Jamaican Govt, Must Step Up And Defend It’s Citizens When They Are Violated…

For those of us who are con­cerned about law­less­ness in Jamaica, and more so, those of us who ven­ture to speak out about the Jamaican author­i­ties fail­ure to pro­tect the nation from crim­i­nals, we must also be pre­pared to defend Jamaica’s sov­er­eign­ty, and our Jamaican nation­als when oth­ers wrong them.
The con­tin­ued deten­tion of four men by American Immigration Authorities must be cause for alarm and out­cry from law-abid­ing peo­ple every­where who believe in the rule of law, and equal treat­ment under the law, be they local or inter­na­tion­al laws.
People and nations respect and fol­low laws when they are con­vinced that all are equal under said laws. No per­son or coun­try should be above the laws, be they local or inter­na­tion­al laws.

Jamaican Attorney Bert Samuels, a part­ner at the law firm Knight, Junor, and Samuels, has every right to be indig­nant about the fir­m’s clients, four Jamaicans who were arrest­ed by the United States Coast Guard under alle­ga­tions that they were a part of a nar­cot­ic smug­gling ring and their boat destroyed.
According to Bert Samuels, the men were ini­tial­ly detained for 73 days between October 11, 2020, and December 23, 2020, after alle­ga­tions that they were found with 150 gal­lons of liq­uid cocaine that turned out to be gasoline.
The men have been acquit­ted of all charges by a Florida Judge, yet they are being held by the US immi­gra­tion offi­cials, and are not allowed to return to their homes in Jamaica.
Being locked up in an immi­gra­tion jail after being exon­er­at­ed in a crim­i­nal court is the same as being pun­ished even though they have been found not guilty in a court of law.

SEE FULL STORY HERE: http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​l​a​w​y​e​r​-​q​u​e​s​t​i​o​n​s​-​u​s​-​i​m​m​i​g​r​a​t​i​o​n​-​s​-​h​o​l​d​i​n​g​-​m​e​n​-​c​l​e​a​r​e​d​-​b​y​-​c​o​u​r​t​_​2​1​0​9​4​3​?​p​r​o​f​i​l​e​=​1​373

The attor­ney is well with­in his rights to be pissed at the Jamaican Government for not strong­ly advo­cat­ing for these Jamaican cit­i­zens’ release. According to the attor­ney, the silence from Jamaica’s attor­ney gen­er­al and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the men’s plight has been deafening.
He also [wants to know whether there will be an apol­o­gy to the own­er of the boat, his crew mem­bers and their fam­i­ly; an apol­o­gy to Jamaica, a treaty State; and com­pen­sa­tion for the loss of the ves­sel and its earn­ing capac­i­ty — with­out their clients hav­ing to go through the expense of fil­ing — and com­pen­sa­tion for the vir­tu­al tor­ture of Jamaicans and the tar­nish­ing of their rep­u­ta­tion on the pre­tense that they were involved in a mas­sive cocaine trade].
The United States can­not have one set of rules for itself and anoth­er for every­one else.
Institutions like the United Nations, the International Court Of Justice, and oth­er Organizations that the United States helped to cre­ate have kept the world out of a third world war for 75-years.
Before cre­at­ing those Agencies, there was only a 25-year span between world wars one and two.
If there is going to be con­tin­ued adher­ence to International laws, civ­i­lized nations must all have the con­fi­dence that all nations play by the same rules.
Might, can­not be the deter­mi­nant of right, or we are all doomed.
It is now over to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Jamaican Attorney General to see to these four Jamaicans’ civ­il and human rights.

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