WARRIOR

When Nelson Mandela was elect­ed President of South Africa,he could have opt­ed for revenge, he could have treat­ed the white minor­i­ty of that coun­try exact­ly the way he and his peo­ple had been treat­ed. He absolute­ly would have been jus­ti­fied, he was locked away for 27 years of his life for stand­ing on the prin­ci­ple that all men are cre­at­ed equal.

He had wit­nessed geno­cide inflict­ed on his peo­ple by an ille­git­i­mate Government formed by the white racial minor­i­ty in his coun­try, on the con­ti­nent of Africa. What Nelson Mandela did trans­formed him from a human-right­s/­civ­il-rights war­rior, to a great states-man. He chose rec­on­cil­i­a­tion. Nelson Mandela embarked on heal­ing wounds, he for­gave those who had used and abused him. That made him bet­ter than me. It was that spir­it of kind­ness and for­give­ness which allowed the entire con­ti­nent of Africa to be raped by the con­ti­nent of Europe, and the innu­mer­able deaths that will nev­er be account­ed for.

PRESIDENT

What is it which allows us a race to be bet­ter than those who hate and abuse us? What is it which allows us to for­give so read­i­ly, those who have done the most egre­gious harm to us?

Four hun­dred years after the first African was brought to the Americas, after the most despi­ca­ble form of geno­cide, their descen­dants are still fight­ing an exis­ten­tial fight in America, a land their fore-par­ents slaved for , was raped, bru­tal­ized and mur­dered for. As if that is not enough, as if four hun­dred years is not enough, the white pow­er struc­ture in America still uses insti­tu­tion­al racism to sup­press and mar­gin­al­ize African Americans in this their own country.

It should be estab­lished for pos­ter­i­ty that black peo­ple lived here side by side with the native peo­ple long before Christopher Columbus and Europeans fig­ured out that the world was­n’t flat. Blacks lived in peace with their neigh­bors long before Europeans fig­ured out they would­n’t fall off the edge of the earth. The notion of dis­cov­er­ing land where peo­ple lived is a lie which is lost on no one. Christopher Columbus and the European pow­ers stole the land. The fall-out from the ensu­ing geno­cide which was to fol­low, is still being felt today by African-Americans, and the rem­nants of native peo­ple who sur­vived the mur­der­ous onslaught.

STATESMAN

As we keep vig­il at the vir­tu­al bed­side of this great stal­wart of decen­cy, I can­not but reflect that after Marcus Garvey , Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, Hue Newton, Emit Till, and count­less oth­er heroes have come and gone the insti­tu­tion of entrenched racism still per­sists in America. Yesterday the Supreme Court all but gut­ted the Voting Rights Act, which guar­an­teed that Blacks would sim­ply have the right to vote. The premise of that deci­sion is that the South of 1965 has changed. The irony of that con­clu­sion is that Southern states did not have an epiphany, sud­den­ly real­iz­ing that what they were doing was inher­ent­ly and moral­ly wrong. Southern states were made to do the right thing. As per the Supreme court, the Voting Rights Act became a vic­tim of it’s own suc­cess. We African peo­ple are a good and decent peo­ple, we must get back to the prin­ci­ples of King and Mandela, Of Garvey, and Tutu, we are a proud peo­ple. I salute you Nelson Mandela, I pray for you and your family.

The United States Supreme Court today pulled off a stroke of bril­liant but devi­ous genius in the way it han­dled two deci­sions before it. Yesterday June ²⁵⁄₂₀₁₃, the world learned that the United States through its high­est court, struck down sec­tion 5 of the land-mark 1965 vot­ing rights act signed by President Lyndon Johnson.

President Lyndon Johnson and Dr Martin Luther King

The 1965 vot­ing Rights Act was a fit­ting cli­max to decades of atroc­i­ties vis­it­ed on African-Americans who only wished to par­tic­i­pate in the con­cept of democ­ra­cy, the right to vote. These atroc­i­ties includ­ed the most grue­some mur­ders, rape, and a pletho­ra oth­er crimes. It guar­an­teed Blacks in America the right to take part in the notion pre­sent­ed in the Constitution that all men are cre­at­ed equal.

The right to vote, is the right to be involved in the demo­c­ra­t­ic process of one man one vote. It is the cor­ner-stone of the prin­ci­ple of democ­ra­cy. Yet over the last 4 hun­dred years in America, the white major­i­ty did not allow black Americans to enjoy the dig­ni­ty of being humans in a land they set­tled long before Christopher Columbus even got here.

Many African-Americans Jews, and gen­tile whites died to win that sim­ple right that the white major­i­ty takes for grant­ed as a result of white priv­i­lege. Notwithstanding the US Supreme Court struck down sec­tion 5 of that Act , know­ing full well that the dys­func­tion­al Congress may nev­er be able to fine tune this Act. Ironically, the pri­ma­ry rea­son the major­i­ty sites for changes to the Act through Chief Justice Roberts is that the South of yes­ter­year no longer exist. The shock­ing real­i­ty of this state­ment is that the Right wing of this court is argu­ing that the Act should be changed because it has been suc­cess­ful. It is no sur­prise that John Roberts want­ed that Law changed even as a young lawyer in the Reagan Administration.

In the minor­i­ty dis­sent writ­ten by Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, she argues that the action of the court is tan­ta­mount to throw­ing out your umbrel­la in a rain-storm because you aren’t get­ting wet. It was a shock­ing­ly cal­lous and bla­tant dis­re­gard for the gross injus­tices which has been inflict­ed on African-Americans in this coun­try. Acquiescing to the demands of Shelby County Alabama, when they can shown no harm that the law has done is uncon­scionable. It is a slap in the face to well mean­ing peo­ple all over the world, and an affront to their dignity.

Striking down sec­tion 5 of the Voting Rights Acts in fact say­ing “We know you have been bad but because we made sure you are not bad any­more we will stop ensur­ing that you remain good”. This makes no sense, many of the peo­ple who were around in the ear­ly 1960’s stand­ing in the way of African-Americans right to vote are still alive and a part of the process there.

Even so ‚over the last elec­tion cycle there have been bla­tant­ly overt attempts to pre­vent peo­ple of col­or from vot­ing all across America. How could a court get a deci­sion so bla­tant­ly wrong? Except of course, that the deci­sion of that court is a part of an orches­trat­ed strat­e­gy to return blacks to the pre-civ­il rights era.

STRIKING DOWN THE FEDERAL DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT:

The deci­sion of the Supreme Court the very next day June 26^th 2013 which strikes down the Federal Defense of mar­riage act, is a bril­liant yet devi­ous stroke of genius. The Court is patent­ly aware that the eupho­ria of Gays being allowed to mar­ry would be momentous.

The 5 right wing judges which swept away the rights of African Americans just a day ear­li­er under­stands that their shame­ful deci­sion would be over-shad­owed by their lat­est actions , that of strik­ing down DOMA . They gam­bled it would lit­er­al­ly sweep away their cal­lous actions of the day before like a Tsunami, they were right.

