We live in an evolving globalized world, as such nations now adhere to similar principles and rules as part of a broader International community. Nations in their own interests , sign onto Charters as a sign that they are part of the community of nations. Unfortunately many smaller nations which sign these charters do so not because they agree in principle with what’s in the charter, but because they are literally forced to.
No nation should be forced to adhere to principles that it feel is antithetical to it’s core beliefs for the sake of expediency. This is true in Jamaica’s case, because of it’s size, or lack thereof, and it’s inability to sustain itself financially .
Jamaica has been dealing with this on the issue of Homosexuality.
The Jamaican people are largely opposed to the practice of same sex relationships.
Jamaican law makes it a crime for two men to engage in sexual intercourse , consensual or not.
However it would be a tremendous stretch to find a case where anyone was ever arrested ‚much less prosecuted for engaging in homosexual acts.
The International community , largely western Europe and the United States ‚are vehemently opposed to Jamaica’s buggery laws. Jamaica has been under tremendous pressure from these quarters to abolish the buggery laws from its penal code.
What the proponents of legalized homosexuality do not realize is that you cannot legislate people’s attitudes.
If people’s attitudes could be legislated Racism would be a thing of the past in America. Unfortunately despite numerous Federal statutes on the subject of racism, that vise is just as prevalent as when King and others marched for social justice 50 years ago.
Despite problems in their own countries on the issue of homosexual acceptance and police brutality, the United States and Western European Nations have taken it upon themselves to dictate to smaller more dependent nations like Jamaica, how their laws ought to be configured on these issues.
No nation could begin to dictate to the United States or any European nation what their laws should be , or how they should be tailored.
Nevertheless Canada the United States and Britain have engaged in a systematic pattern of assuming to dictate to Jamaica what it’s laws ought to be on the issues of homosexuality and alleged police abuse.
Canada has even threatened economic terrorism on the Jamaican economy in the past. We have reported on this in this very medium. Bruce Golding former Jamaican Prime Minister found himself forced from office under the guise that he did not release a suspect the United States wanted. The truth is Golding was set up to fall on the very issue of homosexuality when he answered “not in my cabinet” to a British Journalist’s question on whether he would allow Gays to serve in his Government.
At the United Nations’ working group’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR)of its human rights record, Mark Golding Jamaica’s Justice Minister pointed to our country’s long and cherished history of promoting and protecting human rights”.
This was not enough for the large international bullies in attendance .
The Americans want Jamaica to “decriminalize consensual same-sex conduct between adults”.
Britain wants the “introduction and implementation of fully comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation to include sexual orientation and gender”.
“Sweden recommends the Government of Jamaica repeal the legal provisions making same-sex intimacy among men — described as ‘gross indecency and buggery’ — illegal,”
Australia had strong words on the level of police killings in Jamaica, although welcoming the establishment of the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) in 2011 to investigate these killings.“Australia recommends Jamaica give INDECOM the power it needs to investigate criminal acts committed by the police,” said the Australian mission to the UN.
This however has to take the cake:
The US also had a recommendation for the Jamaican Government regarding “excessive or unlawful use of force” by both the Jamaica Constabulary Force and the Jamaica Defence Force. Its representatives suggested intensified efforts to investigate those allegations, as well as to ensure prosecution where appropriate.
Are the Americans serious when they dare to make these suggestions? And where is Golding while these acts of unmitigated presumptuousness are being perpetuated? Did he just sit there without presenting facts and figures to push back against the unmitigated gall of the conferees?
Did Golding just sit there like a petulant child absorbing chastisement by the cadre of hypocritical pharisees?
Frankly as Jamaicans we do not care what Sweden or Australia, think period .
It would be wise, prudent and indeed advisable if the pompous same-sex-loving Brits would contemplate paying Jamaicans for the hundreds of years of slavery and the unimaginable pogrom it visited on our ancestors.
Since they have no moral compass and subsequently will not pay, neither will they forgive any of Jamaica’s debt they are holding, Jamaicans should not be particularly mindful of what they believe.
When the time comes that us Jamaicans can dictate how much restitution they pay us for slavery , maybe that will be a time when we consider what they think.
The Americans for their part, has got to be the most laughable in their demands. Have they no shame?
Why would the United States even attempt to speak to any other nation on the issue of discrimination or police abuse?
The Nation the United States, was built on Segregation, manipulation,discrimination,and intimidation. I could sympathize with America’s lecturing other countries had she managed to extricate and remove herself from the 400 year-old premise of Caucasian superiority.
