There has been bur­geon­ing con­ster­na­tion in cer­tain quar­ters of Jamaica and the Diaspora about what is seen as the fre­quen­cy of the Prime Minister’s over­seas trav­els. I am not sure about the laws which gov­ern trans­paren­cy of Government actions, least of all the actions of the coun­try’s chief exec­u­tive. I would not be sur­prised if there real­ly is no way to tell, if the way they han­dle the Contractor General’s requests and oth­er queries on Governmental irreg­u­lar­i­ties are any­thing to go by. Notwithstanding the Government has released a fig­ure of J$50 mil­lion, sug­gest­ing that that num­ber rep­re­sents the cost of the Prime Minister’s trav­els. Now let me say I have seen no infor­ma­tion which refutes these num­bers but cal­cu­lat­ing the $50 mil­lion Jamaican Dollars at the rate of J$105 TO US $1, it amounts to just over US476’000 .

I find it incred­u­lous that all her trav­els criss­cross­ing the globe from Africa to Asia, to Europe with del­e­ga­tions only amount­ed to US$476’000 . No one is mak­ing the argu­ment that the Nation’s chief exec­u­tive should not trav­el out­side the coun­try. The nature of the job demands that the Prime Minister trav­el abroad. What peo­ple are con­cerned about are whether the trips are absolute­ly ben­e­fi­cial to the coun­try in these eco­nom­ic crunch times, and the dis­re­spect­ful silence of the Prime Minister , who refus­es to answer ques­tions from the Jamaican press on these and oth­er issues. As is to be expect­ed there are no short­age of well-placed polit­i­cal hacks who are quick to explain that the num­bers are not astro­nom­i­cal and that the PM must trav­el to seek eco­nom­ic oppor­tu­ni­ties for the coun­try. That is the rea­son we must be rather wary of the fig­ures they make avail­able. It is rather too con­ve­nient and mod­est, jux­ta­pose that with the cho­rus of sup­port for Portia’s trav­els and it begs seri­ous scrutiny.

The real con­cern ema­nat­ing from this issue, at least for me, is that they fun­da­men­tal­ly believe it is good eco­nom­ic pol­i­cy to bor­row mon­ey from the Chinese and every­one else who will reward their grov­el­ling, then spend it on flights of fan­cy, [pun intend­ed] sup­pos­ed­ly seek­ing invest­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties. People keep ask­ing about a “growth plan” for the coun­try which I sup­pose would make the immense aus­ter­i­ty on the peo­ple.….. say worth­while. Unfortunately if you take a look at social­ist doc­trine there is noth­ing in there which speaks to eco­nom­ic pros­per­i­ty. Now these Clowns who run the Govt, aren’t real Socialists, they are wag­gonists. With that said, we know they nev­er had any plan for gov­er­nance when they were returned to pow­er only four years after los­ing office after an unprece­dent­ed 18 ¹⁄₂ years in pow­er. Socialism is about wealth re-dis­tri­b­u­tion, gen­er­al­ly to their cronies and friends. It has noth­ing to do with eco­nom­ic empow­er­ment of the mass­es. Travelling abroad in the hope of per­suad­ing com­pa­nies to invest in Jamaica will pro­duce naught, when the com­pa­nies already there are rapid­ly clos­ing. Crime, Corruption, Extortion, High ener­gy costs, high-tax­es, Government bureau­cra­cy, and a host of oth­er busi­ness-bust­ing vices are deal­ing a death-blow to the coun­try’s eco­nom­ic life. Companies look for the most busi­ness-friend­ly places to oper­ate. Jamaica long ceased being a busi­ness-friend­ly place. The vary­ing enti­ties which extort busi­ness­es, Government, Unions, un-elect­ed crim­i­nals, are more than enough to fright­en poten­tial investors. People who run suc­cess­ful busi­ness­es are gen­er­al­ly smart peo­ple. The same can­not be said for many politicians.

It’s the end of anoth­er cal­en­dar year, time to make new year’s res­o­lu­tions or re-com­mit to the ones we made a year ago but nev­er quite stuck to. As I thought about the things I want to do in the new year I real­ized they all coin­cid­ed with improv­ing my lit­tle home-land. I must admit that even though I have giv­en it much thought I have no idea how I will effect change that will have mean­ing­ful impact on enough lives.

Those of us who are blessed to live over­seas can­not afford not to think about those back home, irre­spec­tive of our per­son­al cir­cum­stance. We avail our­selves to the real­i­ty that life is get­ting almost unbear­able for the major­i­ty of ordi­nary Jamaicans. I look back today on the coun­try I grew up in with deep dark melan­choly. I remem­ber a time not that long ago, when our coun­try was con­sid­ered the pearl of the Caribbean. Other Caribbean natives feigned being Jamaicans to those who could not deci­pher the dif­fer­ence in our accents. People from the oth­er Islands want­ed to come to Jamaica to live. We were the cen­ter of learn­ing, our Schools and Students sec­ond to none. Our Athletes the pride of the region. We were renowned for the Arts , cul­ture, yes the birth-place of Reggae, we were con­sid­ered a Godly Nation. We respect­ed each oth­er, every fam­i­ly helped to raise the oth­er’s kids.

Authority fig­ures like Teachers and Clergy-men were held in high regard, Cops trav­eled with­out guns. Seldom would any­one harm the elder­ly or the very young. Then some­thing changed in the ear­ly 70’s, we nev­er recov­ered. Our Country did a com­plete 180 degree turn , it was­n’t grad­ual it was dra­mat­ic. All of a sud­den it was­n’t cool to earn what you need­ed, you were enti­tled to it. Those who had mate­r­i­al wealth were instant pari­ahs, made scape­goats, pawns in the quest for State Power. When they protest­ed they were told to board one of the 5 flights leav­ing dai­ly for Miami. They were made per­sona-non-gra­ta in their own Country. What affront, what arro­gance? The entire mid­dle and pro­duc­tive class took flight out of fear for their lives, many were killed.

Our Country descend­ed into eco­nom­ic chaos, the moral com­pass for­ev­er changed. It is darn near impos­si­ble attain­ing eco­nom­ic growth or devel­op­ment when you chase away the entire pro­duc­tive sec­tor and replace it with Government crony­ism. The decay con­tin­ued with most of the com­pa­nies we knew as lit­tle kids in the 60’s which sur­vived through the 70’s even­tu­al­ly giv­ing up. Many dis­ap­peared because of Union/​political strong-arm­ing. Others forced to move away to green­er pas­tures or sim­ply closed for good by the astro­nom­i­cal cost of doing busi­ness. Bullying by Trade Unions, extor­tion, high ener­gy and secu­ri­ty costs sapped the life-blood of many and con­tin­ue to do so to even the most stub­born, the most patriotic.

Today we won­der where went wrong? Really ? Where did we go wrong? How can we ask when many of us were there, some of us very young but there nonethe­less. Today Jamaicans are shunned by our neigh­bors near and far. Our peo­ple made to feel like sec­ond-class cit­i­zens. Many forced into silence so as not to be iden­ti­fied by our accent, our once proud accent. Even as the tini­est nations reg­is­ter growth and rel­a­tive pros­per­i­ty for their cit­i­zens, Jamaicans cow­er in absolute fear at the next round of tax­a­tion , cur­ren­cy deval­u­a­tion , price increas­es, and oth­er austerities.

Our Nation’s future is uncer­tain. Uncertain because we con­tin­ue to do the same things, yet expect­ing dif­fer­ent results. When will our peo­ple dis­card the old philoso­phies of hand­outs and bel­ly full pol­i­tics and say no more? Will they rec­og­nize there is some­thing greater than them­selves? Love of coun­try, love for their chil­dren and most of all love of God? Will they ever stop to think, “we’ve catered to our most base instincts of instant self grat­i­fi­ca­tion , it has­n’t worked so well, let us try anoth­er approach”?

That is my fer­vent hope.

Here are a cou­ple of sim­ple facts: 1) If much more than 50% of the coun­try’s Gross domes­tic prod­uct (GDP) is used to ser­vice inter­est pay­ments on the nation’s immense debt, then there will and must be rev­enue short­falls .2) Under the same sce­nario, the Government looks for addi­tion­al rev­enues through the only source it absolute­ly should NOT, more tax­a­tion. 3) .

Vale Royal res­i­dence of the Jamaican Prime Minister.

Why? Taxation may ini­tial­ly increase rev­enues col­lect­ed, but will invari­ably lead to a drop-off in eco­nom­ic activ­i­ty, as it inevitably will. Taxation con­stricts eco­nom­ic activ­i­ty which results in less rev­enue col­lect­ed. In the case of Jamaica this presents a mam­moth cri­sis as the nation is caught in a vicious cyclonic wave as a result of the par­tic­u­lars I just laid out. The nation will first have to come to grips with the real­i­ty that tax­a­tion and spend­ing is not the way to grow an econ­o­my. It must be through low crime, invest­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties, edu­ca­tion, elim­i­nat­ing cor­rup­tion and bureau­crat­ic imped­i­ments. I am not sure this Administration is capa­ble of fig­ur­ing this out. Part of any hope for eco­nom­ic sal­va­tion for Jamaica must be first to low­er crime , then ditch the (IMF). Ditching the IMF is imper­a­tive if Jamaica is to start on a path of eco­nom­ic growth, it must shed that par­a­sitic agency.

There has been a not so subtle indoctrination of the Jamaican public, which I believe began in the ’70s when I was a boy. Folks older than I am who agree with me, may actually have evidence that it started earlier. I am not opposed to the name of leaders being given prominence, particularly if they are deceased. I don’t believe in overkill for psychological, tribal reasons.