All across America gays and les­bians, and those who sup­port mar­riage equal­i­ty are in cel­e­bra­to­ry mode, while the rights of almost 40 mil­lion black peo­ple were set back almost 50 years in one egre­gious and shame­ful rul­ing. They had to know the impli­ca­tions, yet they did it any­way. I often won­dered what it must have felt like to live in the America of the 50’s and 60’s, yes­ter­day I felt like I was right there.

No one will be talk­ing about the grave injus­tice done to blacks in that deci­sion of Shelby coun­ty Vs Holder, it will all dis­ap­pear in the eupho­ria of the rul­ing giv­ing gays and les­bians the right to mar­ry. Once again Black Americans are pawns in the process, a total­ly dis­pos­able and despised people.

The Trayvon Martin case start­ed today June 24^th. Of note is ‚the jury is made of of all white women. What would have hap­pened if the jury was all black men, would it be allowed? Would it be allowed to have an all black women jury? Never mind that the judge is also a white woman.

Are we to believe that the make­up of this jury is to make sure that we do not get an OJ Simpson type of ver­dict? We will be watching.

Respect is some­thing earned, you can­not demand it, you can­not buy it, you sim­ply have to earn it. Long before Reneto De. Cardova Adams emerged on the scene and labelled the group Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) a Criminal Rights group I was writ­ing about them and call­ing them a crim­i­nal rights group. As a mat­ter of fact when I was run­ning the streets I nev­er heard of Adams, I was shocked to hear of Adams after I had left the force at the ripe old age of 30 in 1991, there I told you all my age. I was nev­er opposed to peo­ple stand­ing up for the rights of oth­ers, as a mat­ter of fact even as a cop I stood up for the rights of peo­ple , even against some of my col­leagues, when they went too far. I would nev­er betray a fel­low offi­cer, but I damn sure ensured that sit­u­a­tions were defused before they got too far.

Jamaicans for Justice head Carolyn Gomes.

Anyway the Jamaica Constabulary Force has start­ed to hit back at the crim­i­nal rights lob­by (JFJ) .

In a release the Constabulary had this to say to Gomes and the crim­i­nal rights group JFJ. “While we are in no posi­tion to dic­tate to human rights groups how they car­ry out their tasks. It would be refresh­ing at a time when vio­lence involv­ing our youths espe­cial­ly those in school is most pro­nounced, if they would move away from their obvi­ous man­date and use their influ­ence to encour­age these young­sters not to get involved in a life of crime and vio­lence,” the police report said adding that inves­ti­ga­tions by the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) were wel­come with the hope that the find­ings are made pub­lic.Read more: http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​P​o​l​i​c​e​-​d​e​n​y​-​c​l​a​i​m​s​-​o​f​-​d​e​a​t​h​-​t​h​r​e​a​t​s​-​a​g​a​i​n​s​t​-​S​t​-​T​h​o​m​a​s​-​b​o​y​s​#​i​x​z​z​2​X​0​D​m​8​6qu.

The police were react­ing to Gomes and the crim­i­nal sup­port­ing group who wast­ed no time mak­ing claims about threats on the lives of two crim­i­nals the police picked up inter­ro­gat­ed and released.

The CCN said that the boys are broth­ers of the for­mer leader of the Yallahs-based Trendsetter Gang, who was fatal­ly shot by the Police in October last year.

It’s good to see the police push­ing back against crim­i­nal sup­port­er Carolyn Gomes. This lying char­la­tan has made a car­rear out of lies dis­tor­tions and decep­tion, for our part we have been push­ing back at the lies expos­ing to the world who she real­ly is. We applaud the police for final­ly fight­ing back against this ene­my of the state.

The Jamaica dias­po­ra is a term we hear bandied about a lot, a quick Yahoo search revealed this about the word [Diaspora] .The term: dias­po­ra is used to refer to any peo­ple or eth­nic pop­u­la­tion forced or induced to leave their tra­di­tion­al eth­nic homelands.

As a Jamaican liv­ing abroad who was­n’t forced to leave my home­land I guess I am not tru­ly a mem­ber of the Jamaican dias­po­ra! Well enough of that, let’s not split hairs. The so-called Jamaican dias­po­ra, what­ev­er that is, has cur­rent­ly been meet­ing in Montego Bay between June 16 – 19 , 2013.

The Biennial Jamaica — Diaspora Conference, con­vened by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, is the glob­al forum that con­nects Jamaicans from all over the world with Jamaicans in the home coun­try every two years. The event seeks to strength­en exist­ing link­ages and net­works, and to build alliances for Jamaica’s devel­op­ment and stand­ing in the world.This year’s re-brand­ed and total­ly revamped glob­al forum, places spe­cial focus on Trade and Investment. It will seek to build on the lega­cy of JA 50 by explor­ing spe­cif­ic oppor­tu­ni­ties for the Diaspora, to expand their busi­ness inter­est in Jamaica through increased trade and invest­ment. Participants will also engage in dis­cus­sions about ways to expand the Diaspora’s con­tri­bu­tion to Health and Education in Jamaica, both as indi­vid­u­als and orga­nized groups. Conference 2013 holds spe­cial sig­nif­i­cance as it takes place with­in the cel­e­bra­to­ry peri­od of Jamaica’s 50^th Anniversary of Political Independence. This 5^th Biennial Conference has been re-cal­i­brat­ed to focus on Business, Trade and Investment, Philanthropy, Social Investment and Diaspora Diplomacy; and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will unveil a new Diaspora Policy.http://​www​.jamaican​di​as​po​ra​.gov​.jm/​i​n​d​e​x​.​p​h​p​?​o​p​t​i​o​n​=​c​o​m​_​c​o​n​t​e​n​t​&​v​i​e​w​=​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​&​i​d​=​1​0​9​&​I​t​e​m​i​d​=​554

I am a lit­tle mys­ti­fied, maybe some of you my read­ers can apprise me of who makes up this group or any oth­er dias­po­ra group, where are the mem­bers recruit­ed, who does the recruit­ing, where do they meet , what are the require­ments for mem­ber­ship beyond being a Jamaican liv­ing abroad ? Has any­one ever asked any of you to be a part of their dias­po­ra group? No..? Well me nei­ther, so I went ahead and took the lib­er­ty to pro­vide a link for you to judge for your­selves. I would be hon­ored to hear what you think about this dias­po­ra thing because it seem to me it’s just a name giv­en to the monied friends of the pow­er bro­kers in Jamaica. I don’t know for sure so I will await your views on this. Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller in address­ing the con­fer­ence said that there can be no improve­ment in the for­tunes of the coun­try unless there is actu­al­ly active par­tic­i­pa­tion of the Jamaican diaspora.(my words)! Now do you see why I vis­it­ed the ques­tion of what dias­po­ra means and who is a part of it in their con­text? If what I saw is rep­re­sen­ta­tive of what they call dias­po­ra, many of you and cer­tain­ly me are not a part of it. Contextually it seem this is just a smoke-screen that is designed to fool Jamaicans liv­ing abroad into believ­ing that we mat­ter. It appears that it’s just a group of peo­ple from upper Saint Andrew, friends of the pow­er-bro­kers, who seek to speak for you and I with­out our say-so.

Having gone through the info on their web­site I believe that the Administration has not even begun to under­stand the vast untapped resource, that is Jamaican liv­ing abroad.

