IT WAS NEVER ABOUT ACKEES !

Recently we com­ment­ed on the case of a mag­is­trate in Jamaica sen­tenc­ing an offend­er to three-months in jail for steal­ing ack­ee from the grounds of Kings House. King’s House is the offi­cial res­i­dence of the Governor General. Anyone who read my blogs knows I crit­i­cize judges every­day for turn­ing crim­i­nals loose onto the streets and impos­ing ridicu­lous­ly low sen­tences for very seri­ous offences and crimes. This par­tic­u­lar Magistrate has nev­er been a favourite of mine ‚but on this issue I sup­port her decision.

There has been howls of con­dem­na­tion from the tra­di­tion­al crim­i­nal sup­port­ing sources in the our coun­try, you know them ‚the vil­lage lawyers, the know it all, those who feel they should have unfet­tered access to the prop­er­ty of oth­ers , and of course the chief crim­i­nal sup­port­ing group in the coun­try Jamaicans for justice.

Many argue that the Governor General should inter­vene in the deci­sion of the court and grant the man par­don, this of course the GG is unable to do with­out con­sul­ta­tion with the Privy Council In England. and he appro­pri­ate­ly said as much in response to the sil­ly calls for his inter­ven­tion.

The gov­er­nor-gen­er­al has observed that while the Constitution grants him the pow­er to exer­cise par­don or sub­sti­tute a less severe form of pun­ish­ment, it also pro­tects the integri­ty and inde­pen­dence of the judi­cia­ry by stip­u­lat­ing that the gov­er­nor-gen­er­al must act in con­sul­ta­tion with the Privy Council. This, there­fore, means that the gov­er­nor-gen­er­al acts on the advice of the Privy Council, and any oth­er course of action will be ultra vires the Constitution(jamaica glean​er​.com)

Now our friends at the Gleaner we love them but we also chide them some­times for putting insuf­fi­cient infor­ma­tion out to the pub­lic or putting stuff out that many of its read­ers do not under­stand unless they are read­ing with the aid of an ency­clo­pe­dia. So we will briefly tell you what (ultra vires)means. Ultra vires a Latin term mean­ing “beyond pow­ers. So the far left in Jamaica which usu­al­ly is com­posed of most­ly those who have attend­ed the University of the West Indies and has been bathed in the doc­trine of socialism/​communism real­ly wants the Governor General to break the law, in essence over-reach into ter­ri­to­ry he has no legal author­i­ty to inter­fere in.

Jamaica’s Governor General Sir Kenneth Hall

To many this is about ack­ees, to me it is not. One per­son com­ment­ing in a forum on the Gleaner’s web­site opined that since he was arrest­ed at the spot no theft was com­mit­ted, the fal­la­cy inher­ent in that posi­tion is astound­ing, but is a good rep­re­sen­ta­tive sam­ply­ing of how some Jamaicans think. I guess a mur­der­er arrest­ed at the scene of the crime is no mur­der­er. Nonetheless the bar­rage of crit­i­cisms being heaped onto the judge and the GG goes on unabated .

So lets take a look at what’s at stake here , while the dif­fer­ent sides argue, more infor­ma­tion comes to light and as such many are hard­en­ing their posi­tions , none more so than the crim­i­nal rights group Jamaicans for jus­tice. They con­tend that the thief was once a charge of the state and he nev­er had the ben­e­fit of a prop­er home,he was hun­gry and, so he stole the ack­ees to sell in order to pur­chase food. Even if all of the afore­men­tioned was true they do not give any­one the right to steal. If caught and con­vict­ed an offend­er may use those argu­ments toward get­ting a mit­i­gat­ed sen­tence , which of course would be total­ly up to the tri­er of facts. They are not argu­ments that legit­imizes larceny.

This prob­lem by the way is symp­to­matic of the per­va­sive crim­i­nal­i­ty and innate cor­rup­tion that forms the very DNA of our coun­try, no longer a rash on the out­side, this accep­tance and sup­port of all acts crim­i­nal is now a malig­nan­cy. What we can extrap­o­late from all of this is the dif­fi­cul­ty that will form the way for­ward in bring­ing Jamaica back to a place of respectabil­i­ty and hon­or. A recent report again has Jamaica as one of the world’s most cor­rupt nations.