So you enter the coun­try by way of the Nation’s Capital, and you arrive at the Norman Manley International Airport. Leaving the Airport, you dri­ve on the,(you guessed it)the Norman Manley Highway, which links the Airport to the Harbour View round-about. Drive up to the University, and you have the Norman Manley Law school; oh there is The Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts oper­ates from a sin­gle cam­pus, in Kingston, Jamaica_​w.
There is the Edna Manley clin­ic in Grants Pen Kingston 8. There is the Edna Manley gallery, a spe­cial Gallery ded­i­cat­ed to her life with­in the National Gallery of Jamaica. There is the Norman Manley High School in Kingston. The National Housing Trust (NHT) head office build­ing in New Kingston was renamed in hon­or of Michael Manley. The list goes on and on in fair­ness to the Manleys; oth­er Politicians have had their names attached to notable sites through­out our coun­try, none how­ev­er to the extent that the Manley name has been plas­tered through­out Jamaica’s nation­al life. Many oth­er sites bear the names of notable Jamaicans. Nethesole place is the area around Jamaica’s National bank bear­ing anoth­er People’s National Party func­tionary name.

Yet when the sug­ges­tion was made to rename Ocean Boulevard in hon­or of Edward Seaga for his con­tri­bu­tion to our coun­try, PNP Councillors object­ed. Mister Seaga said then; he was not inter­est­ed in hav­ing the boule­vard renamed in his hon­or because of the con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the pro­pos­al. In light of the afore­men­tioned, it seems there is ample evi­dence of a sys­tem­at­ic cam­paign to name and rename every sin­gle mon­u­ment street and build­ing in Jamaica after the Manley’s or some oth­er PNP mem­ber past and present. Just recent­ly, Paul Burke made the absurd sug­ges­tion that the Donald Sangster’s Airport in Montego Bay should be renamed in hon­or of anoth­er deceased PNP mem­ber of par­lia­ment, Allan George Coombs, who died in 1969.

Edna Manley

In a coun­try small­er than the state of Connecticut, it is a bit cloy­ing and down­right stu­pid to have so many places and things named after one fam­i­ly, which brings us to my first con­tention that this was nev­er an inno­cent hap­pen­ing but a sys­tem­at­ic attempt to trib­al­ize the entire coun­try by nam­ing every­thing after People’s National Party Functionaries.
Literally, every gar­ri­son under PNP con­trol is named after PNP past and present.
With this trib­al polit­i­cal, men­tal, and psy­cho­log­i­cal bom­bard­ment, is it any won­der our peo­ple can­not extri­cate them­selves from the Liberal social­ist politics/​policies of the Manleys through Patterson now to Miller?

Some will ask, Huh? How do you make that kind of con­nec­tion? Psychologists under­stand the impor­tance of that kind of bom­bard­ment, the visu­al, the audio, they do impact the way we behave. Not so long ago, the Jamaican Police embarked on a mis­sion of remov­ing murals of crim­i­nal Dons from build­ings and oth­er places with­in cer­tain inner-city com­mu­ni­ties in our country.
They are final­ly start­ing to under­stand the impact those murals have on peo­ple, par­tic­u­lar­ly the young and impres­sion­able. The People’s National Party under­stands this; that’s why they keep win­ning nation­al elec­tions to the coun­try’s detri­ment, of course.

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Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has stead­fast­ly refused to answer ques­tions from the Press on any of her pol­i­cy deci­sions. The Prime Minister who has called for remov­ing the Queen of England as head of State has been chid­ed with hav­ing monar­chist desires of her own. As the chief ser­vant of the peo­ple the Prime Minster is duty bound to answer ques­tions posed by the Press . The peo­ple have a right to acqui­esce or dis­agree with her pol­i­cy deci­sions and direc­tions, after all Jamaica is sup­posed to be a Democracy,.…..right?

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller.

Refusing to answer ques­tions smacks of the actions of a Monarch who Rules by decree. It is not the first time that Miller has demon­strat­ed her dis­dain for the peo­ple by refus­ing to answer ques­tions even regard­ing the most seri­ous issues of National import. Trafigura, Cuban Ligh-bulb, Richard Azan are just a few of the cru­cial issues which any world leader would be forced to respond to, or step aside if they chose not to. In one case Mrs Miller told reporters to go ask the PNP in ref­er­ence to her par­ty which she heads. Who bet­ter to ask than the Party’s Head and Prime Minister? Mrs Miller gives ammu­ni­tion to crit­ics who argue she is inca­pable of artic­u­lat­ing a pol­i­cy posi­tion and as such she shuns the cam­eras. Additionally she stat­ed that she will not talk her way out of office. Ironically Portia in Oppposition was nev­er at a loss for words. There nev­er was a short­age of inart­ful crass coarse lan­guage com­ing from her.

Under no cir­cum­stance is it accept­able for a ser­vant of the peo­ple ‚who acts on behalf of the peo­ple to refuse to explain to them, actions she/​he takes on their behalf. In the case of Mrs Miller it is even more imper­a­tive that she makes her­self avail­able to the Press, that the peo­ple may have a feel for her pol­i­cy direc­tions. The fact is Portia Simpson Miller has lim­it­ed or ques­tion­able skills, as such the peo­ple have a right to say “yes or no ” to the deci­sions she makes sup­pos­ed­ly on their behalf.

The ques­tion then becomes, “why does she show such dis­re­gard for the Press and by exten­sion the peo­ple, know­ing full well that the office comes with the annoy­ing Press ask­ing ques­tions on behalf of the peas­ants, I mean the peo­ple? I believe the answer is sim­ply because she can!! The Jamaican peo­ple have been immense­ly gen­er­ous to Mrs Miller, they have reward­ed her with the high­est polit­i­cal office in the coun­try, an office many includ­ing myself believe she is gross­ly ill-equipped for . Let me has­ten to say my belief in her unsuit­abil­i­ty has noth­ing to do with the fact that she does not have a Masters or a Doctorate. There are more than enough fools hold­ing those Degrees. I look at the con­stituen­cy she has rep­re­sent­ed for decades and I fun­da­men­tal­ly believe that she did not deserve a pro­mo­tion. I lis­ten to her and she has no con­cept of pol­i­cy. I watch her and she has no direc­tion for the country.

Because she has been so lucky, she owes it to the peo­ple who unwit­ting­ly empow­ered her, to show them some regard. Or does she believe she will be ele­vat­ed to Monarch as she was to PM mere­ly by kiss­ing babies and telling the mass­es she cares? One thing is cer­tain, with Jamaicans you nev­er know , she may know some­thing I don’t. It is time the Jamaican peo­ple take their future into their own hands and stop cheer­ing the Empress in her no-exis­tent new clothes.

Old Jamaica proverb “you lie with dogs you rise with fleas”. 

Sometime ago I wrote an arti­cle in which I cau­tioned Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington not to cozy up to the Reactionary Forces arrayed against the Jamaican peo­ple at Fagan Avenue. I argued then that they would encour­age him to dis­man­tle the police force then dump him. Ellington has embarked on a path of rad­i­cal change for the Force geared he argues, at the mod­ern­iza­tion and trans­for­ma­tion of the Agency. Many of the changes he enact­ed came at the cha­grin of mem­bers of his depart­ment and to for­mer mem­bers like myself. For exam­ple, the week­ly Force Orders is a pri­vate com­mu­nique between the Commissioner and his offi­cers. The gen­er­al pub­lic has no expec­ta­tion of access to such communication.

Commissioner Owen Ellington

Companies and Agencies whether pub­lic of pri­vate have inter­nal mem­os which are for the infor­ma­tion of employ­ees only . That argu­ment is more true for the JCF which is an Agency charged with Crime pre­ven­tion and National Security in a broad­er spec­trum. I thought it beyond the pale when Mister Ellington decid­ed to make it pub­lic. The Police Force Orders details com­mu­ni­ca­tion between the Commissioner and his offi­cers as well as move­ment of per­son­nel. I believed and argued it was a fun­da­men­tal breach of secu­ri­ty do so. Today as more and more offi­cer are killed in Jamaica, my con­tention takes on more res­o­nance. I believe Commissioner Ellington went over­board in attempt­ing trans­paren­cy to assuage and respond to the Criminal Rights Fraternity, Headquartered at Fagan Avenue, and in par­tic­u­lar to cur­ry favor with Carolyn Gomes. What Ellington did not know was that as soon as he had giv­en Gomes and her acolytes what they want­ed they would call for his head.

Criminal Rights Advocate Carolyn Gomes

It did not take long for my words to come to pass. JFJ Opens Fire On Ellington.http://​jamaica​-glean​er​.com/​g​l​e​a​n​e​r​/​2​0​1​3​1​1​2​3​/​l​e​a​d​/​l​e​a​d​2​.​h​tml. Executive direc­tor of Jamaicans for Justice, Dr Carolyn Gomes, has tar­get­ed Ellington, blunt­ly call­ing for his head.She charged that Ellington has failed to keep the mur­der rate under con­trol and improve the police clear-up rate for murder.“He has presided over the high­est cumu­la­tive rate of police fatal shoot­ings ever seen in Jamaica …. It is time for him to go,” said Gomes.“We have seen three months in which more than one per­son a day was killed by the police, cul­mi­nat­ing in the killing of 36 per­sons by the police in the month of October,” she added.

I have con­sis­tent­ly warned that Gomes is not doing what she does because she cares about any­one but Carolyn Gomes. She has received large sums of cash from for­eign coun­tries like Germany and oth­ers. No one both­ers to ask what is it that these coun­tries want in return? Jamaicans are either too stu­pid or has their heads too far up their own ass­es. Too pre­oc­cu­pied with their own sense of self-impor­tance, to rec­og­nize that coun­tries do not have friends , they have inter­ests. What is their inter­ests in Jamaica ?