The fact is she hasn’t , as such she has no moral authority to lecture anyone.
Every year thousands of Americans are killed under dubious circumstances by America’s thousands of police forces. Victims are generally Blacks, Latinos, and poor whites.
In fact no one even knows the true number of people killed by police across the country. There are no true audit or requirements which would give an accurate account of the exact numbers.
The ACLU reported that through exhaustive digging it ascertained that for the month of January 2015 over 200 people were killed by police in the the United States.
As we prepare this Article , residents in Cleveland are rallying against a Judge’s ruling setting free a cop who was among a group who gave chase to an African-American couple in their older model car. Police fired over 147 bullets into the car. The cop in question fired 49 bullets ‚many after the car had stopped, he jumped onto the hood of the car emptying two clips into the couple.
Prosecutors argued he used the couple for target practice.
The couple had no weapon, their crime was that their car backfired as they drove pass police headquarters.
The judge ruled that because the prosecutor could not prove that the accused cop’s bullets actually were the bullets which ended the couple’s lives, he would not find him guilty.
Yes they stretch the law to protect their own.
All across America Racial animus is on the rise. The homosexuality issue is still not settled. The Supreme Court is yet to rule on the Constitutionality of same-sex-marriage. Many States are pushing back hard against the Obama Administration’s push to force them to accept and agree to Sodomy.
Jamaica should not change any of it’s laws to accommodate or facilitate any country which takes it onto themselves to dictate the way her laws are configured. Jamaica’s Homosexuals are subject to the same laws and protection as everyone else. Jamaica has a far way to go in the equitable and fair dispensation of justice . So too does the United States, Britain, Canada, and all of the others.
Let all nations fix their own unjust systems and practices before they point fingers.
Despite Jamaica’s size she has an enviable record of dealing cordially and just with all of it’s citizens, can any of the big bullies say the same?
Jamaica is an independent Island on paper
Jamaica is an independent Island on paper, but in reality the same actors, white people all over are still enslaving us. We have always as a people (blacks) having white people telling us what is right and what is wrong. Yet it the same people who have colonize, enslaved, murdered, tortured, robbed, and killed our people for over five hundred years and it is continuing to this day, with no end in sight! It takes hard work to cultivate flowers; it is the same thing with character! Building a good character takes time, and constant efforts. A bad character comes easily! Remember it takes hard work to cultivate flowers but weed comes without any efforts. It is the same with character! We have seen, witnessed, observed by the same actors all over they want to dominate our way of living. White people on a hold have zero character, conscience, and morality, so black people must not allow these actors to “enslaved them all over again!” Government job is to promote “security, equality for all, and healthy lifestyles” but what we are seeing form the whites are “lies, immorality, unhealthy living, tyranny, domination of other races, dictatorship and the leaders of immorality. The time to stand up is now!
The United States, Canada and European governments and their leaders are not telling the “illiterates, uneducated, ignorant and the delusional” ones that this behavior is “unhealthy, abnormal and unnatural.” When you are lying, you must “repackage, promote” your lies so that others whose IQ is or at the lowest denominators will latch onto the lies and start to sell it to others! So education, morality, conscience, and most of all decency must work. If you hardened, your heart and conscience form the truth; you are not a friend of humanity.
The greatest weapon of the oppressor is to control the minds of the oppressed and program them like organic robots. They will do whatever they are told to do, because they are programmed for that particular narrative and they promoting a lifestyle that goes against the laws of nature and science and they will behave as if it is the truth.
Most people think slavery is all about “shackle, chains and free labor?” They are wrong! Look at some of the oppressed they are the oppressors now: (The US President, Barack Obama, who is black Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and other black celebrities). The so-called black leaders have sold their souls to “Europe, white supremacy, big gays, big corporations, big businesses and immoral rich white people, and for what, money! Money is their God and Lord! Everything is irrelevant and they are telling the people that there is NO GOD! They are taking the people, whites, blacks, Hispanics, and other races right back into slavery. Moreover, if you ever speak up, you are labeled as bigot by the leaders of immorality! The best weapon the Whites have been using effectively for centuries is “Economic Terrorism” against those who do not support their agendas. When it was convenient to them, our ancestors were give the Holy Bible to find solace, comfort and knowledge of how to live as a people. We are witnessing the attack on people of faith, especially Christians being persecuted by the various governments around the world in the name of tolerance. You must be tolerant for immorality and big gays do not want any form of tolerance, they want “supremacy, domination, superiority, authority” of the heterosexuals on earth and they do not want no dissent. The same Book they gave us, they want to ban the words of it and criminalized those who believe in its words. It is the same actors all over again at it with us, in our lives and do not want us to decide our own destiny.
