If You Put Out The Garbage You Don’t Have To Abandon Your House To Cockroaches.…

Yesterday I spoke to the need for sim­ple work­able solu­tions to Jamaica’s seri­ous crime prob­lem. In that arti­cle I sug­gest­ed some­what euphemisti­cal­ly, that lead­ers sim­ply fix the prob­lems and ditch the over­ly grandiose ideas.

In the Article I used the sto­ry of the lit­tle dutch boy who saw a small breech in a Dyke and decid­ed that he would stick his fin­ger into the hole to stop the leak.
So he sim­ply and smart­ly just just stuck his fin­ger in . Just as he thought the water stopped flow­ing in. The down­side was that he was now stuck there until help arrived.
Help did arrive , in the form of one of the town’s lead­ers who stood by grand­ly while the child risked hypothermia.

More town elders arrived , the result of more grown-ups did not how­ev­er fix the dyke they grand­stand­ed about how the leak should be plugged and by whom.. Sound familiar?
Sufficing to say that was not the end of the sto­ry, but the fable apt­ly describes our coun­try and the way things.…. well ‚end up not get­ting done.

Addressing the nation’s Parliament on Tuesday Prime Minister Andrew Holness told the Nation that his admin­is­tra­tion is once again unveil­ing yet anoth­er plan to address crime.
Those of us who fol­low the day to day occur­rences as it relates to crime have one response to this anoth­er crime plan, we roll our eyes.
Calling for bipar­ti­san sup­port Holness out­lined his admin­is­tra­tion’s lat­est ini­tia­tive on crime .

The most com­pre­hen­sive of the Bills — The Law Reform (Zones of Special Operations) (Special Security and Community Development Measures) — will give mem­bers of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) essen­tial pow­ers, which the Government believes are nec­es­sary in address­ing seri­ous crimes, while uphold­ing the rule of law and pro­tect­ing the fun­da­men­tal rights of citizens.
The prime min­is­ter called for bipar­ti­san sup­port for the Bill, which seeks to estab­lish a legal frame­work in which the prime min­is­ter, act­ing on the advice of the National Security Council, may declare any high-crime area of Jamaica a zone for spe­cial secu­ri­ty oper­a­tions and com­mu­ni­ty devel­op­ment measures.

With all due def­er­ence to the esteemed Prime Minister and his admin­is­tra­tion, the prob­lem in our coun­try may hard­ly be attrib­uted to a lack of laws to pun­ish murderers.
The will and tes­tic­u­lar for­ti­tude to say to crit­ics of police tac­tics , “shut your mouths “is where that attri­bu­tion belong.
The lack of will to stand behind good police offi­cers as they do their jobs is wor­thy of that attribution.
Continuing to give cre­dence to the non­sense that tough polic­ing is syn­ony­mous to vio­lat­ing civ­il and human rights is stu­pid­i­ty of the worst order and a capit­u­la­tion to the forces of darkness.

The Jamaican Prime Minister a prod­uct of the far left lean­ing University of the West Indies can hard­ly be count­ed on to under­stand the com­plex­i­ties of crime, it’s crip­pling con­se­quences and reper­cus­sions on nations, and the sim­ple yet res­olute solu­tions which are required to solve them.

The issue of crime may be explained sim­ply as two sep­a­rate hous­es with two sep­a­rate occupants.

SCENARIO#1

The occu­pant of house num­ber one makes his bed each morn­ing before leav­ing for work. He wash­es every­thing he uses and places stuff he uses back into their right­ful places.
At the end of each day occu­pant num­ber one places the garbage in it’s recep­ta­cle in it’s allot­ted place at the back of his house.
His home is always pris­tine, he is proud to show off his home to friends when they vis­it . Never mind that he nev­er has to both­er hav­ing a spe­cial clean­ing in order to invite friends into his home.

SCENARIO#2

Occupant of house num­ber two gets up does not make his bed, does not wash dish­es he uses , he sim­ply drops tow­els, food wrap­pers, and oth­er garbage on his floors.
His kitchen sink is always filled with dirty dish­es . The garbage con­tain­er in his kitchen is filled with refuse , spilling over onto the filthy dirty floors.
On his walls Cockroaches, Ants and oth­er insects crawl leisure­ly and freely ‚filled from the food he leaves all over the house.
He would like to bring vis­i­tors into his home but he is ashamed. He has a desire to see a clean house but lacks the will to clean up the filth ‚so he does noth­ing and the prob­lem grows more severe.

CONCLUSION

There is no need to have a major cleanup if you sim­ply put things in place as the need arise. There is no need for a mon­u­men­tal effort if you put the garbage in it’s place:
If you fail to secure the refuse and place it out­side in it’s assigned recep­ta­cle , you can be sure that Cockroaches and Termites are going to take over your house.

For decades those charged with tak­ing care of the Jamaican house sat idly by refus­ing to put out the garbage.
In fact it could log­i­cal­ly, truth­ful­ly and rea­son­ably be argued they invit­ed garbage in.
No mat­ter how stink the garbage got they refused to lift a fin­ger. They saw the Cockroaches and the Ants , they saw the Termites and still they did noth­ing because they liked the stench and the disorder.

The lack of tes­tic­u­lar for­ti­tude to put out the garbage has caused the Termites to take over the house . Now some want to embark on a major cleanup, but they need help.
So they call to oth­ers to help, though under­stand­ably their calls will not gen­er­ate a pos­i­tive response because it’s sim­ply too much work and they have oth­er things to do.

The ques­tion now is, whether there is enough will to do the nec­es­sary cleanup and fumi­ga­tion work, which would ren­der the house fit for human habi­ta­tion again.
Or whether the option is sim­ply to aban­don the house to the Cockroaches and Termites?

They could have sim­ply cleaned the house.……