So here’s a thought , dis­man­tle the secu­ri­ty forces you dis­man­tle the rule of law. Dismantle the rule of law anar­chy prevails,anarchy equals no growth, no invest­ments, no pro­duc­tion, per­pet­u­al bor­row­ing. Look at what they did to Haiti the first black nation in the west­ern hemi­sphere. They made sure Haiti would not be a coun­try blacks could look at with pride, they nev­er for­gave the Haitians for win­ning their inde­pen­dence with bul­lets and guns. Jamaicans on the oth­er hand has allowed their elit­ist atti­tudes to cloud their vision to what’s real­ly going on . It is a clever sleigh of hand that has them com­plete­ly mes­mer­ized. I am here to look out for your Human Rights. So Gomes sows the seeds of anar­chy and gang­ster-ism, effec­tive­ly had the police shack­led, offers sanc­tu­ary to the crim­i­nals and when mur­ders gets out of hand she blames the police and calls for the head of the Commissioner. That is a bril­liant plot which she did not hatch alone, I have been warn­ing about her actions for two years in these blogs. Anyone doubt­ing this needs to pay atten­tion this is com­ing from high­er up than Carolyn Gomes. Look for crime to climb much high­er in the months to come, it’s all part of the plan.

It is incred­i­ble what harm one per­son can cause in a coun­try like Jamaica. A coun­try which is impressed with a light skinned mulat­to with DR behind her name!!!

There are some facts which are irrefutable , one such fact is that crime spi­rals out of con­trol when the People’s National Party is in pow­er. As to cau­sa­tion , I am aware there are var­i­ous expla­na­tions depend­ing on who you ask . For PNP sup­port­ers, that is as a result of the CIA, the Labor Party or both, desta­bi­liza­tion, the tooth fairy or all the above.

Me ? I rather look at the facts and num­bers . It bears remem­ber­ing that for the last 4 decades the peo­ple’s National Party has had state con­trol for 28 years. The ques­tion in syn­op­sis then becomes “Is Jamaica bet­ter off now, than it was 40 years ago”? As Ronald Reagan asked America pri­or to the 1980 General elec­tions, that is the test, “Are you bet­ter off”?.

With the excep­tionof the brief respite between 1980 – 1988 when Seaga returned the coun­try to a path of pros­per­i­ty and low­er crime and the 4 years under Golding and Holness, Jamaicans have self­ish­ly and stu­pid­ly turned what was once the stan­dard by which the Caribbean was judged to the pari­ah of the Caribbean.

Neither of the two polit­i­cal par­ties are with­out sin, the labor par­ty after Hugh Shearer, depart­ed from the plat­form of no tol­er­ance to crime and cor­rup­tion, lit­er­al­ly mak­ing itself impos­si­ble to dif­fer­en­ti­ate from the PNP. Of course when it comes to gut­ter pol­i­tics the labor par­ty could only play catch-up. The ¹⁸¹⁄₂ year exile from state pow­er is tes­ta­ment to that fact. The labor par­ty was the par­ty which offered peo­ple hope, not hand-outs. Educational oppor­tu­ni­ties through hard work , not crash pro­gram. Economic growth through low crime. Understanding of course that the biggest deter­rent to growth is crime and cor­rup­tion. Once the JLP decid­ed to play ball on the PNP’s turf there was no rea­son to pick them for office, at best the labor par­ty could only be PNP lite. Why buy lite when you can have the real thing.

So the PNP built 3 gar­risons to every one the JLP had, notice I said had, not built. The JLP could not build Garrisons with­out state pow­er and state mon­ey. The PNP had and did. So when we look at why the PNP is per­pet­u­al­ly in con­trol of state pow­er, we need look no fur­ther than the homogoneus com­mu­ni­ties (gar­risons) under their con­trol. The win­ner of these homoge­nous con­stituen­cies are known before a sin­gle vote is cast. In most cas­es the raw vote far exceeds the amount of elec­tors on the vot­ers list. This is over-kill yes , but it is pos­si­ble because of the iron-clad con­trol par­ties have on the machin­ery in these communities.

The result is there are far few­er con­stituen­cies up for grabs, or where the elec­tion real­ly mat­ters. He who con­trols the state purse rules the day, check mate. The PNP has sub­se­quent­ly reduced Jamaica to a beg­gar nation , soaked and drenched in the blood of a peo­ple not smart enough, or too scared to extri­cate them­selves from its cult-like ten­ta­cles. As the coun­try’s sit­u­a­tion gets more des­per­ate they delude them­selves that just over the hori­zon is sal­va­tion, the next oasis. Deluding them­selves like a sun-stroke wan­der­er stum­bling in the desert. Convinced that the mirage they see is an oasis on the horizon.

The coun­try is not get­ting bet­ter, there are no jobs, no oppor­tu­ni­ties, crime and gang activ­i­ty are on the rise. The lead­ers fat­ten them­selves while the elites who live above Cross-Roads pre­ten­tious­ly and gra­tu­itous­ly rev­el in the beau­ty of the Empresses new clothes. Jamaica is not a devel­oped coun­try, it is not on a sus­tained path to first world sta­tus, mere­ly say­ing I love Jamaica does not make a coun­try suc­cess­ful, if that was so Jamaica would be rival­ing Dubai. Jamaicans ‚par­tic­u­lar­ly the new­ly edu­cat­ed ones are the most pre­ten­tious Pharisees. They rather stand around and glee­ful­ly clap and cheer the Empress and her new clothes instead of rec­og­niz­ing that the path the coun­try is on is unsus­tain­able and can only lead to destruction.

This brings us to the crime sit­u­a­tion which is lit­er­al­ly drain­ing the life blood from the coun­try. The year 2010 the secu­ri­ty Forces had most of the Gangs on the run after they rout­ed Christopher Coke from his redoubt in Tivoli Gardens. Mercenaries who had come from far and wide irre­spec­tive of par­ty affil­i­a­tion to aid the don of dons, final­ly felt the pow­er of the state’s secu­ri­ty agen­cies. This was the oppor­tu­ni­ty of a life­time to cement the author­i­ty of the state in root­ing out crim­i­nals and estab­lish­ing once and for all, a zero tol­er­ance for that kind of behavior.

The Commissioner of Police and the Chief of Defence staff of the JDF asked for an exten­sion to solid­i­fy the gains they had made under the lim­it­ed state of emer­gency the Golding Administration had asked for and was grant­ed by the Governor General. To a man, every sin­gle mem­ber of the People’s National Party then in oppo­si­tion vot­ed no. I wrote then that no vote was the biggest betray­al any polit­i­cal par­ty could vis­it on a coun­try. https://​mike​beck​les​.com/​m​y​w​p​b​l​o​g​/​?​p​=​845.

Gang activ­i­ty thrives in homoge­nous com­mu­ni­ties (Garrisons)the rul­ing Administration has devel­oped a polit­i­cal net­work of gar­risons which makes it almost assured state pow­er. That is the rea­son the Neanderthal war­rior Portia and her acolytes could not sign on to an exten­sion of the lim­it­ed state of emer­gency in 2010. Portia and the par­ty she rep­re­sents are rel­e­vant because of gar­risons and all which comes with them. They can­not and will not be the soul­tion to Jamaica’s crime prob­lem. They are the problem.

Two pieces of news caught my eyes in the Jamaica Gleaner today Tuesday November 19^th, thought it was worth com­ment­ing and get­ting a feed-back from you.

1) Dead Wrong: Security Expert Says Police Not Aiming At Right Target To Buck Murder Trend. As dead­ly gang vio­lence con­tin­ues to rage across the island, leav­ing hun­dreds dead since the start of the year, a promi­nent secu­ri­ty con­sul­tant is sug­gest­ing that the author­i­ties are focus­ing on the wrong tar­gets in their bid to break the back of vicious crim­i­nal­i­ty in many com­mu­ni­ties.http://​jamaica​-glean​er​.com/​g​l​e​a​n​e​r​/​2​0​1​3​1​1​1​9​/​l​e​a​d​/​l​e​a​d​1​.​h​tml

2)‘Mind Your Own Business And Look At Rot In Jamaica’ — Bajan Minister Blasts Gleaner For ‘Political Undertones’. A BARBADOS gov­ern­ment min­is­ter has launched a scathing attack on a Sunday Gleaner edi­to­r­i­al, telling the news­pa­per to take its nose out of Bajan affairs and con­cen­trate on the “rot going on in Jamaica”.http://​jamaica​-glean​er​.com/​g​l​e​a​n​e​r​/​2​0​1​3​1​1​1​9​/​l​e​a​d​/​l​e​a​d​2​.​h​tml.

Smith

I will attempt to be brief in my sum­ma­tion of both Articles which I believe are inter-con­nect­ed though not relat­ed. A Jamaican secu­ri­ty expert[sic] argues that the coun­try is look­ing in the wrong places to cur­tail gang activ­i­ty. Robert Finzi-Smith believes hunger is the dri­ving force caus­ing gang activ­i­ty across the coun­try . He coun­ters that though the police have been heavy-hand­ed with gangs and there was a reduc­tion of gang relat­ed crimes it seems those gains are being reversed. Robert Finzi-Smith’s claim to expert-fame is con­sul­tant on crime con­trol who serves as, among oth­er things, direc­tor of safe­ty and secu­ri­ty at the University of Technology.