I per­son­al­ly have no prob­lem the man who stole the ack­ees, after all he was arrest­ed and a mag­is­trate has ruled on what the penal­ty should be. What I have a prob­lem with are the bleed­ing hearts who have noth­ing to do but sup­port crim­i­nal­i­ty and are apol­o­gists for those who decide to make crime a way of like.

There are no short­age of caus­es that could attract well-mean­ing peo­ple. There is pover­ty , hunger, child abuse, can­cer, intol­er­ance , vic­tims of crime and the list goes on (ad infini­tum) The frauds at Jamaicans for jus­tice have tak­en it upon them­selves to sup­port, and speak for those who rob,rape, and mur­der. Not only have they done so but they have launched a sys­tem­at­ic cam­paign of lies and mis­in­for­ma­tion against Jamaica’s police and mil­i­tary offi­cers who patrol the dense­ly pop­u­lat­ed gar­risons where AK47 tot­ing thugs parade open­ly with their weapons and have zero com­punc­tion about killing law enforce­ment offi­cers or any­one else for that matter. 

Susan Goff Carolyn Gomes

These are the faces of crim­i­nal sup­port in Jamaica, make no mis­take about it,there are many more who are using their posi­tions of pow­er to fur­ther the anar­chy that pre­vails , but these two are the worst offend­ers. Those two are fund­ed and sup­port­ed by out­side agi­ta­tors in Europe and Washington DC , of course in order to secure these funds they must gath­er infor­ma­tion on sup­posed instances of abuse that has gone un-addressed by Government. As you would expect Gomes and Goff has repeat­ed­ly sup­plied patent­ly false and doc­tored data that has repeat­ed­ly been exposed to be just lies, or at best unsubstantiated.

They throw around terms like extra judi­cial killing as if they know what that is. Their nar­ra­tive is void of any under­stand­ing of the cir­cum­stances under which an offi­cer may shoot a sus­pect, or the time offi­cers have to make those life and death deci­sions. Decisions that are made in a frac­tion of a sec­ond, have life alter­ing con­se­quences but which they have a life­time to sec­ond guess and criticize.

Carolyn Gomes desire and attempts at telling police offi­cers how to do their jobs is the same as police telling her how to treat a sick baby. Carolyn Gomes is a pedi­a­tri­cian , her job is treat­ing sick babies, she has no train­ing in police work and as such she should con­fine her­self to that which she has train­ing in . The issue of human rights is a fun­da­men­tal­ly impor­tant issue, which can­not be over­stat­ed, it goes far deep­er than police offi­cers who may on instances over­step their author­i­ty. Let me be clear I have no desire in shield­ing or apol­o­gis­ing for offi­cers who over­step their author­i­ty and com­mit bla­tant and unpro­voked abuse of any mem­ber of the pub­lic. An attack on any mem­ber of the pub­lic is an attack on all of us, and it ought not be con­doned or tolerated.

Conversely I am patent­ly aware of the dif­fi­cul­ty police offi­cers have in exe­cut­ing their duties in Jamaica’s inner cities, I was one of those offi­cers, it was hard when I served, it is hard­er now. There is a sig­nif­i­cant increase in the num­ber of weapons and ammu­ni­tion avail­able to crim­i­nals, there is also a sig­nif­i­cant improve­ment in the cal­i­bre weapons and the amount of ammu­ni­tion avail­able to them. there is also no short­age of vil­lage lawyers and mon­day morn­ing quar­ter­backs with noth­ing bet­ter to do than hear their own voic­es on radio. I know the dif­fi­cul­ty these men and women face in these split sec­ond sit­u­a­tions, I was one of them, I took a bul­let from a .45 cal­i­bre weapon. As such I will always err on the side of those who offered to serve,over those whose desire it is to kill and destroy. The lines are clear there is no mid­dle, no fence to sit on , either you sup­port the rule of law or you sup­port terrorists.

The Jamaican Government for its part scared shit­less about the con­se­quences of the lies Gomes feeds to International Human Rights Agencies, have reward­ed her with a National Honor. A nation­al hon­or on the blood of all of the brave police offi­cers and mem­bers of our mil­i­tary who have giv­en their lives in the exis­ten­tial fight Jamaica has been engaged in with deter­mined and heav­i­ly armed urban terrorists.

