Judges Continue To Subvert The People’s Will, The Legislature Must Act…

The very premise of the term restora­tive jus­tice is an oxy­moron, and it sug­gests that jus­tice is being restored to offend­ers who break the laws and are giv­en a sec­ond or third chance.
The fact is that the oppo­site is actu­al­ly the truth. Still, by fram­ing it as “restora­tive jus­tice,” the push­ers of lib­er­al­ism and sup­port for crim­i­nal­i­ty fool the pop­u­la­tion, includ­ing the par­rots in the media, into think­ing that this is all for good because jus­tice is being restored.
It is a clas­sic bull puck­er sto­ry why our coun­try is mired in such vio­lent crimes. Lies become truth, and truth becomes an aberration.
The idea of giv­ing a youth­ful offend­er a sec­ond or even a third chance is admirable; how­ev­er, Jamaica’s lib­er­al judges are a large part of the Island’s crime pan­dem­ic because they fun­da­men­tal­ly believe it is up to them to deter­mine whether vio­lent offend­ers spend time in prison for com­mit­ting heinous crimes, not the people.
For those rea­sons, I con­tin­ue to call for manda­to­ry min­i­mum sen­tences for vio­lent crimes and truth in sentencing.
(1) Twenty-five [25] years for mur­der with­out the pos­si­bil­i­ty of parole unless there are spe­cial mit­i­gat­ing cir­cum­stances that would allow for mitigation.
(2) Fifteen [15] years for any per­son found with an ille­gal gun- manda­to­ry, cod­i­fied in law, there­by remov­ing from judges remit the abil­i­ty to sub­vert the process and the peo­ple’s will.

Judges are tri­ers of facts, not gods.
Therefore, it is impor­tant that no judge, from the top judge to the last [appoint­ed] res­i­dent mag­is­trate, under­stand this concept.
A judge is [not] the total­i­ty of the jus­tice sys­tem but a mere cog in the wheel of jus­tice. Let me be clear; judges are fun­da­men­tal­ly delu­sion­al about who they are and what their roles are.
Jamaica is a demo­c­ra­t­ic and free soci­ety. We do not have a monarch that can order that some­one’s head be chopped from their body.
We elect polit­i­cal lead­ers who appoint bod­ies and indi­vid­u­als, who appoint oth­er [pub­lic ser­vants] to pub­lic office. Public ser­vice is an hon­or, not an anoint­ing to become king.
A judge does not get to sup­plant the will of the peo­ple and the dic­tates of the law with their own opin­ion, but this has become the norm in Jamaica with the full acqui­es­cence of those who run the min­istry of justice.
We [can­not] and should not allow demigods to become entrenched into our cul­ture to the point their func­tions become tiny monar­chies that sub­vert our will.
This is hap­pen­ing as we speak.

There is no exam­ple of deco­rum and respect on the bench begin­ning at the top with Chief Justice Bryan Sykes.
Bryan Sykes sets the tem­po for how the judi­cia­ry behaves, and he cer­tain­ly has a prob­lem with the rule of law and those who enforce the laws. His intem­per­ate, mis­guid­ed, and unpro­fes­sion­al utter­ance from the bench is a dis­grace to our sys­tem of jus­tice and the rule of law.
Sykes’ lack of respect for law enforce­ment is pal­pa­ble and total­ly unsus­tain­able. I call on the rel­e­vant author­i­ties to rein Sykes in or ask him to step aside. Let me remind those in pow­er again; pub­lic ser­vice is an hon­or, not a right.
Neither Bryan Sykes nor any of the oth­er crim­i­nal-lov­ing char­la­tans on the bench have a right to the posi­tion they hold.
Bryan Sykes’ open and bla­tant dis­re­spect for police offi­cers while con­duct­ing tri­als is an affront to the rule of law any­where and a slap in the face to the risks and chal­lenges offi­cers face in bring­ing cas­es before the court.
In his efforts to be the [big man], Sykes has gone out of his way to be unnec­es­sar­i­ly dis­re­spect­ful and dis­parag­ing to officers.
Whose inter­ests does Bryan Sykes serve?
The sad irony is that Bryan Sykes is some­one that I know as a young offi­cer dur­ing his time as a pros­e­cu­tor. He hid his dis­dain for offi­cers well at the time, and Sykes, in real­i­ty, was at best a below-aver­age, lazy, and unin­spir­ing pros­e­cu­tor. I almost pissed my pants when I heard Bryan Sykes was nom­i­nat­ed to be Chief Justice.
Bryan Sykes’ ele­va­tion to be chief jus­tice of Jamaica is not about any­thing admirable about him but about how low our coun­try has sunk.
The mur­der spree rag­ing across the length and breadth of Jamaica is bet­ter under­stood, with Delroy Chuck head­ing the Ministry of jus­tice and Bryan Sykes head­ing the Judiciary. Jamaica is in deep trouble!

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.