Danville Inniss

Now to the oth­er sto­ry, The Gleaner Editorial board came under harsh crit­i­cisms from a Minister of Government in the Island Nation of Barbados. Bajan Minister of Industry and International Business Donville Inniss exco­ri­at­ed the Gleaner Editorial page, telling them mind your own busi­ness and look at the rot going on in Jamaica. Barbados is in good hands. The Gleaner’s Editorial page is used to berat­ing Jamaican law enforce­ment, so nat­u­ral­ly it felt at lib­er­ty to lev­el harsh crit­i­cisms at the Royal Barbados Police Force for bring­ing charges against two senior staff mem­bers at theNation news­pa­per over a recent publication”.The pub­li­ca­tion was of two 14 year olds stu­dents hav­ing sex at school.

Bajan author­i­ties have con­fis­cat­ed the trav­el doc­u­ments from the two Journalists. First let me say that even though I believe fun­da­men­tal­ly in free speech and the right of a free press, I also under­stand that each coun­try’s laws are dif­fer­ent. The Gleaner not exposed to any real­i­ties but that which obtains in Jamaica , pro­ceed­ed to blast that coun­try’s police sug­gest­ing that the arrests were polit­i­cal. Well they got told where to go. There is no love lost between the two coun­tries , recent­ly the Shanice Myrie case exposed old wounds. Simply put, Bajans respect the rule of law, they fun­da­men­tal­ly believe in order most Jamaicans don’t. Hence Barbados is tops in edu­ca­tion , it’s econ­o­my is doing pret­ty well and crime is low. Now grant­ed there is a dis­tinct size and pop­u­la­tion dif­fer­ence between the two Islands, Jamaica could take a page from Barbados’ book on how to devel­op a country.

So while a Jamaican glo­ri­fied secu­ri­ty guard tells the police and the nation why they are los­ing the fight against gangs. And while the edi­to­r­i­al page of the Gleaner con­sis­tent­ly lends its voice to the anti-police cho­rus, author­i­ties in Barbadoes stand solid­ly behind their law-enforce­ment pro­fes­sion­als. That is where the prob­lem lies . Not because peo­ple are hungry.

Richard Azan mem­ber of Parlaiment for North West Clarendon and for­mer Junior Minister in the Ministry of Transport , Works and Housing was again ele­vat­ed to Cabinet posi­tion. Richard Azan resigned after infor­ma­tion came to light that he in his posi­tion as Member of Parliament for North West Clarendon and as Junior Minister in the min­istry afore­men­tioned, abused his author­i­ty, con­trary to what he is legal­ly empow­ered, to give per­mis­sion for a pri­vate con­trac­tor to build shops on lands inside the refur­bished Spaldings Market, with­out the approval of the local author­i­ty that owned the property.

After the inci­dent came to light the monies which were col­lect­ed and paid to Azans con­stituen­cy office was alleged­ly con­ve­nient­ly returned to the parish coun­cil. For those not under­stand­ing Jamaican Politics let me explain. 1) Azan as mem­ber of par­lia­ment had zero author­i­ty to order con­struc­tion of the shops. That is with­in the author­i­ty of the Clarendon Parish coun­cil. 2) The polit­i­cal con­stituen­cy office has no author­i­ty to col­lect, much less keep rental-fees col­lect­ed from shop oper­a­tors. As such the Contractor General at the time Dirk Harrison rec­om­mend­ed that the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP)Paula Llewelyn prof­fer charges against Richard Azan. As a result of the scan­dal Azan ten­dered his res­ig­na­tion to the Prime Minister Portia Lucreita Simpson Miller.Miller accept­ed Azan’s Resignation and had this to say.

“I have accept­ed his res­ig­na­tion. I wish to place on record our thanks to him for his hard work and com­mit­ment to improv­ing the lives of the peo­ple dur­ing his tenure.” 

Azans res­ig­na­tion let­ter.September 20, 2013
The Most Honourable Portia Simpson Miller, ON, MP Prime Minister 
Office of the Prime Minister 
1 Devon Road 
Kingston 10 
Dear Prime Minister, 
The Contractor General has hand­ed in his report of his inves­ti­ga­tion into the erec­tion of wood­en shops on the periph­ery of the park­ing lot at the Spalding mar­ket. I wish to assure you and the Cabinet, that I received no mon­ey, favours or per­son­al ben­e­fit, finan­cial or oth­er­wise from the erec­tion or rental of the shops by Bryant Construction. My legal team has reviewed the report and advised that the Contractor General has come to cer­tain con­clu­sions not sup­port­ed by the facts and the team has rec­om­mend­ed that the report be chal­lenged. The team has also advised that the Contractor General’s report shows no evi­dence of dis­hon­esty on my part. 
In the cir­cum­stance, I wish to stand down from my min­is­te­r­i­al posi­tion. I will in the mean­time, vig­or­ous­ly fight to clear my name, which has been defamed by the Contractor General’s char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of cor­rup­tion and by utter­ances in sec­tions of the media. 
Yours respect­ful­ly, 
Richard Azan, JP. MP. 

Somehow despite the glar­ing fact that Azan 1)had no author­i­ty to autho­rize the build­ing of the shops or 2) his con­stituen­cy office col­lect­ed and pock­et­ed the fees col­lect­ed from rental of the shops no crim­i­nal charges has been filed by the DPP. The major tenet of the argu­ment for no crim­i­nal charges against Azan I heard is that the monies have been returned. By that log­ic every rob­ber , sim­ply has to return what­ev­er prop­er­ty he/​she steals and no harm no foul. Not to be out­done the Prime Minister reap­point­ed Richard Azan to his for­mer posi­tion. Azan’s rein­state­ment fol­lows a rul­ing by Paula Llewellyn, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), in September that no crim­i­nal charges be laid against him in the Spalding Market issue.

Well what do you know, same old pol­i­tics as usu­al in Jamaica, you scratch my back I scratch yours, some peo­ple are sim­ply above the law. Kern Spencer ripped off the mon­ey he and his acolyte col­lect­ed from the Cuban Light-Bulb project and years lat­er there is no res­o­lu­tion in that case which is lan­guish­ing in the bull-shit courts. Richard Azan does not even get charged despite clear­ly keep­ing the mon­ey he col­lect­ed. What the hell does it mat­ter if he made resti­tu­tion? The offence was already com­mit­ted, and in a in your face F***- you move the incom­pe­tent char­la­tan in Jamaica house stuck it to the coun­try by rein­stat­ing him to cab­i­net office. Jamaica has had some cor­rupt lead­ers, Portia is the worst.

INDECOM to harass cops doing their duties , risk­ing their lives for pen­nies. The Contractor General rec­om­mends crim­i­nal charges for Azan he gets a cab­i­net post instead.

The much hyped race for lead­er­ship of the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) has end­ed with a whop­ping del­e­gate major­i­ty of 692 votes for Andrew Holness . Holness retained his Party’s lead­er­ship over Audley Shaw the mem­ber of Parliament with port­fo­lio for Finance. Final vote tal­ly accord­ing to the Jamaican Papers was Holness 2’702 Shaw 2’012. Many in the Jamaica Labor Party as well as observers on the out­side felt the lead­er­ship race was a bad thing for the JLP. I dis­agreed, the idea of a chal­lenge to the select­ed leader of the JLP was not nec­es­sar­i­ly some­thing Laborites are used to. In fact it has been anti­thet­i­cal to the JLP and may actu­al­ly be part of the rea­son that par­ty only held office for 12 of the last 40 years.

Audley Shaw

As is to be expect­ed most of the mem­bers who sup­port­ed mis­ter Shaw’s can­di­da­cy for lead­er­ship of the par­ty have ten­dered their res­ig­na­tions to mis­ter Holness. This is com­mon pro­to­col in cas­es such as these. The expla­na­tion is that, it gives the leader the oppor­tu­ni­ty to select a team he/​she has con­fi­dence in. This is how­ev­er a momen­tous occa­sion for Andrew Holness to ask mis­ter Shaw and those who sup­port­ed him who would like to stay on , to remain and help to rebuild and make the par­ty stronger. Magnanimity is a virtue he can ill-afford not to use. It is imper­a­tive that Mister Holness stand true to his words that he was unafraid of a chal­lenge. Real lead­ers are not per­turbed by chal­lenges, they are a tes­ta­ment to one’s own strength and sup­port structure.

Now that mis­ter Shaw and his acolytes have had their say it is incum­bent that if asked, they fall in line and sub­ject them­selves to the author­i­ty of the new­ly elect­ed Andrew Holness and the direc­tion in which he wants to take the coun­try. At the start of this exer­cise I qui­et­ly told a few friends that even though I am not opposed to Audley Shaw, I was hop­ing for a Holness win . I believe the del­e­gates have sent a strong mes­sage , which rein­forces that one does not have to dumb down to be a leader. One does not have to resort to so called (ray ray) [sic]to com­pete in Jamaican pol­i­tics. I believe that the labor par­ty’s del­e­gates have wittingly/​or unwit­ting­ly made the right deci­sion for their par­ty and for Jamaica. I asked one senior Jamaican how he felt about the race between the two men he rather quick­ly told me that Audley Shaw could­n’t even run the gas sta­tion he owned , how could any­one expect him to run a country.

He went on to tell me that Shaw ran a petrol sta­tion he owned into the ground.(no inde­pen­dent ver­i­fi­ca­tion to the verac­i­ty of this claim). I won­dered aloud to him whether this placed any real ques­tion mark against mis­ter Shaw’s abil­i­ty to lead the coun­try? My friend forth­right­ly asked me whether I believed Portia did not know this and would use it to clob­ber Shaw. The icing on the cake of that con­ver­sa­tion was when he asked me why did Bruce Golding bring Don Wedhy from the pri­vate sec­tor to under­study Shaw when he appoint­ed him min­is­ter of finance?