This spine­less and cow­ard­ly act on the part of the Government is even more offen­sive when con­sid­ered against the many police offi­cers who have their lives extin­guished every year, not to men­tion those shot and injured in defense of the very cow­ards who con­demn them. I am one of those offi­cers who had been shot in the line of duty and live to talk about it. That is the rea­son I am unapolo­getic and undet­tered by crit­ics who think they know some­thing . When the pages of his­to­ry are writ­ten these char­la­tans and Jezebels will be remem­bered as hero­ines when the truth is they were noth­ing more than Benedict Arnolds in our coun­try’s search for peace and justice.

In the 80’s New York City was a lit­er­al cesspool of crime, the streets were a haz­ard, from squeegee men to graf­fi­ti van­dals, from mur­der­ing drug deal­ers to orga­nized crime, liv­ing or doing busi­ness in the city was an occu­pa­tion­al haz­ard. Ed Koch the three term Mayor had long ran out of ideas and zeal. busi­ness­es had been migrat­ing from the worlds great­est city in droves. Times Square the epic-cen­ter of NY city was noth­ing more than porn alley where las­civ­i­ous­ness reigned, peep show, prostitution,and drug deal­ing sypnop­sized what Times Square was all about.

David Dinkins

Giuliani

David Dinkins the City’s first African Mayor was elect­ed with a frag­ile coali­tion, and giv­en the task of return­ing the city to its for­mer glo­ry. Dinkins got to work, he trained and put thou­sands of cops onto the streets in a pro­gramme called safe streets safe city. He solicit­ed and secured fed­er­al funds to pay for the addi­tion­al cops and insti­tut­ed a raft of oth­er social pro­grammes that removed youths from the streets. Dinkins was boot­ed from Office at the end of his first term, and replaced by Rudolph Giuliani a tyran­ni­cal Italian American with a Napoleon com­plex. Giuliani had effec­tive­ly used race to dri­ve a wedge between the dif­fer­ent com­mu­ni­ties that elect­ed Dinkins. He agi­tat­ed and sowed rifts between NY Jewish and black com­mu­ni­ties, and the city’s Asian and Black communities.Dinkins was unable to please all of these groups and his efforts were not helped by Koch ‚his Democratic pre­de­ces­sor who sided with Giuliani .

In the end Giuliani was reward­ed with the fruits of Dinkins labor . NY City was restored to its for­mer glo­ry and remains so . It was returned to what is still one of the safest large cities in the world because the strat­e­gy of tack­ling small offences and attach­ing seri­ous penal­ties to these offences ensured that those who com­mit those offens­es did not grad­u­ate to more seri­ous crimes, it works.

The hue and cry in our coun­try today is about all of the crim­i­nals locked away in jails, at the same time they argue that the police is inef­fec­tive. Which is it ? Both state­ments can­not be true ! That aside, is the ques­tion about the large num­ber of peo­ple incar­cer­at­ed, or should it be about what is it that caus­es so many out of a pop­u­la­tion of 2.8 mil­lion to choose a life of crime ?

The fact is, the issue is not about Ackees at all. The real issue here is that this is some­one who stole , got caught and got his just desert, a cou­ple of months in jail. Many argue he was hun­gry, as if being hun­gry gives one the right to steal, some even argue hunger is a rea­son to steal. The truth is in this case jail is not a bad option as it would assure him a place to stay and free food for at least three months on the tax­pay­er’s dime. In many parts of the world this thief would have paid with the loss of a hand,some of these bleed­ing heart crim­i­nal sup­port­ers needs to be sent to Saudi Arabia and oth­er places for an ori­en­ta­tion, they want to talk about abuse let them go there and talk that rubbish.

I believe in Jamaica, I know Jamaica will become a coun­try of laws, this will mate­ri­al­ize as glob­al­iza­tion spreads and take hold, I am not a fan or a sup­port­er of glob­al­iza­tion, I am just aware of the impli­ca­tions of a more cen­tral­ized order in the world, we have already seen how that played out in the Christopher Dudus Coke extra­di­tion case, if change can­not hap­pen from with­in it cer­tain­ly will come from without.