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Carolyn Gomes Lies:

Damion Mitchell, News Editor 
The Gleaner/​Power 106 News Centre

The Supreme Court has giv­en the Police Service Commission (PSC), until September 28 to file affi­davits in response to an appli­ca­tion by human rights lob­by group Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ).
The JFJ seeks to bar any pro­mo­tion of police super­in­ten­dent Delroy Hewitt, the com­man­der for the South St. Andrew Police Division. 
The JFJ has con­tend­ed that in 2009, it received some 13 com­plaints involv­ing 28 alle­ga­tions of crim­i­nal con­duct by super­in­ten­dent Hewitt, and that it has writ­ten to the PSC ask­ing for an inves­ti­ga­tion into the allegations. 
The PSC had report­ed­ly asked the police com­mis­sion­er to review the complaints. 
 However, the PSC has not made the find­ings of the commissioner’s inves­ti­ga­tion available. 
According to the JFJ, some­time in March this year, it heard by way of the media that Hewitt was to act as a senior super­in­ten­dent of police. The JFJ said it then wrote to the PSC and the police com­mis­sion­er seek­ing ver­i­fi­ca­tion on the mat­ter but got no response. 
As a result, the JFJ took the issue to the Supreme Court in June seek­ing an order to quash any deci­sion by the PSC to rec­om­mend the pro­mo­tion of Superintendent Hewitt. 
The JFJ is also seeks an order to com­pel the PSC to con­duct a thor­ough and impar­tial probe into the 28 alle­ga­tions of mis­con­duct against the senior cop.damion.​mitchell@​gleanerjm.​com

Carolyn Gomes
This new devel­op­ment is one more instance of Gomes lies, as I com­ment­ed, in web­post titled (HUMAN RIGHTS IN JAMAICA) post­ed Sept:3rd.2011
Carolyn Gomes has once again shown that she is will­ing to use Jamaica’s bro­ken jus­tice sys­tem to wage war on indi­vid­ual police offi­cers. In the post of September 3rd I detailed how she took flawed and in some instances false data to the Inter American Commission of Human Rights in Washington DC. In the post I also detailed fac­tu­al­ly, from her own tes­ti­mo­ny at the com­mis­sion and at a lat­er inter­view on TVJ, that she was unable to prove the innu­en­dos she pre­sent­ed as facts, infor­ma­tion that has been debunked by the Government and by Gomes own statements.
Not only has Gomes and her Organization sup­plied flawed infor­ma­tion to her han­dlers in Washington, but she dragged the name of Superintendent Delroy Hewitt to the com­mis­sion stat­ing unsub­stan­ti­at­ed, that Hewitt have been accused of sev­er­al cas­es of extra-judi­cial killings. Neither Gomes nor any­one in her orga­ni­za­tion pre­sent­ed one shred of evi­dence to the com­mis­sion that would impli­cate , much less con­vict Superintendent Hewitt in a court of law, yet no one except us on these blogs, has sought to call out Gomes on her lies and slander.
The Police Commissioner for his part, is alleged by Gomes to have told her that Hewitt is one of his best offi­cers, yet Ellington lacked the back­bone or the balls to stand up and issue a state­ment in defense of super­in­ten­dent Hewitt.
In the first instance if Gomes have infor­ma­tion that is admis­si­ble in a court of law which may impli­cate Delroy Hewitt I call on her and her han­dlers to sup­ply that infor­ma­tion to the duly con­sti­tut­ed author­i­ty in Jamaica that is charged with the pros­e­cu­tion of offend­ers, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution. Knowing the modus operan­di of Gomes how­ev­er I am sure she will argue that the DPP can­not be trust­ed to pros­e­cute any­one , least of all police officers.
The DPP was not spared the wrath of Gomes’ slan­der either .
Last night I watched as big wigs from Amnesty International stood on the grounds of the Georgia cor­rec­tion­al facil­i­ty and watched American Justice play out, whether one agrees with the actions of the state of Georgia is imma­te­r­i­al, the fact is that they had zero influ­ence in the way law enforce­ment or the jus­tice sys­tem work in that state or any state. They stood like every­one else , where they were told to stand , under threat of expul­sion if they moved from that spot, they watched and wait­ed for word as inside Troy Anthony Davis was being exe­cut­ed for the crime of mur­der of a police offi­cer 22 years ago.
In America Amnesty International had zero influ­ence, zero ! in pre­vent­ing a con­vict­ed mur­der­er from get­ting the death penal­ty even stayed, much less vacated.
In Jamaica Amnesty International through its sur­ro­gate Carolyn Gomes has suc­cess­ful­ly used the shit of a jus­tice sys­tem to sand­bag the car­rear of a hero police offi­cer with­out one shred of evi­dence of wrong doing by that officer.
I have long argued that the jus­tice sys­tem in Jamaica was bro­ken and down­right irrel­e­vant , this new move by the supreme court has sunk to the lev­el of putrid garbage.
Serious democ­ra­cies do not allow any­thing to stand in the way of the admin­is­tra­tion of the rule of law, the law is the law.
Carolyn Gomes if you have evi­dence of wrong doing on the part of Superintendent Delroy Hewitt, give that evi­dence to the DPP, oth­er­wise we will con­tin­ue to tell the world that you are a liar and a fraud.
We are read world­wide, and we will con­tin­ue to present the truth , you may be impor­tant to some, we on the oth­er hand are not fooled by you.
We are watch­ing,.….….….…. we see a lot .
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HUMAN RIGHTS IN JAMAICA:

