It’s So Much Easier To Criticize When You Don’t Have To Face The Bullets.…

Like so many oth­ers David Simmons arrived in Kingston with pre­con­ceived notions about the things he heard about Policing in Jamaica. Simmons from Barbadoes was hired by the Simpson Miller gov­ern­ment to chair the Commission look­ing into the actions of the secu­ri­ty forces when they went to arrest Tivoli Overlord Christopher (Dudus)Coke on an extra­di­tion war­rant in 2010.

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It’s impor­tant to have account­abil­i­ty in Government . Government cor­rup­tion across the Globe has lit­er­al­ly oblit­er­at­ed peo­ple’s trust and con­fi­dence in the abil­i­ty of their Governments to serve their best interest.
Jamaica a small devel­op­ing Nation has done more than it’s fair share in destroy­ing the faith of it’s cit­i­zen­ry that their best inter­est are being addressed in mean­ing­ful ways.

So no well mean­ing Jamaican can seri­ous­ly say that in the inter­est of trans­paren­cy a com­pe­tent pan­el should not be empan­elled to exam­ine events which occurred which result­ed in the deaths of over sev­en­ty Jamaicans.
Jonah believed the peo­ple of Nineveh was unde­serv­ing of God’s love and car­ing because of their wicked ways , so he dis­obeyed God’s com­mand to go and issue them a warn­ing to turn from their wicked ways.
Many of us are like mind­ed, we saw the peo­ple express­ing their undy­ing love and devo­tion to Dudus Coke and pledg­ing to lay down their lives for him.

It is not out of the realm of ratio­nal­i­ty to say well they had their wish.
nev­er­the­less as a peo­ple we can­not allow vengeance or pet­ty polit­i­cal dif­fer­ences to destroy our coun­try for our chil­dren and our chil­dren’s children.

Critics with an under­stand­ing of Jamaica’s pol­i­tics say the Enquiry is being under­tak­en with a view to gain polit­i­cal points. This may be true but it’s still nec­es­sary to have these enquiries in a demo­c­ra­t­ic society.
I too share that view I believe the over M$140 spent so far could have been put to bet­ter use.
In the end noth­ing new will emerge which most Jamaicans don’t already know .

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David Simmons arrived in the Island and right off the bat he formed opin­ions and expressed his bias­es against the Police and Military. In the con­text of his func­tion I believed he over­stepped his bound on sev­er­al occa­sions in a forum which requires tact, dis­cre­tion, cir­cum­spec­tion and most impor­tant­ly impartiality.
Simmons failed dis­mal­ly in his utter­ances and has been chas­tised by sev­er­al for shoot­ing off at the mouth with­out ade­quate­ly engag­ing his brain.

After spend­ing just a lit­tle time in Jamaica and see­ing the crime sta­tis­tics dai­ly David Simmons have had a “come to jesus moment” , an awak­en­ing if you will.
Responding to media reports that the num­ber of mur­ders report­ed this year has sur­passed the num­ber report­ed for the cor­re­spond­ing peri­od last year.
Simmons said , “This is a nev­er end­ing spi­ral, it has to stop. Jamaica has to pull back from this,” 
Oh, what’s this I hear? It’s not as peachy and rosy as you thought?

It’s always easy to com­ment and pass asper­sions when you don’t have to face the bullets.
Imagine if you were a mem­ber of the secu­ri­ty forces who faced those mili­ti­a­men who risked life and limb for that ungrate­ful unde­serv­ing nation?
I guess your com­ments would be lot more mea­sured , cir­cum­spect and respect­ful , but then again when you don’t have to face the bul­lets because oth­ers have vol­un­teered to do it on your behalf it’s easy to criticize.