I believe both men and their dif­fer­ent camps need to now come togeth­er and for the good of the coun­try chart a path for­ward that the nation can grav­i­tate toward. It is an exis­ten­tial need that they do so and get it right for the good of the coun­try. PS I was not sur­prised that Delroy Chuck has inti­mat­ed to Andrew Holness that he does not wish to be con­sid­ered for any post in a new shad­ow cab­i­net. That should be rather good for Andrew Holness, Delroy Chuck should sim­ply go over to the PNP.

Every day we read of grue­some killings, no one is spared, not the old and indi­gent, not even babies. For the most part Jamaicans have blamed every­one for crime includ­ing the tooth fairy. Yet they fail to hold the peo­ple they place in pow­er to make deci­sions on their behalf respon­si­ble. Don’t you dare chal­lenge the con­ven­tion­al wis­dom which defends the sta­tus-quo . They come at you from all angles accus­ing you of every­thing short of trea­son. Yet the crime sta­tis­tic con­tin­ues to climb and the cost con­tin­ues to pile up. If a team does poor­ly you don’t fire the team, you change the lead­er­ship, lat­er if nec­es­sary you make changes to the team. Yet Jamaicans con­tin­ue to do the same thing over and over,expecting dif­fer­ent results. The def­i­n­i­tion of insanity.

Of course they don’t need to hold their elect­ed offi­cials respon­si­ble for their incom­pe­tence, they cre­ate prox­ies to absorb the blame, so they blame the police. If you have cred­i­ble Government , you get cred­i­ble law-enforcement.The Governing par­ty has occu­pied pub­lic office for the lion’s share of the last two decades. As such it is lit­er­al­ly impos­si­ble for any per­son not brain-dead ‚to blame the polit­i­cal oppo­si­tion for the coun­try’s ills. When I crit­i­cize the Government I don’t do so because I am giv­ing endorse­ment to the oppo­si­tion. I do so because it is com­mon sense to hold account­able those who are empow­ered to act.

The Governing par­ty how­ev­er has been par­tic­u­lar­ly clever, in plant­i­ng oper­a­tives in crit­i­cal sec­tors of the soci­ety. They hold senior Civil ser­vice posi­tions made pos­si­ble by nepo­tism and hand­outs. This does not mean that all senior gov­ern­ment work­ers are polit­i­cal hacks. Their plants in oth­er sec­tors , includ­ing media and acad­e­mia has tak­en a seri­ous toll on our coun­try. Some of their shills have tak­en flight yet oth­ers have stayed and are still affect­ing the debate. Today’s Jamaica Observer Editorial page was titled :

Returning to those dark days of bru­tal mur­ders: The Editorial summed up the present sit­u­a­tion thus: We don’t believe that the Administration is clue­less about how to solve this prob­lem. What we sus­pect is that our leg­is­la­tors are afraid to imple­ment the tough mea­sures nec­es­sary to sig­nif­i­cant­ly cut the crime rate, because they might be unpop­u­lar with cer­tain sec­tions of the soci­ety. Read more: http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​e​d​i​t​o​r​i​a​l​/​R​e​t​u​r​n​i​n​g​-​t​o​-​t​h​o​s​e​-​d​a​r​k​-​d​a​y​s​-​o​f​-​b​r​u​t​a​l​-​m​u​r​d​e​r​s​_​1​5​3​3​7​5​0​0​#​i​x​z​z​2​j​2​p​L​7​eTE.

You think?

The Editorial page is far more lib­er­al with its assump­tions than I could ever be . I am not so sure they know what to do. Granted that they do how­ev­er why would they change any­thing? They have fan­cy SUV’s , pala­tial man­sions, and all the perks of state pow­er, includ­ing free access to the cook­ie-jar. Most of all they have the inept police depart­ment to take the fall for them. Don’t be fooled the PNP did not hold state pow­er for ¹⁸¹⁄₂ years because they are nec­es­sar­i­ly stu­pid. Yes a dis­cor­dant oppo­si­tion had a part to play. What has tru­ly been behind their dom­i­nance how­ev­er is their abil­i­ty to fool the poor. According to the Editorial: The Caribbean Human Development Report 2012, pre­pared by the United Nations Development Programme, has told us that crime costs Jamaica more than $529 mil­lion a year in lost income. That’s over half a Billion American Dollars in direct loss revenue.The total cost in trea­sure to the coun­try is incal­cu­la­ble. Yet the lead­ers have refused to take the steps nec­es­sary to bring the coun­try into com­pli­ance with inter­na­tion­al norms. If the rather sharp indict­ment of the Editor’s com­ments are cor­rect, then the Administration has once again cho­sen to put pol­i­tics ahead of coun­try. This lends cre­dence to their adage that Jamaica is PNP coun­try. As a Jamaican I will con­tin­ue to say Jamaica does not belong to the PNP , nei­ther does it belong to the JLP, our coun­try belong to our peo­ple you and me. So to the hyper-par­ti­sans who feel oblig­at­ed to defend incom­pe­tence , remove your blind­ers because our coun­try is loos­ing out big time.

THE PROBLEM

Serious crimes con­tin­ue to increase in Jamaican, over the National Heroes cel­e­bra­tion (7) per­sons were mur­dered. These mur­der fig­ures how­ev­er do not evoke alarm or fear in the minds of Jamaicans who have come to accept the killing of their neigh­bors as par for the course. Jamaicans use every ratio­nal­iza­tion to explain away these shock­ing mur­der fig­ures. Excuses range from, peo­ple gets killed every­where to, the per­son who got killed must have done some­thing to deserve his head get­ting sev­ered from his body. They make these excus­es even as they con­struct more grill for­ti­fi­ca­tions with the false belief ‚that they will be safe behind lay­ers of iron which only fur­ther imprison them .Of course this offers no real secu­ri­ty from the maraud­ing mur­der­ers who prey at will.

Portrait of the lat­est cop to be slaugh­tered in Jamaica by hoodlums.W/Spl/Cons Arianna Henry.

Since 2002 fifty (50) Officers have been mur­dered direct­ly in the line of duty , with far more killed which are not cat­e­go­rized as “in the line of duty”. The trou­ble with that char­ac­ter­i­za­tion is that, crim­i­nals are increas­ing­ly sophis­ti­cat­ed, they opt to attack a sin­gle offi­cer and not take on a num­ber of offi­cers. This strat­e­gy on their part is far more effec­tive in accom­plish­ing their anar­chis­tic desires in exact­ing revenge on police offi­cers. As repug­nant as that strat­e­gy is , it would be far less effec­tive if the coun­try was one which stood solid­ly behind it’s law enforce­ment offi­cers. Conversely what the peo­ple have sad­dled them­selves with for decades is a par­ty which offers them cot­ton can­dy, which is sweet to the taste but does noth­ing to sat­is­fy their hunger. The present Administration has a leader who is at best intel­lec­tu­al­ly chal­lenged and at worse a dunce. No amount of white-wash is going to cov­er up that glar­ing fact.

CONTRIBUTORS

The par­ty which forms the Administration has had a his­to­ry of prob­lems with the rule of law , dat­ing back to the 1970’s . At its core the People’s National Party (PNP) is a par­ty which pan­ders to the base instincts of the least edu­cat­ed , least priv­i­leged. This strat­e­gy allowed them to con­trol state pow­er for an unprece­dent­ed 18 years with a four (4) year break, then con­tin­ue to present day. Members of the Police depart­ment are a large part of that prob­lem, many mem­bers are no dif­fer­ent from their civil­ian coun­ter­parts who vote against their own eco­nom­ic self-inter­est. As such they share in the blame for what is hap­pen­ing to the force and indi­vid­ual police offi­cers. This analy­sis is not an endorse­ment of any polit­i­cal par­ty, it is more-so a sweep­ing indict­ment of a polit­i­cal cul­ture which has failed dis­mal­ly in address­ing the fun­da­men­tal basic needs of the peo­ple. As a con­se­quence, the coun­try has been reduced to a laugh­ing-stock. The best achieve­ments of our peo­ple inter­na­tion­al­ly, are now called into ques­tion and sub­ject to ridicule.

Jamaica has had a long flir­ta­tion with vio­lence, some of our nation­al heroes are remem­bered and so des­ig­nat­ed exact­ly because of their propen­si­ty for vio­lence or the dis­rup­tion of estab­lished order. Whether we see that as a fruit­ful path for a coun­try is a point for live­ly legit­i­mate debate. What is clear is that if you sow corn you will def­i­nite­ly not reap toma­toes. As such when we cel­e­brate killing and car­nage we will reap a har­vest of may­hem and destruc­tion. We are reap­ing that har­vest of may­hem and destruc­tion now. Our entire con­tem­po­rary cul­ture is designed around killing. The media not to be out­done has signed on to the crazi­ness, incor­po­rat­ing the crass, degen­er­a­tive, mur­der ver­nac­u­lar into seri­ous jour­nal­is­tic dis­course. Dance-hall music is sig­nif­i­cant­ly influ­en­tial that it informs soci­etal norms (vis a vis infor­ma fi dead).In short killing and the use of firearm is such a large part of Jamaican cul­ture that, to be good one has to be shat[sic] shat mean­ing good. Twisted yes, true yes.

Because of the pop­u­lar­i­ty of the gun and anti-con­for­mi­ty cul­ture, our peo­ple have deter­mined for decades that the way to fame and for­tune is by estab­lish­ing the moniker (rude bway)for them­selves. All of us have fed that mon­ster, when we cel­e­brate mur­der music, when we buy films depict­ing killing and car­nage, when we sign on to vio­lence as the only means to con­flict res­o­lu­tion, and yes when we wan­ton­ly extra-judi­cial­ly kill even the most vile cretins. Wherever car­cass­es exist, scav­engers are nev­er far off. It is no sur­prise then that oppor­tunists of all stripes would emerge in Jamaica , pur­port­ing to cham­pi­on the cause of the poor and dis­pos­sessed. Some emerge in the name of Human Rights, oth­ers pur­port to be able to “man­age peace” what­ev­er that means? The entire Governmental struc­ture is large­ly made up of immoral hus­tlers and thieves.