Wayne Henriques affec­tion­ate­ly called max

Above is the pic­ture of late Police Sargeant Wayne Henriques affec­tion­ate­ly ref­ered to as Max, by those who knew and loved him. Here my fel­low humans, is the face of a the brave men and women of Jamaica’s secu­ri­ty forces who toil tire­less­ly for mar­gin­al compensation,and oper­ate under deplorable work­ing conditions.

I ask all of you whom are not sup­port­ers of crim­i­nal­i­ty to remem­ber this face.

Wayne Henriques was a mar­ried father , a car­rear cop , on leave cel­e­brat­ing his wed­ding anniversary . 

Wayne was called away from his love­ly wife and won­der­ful kids, called back into the ser­vice of oth­ers, his fam­i­ly nev­er saw him again .

Sargeant Wayne Henriques and his col­leagues were bru­tal­ly attacked on MountainView avenue , when the shoot­ing end­ed Wayne and one of his col­leagues lay dead , while six oth­er offi­cers were shot and seri­ous­ly wound­ed by AK47 tot­ing mili­tia-men. Wayne Henriques had gone to the aid of a fel­low Jamaican, a woman strand­ed at bar­ri­cades erect­ed by maraud­ing urban terrorists.

Jamaica under what obtains for nor­mal­cy sees 1600 homi­cides annu­al­ly. Young boys and girls are sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly and rou­tine­ly raped in gar­ri­son com­mu­ni­ties , deprived of their God-giv­en rights to be kids and enjoy the pure inno­cence of being chil­dren. Parents are forced to false­ly report their daugh­ters miss­ing to police, after send­ing them to oth­er parts of the coun­try to live with rel­a­tives and friends, in order to pro­tect them from the ordeal of hav­ing to acqui­esce to the lust­ful drug induced sex­u­al per­ver­sion of local thugs who des­ig­nate them­selves “dons”.

