Let Al Miller’s Conviction Be A Lesson To The Self Appointed Elites.…..

Speaking after the verdict in the St Andrew Criminal court sentencing of Reverend Al Miller to one year in prison or a one million dollar fine , longtime clergyman Herro Blair said the following .

“We will have to rethink our posi­tions. We will have to reassess what we have done and what we will do because before such actions are tak­en by us as pas­tors, we will have to decide, is this worth it?”

Blair spoke to the long­stand­ing coöper­a­tion which exist­ed between the Clergy and police in get­ting want­ed crim­i­nals to sur­ren­der to police peace­ful­ly. He lament­ed that because of the indict­ment and con­vic­tion of Al Miller it was nec­es­sary to rethink this long­stand­ing coöperation.

I sub­mit it is not nec­es­sary to rethink any­thing except that it is not a good idea to break our nation’s laws.
Al Miller was found guilty in July of attempt­ing to per­vert the course of justice.

There is much to dis­cuss in the com­ments of Bishop Herro Blair a man for whom I had some respect . To begin with, that one errant mem­ber of the cloth was indict­ed and con­vict­ed for breach­ing the sacred trust which exist­ed between police and cler­gy, it in no way de-legit­imized the process or cre­ates a need for reassessment.
It is a wake­up call to mem­bers of the cler­gy and indeed the legal fra­ter­ni­ty to rec­og­nize that they are not above the nation ‘s laws.

The fact that this process bore fruit for all involved for lit­er­al­ly decades, is tes­ti­mo­ny that it is a worth­while process which should be nur­tured not reassessed.
One drip does not a levy breach make. Al Miller took it upon him­self to push the enve­lope and he got caught. As cit­i­zens , each and every Jamaican has a respon­si­bil­i­ty to obey and uphold the laws . As reli­gious lead­ers , mem­bers of the cler­gy bear a greater bur­den sole­ly on the mer­its that they took unto them­selves the mantra of leadership .
Shirking those respon­si­bil­i­ties dimin­ish­es what­ev­er bona fides the cler­gy has, it dimin­ish­es the good works Jesus charged reli­gious lead­ers to engage in.

THE VALUE OF.…. “IN”
Said Bishop Herro Blair.…

“I sat there today [in court yes­ter­day] and I felt that that could have been me, and that should have been me because I had lit­er­al­ly [the] first option to take him [Coke] in,”

It could only have been you Bishop Blair, if you failed to adhere to sim­ple adhered to rules and estab­lished protocols.
Instead of bemoan­ing Millers plight as a now con­vict­ed felon, it is impor­tant that you Bishop Herro Blair inform your­self that the rea­son we are hav­ing this dis­cus­sion is because the rev­erend Al Miller failed in one word which had seri­ous con­se­quences for him.
“In”
The Reverend Al Miller failed to rec­og­nize the seri­ous­ness of the word “in” with­in the con­text of what he took on himself.

Had Al Miller shown enough respect for Jamaican law, by telling Christopher dud­dus Coke that he had no author­i­ty to shut­tle him away from Jamaican author­i­ties , he would not now have a felony con­vic­tion on his record.
Had Al Miller told Coke in no uncer­tain terms, that regard­less of fears he may suf­fer the same fate as his father Jim Brown, he had no author­i­ty to bypass Jamaican law-enforce­ment author­i­ties, he would not be a con­vict­ed felon today.
Had Al Miller sim­ply turned Christopher Coke “in” to Jamaican author­i­ties there would have been no problem.

Al Miller gam­bled against Jamaican law in his quest to acqui­esce to the con­cerns of a want­ed hood­lum and he lost.
Let this be a les­son going for­ward , that no one is above the laws.
This should be a les­son for all . From Jamaica house through the Supreme Court ‚all the way to Grass yard.
The laws apply to all ‚not just a few poor duty fut peo­ple down there.