They nev­er will, like many Jamaicans at home and abroad the government(party neu­tral) are still stuck in the caste sys­tem which has defined Jamaica through­out it’s his­to­ry. The true worth of our coun­try are the aver­age man on the streets, not the well to do bourgeoisie.

Who Are the Hutu and Tutsi?

The Hutu and Tutsi are two peoples who share a common past. When Rwanda was first settled, the people who lived there raised cattle. Soon, the people who owned the most cattle were called “Tutsi” and everyone else was called “Hutu.” At this time, a person could easily change categories through marriage or cattle acquisition. It wasn’t until Europeans came to colonize the area that the terms “Tutsi” and “Hutu” took on a racial role. The Germans were the first to colonize Rwanda in 1894. They looked at the Rwandan people and thought the Tutsi had more European characteristics, such as lighter skin and a taller build. Thus they put Tutsis in roles of responsibility. When the Germans lost their colonies following World War I, the Belgians took control over Rwanda. In 1933, the Belgians solidified the categories of “Tutsi” and “Hutu” by mandating that every person was to have an identity card that labeled them either Tutsi, Hutu, or Twa. (Twa are a very small group of hunter-gatherers who also live in Rwanda.) Although the Tutsi constituted only about ten percent of Rwanda’s population and the Hutu nearly 90 percent, the Belgians gave the Tutsi all the leadership positions. This upset the Hutu. When Rwanda struggled for independence from Belgium, the Belgians switched the status of the two groups. Facing a revolution instigated by the Hutu, the Belgians let the Hutus, who constituted the majority of Rwanda’s population, be in charge of the new government. This upset the Tutsi.The animosity between the two groups continued for decades.

Slaughter Inside Churches, Hospitals, and Schools

Thousands of Tutsis tried to escape the slaughter by hiding in churches, hospitals, schools, and government offices. These places, which historically have been places of refuge, were turned into places of mass murder during the Rwanda Genocide. One of the worst massacres of the Rwanda genocide took place on April 15 – 16, 1994 at the Nyarubuye Roman Catholic Church, located about 60 miles east of Kigali. Here, the mayor of the town, a Hutu, encouraged Tutsis to seek sanctuary inside the church by assuring them they would be safe there. Then the mayor betrayed them to the Hutu extremists. The killing began with grenades and guns, but soon changed to machetes and clubs. Killing by hand was tiresome, so the killers took shifts. It took two days to kill the thousands of Tutsi who were inside. Similar massacres took place around Rwanda, with many of the worst ones occurring between April 11 and the beginning of May.

Corpses

To further degrade the Tutsi, Hutu extremists would not allow the Tutsi dead to be buried. Their bodies were left where they were slaughtered, exposed to the elements, eaten by rats and dogs. Many Tutsi bodies were thrown into rivers, lakes, and streams in order to send the Tutsis “back to Ethiopia” — a reference to the myth that the Tutsi were foreigners and originally came from Ethiopia.

Media Played a Huge Role in the Genocide

For years, the Kangura newspaper, controlled by Hutu extremists, had been spouting hate. As early as December 1990, the paper published “The Ten Commandments for the Hutu.” The commandments declared that any Hutu who married a Tutsi was a traitor. Also, any Hutu who did business with a Tutsi was a traitor. The commandments also insisted that all strategic positions and the entire military must be Hutu. In order to isolate the Tutsis even further, the commandments also told the Hutu to stand by other Hutu and to stop pitying the Tutsi.* When RTLM (Radio Télévison des Milles Collines) began broadcasting on July 8, 1993, it also spread hate. However, this time it was packaged to appeal to the masses by offering popular music and broadcasts conducted in a very informal, conversational tones.

Once the killings started, RTLM went beyond just espousing hate; they took an active role in the slaughter. The RTLM called for the Tutsi to “cut down the tall trees,” a code phrase which meant for the Hutu to start killing the Tutsi. During broadcasts, RTLM often used the terminyenzi (“cockroach”) when referring to Tutsis and then told Hutu to “crush the cockroaches.” Many RTLM broadcasts announced names of specific individuals who should be killed; RTLM even included information about where to find them, such as home and work addresses or known hangouts. Once these individuals had been killed, RTLM then announced their murders over the radio.

The RTLM was used to incite the average Hutu to kill. However, if a Hutu refused to participate in the slaughter, then members of the Interahamwe would give them a choice — either kill or be killed.

The World Stood By and Just Watched

Following World War II and the Holocaust, the United Nations adopted a resolution on December 9, 1948, which stated that “The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.” Clearly, the massacres in Rwanda constituted genocide, so why didn’t the world step in to stop it? There has been a lot of research on this exact question. Some people have said that since Hutu moderates were killed in the early stages then some countries believed the conflict to be more of a civil war rather than a genocide. Other research has shown that the world powers realized it was a genocide but that they didn’t want to pay for the needed supplies and personnel to stop it​.No matter what the reason, the world should have stepped in. They should have stopped the slaughter.

The Rwanda Genocide Ends

The Rwanda Genocide ended only when the RPF took over the country. The RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front) were a trained military group consisting of Tutsis who had been exiled in earlier years, many of whom lived in Uganda. The RPF were able to enter Rwanda and slowly take over the country. In mid July 1994, when the RPF had full control, did the genocide stop. * “The Ten Commandments of the Hutu” is quoted in Josias Semujanga, Origins of the Rwandan Genocide (Amherst, New York: Humanity Books, 2003) 196 – 197.http://​his​to​ry1900s​.about​.com/​o​d​/​r​w​a​n​d​a​n​g​e​n​o​c​i​d​e​/​a​/​R​w​a​n​d​a​-​G​e​n​o​c​i​d​e​.​htm.

As I read this bit of his­to­ry my mind wan­dered to my home­land Jamaica, I think of the many young men there some of whom are respon­si­ble for dozens of homi­cide, yet they pay no price for their crimes. One twen­ty year old brags about the over one dozen lives he snuffed out (mek dup­py), no one knows how many lives he will take before he is brought to jus­tice, or jus­tice is brought to him. Even as I pon­der this, I am forced to con­tem­plate whether any form of jus­tice is enough for these demons.

I am not equat­ing Jamaica with Rwanda, but if you famil­iar­ize your­selves with the two sce­nar­ios, you can­not help com­ing away feel­ing that with all the ser­i­al mur­der­ers walk­ing around in Jamaica there are some similarities.

Jamaica’s crim­i­nal courts are burst­ing at the seams with cas­es which will nev­er be heard, these are seri­ous cas­es of mur­der, includ­ing cop-killings, seri­ous cas­es of aggra­vat­ed assaults, Rapes, and oth­er crimes. The ones that do get resolved gen­er­al­ly does noth­ing for deter­rence, the coun­try’s Police Commissioner came out stri­dent­ly against this recent­ly.https://​www​.face​book​.com/​p​e​r​m​a​l​i​n​k​.​p​h​p​?​s​t​o​r​y​_​f​b​i​d​=​5​3​6​3​0​6​3​8​6​4​3​2​6​8​1​&​i​d​=​1​7​7​0​0​6​5​5​2​3​6​2​668.