Residents cow­er in fear in their own homes behind lay­ers and lay­ers of met­al bars, effec­tive­ly mak­ing them­selves pris­on­ers in their own homes. Even lay­ers of met­al bars are insuf­fi­cient in pro­tect­ing the cow­er­ing pop­u­lace if they run afoul of local thugs . Any such infrac­tion real or per­ceived, results in res­i­dents homes fire­bombed and any­one flee­ing the flames machine-gunned.
No one is immune from the fusilade of bul­lets, not even just born babies.
The coun­try, even out­side the scare of the Tivoli Invasion has no real growth or devel­ope­ment of con­se­quence to point to, crime and vio­lence has lit­er­al­ly crip­pled agri­cul­tur­al and man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tors, most com­pa­nies have sim­ply moved away. Those with American Visas have left, oth­ers are forced to scrounge and beg, liv­ing off the largess of rel­a­tives and friends liv­ing abroad. Remittance is now Jamaica’s num­ber two for­eign exchange earn­er. Tourism the cash cow has seen more and more hote­liers offer­ing all-inclu­sive deals with a view to keep­ing their guests safe.
Farmers have no incen­tive to raise ani­mals which are rou­tine­ly stolen. Many whom are crop farm­ers have decid­ed against their cho­sen pro­fes­sion as their crops are sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly stolen.
Most Jamaicans liv­ing at home, or those who vis­it, will attest to the dire hard­ship of sur­viv­ing in Jamaica. Number one at the top of their stress list , is the issue of per­va­sive crim­i­nal­i­ty, and Government’s seem­ing indif­fer­ence to the direct and cumu­la­tive neg­a­tive effect it has on the nation’s psyche.
As a for­mer law enforce­ment offi­cer I am aware, with­out fear of con­tra­dic­tion, of the dan­ger, stress, and per­il , in being a police offi­cer in our coun­try. The world’s largest Police force the (NYPD) found out in the late 80“s to ear­ly 90’s how lethal Jamaican crim­i­nals were. They came to their sens­es when shock­ing­ly, one of their offi­cers was bru­tal­ly mur­dered sit­ting in his patrol car in Queens NY.
All across the United Sates, from California to New York , and as far as Alaska, State and fed­er­al offi­cials were forced to adopt appro­pri­ate, and decid­ed mea­sures to effec­tive­ly counter, con­tain, and degrade the capa­bil­i­ties of Jamaica’s ter­ror­is­tic drug deal­ing thugs.
Every year sev­er­al police Officers are mur­dered in Jamaica some on the front­lines, some mur­dered in the sanc­tu­ary of their very homes.
The report from Jamaicans for Justice, that suc­ceed­ed the May 2010 annex­a­tion of Tivoli Gardens by the secu­ri­ty forces , made no men­tion of the cir­cum­stances that led to the death of res­i­dents of that enclave.
No men­tion was made to her han­dlers, of the police sta­tions that were bombed and the police offi­cers, and mem­bers of the mil­i­tary who were killed and injured.
There was no men­tion of the restraint allud­ed to by the Observer report above.
Bureaucrats on the Commission, wher­ev­er they are domi­ciled, are patent­ly aware that in no coun­try in the world would that kind of assault be tol­er­at­ed or allowed to foment, much less unleashed on any state.
Expressed ene­mies of the state Randy Weaver was swift­ly deal with on Ruby Ridge by the FBI.
David Coresh and the Branch Davidians were expe­di­tious­ly exter­mi­nat­ed by the ATF.
The Black pan­ther par­ty was effec­tive­ly dec­i­mat­ed with bombs in Philadelphia.
Terrorists in Britain , Moscow, Tel Aviv, Paris,Mumbai , and wher­ev­er they raise their ugly heads are effec­tive­ly dealt with.
What makes Jamaica any different?
What is the pur­pose of enquiries by some that have no clout or lever­age in ques­tion­ing their own state or local offi­cials, much less Federal authorities.
Who and what gives them the right to demand reports , and sit in Judgement of our secu­ri­ty forces when they appro­pri­ate­ly put down acts of bla­tant ter­ror , and anarchy.
Carolyn Gomes took the name of one of Jamaica’s most ded­i­cat­ed police offi­cers to that com­mis­sion , where she made unsub­stan­ti­at­ed alle­ga­tions against him.
The Government’s rep­re­sen­ta­tive Audrey Marks dis­gust­ed­ly made no attempt at stand­ing up for Superintendent Delroy Hewitt a fine police officer .
Hewitt’s name was uncer­e­mo­ni­ous­ly dragged through the mud by Gomes and the oth­er mercenary,who false­ly alleged that he is guilty of sev­er­al cas­es of extra judi­cial killings, if ever there was an offi­cer that was 180 degree opposed to that kind of behav­ior it would be Delroy Hewitt.
Gomes was unhap­py with the fact that Ellington, Jamaica’s police com­mis­sion­er was hav­ing none of the nonsense,and stat­ed quote“that is one of my best officers” .,
Those who do not know Delroy Hewitt may form their opin­ions. Here’s what I have to say to Gomes.“Those hon­ors you received on the backs of dead police and mil­i­tary offi­cers , may they burn you in hell”.
Jamaica is a devel­op­ing coun­try that could have been a gem had­n’t it been for unscrupu­lous politi­cians,. The prob­lems the coun­try faces are many and varied.
Ideally peo­ple arrest­ed by the state should be guar­an­teed a bed on which to sleep, ade­quate ablu­tion area and some degree of exer­cise. Children find­ing them­selves in police lock-ups are not the fault of the police, but of their par­ents first, and the Government second.
