How The Pervasive Socialist Thinking Of The Upper St Andrew Crowd Damaged Our Country For Good.…

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Many of you who fol­low my blogs are prob­a­bly of the view that I have a unhealthy fix­a­tion with what I refer to as the above cross Roads crowd and the oth­er group from what the late Wilmott (Mutty) Perkins called the intel­lec­tu­al ghetto.
Let me be clear I have no quar­rel with any par­tic­u­lar insti­tu­tion of high­er learn­ing, I believe as President Barack Obama does that edu­ca­tion is the best tick­et out of poverty.
With that said, we also rec­og­nize just how dan­ger­ous one polit­i­cal ide­ol­o­gy can be to a coun­try when the high­est insti­tu­tions of intel­lec­tu­al thought is heav­i­ly invest­ed in ide­o­log­i­cal indoc­tri­na­tion of those who seek education.

Jamaica has suf­fered immense­ly because of the very nature of the ide­ol­o­gy which emanat­ed out of the University of the West Indies in the 70’s ad 80’s to present day . Indisputably the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem has tak­en a tremen­dous beat­ing because of the insane­ly lib­er­al slant the politi­cians who came out of that Institution has foist­ed on the impres­sion­able devel­op­ing Island.
The judi­cia­ry and indeed the pri­vate bar from which many on the bench are farmed are large­ly and whol­ly shaped by the teach­ings and inter­pre­ta­tions of the law impart­ed to them at the Norman Manley Law School.

That polit­i­cal ide­ol­o­gy which nour­ished and nur­tured crime, foment­ed hatred for the rule of law , and wrecked the Island’s econ­o­my was vis­i­ble to me as a young man and was part of the rea­son I decid­ed to find a way to reach my goals elsewhere.
The gath­er­ing storm of eco­nom­ic decay , pover­ty and crime which should have been obvi­ous to every­one was ignored as Jamaicans inex­orably allowed them­selves to reck­less­ly indulge in the fal­la­cy of left­ist ide­ol­o­gy which began in the 70’s trans­form­ing the once bur­geon­ing econ­o­my into a depen­dent basket-case.

Ironically, as part of the post mortem fol­low­ing the lat­est loss some mem­bers of the oppo­si­tion par­ty have spo­ken quite can­did­ly about what the par­ty has been to the coun­try. Some have spo­ken truth­ful­ly that the par­ty’s hier­ar­chy used the Jamaican peo­ple to enrich them­selves. To get and keep polit­i­cal pow­er. Some argued the par­ty strayed from it’s social­ist roots.
Those who believe the par­ty has strayed too far from it’s roots con­tin­ue to be like blind and deaf mon­keys ‚hear no evil see no evil. All across the globe the decay­ing citadels of communism/​socialism has come crash­ing down with even the ini­tial archi­tects of Marxism/​Leninism eschew­ing that ide­ol­o­gy and latch­ing onto the freight train which is a free mar­ket sys­tem of government.
Those who blame the loss on the notion the par­ty strayed too far from it’s social­ist roots are stuck in a time-warp of clenched fists “com­rade asso­ciates ” and stu­pid­ly out­dat­ed berets.
For those the needs and aspi­ra­tions of a younger gen­er­a­tion who yearn to do for them­selves through entre­pre­neur­ship, sci­ence , tech­nol­o­gy and code-writ­ing is com­plete­ly lost.

For those dinosaurs the lure, appeal, impres­sion and pos­si­bil­i­ties of the inter­net and social media are as dis­tant as night and day.
For them the unmit­i­gat­ed free-spir­it of a younger gen­er­a­tion want­i­ng to do for them­selves rather than sub­ject them­selves to the con­fin­ing lim­its of gov­ern­ment largess is indiscernible.

The com­ments of for­mer jus­tice min­is­ter Mark Golding did not escape me as he sought to jus­ti­fy his street creds, beef up his bona-fides to rep­re­sent the moth­er of all PNP gar­risons Arnett Gardens . A com­mu­ni­ty in which each elec­tion cycle the num­ber of elec­tors who vote for the PNP alone, far exceed the num­ber of peo­ple liv­ing with­ing that enclave.
A com­mu­ni­ty which has oper­at­ed as a fief­dom sep­a­rate from the Jamaican state.
This is the com­mu­ni­ty which the Oxford edu­cat­ed uptown son of priv­i­lege want to rep­re­sent as he jock­ey to edge out Colin Campbell the epit­o­me of Garrison politics.
This is the very type of com­mu­ni­ty Golding’s edu­ca­tion and expo­sure should cause him to be revolt­ed by. The type of com­mu­ni­ty in which the state’s pow­er is sup­plant­ed by par­ty and under­world Don rule . A com­mu­ni­ty in which the forces of law and order comes from un-elect­ed, un-appoint­ed crim­i­nal under­world fig­ures who exact their own brand of jus­tice. This is the sys­tem the for­mer jus­tice min­is­ter is jock­ey­ing to head. 

Mark Golding
Mark Golding

Golding asked of him­self in rela­tion to a media question.

Can I han­dle the ‘Donman’ thing?”
“It’s impor­tant that the con­stituen­cy be run for the ben­e­fit of all con­stituents and all parts of the con­stituen­cy must feel that they have effec­tive rep­re­sen­ta­tion, and the sys­tem by which patron­age is dis­pensed through one or two indi­vid­u­als who con­trol a par­tic­u­lar com­mu­ni­ty is not one which I think is demo­c­ra­t­ic or which empow­ers peo­ple. It’s one that the peo­ple of South St Andrew want to move away from,”.

I am a for­tu­nate per­son. I was born to fam­i­ly that was rel­a­tive­ly well off in the con­text of Jamaica,”
“I have ben­e­fit­ed from excel­lent edu­ca­tion and all of that. In terms of my expe­ri­ence grow­ing up, I grew up on cam­pus (University of the West Indies, Mona) in the 1970s. My neigh­bours were peo­ple like (Professor of Economics) George Beckford and oth­er so-called rad­i­cals of the era. I was friends with their chil­dren — we are still friends, we have a cam­pus kids fra­ter­ni­ty or group that we stay in touch — and pro­gres­sive ideas I was exposed to through­out my upbring­ing,”.

Yes of course, a Campus which also had Trevor Monroe and his Worker’s Party of Jamaica and a slew of oth­er mis­guid­ed rad­i­cal ide­o­logues who had grandiose thoughts of rev­o­lu­tion influ­enc­ing our nations direc­tion. Look how well that turned out.[sic]
As I have con­sis­tent­ly said, our coun­try missed a tremen­dous oppor­tu­ni­ty to be great when we rolled over with­out fight­ing and allowed left­ist ide­ol­o­gy by half baked idiots to per­me­ate our civic and polit­i­cal dis­course with­out fight­ing back.
Today lit­er­al­ly every coun­try which adopt­ed that regres­sive way of think­ing has suf­fered extra­or­di­nary eco­nom­ic and cul­tur­al decay the lat­est being Venezuela.
Unfortunately those who are the most respon­si­ble for that social engi­neer­ing still wax nos­tal­gic in the pun­gent stench of it’s abject failures.
The likes of Mark Golding and oth­ers who were born with gold­en spoons in their mouths have con­tributed to those fail­ures yet today they still line up to have anoth­er go at polit­i­cal trough, only this time there is a lit­tle less of the ide­o­log­i­cal bull-shit, just more of the same ald style gar­ri­son politics
That should not be allowed any longer , the Jamaican peo­ple should wake up and tell them where to go.