The police depart­ment which is tasked with pro­tect­ing the rights and safe­ty of cit­i­zens allowed itself to be reduced to a cesspool of graft , bribes and cor­rup­tion, it remained obliv­i­ous to calls to trans­form itself even as it sunk deep­er into irrel­e­vance. Those who ran the depart­ment lacked the depth to rec­og­nize that if the depart­ment con­tin­ued on that path it would one day wake up and find it was relieved of it’s pow­er. That day is here. Even as I and oth­ers scream that the way to fix the crime prob­lem is to recruit, train equip,supervise and pay offi­cers, that train has already left the sta­tion. The Political direc­torate, nev­er a fan of poor peo­ple’s off­spring hav­ing such pow­ers ‚were more than will­ing to sub­vert that pow­er. Enter (INDECOM)Independent Commission of Investigations>The prob­lem for the police is that the notion of inde­pen­dence in that body is a mis­nomer. It is nei­ther inde­pen­dent nor a cred­i­ble Investigative body. It is a bunch of Elitist who hates police offi­cers, they are aligned to the Anti-police antag­o­nist group (JFJ) Jamaicans for Justice, anoth­er mis­nomer. Together these two bod­ies in con­junc­tion with the office of Public defend­er forms a tri­ad of aggres­sion against law enforce­ment in the coun­try which has ginned up such sen­ti­ment against the con­stab­u­lary that the chick­ens have nat­u­ral­ly come home to roost. The killing of police offi­cers is now an almost dai­ly occur­rence. The head of JFJ and the pub­lic defend­er stat­ed cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly that police accounts of fatal shoot­ings can­not be believed because not enough offi­cers are being shot. These are the peo­ple with whom the head of INDECOM hang out and grant press con­fer­ences. For my Readers who are not from Jamaica, it is impor­tant that you under­stand that the office of pub­lic defend­er is a gov­ern­ment office . It’s offi­cials are paid with tax dol­lars. These are the peo­ple who argue that not enough cops are being killed. Now they have their wish.

It would be inter­est­ing to hear peo­ple who sup­port the state of Israel views on what is hap­pen­ing in the so-called Holy land. African Jews are find­ing their way back to the land of Israel only to be denied the basic dig­ni­ty that Jews of lighter hues take for grant­ed. One can­not turn on the Television and not find reminders of the Jewish holo­caust before and dur­ing the sec­ond world war.

Ironically the very peo­ple who fled per­se­cu­tion and death are now vis­it­ing racial apartheid on Jews of African ances­try. http://​www​.youtube​.com/​w​a​t​c​h​?​v​=​d​P​x​v​4​A​f​f​3​I​A​&​f​e​a​t​u​r​e​=​s​h​are. I urge you watch this video and form your own opin­ion on what you have wit­nessed. Never mind that most of the peo­ple who live in Israel are peo­ple and their off­spring who were exiled from Europe dur­ing Hitler’s Jewish cleans­ing of Germany. This is shock­ing what is hap­pen­ing in this place called Israel .

The state of Israel was estab­lished in 1947 at the mouth of the Suez Canal by the United States and Britain and armed with nuclear weapons to pro­tect America’s and Britain’s oil and oth­er hege­mon­ic inter­est. This Apartheid is iron­ic con­sid­er­a­tion that in America and oth­er parts of the world, Jews and their sup­port­ers con­stant­ly blan­ket the air­waves beg­ging for mon­ey for the so-called Jewish State. They do so even as they keep the flames of vic­tim-hood burn­ing, as a means of lever­ag­ing more and more mate­r­i­al wealth and sym­pa­thy over the holocaust.

At this moment Israel is active­ly engaged in round­ing up Africans and plac­ing them in con­cen­tra­tion camps, label­ing them “Infiltrators”. From the Prime Minister on down the attack on African Jews is sys­tem­at­ic. Benjamin Netanyahu the Likud right-wing Prime Minister is a pro­po­nent of cleans­ing Israel of African Jews , argu­ing that if the lev­el of Africans in Israel exceeds 30% Israel will become a bi-nation­al state which means los­ing its Jewish char­ac­ter. Never mind that the world’s largest bi-nation­al state the United States con­tributes $3 bil­lion of our tax dol­lars to prop up that racist apartheid sys­tem. http://​ifamer​i​can​sknew​.org/​s​t​a​t​s​/​c​o​s​t​_​o​f​_​i​s​r​a​e​l​.​h​tml Currently over two thou­sand African Jews are being held in the Negev desert in what many say is the largest prison in the indus­tri­al­ized world. There is no data point­ing to African Jews threat­en­ing the state with the bogey-man “Terrorism”, in fact there is evi­dence African Jews are large­ly pro-Israel.

Are the chris­t­ian pas­tors aware of whats hap­pen­ing even as they preach to their flock about sup­port­ing Israel? Or is the Apartheid sys­tem in Israel par for the course , com­men­su­rate with slav­ery and Jim crow in America? If so, this leaves black pas­tors with a lot of explain­ing to do.http://​www​.youtube​.com/​w​a​t​c​h​?​v​=​e​t​X​A​m​-​O​y​lQQ Here is a lit­tle bit of per­spec­tive for those who talk about the so-called Israel and the peo­ple who now claim it as some kind of ances­tral home­land that they were forced from thou­sands of years ago.

I decid­ed to do some­thing last night which I nev­er did before. I want­ed to hear what peo­ple on the Political right hear from talk radio. So I turned to one of the AM fre­quen­cies. Those are the Stations which pol­lute the air­waves with the most vile bel­li­cose garbage. That’s what pass­es for infor­ma­tion to almost 50% of the Country’s pop­u­la­tion. These Stations are a source of infor­ma­tion and are home to the likes Of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ted Nugent, Glen Beck, Laura Ingram and a whole host of oth­er hate-mon­gers. I must tell you I am sur­prised that the Country is not plunged into yet anoth­er civ­il-war. The tone and tenor of the rhetoric is indis­tin­guish­able from Hitler’s 1937 – 1938 speech­es deliv­ered from the Reichstag. How peo­ple can hate that much is beyond my com­pre­hen­sion! In the absence of facts they con­coct their own truths. They devise a nar­ra­tive, spins and sells it to their lis­ten­ers who in turn assim­i­late and regur­gi­tate it as fact. The most ludi­crous con­spir­a­cy the­o­ries are pro­mul­gat­ed as irrefutable facts.

These big­ot­ed talk­ers don’t care that the lies they tell may be dis­proved imme­di­ate­ly. They know their lis­ten­ers are not inter­est­ed in find­ing out whether what they are told are true. The fab­ri­cat­ed lies are all they need, hatred of Obama is the accel­er­ant which fuels their fire. They talk inces­sant­ly about the Constitution yet many of them are unaware of what’s in the Constitution.

At a march a few days ago one igno­rant big­ot Larry Klayman had this to say about the twice elect­ed President of the United States, in front of the White House.

“I call upon all of you to wage a sec­ond American non­vi­o­lent rev­o­lu­tion, to use civ­il dis­obe­di­ence, and to demand that this pres­i­dent leave town, to get up, to put the Quran down, to get up off his knees, and to fig­u­ra­tive­ly come out with his hands up,” said Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch, a con­ser­v­a­tive polit­i­cal advo­ca­cy group.

Here’s the rub. Even if this moron was right about the President being a Muslim. Even if he was right that the President had a Quran. Even if he was right about the President of the United States being on his knees pray­ing to Allah. None of the afore­men­tioned would have being a dis-qual­i­fi­er for this or any oth­er President from hold­ing the office of President. The United States Constitution’s only cri­te­ria for the Presidency is that a per­son must have been born in the United States and have attained the age of thir­ty-five (35)years old, that’s it . What these Racial and Religious big­ots suc­ceed in doing is show­ing the world just how igno­rant they are. Ignorant about the very doc­u­ment at the cen­ter of their despot­ic unright­eous hate-filled cru­sade. Yet they have mil­lions of une­d­u­cat­ed hate-filled hearts cling­ing to their every word, hun­gry for more and more hate filled rhetoric.

Thursday morn­ing and it’s time for the cir­cu­lar fir­ing squad, time for can­ni­bal­ism, the chief tar­get of their ire Mitch McConnell the Minority leader of the Senate. I guess McConnell is a lib­er­al now. Helping to craft leg­isla­tive com­pro­mise to avert a colos­sal implo­sion of the World’s econ­o­my ren­ders him a Lefty. This is the lev­el of igno­rant kamikaze fanati­cism which now large­ly make up the Confederate/​Republican Party from the high­est lev­el to the grass-roots.

When the Confederate/​Republican Party decid­ed to block every pro­gram Obama endorsed or rec­om­mend­ed even if it was their idea, it was planned. When Mitch McConnell and his cronies in the Senate mount­ed a record num­ber of fil­i­buster block­ing Obama’s agen­da, it was planned. Standard & Poors S&P) down­grad­ed the U.S. fed­er­al gov­ern­ment from AAA (out­stand­ing) to AA+ (excel­lent) on August 5, 2011. S&P was direct in its crit­i­cism of the gov­er­nance and pol­i­cy-mak­ing process, which took the U.S. to the brink of default as part of the 2011 U.S. debt-ceil­ing cri­sis that same week: That action by Confederate Republicans was planned. Then Democratic Mass: Senator John Kerry referred to this as the “Tea Party down­grade,” blam­ing Republican intran­si­gence regard­ing rev­enues and dis­re­gard for the con­se­quences of a default. He seem to get it. The present impasse was planned , at the last moment the only hope the Country has of not default­ing is pinned on dis­cus­sions between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his counter-part Mitch McConnell, whose sole pur­pose was to make sure Barack Obama was a one term President.