Police offi­cers can­not take juve­nile offend­ers to their homes , they have to be housed at police sta­tions, absent facil­i­ties fur­nished by Government.
If police offi­cers refused to arrest offend­ers juve­nile or oth­er­wise, Gomes’ argu­ments would be that police are inef­fec­tive, and useless.
As a Jamaican I refuse to allow Carolyn Gomes to use revi­sion­ist his­to­ry to rewrite what pre­cip­i­tat­ed the actions of the secu­ri­ty forces in Tivoli gar­dens in May of 2010. We do not know what hap­pened in the fog of war in Tivoli gar­dens. We weren’t there, and nei­ther was Carolyn Gomes or the peo­ple who sup­port her. We are unaware of any instances of extra­ju­di­cial killings by any mem­ber of the secu­ri­ty forces, we weren’t there , and nei­ther was Gomes or her affiliates.
Irresponsibly shout­ing about extra­ju­di­cial killings with­out evi­dence of same, or a tech­ni­cal under­stand­ing of what it con­sti­tutes , or because some­one say so does not make it cred­i­ble. Gomes sim­ply do not know what con­sti­tutes extra­ju­di­cial killings, evi­dence of which may be found in her inter­view with TVJ, in that dis­joint­ed ram­ble she showed she was out of her league as it relates to what con­sti­tutes mur­der , manslaugh­ter, or even an unlaw­ful killing, she even mean­dered into death by motor vehicle.
We sug­gest Gomes con­fine her­self to her pedi­atric prac­tice and leave law enforce­ment to those whose job it is to enforce the laws.
Jamaicans liv­ing in gar­risons have sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly and rou­tine­ly demon­strat­ed against police irre­spec­tive of what actions they take. In some instance they are intim­i­dat­ed into doing so, some­times the do so will­ing­ly, and on oth­er occa­sions they are paid to do so. It is com­mon for them to wail and throw them­selves on the ground detail­ing what they claim to be acts of extra­ju­di­cial killings that hap­pened in their view at 3:am inside the vic­tims’ house, even though they do not live in the same house.
Members of Jamaican media are gen­er­al­ly more than will­ing to grant pro­fes­sion­al mourn­ers a soap-box know­ing full well they are lying. “Welcome to Jamaica , no prob­lem man” many hear this refrain ‚but are unaware of the dirty under­bel­ly of Jamaican life , an under­bel­ly that seem to get more sor­did with each pass­ing year.
LET’S EXAMINE THIS TERM EXTARJUDICAIL KILLING THAT GETS BANDIED ABOUT.
A mem­bers of the secu­ri­ty forces may use dead­ly force in defence of his life or that of another.
If some­one shoots at an offi­cer then drops the weapon and puts his hands up police are not jus­ti­fied in killing him.
If a per­son points a weapon at an offi­cer , even though he has­n’t fired the weapon that offi­cer is jus­ti­fied in tak­ing that per­son out. If after the offi­cer neu­tral­izes the threat to him­self or any oth­er per­son , and it is dis­cov­ered that the weapon was a fake, or was emp­ty, the offi­cer is still jus­ti­fied in the actions he took, as he could not have know that the weapon was fake or empty.
If an offi­cer who, observes a per­son with a gun in the com­mis­sion of a crime, orders that per­son to drop the weapon, as long as the gun is point­ed at some­one, that offi­cer is jus­ti­fied under the law in tak­ing that per­son out , if he refus­es to obey said offi­cers commands.
Police offi­cers are jus­ti­fied in shoot­ing some­one armed with oth­er weapons , like knives , machetes, etc, if that per­son dis­obeys com­mands to drop the weapon and advances on the offi­cer in a threat­en­ing manner.
Each and every case of police shoot­ing must be looked at as a sin­gle case in and of itself,and can­not rea­son­ably be viewed with­in a broad­er con­text of oth­er killings,even by the same officer.
A Surgeon who loos­es a patient in the oper­at­ing the­atre is not a mur­der­er, unless there is evi­dence of malfea­sance, or neglect. A police offi­cer who kills a crim­i­nal just­ly , is not a mur­der­er that is the nature of his job. No argu­ment about the amount of peo­ple killed by an offi­cer or a unit, is cred­i­ble as a barom­e­ter in deter­min­ing crim­i­nal cul­pa­bil­i­ty by itself, . What those num­bers point to, is the effec­tive­ness and hard work of that unit or individual.
All cas­es are dif­fer­ent, Gomes’ argu­ments about what she per­ceives as the quote ‘unten­able” amount of police killings based on the num­ber of crim­i­nals shot , is an argu­ment she will find unten­able and impos­si­ble to substantiate.
They go not to any unsub­stan­ti­at­ed alle­ga­tion of abuse as she wants the world to believe ‚but more so to the ram­pant , unchecked crim­i­nal­i­ty that is the norm in Jamaica.
In order for that argu­ment to have cred­i­bil­i­ty, or legit­i­ma­cy, a Trier of facts , versed in the laws as they relate to the use of lethal force , would have to deter­mine that each and every case of shoot­ing by mem­bers of the secu­ri­ty forces was an ille­gal unjus­ti­fied act.
If any such Trier of fact is unable to do so, then those argu­ments based on num­bers , is one of igno­rance, steeped in mal­ice, and does not deserve a response. That is the predica­ment in which Gomes and those who sup­port her find themselves.
Gomes and oth­ers like Earl Witter (pub­lic defend­er) main­tains legit­i­ma­cy by using police , they are not the only ones , to have done so.

