ELITISM AND POLITICS MAKING A MOCKERY OF OUR COUNTRY:

Allan Douglas a for­mer Colonel of the Jamaica Defense Force wrote a scathing Article in the Jamaica observ­er crit­i­ciz­ing the pas­sage of the new Suppression of Criminal Organisations) Bill. Most of his ven­om was direct­ed at Opposition Jamaica Labor Party mem­ber Delroy Chuck. Now let it be under­stood , Delroy Chuck is no crime fight­er. Chuck is actu­al­ly a mem­ber of that Elitist club who believe crime can be wished away. Notwithstanding, Douglas blast­ed him for voic­ing his sup­port for the new piece of leg­is­la­tion designed to help law enforce­ment rid the coun­try of the scores of mur­der­ous gangs ter­ror­iz­ing cit­i­zens. It should also be not­ed that Douglas is present­ly employed by the Portia Simpson miller Administration. Was this guy speak­ing as a for­mer pro­fes­sion­al sol­dier or as a true orange-lath­ered mem­ber of the PNP cult? I recall it was his par­ty which stood in the way of the secu­ri­ty forces in 2010. The PNP vot­ed uni­tar­i­ly not to extend the lim­it­ed state of emer­gency after the Tivoli Gardens incur­sion. We know where they stand on crime! It is trou­bling nonethe­less when peo­ple who ought to know bet­ter allow polit­i­cal asso­ci­a­tions and affil­i­a­tions to col­or their judge­ment. It is sad when they put par­ty over coun­try. This is exact­ly what’s at the heart of this broad­side by Allan Douglas.

Here is a syn­op­sis of what Allan Douglas had to say Quote :MP Chuck acknowl­edged that some pri­vate indi­vid­u­als and organ­i­sa­tions were con­cerned about the Bill but failed to say why there were more com­pelling rea­sons than the objec­tions raised for pass­ing this piece of leg­is­la­tion. I am sure the mem­ber of Parliament is aware of the man­ner in which mem­bers of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) have con­duct­ed them­selves under the pro­vi­sions of the Suppression of Crime Act (1974), which stayed with us for 20 years. Wasn’t it Mr Chuck’s polit­i­cal par­ty that fought for the repeal of that very Act? Isn’t it that very Act that is wide­ly believed to have con­tributed to the dis­re­gard our present-day JCF shows towards cit­i­zens’ rights or what the Wolfe Report (1992) described as a ‘sup­pres­sion of crime cul­ture’?http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​c​o​l​u​m​n​s​/​C​a​n​-​w​e​-​r​e​a​l​l​y​-​e​n​t​r​u​s​t​-​t​h​e​-​J​C​F​-​w​i​t​h​-​t​h​e​-​a​n​t​i​-​g​a​n​g​-​l​e​g​i​s​l​a​t​i​o​n​-​_​1​6​1​4​9​216

Okay I’m not giv­en to name call­ing , but this guy is an absolute Jack-ass. Quote : Can we real­ly entrust the JCF with the new anti-gang leg­is­la­tion? Who should we empow­er with enforc­ing our laws? I have long argued that one of the great­est imped­i­ment to law and order in Jamaica is Elitism. Some peo­ple who live above Cross-Roads who ben­e­fit from the sac­ri­fice of oth­ers . Those who are so far removed from real­i­ties on the ground that they pon­tif­i­cate and pre­tend the crime and ter­ror­ism is hap­pen­ing some place else. I won­der whether Douglas ever had to deal with the feroc­i­ty of Jamaica’s urban ter­ror­ists? Maybe after Douglas grad­u­at­ed from one of the schools which turn out Liberal Elitists they slapped the Colonel Rank on him !! What did he do to earn that Rank. In real mil­i­tary estab­lish­ments Officers must show that they can com­mand to be a Colonel. If as I sus­pect Douglas was giv­en that rank for sit­ting on his ass at Up-Park-Camp, I sug­gest he leave law enforce­ment to the real heroes who brave the bul­lets. I have dodged bul­lets with many mem­bers of the JDF in almost every ghet­to in our coun­try. Most were fine men who under­stood what’s at stake. Douglas should be ashamed to call him­self a for­mer sol­dier. Where was he when the men of 1, 2 and 3JR were side by side with hero­ic cops, fight­ing, so he can pon­tif­i­cate about some­thing he knows noth­ing about? I do not believe Grenada qual­i­fies Douglas to be an author­i­ty on crime fight­ing and ter­ror­ism .The ques­tion is should Douglas’ broad­side be even debat­ed , or should it be seen as the attack of anoth­er polit­i­cal hack , unwor­thy of mention?