These two men do not work well togeth­er, from reports they don’t even seem to like each oth­er. Now the hope of a Nation rests with them com­ing to a deal which will be palat­able to both sides. There is just one tiny prob­lem. Whatever deal the two Senate lead­ers come up with (if they do) ‚still has to be vot­ed on and passed by the House of Representatives where the prob­lem start­ed. All of this action which Obama calls brinkman­ship could have been avoid­ed. Why would the Tea-Party con­trolled House of Representatives go through all it has in cre­at­ing the shut­down which fur­loughed hun­dreds of thou­sands of fed­er­al work­ers to capit­u­late now?

The Tea-Party and their Acolytes have already demon­strat­ed their inten­tions to force the nation to default, they are telling every­one who will lis­ten that default won’t be cat­a­stroph­ic, and may even be a good thing accord­ing to one Congressman. I am not opti­mistic that a deal will be reached by the sen­ate lead­ers, then allowed to be vot­ed on in the House. Over the last 5 years of Obama’s Presidency The Speaker of the house John Boehner has shown zero lead­er­ship in stand­ing up to the destruc­tive ele­ments with­in his cau­cus. Boehner has sub­se­quent­ly ren­dered him­self a paper tiger, who has cho­sen to sur­ren­der prin­ci­ples to remain speaker.

Obama has spent a lot of time talk­ing to peo­ple in cities and towns all across America, yet it remains unclear whether Obama has been able to con­vey the required mes­sage to the pop­u­lace. Speaking direct­ly and clear­ly is the best way to com­mu­ni­cate to peo­ple, ask Bill Clinton. Obama has yet to effec­tive­ly tell America that what is hap­pen­ing is because of his race and not his poli­cies. Even some among his base are speak­ing ill about him. When your ene­my con­fig­ures the nar­ra­tive it will not be kind to you.

This is day 10 of the Confederate/​Republican shut down of the Federal Government. This shut down is hav­ing dis­as­trous con­se­quences for the Country both in eco­nom­ic terms and on the lives of Americans employed by the Feds, there are also resid­ual con­se­quences yet to be report­ed on. CNN reports more than 9 mil­lion moth­ers and their babies are at risk as WIC grinds to a halt.http://​www​.cnn​.com/​2​0​1​3​/​0​9​/​3​0​/​p​o​l​i​t​i​c​s​/​g​o​v​e​r​n​m​e​n​t​-​s​h​u​t​d​o​w​n​-​u​p​-​t​o​-​s​p​e​e​d​/​i​n​d​e​x​.​h​tml.The Los Angeles Times details how a shut down affects the coun­try and the lives of ordi­nary Americans .http://​www​.latimes​.com/​n​a​t​i​o​n​/​p​o​l​i​t​i​c​s​/​p​o​l​i​t​i​c​s​n​o​w​/​l​a​-​p​n​-​g​o​v​e​r​n​m​e​n​t​-​s​h​u​t​d​o​w​n​-​q​-​a​n​d​-​a​-​2​0​1​3​0​9​3​0​,​0​,​5​5​6​4​5​3​1​.​s​t​ory. The risk to the coun­try and peo­ple are stark and dra­mat­ic. Families unable to bury mil­i­tary fam­i­ly mem­bers killed in com­bat. Babies and moth­ers unable to source basic nutri­tion­al sus­te­nance. Parks and Monuments shut­tered. Families put at risk of fore­clo­sure , unable to pay their mort­gage commitments.The list goes on and on. Despite the pain they are caus­ing to the coun­try the band of extor­tion­ist oper­at­ing in the House have decid­ed to hold fast to their demands. Which start­ed about de-fund­ing and repeal­ing the Affordable Care Act , to “we will not be dis­re­spect­ed , we have to get some­thing out of this, we don’t even know what that is”. That has since evolved into whin­ing about bud­get issues. They sim­ply refuse to budge from their non­sen­si­cal extor­tion­ist demands.

None of the pain mat­tered to Confederate/​Republicans, why would they care it’s just the lit­tle peo­ple who are hurt­ing. But an even big­ger prob­lem is loom­ing. The Federal debt lim­it needs to be raised, this is not more Federal spend­ing , it sim­ply allows the Government to pay the bills already autho­rized by the Congress. But most impor­tant­ly a default by the Government would mean that the faith investors both local and for­eign have in America as a place to invest would poten­tial­ly be a thing of the past. That would impact every­one , but it would cause seri­ous harm to the big fat cats many of whom are fund­ing the present chaos in the coun­try, obliv­i­ous and ill-informed of the unin­tend­ed con­se­quences of their actions.

Charles a David Koch. Billionaire fun­ders of the Tea-Party hoax.

ΤHEN OCT .9^th. Koch Industries to sen­a­tors: We haven’t lob­bied to ‘defund ObamaCare

Koch Industries dis­missed accu­sa­tions it has endorsed the Republican tac­tic of link­ing lan­guage to de fund Obama Care to gov­ern­ment spend­ing bills. “Koch has not tak­en a posi­tion on the leg­isla­tive tac­tic of tying the con­tin­u­ing res­o­lu­tion to de-fund­ing Obama Care nor have we lob­bied on leg­isla­tive pro­vi­sions de fund­ing Obama Care,” Philip Ellender, Koch’s gov­ern­ment and pub­lic affairs pres­i­dent, wrote in a let­ter to Senate law­mak­ers Wednesday. Koch Industries is a con­glom­er­ate of com­pa­nies includ­ing Dixie Cups, Lycra and Brawny paper tow­els — all owned by the bil­lion­aire Koch broth­ers. Charles and David Koch, a recent New York Times report says, have been fun­nel­ing mon­ey into the GOP’s effort to destroy President Obama’s health­care law. They have been major back­ers of the Tea Party move­ment, which has led the push to de fund Obama Care in Congress.http://​the​hill​.com/​b​l​o​g​s​/​b​l​o​g​-​b​r​i​e​f​i​n​g​-​r​o​o​m​/​n​e​w​s​/​3​2​7​4​4​9​-​k​o​c​h​-​i​n​d​u​s​t​r​i​e​s​-​t​o​-​s​e​n​a​t​o​r​s​-​w​e​-​h​a​v​e​n​t​-​l​o​b​b​i​e​d​-​t​o​-​d​e​f​u​n​d​-​o​b​a​m​a​c​are.

OCTOBER 10^th. Republicans to give President assur­ance of a clean Continuation Resolution Bill to fund the Government, albeit for anoth­er 6 Weeks.…. Wow.

If you ever won­dered whether you mat­tered? That ques­tion is now answered. Charles and David Koch Billionaire fun­ders of the Tea-Party and oth­er right-wing groups now real­ize the con­se­quences of their actions will hit them where it hurts , in their pock­et-books. They dis­tance them­selves, the pup­pets in House runs to the pres­i­dent tail between their legs. The Speaker of the house says they will offer to extend the debt ceil­ing if the President will agree to cuts, that would poten­tial­ly leave the Government still shut­tered. Joy-Anne Reid of the Grio​.com char­ac­ter­ized it this way . “So they have decid­ed not to release the hostage, only not to shoot the hostage, at least until Thanksgiving”. The big mon­ey pup­peteers pulled back when they real­ized they are about to feel finan­cial pain, the lit­tle ide­o­log­i­cal Puppets in the Congress runs to strike a deal.

NO. 

So they go to the White House to meet the pres­i­dent still hold­ing hostage the American peo­ple. The President said “No” 

There is a group of peo­ple in this coun­try who are opposed to President Obama, not because of pol­i­cy but because of race. They fun­da­men­tal­ly believe in the pale­ness of their skin and what it ought to mean, in terms of enti­tle­ments and gov­er­nance of this coun­try. That is at the heart of the fight being waged, not just in Washington but in States all across America. It has noth­ing to do with Obama-care, it has every­thing to do with Obama. After Obama won re-elec­tion a group of Confederate/​Republicans got togeth­er to fig­ure out a way to de-fund the Affordable Care Act, the sig­na­ture domes­tic accom­plish­ment of Obama . The idea is a stu­pid and sui­ci­dal irra­tional one ‚but no one ever accused Confederate/​Republicans of being smart. Devious, cal­cu­la­tive, dis­hon­or­able, igno­ran­ly racist, just not smart.

Even if Confederate/​Republicans could some­how man­age to get a repeal/de-fund bill through the Senate, they are for­get­ting that Obama is still the pres­i­dent . He would sim­ply veto the damn thing. So what is the end game for these loonies? There is none . Their goal is sim­ply to cause chaos , wreck the econ­o­my and hope to be returned to pow­er, reward­ed for the car­nage they caused. Obama sad­dled with the blame.

This oppo­si­tion to Obama has gone through stages: Candidate Obama dealt with.

♦1) Jeremiah Wright.

♦2) Forced to make speech on Race in America>

♦3) Birther debate.♦

After Obama was elected.

♦4) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell dec­la­ra­tion that his sole mis­sion is to make Obama a one term President.

♦5) Birther debate.

♦6) Skip Gates débâcle.

♦7) Joe Wilson you lie.

♦8) Obstruct as much as possible.

♦9) Prevent Obama’s Re-election.

♦10) Challenge Obama-care in the Supreme Court.

♦11) De-fund Obama-care.

♦12) Cause total chaos.