Every lit­tle lout in talk radio has done so , Politicians have done so , Gomes and her lot are just the lat­est bunch to have got­ten on the band wag­gon, and it damn sure is work­ing. She has gar­nered sev­er­al awards so far. 

Where are the awards for Wayne Henriques and others?

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Criminal Rights Society:

We had been this way long before the advent of vio­lent video games, as the lyri­cal con­tent of our music changed to one that glo­ri­fies vio­lence and civ­il dis­obe­di­ence so did the lev­el of vio­lence and civ­il dis­obe­di­ence. I remem­ber as a boy hear­ing John Holt’s song“if yu con­tin­ue to bun down de herb we gonna bun dung de cane fields” , even at that age I detect­ed an omi­nous mes­sage in that song that I did not like, not look­ing to sin­gle out John Holt but the mes­sage was clear and there have been a whole slew of songs that have come and gone that have arguably added to the debate.

The mes­sage inher­ent in that song that rubs me the wrong way is the arro­gance of the singer in sug­gest­ing that the actions the state takes, legal actions, by the way, would be coun­tered with a crim­i­nal response, one that would cause harm to the larg­er pub­lic and the coun­try as a whole. That made my blood boil, even as a boy. 

Interestingly enough John Holt is at the top of the list of my favorite artists of all time.

Each year our police report over 1600 mur­ders of Jamaican cit­i­zens, there are unmen­tion­able rapes, shoot­ings, home inva­sions, rob­beries, arson, and a pletho­ra of oth­er seri­ous crimes that have lit­er­al­ly wiped out any qual­i­ty of life for mid­dle-class Jamaicans. In fact, mid­dle-class Jamaica exists no more, tra­di­tion­al mid­dle-class neigh­bor­hoods like, Vineyard Town, Water House, Marl Road, Olympic Gardens have long been turned into war zones and actu­al zones of polit­i­cal exclusions.

Later, more tra­di­tion­al areas like Moreton Park, St Andrew Park, Duhaney Park, and once exclu­sive mid­dle-class areas like Havendale has seen the rot and decay of zinc fence and squat­ters tak­ing over their com­mu­ni­ties, and the oblig­a­tory crime that comes with the sprawl.