As bad as that is , it gets worse. Lack of faith in the jus­tice sys­tem has caused innu­mer­able harm to the coun­try, flight of tal­ent, the mur­der of Thousands of Jamaicans, mob-killings,police cor­rup­tion to name a few. The year 2005 saw the chances of get­ting mur­dered in Jamaica 58 per,100.000 res­i­dents. Jamaica’s mur­der num­bers far exceeds coun­tries which have active civ­il wars raging.

Then PNP Prime Minister Percival James Patterson labeled the sit­u­a­tion a cri­sis of mon­u­men­tal pro­por­tion , yet for a decade under his watch, not a sin­gle detec­tive was trained by the police depart­ment. This helped to exac­er­bate the crime sit­u­a­tion. People are deterred from com­mit­ting crime when they see oth­ers going to prison for inor­di­nate lengths of time, not from police walk­ing around with long guns.

The present lead­er­ship of the coun­try is a mys­tery. One can see if the prob­lems fac­ing the coun­try are iden­ti­fied, we may have a dis­cus­sion about the effec­tive­ness of the poli­cies being employed. In my hum­ble opin­ion there seem to be no recog­ni­tion by the Administration that crime is lit­er­al­ly killing the coun­try, much less to have a strat­e­gy to com­bat it.

We saw the bod­ies in Rwanda, but are we pre­tend­ing not to see the bod­ies in Jamaica?

Bonnet Primary School is nes­tled in the cool hilly regions of North east Saint Catherine. Bonnett District was for­mer­ly a cul-de-sac, you get in on foot or vehic­u­lar ‚then turn around and head back toward Benbow.

As a kid grow­ing up there, life was sim­ple in the 60’s and 70’s most of us were poor, we ran around bare-feet, patch­es of dif­fer­ent cloth in the back­side of our shorts which had seen bet­ter days. We drank from the streams, we swam in the rivers, played soc­cer and crick­et in the school-yard bare-feet.

The Primary school then was one big open room sep­a­rat­ed by calk-boards , at times hous­ing as much as nine class­es, look­ing back it seem strange that any­one could learn any­thing in the din of hun­dreds of stu­dents recit­ing , read­ing and just talk­ing at the same time.

Most times it was like a bee-hive, bro­ken only when teach­ers took us out­side on the grass under the trees. As lit­tle kids we loved being out of the school-room and out in the open. I for one was way more com­fort­able sit­ting on the grass in my khakis, say­ing “me teacher“in that sing song voice we asso­ciate with grade school kids.

As a sec­ondary school stu­dent I lob­bied the mem­ber of Parliament, I called in to Ronnie Thwaites, I wrote let­ters beg­ging that the roads lead­ing in to the dis­trict be paved. It was­n’t until after I had grad­u­at­ed high school, that they final­ly got around to paving the Bonnet to Benbow Road.

Unfortunately the way things stood in the 70’s are the way they remain today.

Gleaner pho­to:

This is the uri­nal I used as a kid , it was noth­ing more than a runoff into a hole, it is the same as it was in the 70’s today. http://​jamaica​-glean​er​.com/​g​l​e​a​n​e​r​/​2​0​1​3​0​6​1​5​/​n​e​w​s​/​n​e​w​s​1​.​h​tml

Gleaner pho­to:

The math teacher Althea Bryan (my cousin )is my Aunt’s daugh­ter, she decid­ed to stay and edu­cate the kids, as her mom did for years before she retired.

The teach­ers com­plain there is no piped water, as it was 30- 40 years ago, so is it today. No staff room for teach­ers, no com­put­ers, they say plans have been sub­mit­ted to the Ministry of Education for upgrades to the school, argu­ing that res­i­dents are will­ing to do the work them­selves, yet no mon­ey or mate­r­i­al has been forth­com­ing from the government.

I have already called and pledged the first desk­top com­put­er to the school, any­one will­ing to join me in this wor­thy cause may con­tact me at excellence@​hvc.​rr.​com. Your help would be great­ly appreciated.

When we talk about how gov­ern­ment and par­ty pol­i­tics have failed the peo­ple some are indig­nant. These peo­ple are us, me and you, I grew up here these kids are me and I am they.

Even though I haven’t lived in Jamaica for the past 22 years I am no less inter­est­ed in how our coun­try is run now,than when I left in 1991. I thought about how I could be of ser­vice to coun­try, despite not liv­ing there. Having decid­ed to offer opin­ions and facts on events and hap­pen­ing as I see them, I am also aware of the lim­i­ta­tions involved in get­ting peo­ple to focus on large texts of infor­ma­tion. Those are not the only chal­lenges faced by a blog­ger like myself. We Jamaicans have lit­er­al­ly locked our­selves into two box­es, one orange, the oth­er green. This places us at a dis­tinct dis­ad­van­tage, as far as pro­cess­ing infor­ma­tion, even when we are thou­sands of miles removed from Jamaica’s parochial pol­i­tics. We process every­thing Jamaica, with­in the con­text of pol­i­tics, some­times bor­der­ing on the insane. Even in the face of irrefutable facts ‚we balk we yell, using noise to over­whelm truths we find incon­ve­nient. We demo­nize each oth­er ‚we label each oth­er, we dis­par­age each oth­er sim­ply because we dis­agree with their point-of-view.

The Jamaican Dollar is now over 100 to one American Dollar, vir­tu­al­ly worth­less. The coun­try have secured a loan from the International Monetary Fund this was seen as a major vic­to­ry for the coun­try. I wrote in these blogs that you know the coun­try is in trou­ble when secur­ing a loan is seen as a major accom­plish­ment. I also warned that that loan would be sim­i­lar to cot­ton-can­dy, sweet to the taste yet bad for your health.

It did not take long for the sweet­ness of that cot­ton-can­dy to show how bad it can be for your teeth and sug­ar lev­els. Ronald Thwaites recent­ly told prospec­tive teach­ers grad­u­at­ing from col­lege “gov­ern­ment have no mon­ey to hire you”. This state­ment even as he is embroiled in an epic strug­gle with teach­ers already on the gov­ern­men­t’s pay-roll, over issues of study leave.

The rape and mur­der of chil­dren is now com­mon prac­tice. Elderly peo­ple are sum­mar­i­ly exe­cut­ed, none is spared the wrath of Jamaica’s demon­ic killers, includ­ing law-enforce­ment offi­cers. The hous­ing trust tells pub­lic sec­tor work­ers who have paid into that fund and are still employed ‚that they do not qual­i­fy for mort­gages, yet the Prime Minister rolled out her new plan called Urban Renewal which is aimed at pro­vid­ing hous­ing to Jamaica’s urban poor. The prob­lem with this bit of feel good, is that these peo­ple have no mon­ey to pay for the hous­es they are slat­ed to receive.

The coun­try’s inter­est pay­ment oblig­a­tions on for­eign loans gob­bles up almost one-half of its gross domes­tic prod­uct. So they bor­row more to fill the short­fall, which exac­er­bates the prob­lem fur­ther, because with each loan guar­an­tee comes the added bur­den of a larg­er piece of the GDP pie going to debt servicing.

The coun­try has record­ed a 1.5 % growth, neg­li­gi­ble for a coun­try like Jamaica.

