Chuck’s About Face Attempt To Deride Empirical Data.…

You have seen me crit­i­cize Jamaican politi­cians PNP and JLP alike where war­rant­ed and to be frank, it’s gen­er­al­ly always warranted.
Some of the Island’s Politicians do mean well [ a small and shrink­ing minor­i­ty if you will].
It’s dif­fi­cult to imag­ine that Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett does not mean well for Tourism even though he is a long­time politi­cian who has to bear some respon­si­bil­i­ty for the con­di­tion of the coun­try to some minute degree.
The same may be said of Christopher Tufton the Health Minister who has not been dirt­ied by the stains of Garrison Politics.

On both sides of the polit­i­cal divide, there may only be a few good men and women who are not sul­lied, one way or the oth­er by graft, cor­rup­tion, and deceit of some kind.
Even those who may not have com­mit­ted crim­i­nal acts [or rather have not been held account­able], deceit and com­plic­i­ty even by their very silence are omnipresent. This, when they should have spo­ken up and out against the wrong­do­ings of their col­leagues in a non-polit­i­cal way.
Deceit and com­plic­i­ty endure in oth­ers when they do speak up and out when they should have remained silent.‘

In no oth­er Politician prac­tic­ing today have I seen more deceit and com­plic­i­ty than in the Minister of Justice Delroy Chuck.
In him I see a hyp­ocrite extra­or­di­naire who speaks with forked tongue, as native Americans once char­ac­ter­ized the white men who nev­er signed a treaty they did not break.

Chuck’s dis­dain for offi­cers of the law and his pro­cliv­i­ty to appease the local aris­to­crat­ic rab­ble which dwells in the enclaves of upper Saint Andrew rivals only his forked tongue on issues of relevance.
I have writ­ten expan­sive­ly on Delroy Chucks harm­ful imprint on the rule of law in our coun­try but by and large in the Orwellian uni­verse in which our coun­try oper­ates Chuck will inevitably go down as a hero who has advanced Jamaica’s jus­tice system.

Just days ago police released a report they com­piled in which they out­lined extra­or­di­nar­i­ly light sen­tences being met­ed out by the courts in the west­er­ly parts of the country.
The law-enforce­ment report detailed a com­pre­hen­sive case by case analy­sis of indi­vid­ual cas­es in which Judges in the same cir­cuit have inex­plic­a­bly giv­en felons what could only be char­ac­ter­ized as tiny slaps on the wrist.

Court Management Services Response Weak And Demonstrative Of Deeper Scars.

Delroy Chuck, expe­ri­enc­ing what could eas­i­ly pass for a pang of decen­cy and dare I say real­i­ty and duty to coun­try, if not hon­esty, declared that he has con­cerns about the dis­par­i­ty in the sen­tences being imposed by judges. “There needs to be greater con­sis­ten­cy by judges,” he said, adding that sen­tences should send a strong sig­nal to soci­ety about the repug­nance of crim­i­nal activities.

I was stunned at that state­ment from Chuck so much so that I wrote the above arti­cle on the CVM’s response but did not men­tion Chuck’s response.
I thought his state­ment was self-serv­ing, and could only have been giv­en because he thought there was lever­age there for himself.
It did not take long for my sus­pi­cions to be con­firmed Sunday Gleaner of January 21^st.
Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has hit back at the police and oth­er crit­ics who have tak­en issue with per­ceived light sen­tences being imposed by judges for ille­gal pos­ses­sion of firearm and ammu­ni­tion.

It was not just this writer who found Chuck’s about-face duplic­i­tous and self-serv­ing, the glean­er admit­ted as much stating.
Days after pub­licly admit­ting that he also has con­cerns about the dis­par­i­ty between some of the sen­tences being imposed, Mr. Chuck says crit­ics should under­stand that sen­tenc­ing is not a sci­ence and that every case can be explained.

But this is vin­tage Delroy Chuck, the very man who paid homage to a deceased crim­i­nal area” don” on the occa­sion of his demise but has noth­ing pos­i­tive to say about valiant police offi­cers who give their lives for their country.
Chuck stu­pid­ly crit­i­cised the police, for what he char­ac­ter­izes as a sin­gling out of cas­es with light sen­tences, to make the argu­ment that the jus­tice sys­tem should be blamed for the esca­la­tion in crime.
When fac­tu­al­ly what pass­es as a jus­tice sys­tem in the coun­try is objec­tive­ly and demon­stra­bly part­ly to be blamed for the esca­la­tion in seri­ous crimes.
The catch and release of mur­der­ers back onto the streets on a dai­ly basis only so that they may kill again is a good place to start if Chuck in an edu­ca­tion on basic indis­putable facts.

The very same Delroy Chuck who just last week agreed with the sober assess­ment of the police doc­u­men­tary report­ing flips and makes the scur­rilous claim that empir­i­cal data should not be used to form objec­tive conclusions.
The shock­ing trav­es­ty in Delroy Chuck’s shame­less about-face may only be attrib­uted to a weak yet trans­par­ent attempt to cur­ry favor and run defen­sive cov­er­age for his crim­i­nal lov­ing cohorts on the bench who are sub­vert­ing the rule of law.

A shame­less dis­play of col­lu­sion by the rul­ing class as it clos­es ranks even as the peas­antry eats itself alive and the streets run red with the blood shed by the very demons they release back onto them.