Having patrolled those areas as well as all of the oth­er gar­risons and enclaves in Jamaica, I am acute­ly aware of the pain of mid­dle-class peo­ple who worked hard played by the rules and saw their stan­dard of liv­ing dete­ri­o­rate in front of their eyes. I can’t count how many homes I have been to in response to break­ing calls, and home inva­sions where a fam­i­ly was held up at gun­point and robbed and some­times the woman raped, usu­al­ly at the hands of men from as far as Arnett Gardens, Greenwich Farms and some­times as far as Portmore.

I can­not recall how many scenes of mur­der I have attend­ed as a mem­ber of the JCF where a man return­ing home was shot as he got out of his car to open his gate after a long day at work, usu­al­ly at the hands at some punk who asked him for some­thing but did not get it or felt he did not get enough.

Many busi­ness peo­ple have sim­ply packed it in and moved away, not because they want­ed to, but because it would be sui­ci­dal to stay, as a result, we have seen our coun­try get from bad to worse, reg­is­ter­ing almost twen­ty years of neg­a­tive growth.

In 1991 I exit­ed the Police Department of my own free will, I had got­ten a lit­tle tired of peo­ple ask­ing me why I was in the police force, and ask­ing if I was trained in Jamaica, my answer to these ques­tions were always the same , I loved to serve, and yes I was trained in Jamaica, and there were many cops like myself who just want­ed an oppor­tu­ni­ty to serve.

I now hear many talk about police offi­cers act­ing like they are not get­ting paid for the job they do, some even go as far as sug­gest that jobs are hard to come by so they should be glad to have a job. I think if those smart ass­es knew the attri­tion rate of the Jamaica Constabulary Force they would shut their mouths.

Serving in the Constabulary in Jamaica is like mil­i­tary ser­vice, the risks are the same as that of active mil­i­tary in wartime. most police offi­cers serve with dis­tinc­tion and trust me it is ser­vice, more in the form of servi­tude, con­sid­er­ing the pay and work­ing con­di­tions, those who feel that it’s such a great job should encour­age their kids to give ser­vice to coun­try by serv­ing in the mil­i­tary or police force, most Jamaicans how­ev­er poor want their kids to be lawyers and doc­tors, noth­ing wrong with that, but who will look out for safe­ty and secu­ri­ty? Certainly not the rapa­cious unscrupu­lous lawyers!

There have always been those who agi­tate against police, that is their right, there are indeed too many instances where police offi­cers have over­stepped their bounds and act­ed in a way that is con­trary to their train­ing and the depart­men­t’s pro­to­cols. This includes, but not con­fined to ques­tion­able shoot­ings. the lat­ter which can­not be looked at with­in the con­text of any oth­er police depart­ment or any oth­er coun­try, except a coun­try that has ver­i­fi­able sim­i­lar char­ac­ter­is­tics as our own.

There are those who point to the num­ber of police killings in the con­text of its numer­i­cal con­tent as if num­bers is a deter­mi­nant in how many peo­ple get shot by cops. What their num­bers fail to point to on every occa­sion is the num­ber of cops that get killed and injured annu­al­ly. Those num­bers are astro­nom­i­cal­ly high when com­pared to any oth­er police depart­ment in any oth­er coun­try, those num­bers do not get into the data col­lect­ed by the crim­i­nal rights groups oper­at­ing in Jamaica and fund­ed by out­side entities.

The Honourable Dr. Carolyn Gomes OJ (born March 30, 1958 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican human rights activist. Dr. Gomes is also the co-founder and cur­rent Executive Director of Jamaicans for Justice.[1][2]On December 10, 2008, Dr. Gomes received the pres­ti­gious United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights.[3] On October 19 of the next year, she was hon­ored with the Order of Jamaica, in recog­ni­tion of her advo­ca­cy for human rights.

That did it for me under no cir­cum­stance would I rec­og­nize an awardee of either of the above-named entities.

The Daily Gleaner of August 27th detailed an account of two social climb­ing Mexican women pulled over by short­er dark-skinned Mexican police who gen­er­al­ly come from the indige­nous peo­ple. The women pro­ceed­ed to berate the offi­cers and went as far as slap­ping them for dar­ing to pull them over, the inef­fec­tu­al excus­es for cops allowed them to dri­ve away even though it was clear they had been drink­ing and posed a threat to the pub­lic, which was obvi­ous to the peo­ple who called the police in the first instance.