Jamaica remains one of the most high­ly indebt­ed coun­tries in the world. Interest pay­ments as a per­cent of GDP were high­er than any­where else in the world in 2011, includ­ing cri­sis-rav­aged Europe. This exceed­ing­ly large debt bur­den has effec­tive­ly dis­placed most oth­er pub­lic expen­di­ture, debt ser­vic­ing has tak­en up near­ly 50 per­cent of total bud­get­ed expen­di­tures over the last four fis­cal years while health and edu­ca­tion com­bined have only been around 20 percent.This sit­u­a­tion is very prob­lem­at­ic for a coun­try of Jamaica’s income lev­el, which should be able to invest in infra­struc­ture and human cap­i­tal, as well as have the finan­cial flex­i­bil­i­ty to respond to fre­quent nat­ur­al dis­as­ters and oth­er exter­nal shocks.http://​www​.cepr​.net/​d​o​c​u​m​e​n​t​s​/​p​u​b​l​i​c​a​t​i​o​n​s​/​j​a​m​a​i​c​a​-​2​012 – 05.pdf

People are los­ing their prop­er­ty to squat­ters, who invade and erect zinc struc­tures, just like dur­ing the 70’s why not that’s social­ism right?

The coun­try’s clue­less Prime Minister when not embar­rass­ing the coun­try by open­ing her mouth, has decide to stay mute as the titan­ic sinks. She opened it recent­ly to pro­nounce quote “I will not talk myself out of office” . If that moron­ic state­ment was not so rep­re­hen­si­ble it would be worth a laugh. Never mind every­thing is all about her stay­ing in office. You get the lead­er­ship you deserve.

Holness the oppo­si­tion leader, seem absolute­ly clue­less about what path to take to res­cue the coun­try from this immi­nent col­lapse. Those of us who are look­ing for a return of civil­i­ty, or a place where droves of Jamaicans are in a hur­ry to return to may have a very long wait.

It seem we have been lulled into a state of paral­y­sis, I don’t pur­port to know or under­stand the rea­son for this, the world as we knew it has been turned upside down yet we seem to sim­ply shrug and move on.

There are mass killings in our schools, the peo­ple elect­ed to make deci­sions on our behalf ‚make deci­sions which suit their cor­po­rate spon­sors, we move on.

An American cit­i­zen revealed that the Government is secret­ly read­ing our email and lis­ten­ing to our phone con­ver­sa­tions. He argues if the gov­ern­ment is to do those things, the pub­lic ought to say it is com­fort­able with it,that’s all. Before the peo­ple can decide whether it wants the gov­ern­ment to con­tin­ue with those inva­sive prac­tices, the media tells us the whis­tle-blow­er is a guy who nev­er fin­ished high school, that he broke both his legs in a mil­i­tary train­ing exer­cise, he had no col­lege degree, he is a low-lev­el employ­ee of an employ­ee of the Government.

So he is depict­ed as trai­tor before you had the chance to decide whether he is, friend or foe, the media took the gov­ern­men­t’s side, no need for a free press any­more! After the media fin­ished paint­ing the pic­ture they want you to see , you are bound to come away believ­ing the 29-year-old is a trai­tor who deserve to be shot in the pub­lic square. That absolves the Government from explain­ing to the American peo­ple why it is doing the things it is doing and doing them in secret.

Never mind that those in the Government, Republicans and Democrats ‚will spend the next sev­er­al months telling you how bad this whis­tle-blow­er is, why not? they are the ones who are ben­e­fit­ing from the infor­ma­tion farmed from phone and inter­net com­pa­nies, and it’s all for your pro­tec­tion right?.…. Right.

The gov­ern­ment sur­veil­lance sys­tem feeds on itself it gets big­ger as it con­vinces you the peo­ple to give more of your rights and free­doms . As it takes more of your rights and free­doms, you give it because you want to be kept safe. The prob­lem is, as you unwit­ting­ly shrug and give it ‚you have not stopped to think how the gov­ern­ment uses those rights and pow­ers you unwit­ting­ly hand­ed over, in your quest for an unat­tain­able Utopian sense of security.

Not all elect­ed offi­cials are ine­bri­at­ed lambs to the slaugh­ter, Vice President Joe Biden dis­agrees with whole-sale farm­ing of Americans most pri­vate infor­ma­tion, oth­ers like Senators Bernie Saunders, Ron Widen and Congress-man Keith Ellison are not so sure they want to trust President Obama when he basi­cal­ly said trust us we got this.

It is shock­ing that the American peo­ple are so dis­con­nect­ed from this mon­stros­i­ty of a police state, which has been autho­rized in the Patriot Act. Never mind that many Senators have con­fessed that they did­n’t even both­er to read the bill before they vot­ed “yay”.

Obama for his part, crit­i­cized President Bush harsh­ly for what he saw then as a bla­tant over-reach and a dra­mat­ic infringe­ment on the rights of Americans, speak­ing of the said Patriot Act. Yet he has dou­bled down on fun­da­men­tals of the Act, in fact Obama and his Justice Department has pros­e­cut­ed more whis­tle-blow­ers than all the oth­er Administrations combined.

The prob­lem with the affair is that the con­gress which is sup­posed to offer over­sight and to a large extent about half of the coun­try could not care less whether the gov­ern­ment takes onto itself such sweep­ing pow­ers over their lives.

One Democratic law-mak­er char­ac­ter­ized the gov­ern­men­t’s intru­sion as nec­es­sary, liken­ing it to look­ing for the nee­dle in a haystack. He argued that in order to get the nee­dle they need the haystack! I won­der if we leave the haystack out what remains? Wouldn’t that be the needle?

I stand to be cor­rect­ed but I chal­lenge the American peo­ple to find an instance when total Government con­trol over it’s peo­ple have ever had a pos­i­tive effect for the peo­ple any­where in history.

In the penul­ti­mate arti­cle I wrote I attempt­ed to address the issue of Politics. In that post I ref­er­enced the way pol­i­tics has col­ored our per­cep­tions that it is almost impos­si­ble for some peo­ple to oper­ate out­side the nar­row parochial con­fines of Jamaican pol­i­tics. I was always aware that in a way it was a form of iden­ti­ty for some to cling to, a sort of group­ing of sorts , being week mind­ed and fee­ble they are unable to strike out on their own and find their own way. Instead they teth­er their wag­ons to the nas­ti­ness of Jamaican pol­i­tics. In the 2008 Presidential cam­paign, then can­di­date Obama speak­ing to a group of donors behind closed doors, spoke to those truths when he exco­ri­at­ed cer­tain mid-west­ern­ers, for what he char­ac­ter­ized as their propen­si­ty to cling to their guns and bible.

What can­di­date Obama was frus­trat­ed with, was the almost kamikaze-like fanati­cism with which some peo­ple hold them­selves back because of their refusal to let go of some of the things they know, thus exclud­ing them­selves from the lim­it­less pos­si­bil­i­ties of the future. As I artic­u­lat­ed in the pre­vi­ous post, I too was once a part of that class, it took me awhile to rec­og­nize that what I was was a man first, then a Jamaican sec­ond. Anyone famil­iar with my com­men­tary over the years under­stand that I do not care about Jamaica’s two polit­i­cal gangs. I have seen them both at their worse. Interestingly, it seem even today there are some who can­not see any issue out­side the con­fines of JLP/​NP. Over the lasts sev­er­al decades thou­sands of our coun­try-men and women have been slaugh­tered, their homes reduced to ash­es, because of local pol­i­tics. No sec­tor of Jamaican life has been left free from the nox­ious fumes of Jamaica’s fetid rot­ten politics.

