As a society, Jamaica has so far to go that it is sometimes easier to throw up the proverbial arm and say there is no point in trying to fix the problems.
The level of corruption and stupidity is incomprehensible. Additionally, the people are not exactly educated on how modern societies are supposed to operate; we are in serious trouble.
We can safely drill down on how the people educated at the University of the West Indies and the other leftist colleges on the Island have been able to do so much damage to our once pristine Island culture.
We are pretty conversant by now that the Country’s leaders have all but for a few exceptions, been educated, or should I say indoctrinated.…. say it with me-“up by uwi,” dwl.
You see the groupthink; you see the one-track monolithic thought processes of the actors, regardless of the branch of government in which they burrowed themselves.
From the courts to Jamaica House and elsewhere, we see how those institutions have indoctrinated rather than educated resulting in dire consequences for our country.
Nowhere is that evidence more visible than in the quality of the political leaders we have running our country; dumbasses who are incapable of sitting together and looking at laws that have worked for other countries, seeing how they would fit Jamaica, and pass laws that protect the citizens of our country.
Arrogant narcissists, mostly unlearned loudmouths, lacking the humility necessary to say I was wrong or I don’t know.
So the country is caught up in an existential cyclone of ignorance and stupidity, created and nurtured by those the people chose to lead.
But what could we expect when leaders are not chosen because of their intellect or track record of sound leadership?
We have always been people impressed with form, not substance. We always valued soaring rhetoric over reasoned performance, flashy personas over level-headed reticent, proven leadership.
Yup, we are the people who call for the release of convicted murderers and demagogue preachers of the gospel; we literally do these things.
It is easy then that they who have supped from the bitter cup of deception and brainwashing can so easily deceive the rest of us who got our education down by grass yard or at the university of hard-knocks.
Of course, they take us for fools.
How else could judges decide on what they want to do with murderers outside of the dictates of the laws?
How else could defense lawyers ask police witnesses why they did not inform INDECOM that he had swiftly removed a cooperating witness from a crime scene?
Do these defense lawyers know that INDECOM has nothing to do with police investigations and strategies? Or do they throw shit against a wall and see what sticks?
Fortunately, Bryan Sykes presiding over the Klansman trial told the little twerp that this was a bench trial and that he would not be analyzing the evidence through the lens of a jury.
Doing what they are used to doing, throwing innuendos and unsubstantiated allegations to ignorant juries that are sometimes made up of people with active criminals in their families in an effort to create doubt, resulting in guilty murderers being set free.
What did we expect when we have defense lawyers defending criminals in court in the morning, then running over to the parliament building to decide on criminal statutes as members of parliament?
How did we expect to have laws friendly to the good of ordinary law-abiding Jamaicans when we allowed this kind of conflict of interest?
Worse yet, many judges come from the defense side of the aisle rather than the prosecutor’s side. Can we now see why judges in Jamaica are so hostile to the people’s interests?
The bottom line is that these little Tadpoles from up by Uwi, swimming around in the little pool, are really contemptuous of the Jamaican people. They do not care about the twelve hundred plus murders each year. They do not care that Travel agents are shunning jamaica, and major nations are issuing travel advisories to their nationals wishing to travel to our country.
They have convinced themselves they are smarter than the rest of us; after all, they were all educated -“up by uwi.”
And that makes them experts in all things, and they would rather burn the damn thing down and rule over the ashes.
They can only feel good about themselves when they operate as lords among a population of serfs.
It is another form of colonization, but the people are blind to it.
That is their mindset until the rest of us put a stop to it.
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.