks that which in my mind is the first order of busi­ness, the strate­gic storm troop­er men­tal­i­ty of blan­ket­ing every com­mu­ni­ty until the killers are exterminated.
Hell yes I said exter­mi­nat­ed , they should nev­er be allowed to be set free by the crim­i­nal cod­dling left­ist courts sys­tem and yes FUCK (inde­com) they bet­ter not get in the way. Since the courts can­not be trust­ed to apply jus­tice police offi­cers must bring jus­tice to these killers.
Carl Williams does not have the know-how to do it.
The crim­i­nals who run the coun­try sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly destroyed the police depart­ment begin­ning with Percival Patterson the colos­sal can­cer which destroyed our coun­try passed it down to POOR-SHA , and more POOR-SHA.
This is the way the PNP par­ty want­ed it so when they steal there would not be a com­pe­tent 21^st cen­tu­ry police agency to inves­ti­gate and pros­e­cute them.
Today most of the Administration’s top sup­port­ers and func­tionar­ies are orga­nized crime fig­ures who are involved in all kinds of trans nation­al crimes.

WHAT IS THE STRATEGY FOR CATCHING COP KILLERS?
Some time ago I wrote an Article in which I sug­gest­ed that the Police be more proac­tive in the way it car­ries out it’s func­tion tak­ing into account the con­straints placed against it’s effec­tive­ness by the Government.
I argued then that Jamaica as a soci­ety grav­i­tat­ed to and lit­er­al­ly required hard nosed name brand cops. Like in every­thing else Jamaicans rec­og­nize and revere the best and they have scant regard for the rest.
They want name brand clothes, shoes and yes they demand name brand cops. If offi­cers do not com­mand their respect they are toast, those of us who served in a mean­ing­ful way know that the peo­ple test you them­selves, if you pass their test you are in for life with them and no one can harm you. If you are soft and inef­fec­tu­al you are a laugh­ing stock to be ridiculed and reviled.

Even the most hard­ened crim­i­nals fear name-brand cops. Their ways of polic­ing reaped immense ben­e­fits, that which can be seen and that which many are unable to see, name­ly in crimes not committed.
There has always been an under­val­ued ele­ment to what those offi­cers brought to cer­tain police areas sim­ply by being present in those localities.
Some of the meth­ods employed were not text-book meth­ods but they bore results.
I will not argue for breach­ing of civ­il rights under any cir­cum­stances but I will also say if you are dead there’s hard­ly any argu­ment to be made for rights is there?

Being fal­li­ble the police made mis­takes and the pop­u­la­tion made mis­takes too.
None as egre­gious than allow­ing Carolyn Gomes a pedi­atric Doctor with grand designs as cham­pi­on of social change in a Utopian sys­tem of rights secu­ri­ty be damned to dic­tate how polic­ing is done.
Out went cops who got the job done , in came the chair-warm­ers and the quotas.
Crime sky­rock­ets and every­one cow­ers in fear includ­ing the police.

At this stage it would bet­ter in my esti­ma­tion if the depart­ment is dis­band­ed and a fresh start attempt­ed focus­ing heav­i­ly on train­ing. The entire depart­ment needs reori­ent­ing to a state of pre­pared­ness. Policing is not the boy’s scouts.
There is no point in hav­ing police who are unable to arrest crim­i­nals, I hate to break it to them but that is what police do, they arrest crim­i­nals and some­times it’s not pretty.
A woman in a skirt and heels on her shoes with cell phone in hand is no damn use to her male coun­ter­part wrestling with a vio­lent offend­er who wants to do him harm and refus­es to sub­mit to arrest . Lets cut to the chase and deal with the facts we have all seen these cases.
Police offi­cers do not step back from and cow­er in fear crim­i­nals do . Police in Jamaica now endure being punched and the assailant sim­ply walk away.
On what plan­et I ask is that tolerable,?

With the Government starv­ing the depart­ment of resources the pot-bel­lied crew at the top of the force should use the few vehi­cles they have as mobile police sta­tions. This means plac­ing them strate­gi­cal­ly in grids with­ing their police areas each with two or more offi­cers capa­ble of deal­ing with urgent situations.
This will severe­ly impact the abil­i­ty of crim­i­nals to com­mit crimes and use high pow­ered motor­cy­cles and cars to quick­ly tra­verse the coun­try and avoid detec­tion what with new high­ways and all.

Each minute a cop killer is on the loose is anoth­er minute for him to do more harm or leave the coun­try. Jamaica is no stranger to cop killers being aid­ed and abet­ted by the sit­ting Government to leave the country.
This is some­thing People’s National Party Administrations are know for , they have done it before they will do it again . For all we know this scum­bag may already have been shut­tled out of the country.
The Police brass must devel­op grids which can eas­i­ly be col­lapsed in instances such as the killing of the two officers.
Search par­ties can­not be had-hock run in knock on a few doors and leave .
Officers must be brought into the col­laps­ing grid and the search done in sweeps leav­ing no stone un-turned. Anyone found har­bor­ing or found to have aid­ed the sus­pect must be sub­ject to the same fate as the prin­ci­pal offender.
Once offi­cers are tired they should be rotat­ed out of the search grid only after they are replaced with fresh offi­cers there should be no let up until jus­tice is brought to bear on these killers and whomev­er gives them aid and comfort.

By all accounts this guy Marlon Perry is a con­tract killer who has mur­dered sev­er­al peo­ple before alleged­ly killing the two cops.
He is alleged to have strong ties to …
You guessed it the sit­ting Government in Kingston.
In all of this the bloat­ed incom­pe­tent Police hier­ar­chy must take blame . In the same way they allowed the likes of Duddus Coke and oth­ers to metas­ta­size while they sat on their ass­es and did noth­ing it’s exact­ly what it is here.
There is no sys­tem of report­ing. No sys­tem of account­abil­i­ty. No sys­tem of mak­ing sure when you say “we will leave no stone un-turned “peo­ple know it’s not emp­ty rhetoric.

This is the envi­ron­ment in which crime grows and flour­ish. Despite polit­i­cal inter­fer­ence and strong arm­ing of law enforce­ment by the cor­rupt Government in Kingston the police still can do a bet­ter job than they are doing presently.
All of the real cops are gone now, what’s left is a bunch of demor­al­ized street cops who no longer see the need to risk any­thing> After all why should they at the top is a cadre of nin­com­poop who left the University of the West Indies and are reward­ed with senior positions.
Those are there for the paycheck.
Officers who once went the extra mile are side­lined and dis­re­spect­ed. Throw the cop-killing (inde­com) law into the mix and there is no rea­son for cops to do any­thing but col­lect the cou­ple of bucks they dole out each month and keep their heads real low.

If any­one expect any­thing inso­far as a strate­gic approach is con­cerned they are delud­ed, the ban-gut offi­cer corp are in it for the pay­check, they are paper cops.
Policing in Jamaica is sim­ply a mod­el­ing job , every­one is aware of it, none more-so than the hard­ened crim­i­nals who the very laws support.
When an area is known as a point for drugs and gun-run­ning yet it is allowed to con­tin­ue what’s the point of hav­ing a police department?
The price is many more dead civil­ians and .…
Aaah yes many more dead cops as well.