It was of no sur­prise then that even as I went to great lengths to try to show just how destruc­tive that infat­u­a­tion has been for our peo­ple, there are some who moron­i­cal­ly accused me of hav­ing an agen­da, that my writ­ings have a polit­i­cal stench. I will agree with the gen­tle­man it does have a polit­i­cal stench, it is the very same stench that has kept my coun­try in pover­ty to the point almost every Jamaican would leave if they had a chance. It is the stench that points to the almost 1600 of my countrymen/​women slaugh­tered annu­al­ly for no good rea­son. It is the stench of count­less rapes, assaults on our chil­dren, lit­tle chil­dren forced into pros­ti­tu­tion. The stench of the rise of the “don“culture which has divid­ed up our lit­tle coun­try into polit­i­cal zones of exclu­sions and turfs, the kind only found in sub-Saharan Africa. It is the stench of wit­ness­ing the Police Force I served in, reduced to an inept poor excuse of a secu­ri­ty-guard band of sad-sacks, which is so cor­rupt that peo­ple pre­fer to go to the don for help.

The stench which saw the dol­lar reduced to a worth­less piece of thrash that our peo­ple would rather receive a for­eign cur­ren­cy than our own. Yes the stench of failed lead­er­ship which stole and wast­ed bor­rowed mon­ey which has cre­at­ed a bal­ance of pay­ment sit­u­a­tion which makes our future worse than Greece. Yet I do not expect some to under­stand the dire con­se­quences this has for the future of our coun­try, after all( “you are nam­min a food rite now, arent you”)?I remind­ed myself that the rea­son the JCF has the rep­u­ta­tion it has is because of some of the peo­ple who entered through it’s doors. Part of the tragedy is some can bare­ly read or write yet they were allowed in, the dam­age they do will live for infamy.

He and I grad­u­at­ed from the Academy December 1982, we went to the Beat and Foot-Patrol Division then sit­u­at­ed at the bot­tom of West Street by the Craft Market. After our stints there I was sent to the Mobile reserve, this was unprece­dent­ed, nev­er before were offi­cers not specif­i­cal­ly trained at the Twickenham-Park Police train­ing facil­i­ty, ever sent to the Mobile Reserve, anoth­er first for me. Seiveright was sent to the Motorized Patrol Division at Elleston Road East Kingston, many young offi­cers were hap­py to be trans­ferred there, it was a place where clean ener­getic offi­cers got to shine, they were the face of the Force, they large­ly did only patrol duties. At the time I had a broth­er sta­tioned there, I was­n’t par­tic­u­lar­ly unhap­py about not being trans­ferred there. I was very unhap­py with being sent to the Mobile Reserve, some­how that did not fit into my plans of becom­ing a detec­tive. In fact that Division was called Harman-bruk-up, it was rumored to be a place where there were a lot of wasters, a dis­parag­ing moniker used to describe lazy non-pro­duc­tive cops. I will not lie, when I saw my name going to Mobile Reserve in that Force Orders I bust­ed out cry­ing. Seiveright was the nicest per­son you ever want­ed to meet, he always had an ear to ear smile, he was quite, nev­er cursed, nev­er swore, he was a born-again Christian who took his Bible with him to the Academy. To the best of my rec­ol­lec­tion, not many of us took Bibles with us out of that batch of a hun­dred plus, I cer­tain­ly did­n’t. One night my friend Constable Seiveright was on patrol with a corporal,they pulled over a taxi-cab on what was then the Ferry road , now the Mandela Highway. Seiveright went up to the car, I can just imag­ine him then, smil­ing as he always was ‚get­ting ready to greet the occu­pants, as he would every­one in his good-natured well-man­nered way. That was the last thing my good chris­t­ian friend ever did. We received the news from Control, Seiveright was mur­dered by a ster­ling sub-machine-gun tot­ing scum­bag. Seiveright did not know what hit him, killed by a blast to his abdomen, he died instant­ly. The cor­po­ral obvi­ous­ly want­ed no part of that shoot­ing so he hid. R Seiveright was the first to die from our batch. Later Cowan, Steele, and oth­ers would fol­low, I too could have been one of those sta­tis­tics, years lat­er a cow­ard­ly piece of garbage thought he could ambush and kill me, in my case I refused to go down with­out a fight and fight I did. 

When some elit­ist talk about police shoot­ing crim­i­nals, as if they know what the hell they are talk­ing about, I say walk a mile in the shoes of a police offi­cer in Jamaica then tell me what you think after you do. No one deserves to die sim­ply because he/​she went to work. Seiveright was not award­ed a medal posthu­mous­ly, his fam­i­ly was not told how brave he was, how decent he was, they were just made to bury their son. Jamaica’s crim­i­nal politi­cians and their allies in the crim­i­nal rights fra­ter­ni­ty did not see fit to hon­or a decent law-abid­ing Jamaican who gave his life in ser­vice to the coun­try he loved. They hon­or Carolyn Gomes who has spent untold time and mon­ey dis­hon­or­ing the rule of law with aid and com­fort to those who destroys life and limb. This is the coun­try Jamaica we have, this is not fic­tion , it is real, even the rul­ing par­ty’s lead­ing mem­bers are run­ning with their fam­i­lies to oth­er coun­tries. We will not for­get you my friend may God give you peace.

There has been a lot of dis­cus­sion com­ing out of the 2010 Security Forces assault on mer­ce­nar­ies holed up in Tivoli Gardens in sup­port of con­fessed Don, Gun Runner and trans-nation­al crim­i­nal Christopher (Dudus) Coke.

This buzz has received new life after the Public defend­er and anti ‑police antag­o­nist Earl Witter released his report which did noth­ing to advance the debate.

Jamaicans are gen­er­al­ly inclined to buy into any­thing for­eign, our peo­ple cel­e­brate any and every­one over oth­er Jamaicans. This is true even when their coun­try­men make tremen­dous per­son­al sac­ri­fice on their behalf, they much rather exalt oth­ers over their own.

One such ben­e­fi­cia­ry of that largess is New Yorker Magazine award win­ning jour­nal­ist Mattathias Schwartz .http://​www​.newyork​er​.com/​r​e​p​o​r​t​i​n​g​/​2​0​1​1​/​1​2​/​1​2​/​1​1​1​2​1​2​f​a​_​f​a​c​t​_​s​c​h​w​a​r​t​z​?​c​u​r​r​e​n​t​P​a​g​e=7

I pro­vid­ed a link for your infor­ma­tion to Schwartz’s award win­ning Article titled: mas­sacre in Jamaica

On Thursday, thou­sands of Tivoli women marched in down­town Kingston on Coke’s behalf. They wore white and car­ried signs, writ­ten in mark­er on scraps of card­board: “Taking Di Boss Is Like Taking Jesus”; “After God, Dudus Comes Next!”; “Jesus Die for Us. We Will Die for Dudus!”

