Some of the most perplexing and heartbreaking crimes we read about daily are the killing of women and innocent children. Our default reaction to these killings is generally “what kind of creatures kill innocent women and children”?
To some degree there has been an unwritten rule between foes that despite blood hatred for each other, women and children would not be touched.
In the United States and Italy where (La Costa Nosta ) ruled the criminal underworld it was not out of the ordinary for gangsters to show up to the funeral of other deceased gangsters they ordered killed, bearing gifts of cash and other valuables for the widow and children of their victims.
Of late all of this has changed not just in Jamaica but across the Globe. Women and children are increasingly being caught in the cross hairs of Terrorists and criminal violence. We have also seen an increased presence of women on the forefront of liberation and political struggles.
Whether or not the elevation of women to the forefront of battle fields removes them from the off-limits category is yet to be determined.
Jamaican Police yesterday reported that 28 women and seven children have been victims of gun attack in the western end of the island since the start of the year. The Police Communications Unit reported that during the period, 15 of the women and six children were killed, while 13 women and a child were shot and injured in the area. The police speculate that the attacks are due to women harboring and enabling criminals in their homes and communities. The Area One Police are subsequently appealing to women to desist from this practice.
Every action in this world bears a consequence.
(boards of wisdom.com)
An appeal from the Police will not change an integral part of the Nation’s Pop culture. The proceeds Jamaicans (particularly women)derive from harboring criminals is just icing on the cake for recipients. Jamaicans have always maintained a toxic affinity for criminality.
As a small child in grade school I developed an aversion to the way criminals were presented as heroes. This was a constant and Persistent glorification and romanticizing of common criminals from Three finger Jack, to Rigen and others.
Most criminals who came out of the Nations sub-culture during the 60’s-90’s were blood thirsty sub-human Demons who cared nothing about the sanctity of human life.
Yet somehow the Media and society romanticized them, sanitized their barbaric deeds effectively making them heroes. Not the barbaric demons they were. This practice continue to this day.
This permeates every strata of the system from grade school to the Godless halls of Academia, criminals are made out to be victims, not the opportunistic predators they actually are.
Conversely there is a parallel narrative which demonize those who place their lives on the line in defense of the Nation.
Contrary to what some believe if you plant corn for a thousand years you will reap corn for a thousand years.
Not peas.
Jamaica can pragmatically look at what it is doing wrong or it may simply continue on the path it’s on.
In the end the people decide the direction they wish to take.
No one should force good on anyone if they are desirous of decadence and decay.
As I said initially we tend to default to the perspective that women and children are innocent victims in all of this.
Unfortunately that statement would only be partially correct. The children are innocent victims totally undeserving of the the violence being perpetuated against them.
Unfortunately not all women can lay claim to innocence. Jamaican women have played a significant part in the nation’s crime culture for all of the country’s recent history. They have done so by aiding and abetting family members involved in crime.
Probably more importantly they have made being in a Romantic relationship with them contingent on the man’s ability to deliver illicitly obtained monies and valuables. In essence many of the Country’s women are actually the drivers of crime in the society.
Players understand the game. Members of the underworld understand the game, they know where their contemporaries lay low. When they show up at the door and ask these women for the men in their lives they know when they are lying about not knowing.
When you receive the proceeds of crime , when you harbor criminals getting killed is also one of the things you unwittingly sign up for.
As we contemplate the crime scourge on a National scope. It is instructive to look at this particular section of what’s driving crime in the Island Nation.
Individual involvement drives crime.
National involvement drives crime exponentially. It’s has the ripple effect of a a pebble in a brook.