Might as well the countries they want to force their immorality on tell them to adopt the country and make it be a part of their big country, economy and way of life? These countries never have black people’s interest at heart, never! Only a fool would believe that the whites are looking out for them! We have seen even doctor’s preachers, politicians, leaders of the black communities supporting this immorality and they are doing everything that goes against the laws of nature, science, and God’s laws. I fear God’s wrath and not man’s wrath! Many of my ancestors have been killed by these same people in the name of “white supremacy” because they know that what the whites were doing to them was wrong.
Unfortunately, some of the folks who are educated do not even know they are slaves! The devil’s philosophy is being imposed and imported on us by the “Europeans, North Americans” who are the “henchmen” for everything that’s evil! We are living in the end of time. Therefore, if you do not believe in God the creator, then you are lost soul because if you dream, that is your soul speaking to you. The elitists or intellectuals cannot explain why we dream and how we dream; and why we remember theses dreams the peoples we met in our dreams. Many of the people that we have seen in our dreams, talk to them we have never, ever seen in real life! So Mr. and Mrs. Immorality, Atheist please explains that part of the human souls that dream and how you can stop us from dreaming, because a lot of them are smart think that they are Gods? Only God can knows what he is doing, because it is his way of conveying his messages to the chosen ones he want to see into the other world.
Finally, to those whose who think that there is no God, let me put it as easy as this. The phone or computer that you are using have a maker such as “Samsung, Apple, Dell, et al,” so why do you feel that you are from an unknown place or humans are from some big bang! God do not have to reveal himself to man, or those who questions his existence; to prove that he is God or speak to us, his words are there for us to obey. If you do not believe that God existed and he destroyed “Sodom and Gomorrah” go to Israel/Palestine to see the carnage left by him as evidence of his wrath on the “homosexuals, lesbians, gays, trans genders, and others” who do not want to conform to God’s law. Who do you fear “God’s laws or man’s laws?” I fear God because he can destroy the soul, man can hurt and condemn the soul; but they cannot destroy or condemn to soul, God is the almighty and the ultimate. Fighting against your conscience, heart, and morals in the end going to destroy your soul and guess what, money cannot help you as money is only of this world! Money is the rich man’s God, his life, and his everything, but one thing that they do not know is that God do not care about your money, as it is only of this world! It’s either you stand by the truth, your conscience, morals or decency or lose your soul to the devil and in the end don’t think that God is going to negotiate with you or when you are giving account for your actions, blame someone else. He who know the right things and do the wrong thing will be held accountable for their actions. So, we know that Jamaica is not independent, if not the white man would come out of black people’s lives and let them chose their own path, because government job is to promote “security, healthy lifestyle and equally” for all, not those who are indulging in immorality or abnormal lifestyles.
The premise of morals from the position of religion can always be argued everyone does not have the same belief everyone does not accept that the Bible is the true word of God and that needs to be ok. The very same Europeans that enslaved us are the ones who introduced the Bible to us, that was not Africa’s religion our ancestors did not practice Christianity In fact our ancestors had no issues with homosexuality it is the bibical law of the white man we have embraced that created hate crimes against gays so many people have suffered and have been killed by the hands of other Jamaicans who believe it is their place to determine who anyone should love the ignorance that has been promoted in our society has continued in churches and in various aspects of our communities I do agree that these other countries have double standards and there hypocrisy still people are suffering and had to leave the country because there is no protection given to gays all this ignorance due to the promotional vehicle call bibical laws. It truly has no value if one does not believe in this book written by MAN the teachings of AFRICAS religion was never promoted or taught in our school system Christianity was never our ancestors they were forced into Christianity and we eventually accepted it, all in the name of religion we have promoted one of the biggest hate crime in our country. The tradition of our ancestors forgotten through our European influence today is not respected as it should be and here we are talking about hypocrisy while the issues of pedophiles run rampant and older men rape and molest young children one of the most common issues in our society and we turned our heads the other way, the very same pastors who are screaming in the pulpits are molesting our children and themselves guilty of the very same things that they scream against in public while the congregation say Amen another innocent life is taken because of who they chose to love now if that is not hypocrisy I don’t know what else is. Let he that is without sin cast the first stone by the way I do not look at homosexuality as a sin it is the ignorance of men and their need to judge and the gain of power that has created more chaos than anything else. One Love