(1) By the week­end, Tivoli had filled with armed men. But, even as Coke pre­pared for war, he was nego­ti­at­ing his sur­ren­der with the police through a promi­nent mem­ber of Jamaica’s cler­gy, Bishop Herro Blair. Blair said that Coke was ter­ri­fied of dying, like his father, in a Jamaican prison cell. But the Bishop’s hopes for a truce fal­tered on Sunday morn­ing, when Coke’s forces attacked police patrols and four police sta­tions, set­ting fire to at least one. The police com­mis­sion­er cut off nego­ti­a­tions, and at six o’clock Golding declared a state of emer­gency in Kingston, giv­ing the secu­ri­ty forces expand­ed pow­ers of search, arrest, and deten­tion. In a brief­ing that night with Jamaica’s top secu­ri­ty offi­cials, the police com­mis­sion­er, accord­ing to some­one who spoke to him soon after­ward, warned that as many as two hun­dred peo­ple might die.

(2)Blair, who had served in the Jamaican National Guard, was skep­ti­cal of claims that a mas­sacre had tak­en place. He said that when he met with Coke in Java before the attack, to try to nego­ti­ate a res­o­lu­tion, he saw rough­ly a hun­dred gun­men with him. “There is a script that is writ­ten, when­ev­er police are involved,” he told me. “People will all say the same thing.” Witter, a for­mer jour­nal­ist, whose office inves­ti­gates con­sti­tu­tion­al vio­la­tions and cas­es of injus­tice, took the alle­ga­tions seriously.

Schwartz allud­ed to liv­ing and being around Tivoli Gardens for a lit­tle while before he wrote his 8 page Article. My first impulse was that I would not read what he wrote. My incli­na­tion is that I don’t need a New York inter­lop­ing elit­ists to tell me what I have lived and breathed, I refer to Jamaica, but I read the arti­cle nontheless.

Let me state cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly that I was not in Tivoli Gardens when the secu­ri­ty forces went in to annex it to Jamaica, nei­ther was Mattathias Schwartz. Moving to Langley Virginia and spend­ing some time at the Central Intelligence Agency cer­tain­ly does not make me a CIA agent and it damn sure does not make me an author­i­ty on spying.

Even though I pro­vid­ed a link to Schwartz’s Article, I have also pulled two para­graphs which I believe are a direct con­tra­dic­tion of the head­line of his arti­cle and the sen­sa­tion­al­ism sur­round­ing the very arti­cle itself, these two para­graphs are in blue ink.

In the first instance Schwartz said quote: “By the week-end Tivoli was filled with armed men”.

In the sec­ond instance he allud­ed to speak­ing to Bishop Herro Blair a promi­nent Jamaican cler­gy-man who is the polit­i­cal ombuds­man, and a known JLP affil­i­ate, who attest­ed to the fact that he saw rough­ly a hun­dred gun­men when he went into Tivoli to meet with Coke toward work­ing out a resolution.

So there were prac­ti­cal­ly scores of armed mer­ce­nar­ies ready to top­ple the state, con­ver­sa­tion over , let’s go home, lets make sure it nev­er hap­pens again right?

We Jamaicans did not need an inter­lop­er to tell us these things, we saw the attacks which killed police offi­cers and mem­bers of our mil­i­tary, we saw the police sta­tions burn­ing, we saw the bar­ri­cades, we saw the out­pour­ing of love and adu­la­tion for the don. we saw the desert­ed streets. Where in America or any oth­er coun­try in the civ­i­lized world would that be tolerated ?

The city of Boston was shut down tighter than a jail after the marathon bombers com­mit­ted their acts, the rule of law pre­vailed. Schwarts talks about police killings by the num­bers as it relates to killings of the NYPD, is this guy for real ? Does he seri­ous­ly com­pare Jamaica with New York City? Furthermore where is Schwartz over all the years when young minor­i­ty men are being gunned down by the NYPD? did he write an arti­cle con­demn­ing those cops in the Abner Louima case,? What about Ammadio Dialo? What about the scores of name­less face­less oth­ers? Is Schwartz too much of a cow­ard to crit­i­cize the pow­er­ful NYPD, or, are the lives of young African-American and Latino males not impor­tant to him?

Even as he tells the truth about Bishop Blair’s account of wit­ness­ing rough­ly a hun­dred armed men, Schwartz attempt­ed to cast doubt on the Bishops account by try­ing to link him to the secu­ri­ty forces. Bishop Blair has been a long time sup­port­er of the JLP, he had no axe to grind, he told the truth.

In the end, the ulti­mate source of schwartz’s sto­ry are the very same peo­ple whom he admit­ted, con­fessed they will be killed if they spoke to cer­tain truths. He report­ed about the large cache of weapons which was recov­ered, yet he coun­ters by say­ing ini­tial­ly that only a few guns were recov­ered, and yes he speaks with cer­tain­ty that there real­ly was not much of a fire-fight even though he was nowhere around.

Mattathias Schwartz is just anoth­er sen­sa­tion­al­ist media type who feed off the unfor­tu­nate plight of oth­ers for his own ben­e­fit, this case is no dif­fer­ent. To those who speak out of the sides of their mouths as if they know some­thing , let me say this.

Innocent peo­ple get killed in a war-zone, Tivoli was a war-zone, it is regret­table when any inno­cent per­son los­es his/​her life, some­times it is unavoid­able. I under­stand full well the sit­u­a­tion many res­i­dents faced that fate­ful day, do I leave and may nev­er be per­mit­ted to return, brand­ed an informer, or do I tough it out? After all they are sur­vivors, the police was nev­er able to do their jobs there, they were always ruled by one don or anoth­er, why would this time be any different.

However ‚some of us who have been on the front lines have long known that mer­ce­nar­ies in that com­mu­ni­ty use urban mil­i­tary tac­tics to fight and retrieve weapons dropped by fall­en com­rades . This tac­tic is made pos­si­ble by lay­ing down a sus­tained sheet of auto­mat­ic fire while they retrieve the weapons, leav­ing the police to explain the dead bod­ies. Then they bring out the women to mourn. This is now an effec­tive tool of Jamaica’s crim­i­nal underworld.

They under­stood the impor­tance of win­ning the pro­pa­gan­da war. Coke’s let­ter pur­port­ed­ly to the com­mu­ni­ty, was one more attempt at that charm offensive.

The gullible Mattathias Schwartz is noth­ing more than one more pawn to that end.

The long await­ed and much over-due report on the Tivoli Grades oper­a­tion has final­ly been tabled in the Jamaican Parliament. This report was long await­ed but for rea­sons unknown to us has being delayed time and again.

Earl Witter: Public defender.

This is the biggest task that Public Defender Earl Witter has been giv­en since this new Agency was cre­at­ed. That office was allo­cat­ed $76.098-million as against $76.56 mil­lion last year.
We have long main­tained that this office is a colos­sal waste of mon­ey, it is a dupli­ca­tion of efforts, mon­ey squan­dered in this ven­ture could be bet­ter spent updat­ing the office of Director of Public Prosecution.