Billionaire Funders of chaos in America Charles and David Koch:

Behind this brand of Politics are two broth­ers Charles and David Koch who are fund­ing a cam­paign against Obama, they are bank-rolling efforts to derail Obama’s objec­tives to the tune of tens if not Hundreds of mil­lions of dol­lars. This did not hap­pen in a vac­u­um . This was made pos­si­ble by Supreme Court Decision Citizens United. This deci­sion opened the flood gates of spe­cial inter­est mon­ey into the polit­i­cal process under the guise of free speech. Charles and David Koch are not the only ones who are bank-rolling efforts to negate your vote, they are the face of it. These guys do not believe in Government they have stark lib­er­tar­i­an beliefs which basi­cal­ly say those who can­not make it on their own will be weed­ed out nat­u­ral­ly. Never mind that it’ s easy for them to feel that way, they were born with dia­mond spoons in their mouths, thanks to a bil­lion­aire father.

Tea Party Express Chairperson Amy Kremer.

On the face of it the Tea-Party seem like a grass-roots orga­ni­za­tion con­cerned about Government spend­ing, It’s National chair­per­son is a woman who looks like a reg­u­lar soc­cer mom. Don’t believe the lie, this group of frauds were absolute­ly silent when George Bush was wag­ing two wars on a cred­it card and giv­ing tax-breaks to mil­lion­aires and bil­lion­aires. behind this cha­rade are spe­cif­ic groups which are well orga­nized and fund­ed, these includes Conservative Club for growth. Freedom Works. Tea Party Express. The Heritage Foundation.Conservative Victory Project and oth­ers. Those won­der­ing where are the sane Republicans in light of recent devel­op­ments must remem­ber that notion is an oxy­moron. Mitt Romney the last Republican Presidential Candidate the man who stat­ed he was an inde­pen­dent dur­ing the Reagan years , ran as a “severely”[sic] Conservative Republican. That is the lev­el of luna­cy which is now the clown-show called the Republican Party, which I pre­fer to call the Confederate party.

Ted Cruz:

What rea­son­able Republican? They got rid of Dick Lugar in Indiana, Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania, oth­er ide­o­log­i­cal zealots were pushed into races they had no chance of win­ning , this cost them dear­ly in Delaware, North Dakota and Montana. So they allowed Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, two Tea-Party Senators to walk them into this tun­nel about de-fund­ing Obama care. The tun­nel did not have an open­ing. Cruz in his sig­na­ture self-aggran­diz­ing zealotry, did not both­er to ensure there was a way out, he sim­ply marched them in like the pied piper of Hamelin. This sto­ry is often ref­er­enced in con­nec­tion with charis­mat­ic lead­er­ship, i.e. to com­pare some­one to the Pied Piper is to indi­cate that they lead unwit­ting fol­low­ers to their doom.

Now caught in a Tunnel from which they can­not return, Confederate/​Republicans have closed the Government, demand­ing that Obama come to the table, so they can debate de-fund­ing his health care law, or delay it for a year until they win the Senate so they can repeal it. Basically a no win embar­rass­ment for Obama. He blinked before, why would they not get their way this time? Obama always gives them what they want! Thus far Obama has stood firm, they did not see this com­ing, he always caves, they have no plan B. The con­ver­sa­tion has now being shift­ed to talks about bud­get deficits and just sit­ting down to have a dis­cus­sion about hav­ing a dis­cus­sion.. The shame­less neo­phyte Senator from Texas, Ted Cruz locked the Government down, then have the nerve to tell mil­i­tary Veterans the President did it. This guy is a shame­less dem­a­gogue . At issue how­ev­er is what Confederate/​Republicans think about the aver­age American, they believe they are too stu­pid to under­stand the issues. This guy has shades of Joe McCarthy, this coun­try would be wise to pay spe­cial atten­tion to him, he can cause a lot of harm before he is through, just like McCarthy did.

President Barack Obama is the Jackie Robinson of the American Presidency . Obama under­stands as Robinson did, what his place in his­to­ry will be. He knows his trail-blaz­ing sprint to the top was not going to be with­out hur­dles. He under­stands well, that those who erect bar­ri­ers in his way will be mere foot-notes when the pages of his­to­ry are writ­ten. Like oth­er American patri­ots before him , he under­stands the igno­rance of intel­lec­tu­al cave-dwellers will only make his sto­ry that much more interesting.

Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia in 1919 to a fam­i­ly of share­crop­pers. His moth­er, Mallie Robinson, sin­gle-hand­ed­ly raised Jackie and her four oth­er chil­dren. They were the only black fam­i­ly on their block, and the prej­u­dice they encoun­tered only strength­ened their bond. From this hum­ble begin­ning would grow the first base­ball play­er to break Major League Baseball’s col­or bar­ri­er that seg­re­gat­ed the sport for more than 50 years. Jackie Robinson’s life and lega­cy will be remem­bered as one of the most impor­tant in American his­to­ry. In 1997, the world cel­e­brat­ed the 50^th Anniversary of Jackie’s break­ing Major League Baseball’s col­or bar­ri­er. In doing so, we hon­ored the man who stood defi­ant­ly against those who would work against racial equal­i­ty and acknowl­edged the pro­found influ­ence of one man’s life on the American cul­ture. On the date of Robinson’s his­toric debut, all Major League teams across the nation cel­e­brat­ed this mile­stone. Also that year, The United States Post Office hon­ored Robinson by mak­ing him the sub­ject of a com­mem­o­ra­tive postage stamp. On Tuesday, April 15 President Bill Clinton paid trib­ute to Jackie at Shea Stadium in New York in a spe­cial cer­e­mo­ny.http://​www​.jack​ier​obin​son​.com/​a​b​o​u​t​/​b​i​o​.​h​tml.

During his major league car­rear Robinson endured the sear­ing heat or racial igno­rance in ball-parks all over America as well as from many with whom he shared a lock­er-room. Robinson was ridiculed, jeered and even spat upon. Today Robinson’s con­tri­bu­tion to his coun­try is incal­cu­la­ble. Many who today invoke Robinson’s name should hang their heads in shame. They use Robinson’s name as they do Doctor King’s to fur­ther their own agen­das. It is the con­tin­ued shame of America to eat it’s great­est lead­ers and cel­e­brate it’s worst dem­a­gogues. Lincoln, Kennedy, Kennedy, King, Malcolm X, Evers , the list of dis­tin­guished Americans sac­ri­ficed is long and var­ied . In the same breath Jefferson Davis, Bull O’Connor, George Wallace and Strom Thurmond Joe Arpio are heroes.

Obama is part­ly to be blamed for the pick­le the coun­try is in, just not in the way some would like to explain it. The pre­vi­ous occa­sion on which the con­fed­er­ate Republicans took the Nation hostage he nego­ti­at­ed with them. This embold­ened them to again adopt this dan­ger­ous, regres­sive, tac­tic as bar­gain­ing lever­age. Here’s the rub, why would the pres­i­dent nego­ti­ate with the Confederate/​Republicans on his sig­na­ture domes­tic achieve­ment ? What prece­dent would he be set­ting for future pres­i­dents by cav­ing to extor­tion? This hostage tak­ing is by one fac­tion, of one house, of one branch of Government. Their job is to fund the Government. How dare they take the entire coun­ty hostage?

Why would Democrats nego­ti­ate with the Confederate/​Republicans after they have closed the Government down to extract what they want from the pres­i­dent? John Boehner the confederate/​Republican Speaker of the house, act­ing like a thug, demands the President nego­ti­ate an end to the impasse he cre­at­ed. Really ? His and his cronies actions are tan­ta­mount to a hostage tak­er who calls the police demand­ing that the cops nego­ti­ate with them so they may extract a ransom.

If ever there was a case of pow­er going to the head of politi­cians this is it. This is the most egre­gious case of abuse of pow­er I have ever seen in my life­time. It is craven, arro­gant, it bor­ders on sedi­tious. In law, sedi­tion is overt con­duct, such as speech and orga­ni­za­tion, that is deemed by the legal author­i­ty to tend toward insur­rec­tion against the estab­lished order.‎The sad thing is, the Confederate/​Republicans don’t even know what they want out of this dan­ger­ous , regres­sive gam­bit. Quote :” We will not be dis­re­spect­ed We have to get some­thing out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.”

Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R‑Ind.)

Don’t for­get that this is a man­u­fac­tured cri­sis which is hurt­ing the nation’s econ­o­my and affect­ing the lives of hun­dreds of thou­sands , if not mil­lions of Americans. The anar­chis­tic confederate/​Republicans sim­ply don’t care. This has been their tac­tic for decades, when they don’t have their way, they sim­ply shut the gov­ern­ment down. Remember this car­toon dur­ing the Clinton Administration? These mis­fits should be run out-of-town but they won’t be, these are the elect­ed lead­ers who rep­re­sent spe­cif­ic ger­ry­man­dered con­gres­sion­al dis­tricts in red states. The only cri­te­ria to get­ting elect­ed it seem, is absolute rabid stu­pid­i­ty. Elected Representatives mir­ror the vot­ers who elect them. We have seen and heard some of the things some of these vot­ers say and do, it is no won­der dur­ing the boon years of the Clinton Administration most of the peo­ple liv­ing in cer­tain geo­graph­i­cal areas would ask what boon? They sim­ply refuse to open their minds to new pos­si­bil­i­ties . Racism is one of the cor­ro­sive ten­ta­cle still stran­gling them. These are the same peo­ple who wrap them­selves in the Flag and try to con­vince you they are patri­ots. They are not, they have sold their votes to spe­cial inter­est, coun­try be damned. They are the ones who have the nerve to ques­tion the nation­al­i­ty of oth­ers , they are frauds.