In plain Jamaican ver­nac­u­lar, it is a (eat a food posi­tion), it was cre­at­ed to give jobs to polit­i­cal hacks who can­not cut it in the real world. The Ministry of Justice ought to look to dis­pens­ing jus­tice on behalf of the Jamaican peo­ple, not anoth­er body.

Earl Witter is a long time crim­i­nal defense attor­ney, he has been mediocre at best through­out his car­rear, he has been tasked with run­ning this new Agency. The demand for a com­mis­sion of inquiry into what hap­pened in Tivoli Gardens by Jamaica’s pre­ten­tious Elitists in 2010 fell to Witter’s office.

For the record he was asked to inves­ti­gate in a fair and dis­pas­sion­ate way, what occurred in the Garrison West Kingston com­mu­ni­ty of Tivoli Gardens in 2010. Tivoli Gardens is the for­mer strong-hold of reput­ed con­vict­ed Gun ‑run­ning drug deal­er Christopher Coke who is doing time in a Florida Federal facility.

Of course, Witter has long held anti police views, he has know­ing­ly asso­ci­at­ed him­self with known anti-police antag­o­nist and crim­i­nal-rights group (JFJ) head, Carolyn Gomes.

Witter shares the view, as does Gomes,that all instances of police shoot­ings are ille­git­i­mate, because not enough Jamaican cops are get­ting killed.

One can­not make these things up, these are facts hap­pen­ing in Jamaica. Many peo­ple naive­ly believe that Jamaica is a par­adise Island nation, con­form­ing with International stan­dards, mov­ing for­ward as a devel­op­ing nation behold­ing to the rule of law.

I have not read the report in a com­pre­hen­sive way, most of what’s con­tained in it from my cur­so­ry glance could have been gleaned from any man on the streets. Apart from instances of legalese jar­gon it’s noth­ing more than a run­ning nar­ra­tive of what happened,opinions, and con­jec­ture, and some imper­ti­nent false­hoods and assumptions.

This report will do noth­ing to alle­vi­ate any ill which may have occurred, real or pre­cieved. It glo­ri­fies and gives rev­er­ence to degen­er­ate gun­men and trans-nation­al crim­i­nals, rather than expound on the virtues of adher­ing to and build­ing on a foun­da­tion of the rule of law.

THE JAMAICAN PEOPLE DID NOT NEED THIS REPORT, IT DOES NOTHING TO MOVE THE DEBATE FORWARD, IT DOES NOTHING BUT CREATE VICTIM-HOOD IN THE MINDS OF SOME, WHO ARE NOW DEMANDING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN COMPENSATION. IN OTHER WORDS EXTORTION.

I am tired of hearing and seeing people persecuted and maligned for standing on their principles.Never buy into the lies and distortions which says your fundamental faith-based principles are wrong, or that new alien acceptances are right and you should bow down to them.

I don’t care how many Kings and Emperors, Senators and Congress-men and Women say something, if I do not believe it, I won’t accept it.

So President Obama is push­ing a gay agen­da, that’s his busi­ness, I refuse to accept an alien phi­los­o­phy sim­ply because some­one in high office sanc­tions it. If the President believes so strong­ly in fun­da­men­tal Human Rights for all, why does he not cham­pi­on the right of all Americans and all peo­ple on earth, who are opposed to Sodomy to stand on the foun­da­tions of their beliefs and not capit­u­late to the tor­ren­tial avalanche of deviant con­tem­po­rary counter-culture?

Think about this, les­bian, gay, and trans-gen­der prac­tion­ers come out open­ly about their pref­er­ences at their leisure, when they do they are cel­e­brat­ed and hailed as heroes,what makes them heroes, who both­ers them?

Congress and state leg­is­la­tures pass laws to pro­tect them, why is it that they are so vehe­ment­ly opposed to oth­er peo­ple exer­cis­ing their right of descent? Why should the rights of Gays be guar­an­teed at the expense of my right to say,” no thanks to your deviant behav­ior” Who is intol­er­ant here?

Washington Wizard pro-bas­ket-ball play­er Jason Collins comes out and tells the world he is gay, he is cel­e­brat­ed as a hero, he is on the cov­er of Sport’s Illustrated, he received a phone call from the President of the United States., Collins is all over the tele­vi­sion cir­cuit. Good for him.

If this guy likes to have sex with men in their rec­tum or receives a penis in his rec­tum that’s his busi­ness. Did any of you ever hear that Millionaire ath­lete Jason Collins was being per­se­cut­ed because he was sus­pect­ed of being gay?.….….….….……

Me nei­ther !

Miami Dolphins wide receiv­er Mike Wallace tweet­ed, “all these beau­ti­ful women in the world and guys wan­na mess with oth­er guys. ‘Shaking my head’.“Wallace lat­er removed the tweet and apologized.

Why did you remove your tweet Mike?Did the Organization which write your checks make you do it? If they did what about your right to free speech?

Everyone rushed to the defense of the counter cul­ture degen­er­ate behav­ior , while many in the élite media was all over Mike Wallace exco­ri­at­ing him for being stu­pid, out of touch, moron­ic, and every deroga­to­ry adjec­tive they could hurl at him. The NBA as well as Dolphins Executives were falling over them­selves to say how proud they are of Collins.

Well let me say my piece, those who believe and engage in the pri­mal hedo­nis­tic and dis­gust­ing prac­tice of homo­sex­u­al­i­ty are free to do so. I, on the oth­er hand seri­ous­ly reserves the right to stand on the chris­t­ian prin­ci­ples indeli­bly bur­nished into my con­scious­ness from my for­ma­tive child­hood years.

I will not sur­ren­der them on the altar of being part of the in crowd. The demon­ic forces of Hedonistic and Sodomite indul­gence may cru­ci­fy me, but I will stand on my prin­ci­pled belief that mar­riage is between one man and one woman. I stand on the belief that Homosexuality is devian­cy and an abom­i­na­tion to God Almighty. The Bible says so and I believe it.

No Gay, Lesbian or trans­gen­der per­son has any­thing to fear from me, nei­ther psy­chi­cal­ly or oth­er­wise, but nei­ther will I fear ret­ri­bu­tion from them because I do not acknowl­edge their indul­gences as nor­mal and moral. They have a right to live their lifestyle, I will live mine my way, they don’t have to accept mine because I damn well do not accept theirs.

I am pre­pared for the abuse and invec­tive which will be hurled my way , I’m hap­py that those who do will exact­ly be mak­ing my point. The Bible did say this time would come, it is here, those who have eyes to see let them see, those who have ears to hear let them hear, worse per­se­cu­tion is com­ing for those who dare stand opposed to the dark forces of Sodom and Gomorrah.

We will not be able to work or par­tic­i­pate in any area of dai­ly life, I’m ready for them to per­se­cute me for stand­ing on the pil­lars of right­eous­ness and fideli­ty to principles.

Are you.

We cel­e­brate Chris Gayle in these blogs, Chris Gayle acknowl­edges the applause after scor­ing the fastest cen­tu­ry in his­to­ry, Royal Challengers Bangalore v Pune Warriors, IPL, Bangalore, April 23, 2013.