Of note is the iden­ti­cal envi­ron­ment that exists in both Jamaica and Mexico, one of the castes, those above the law do as they please, the result, two coun­tries with the high­est mur­der rates in the world. Both com­pet­ing for the dubi­ous dis­tinc­tion of mur­der capital.

Just recent­ly Vicente Fox for­mer Mexican President sug­gest­ed that the cur­rent President call a truce with the drug car­tels. President Calderon has waged a sys­tem­at­ic and sus­tained war against the car­tels, and cor­rect­ly so, there should be no dis­cus­sions with ter­ror­ists and crim­i­nals, the Mexican state should hunt them down like dogs and destroy them wher­ev­er it finds them.

That con­cil­ia­to­ry tone of Fox is the tone Jamaicans want to take with crim­i­nals, it’s no won­der Jamaica is mired in crim­i­nal­i­ty, and Vicente Fox was inef­fec­tive as pres­i­dent of Mexico. This blog com­mends pres­i­dent Calderone for his prin­ci­pled stance against ter­ror­ists that would destroy his country.

This is the kind of Jamaica that Carolyn Gomes and her for­eign han­dlers want. The European Union and the moth­er group British based Amnesty International funds Gomes and her agency JFJtheir job is to aggi­tate and sow dis­cord , cre­at­ing enmi­ty between the peo­ple and their police department.

A coun­try that has high crime and civ­il unrest can­not grow, check and mate. Our peo­ple are play­ing into the hands of the very same peo­ple who enslaved us. This time they are doing it under the guise of human rights, do you believe peo­ple in England care one hoot about how you live? ask your­selves why do they find it nesces­sary to give her all the fund­ing she needs to desta­bi­lize our coun­try? Why do they fund her so that she could quit her pedi­atric prac­tice to do their bid­ding full time?

Carolyn Gomes has been at the fore­front of crim­i­nals sup­port in Jamaica, she has waged a sys­tem­at­ic and con­cert­ed cru­sade against the secu­ri­ty forces , elic­it­ing and secur­ing fund­ing from var­i­ous for­eign groups to include the European union and oth­ers to sup­ply them with data which she does , not car­ing about the verac­i­ty of the data .

Gomes’ vendet­ta is report­ed to come from a case where a rel­a­tive got entan­gled with the law . Obviously Gomes feels she and her fam­i­ly are above Jamaican laws, and are enti­tled to roy­al treatment.

I have point­ed to her deceit and lies in pre­vi­ous posts and once again ask, who is the pup­pet mas­ter behind Carolyn Gomes , a white woman, who con­tin­ue to receive huge sums of mon­ey to wage a cru­sade against Jamaica’s secu­ri­ty forces.

How much mon­ey is she being paid that she could give up her pedi­atric practice.

Does JFJ pay tax­es on the monies it takes in from for­eign bodies.

What infor­ma­tion does she give to her mas­ters in Washington and London?

Is JFJ in breach of Jamaican laws?

Why is Carolyn Gomes allowed to sup­ply false infor­ma­tion to for­eign agen­cies and there is no investigation?

Is the Jamaican Government of both polit­i­cal gangs in league with Gomes in sell­ing out Jamaica’s secrets and secu­ri­ty details to for­eign agen­cies and if so why?

What is the true rea­son she was award­ed with the title Honorable and giv­en an Order of Jamaica?

Those awards and titles now makes me nau­seous , and is not wor­thy to be spat upon.

Recently a series of behead­ings gripped the nation, includ­ed in the unfor­tu­nate list of vic­tims were a pas­tor and her daugh­ter, their crimes? speak­ing to the press, their sev­ered heads were recov­ered from the Rio cobre riv­er. This was fol­lowed by the grue­some killing of Norma-Lyn Hall, a senior lec­tur­er at Brown’s Town Community College, and her hus­band Stephen Hall. of Discovery Bay.

Early reports sug­gest the cou­ple was mur­dered in their home and their bod­ies dumped in a sec­tion of the com­mu­ni­ty called lake­side park, the police report­ed that the couple’s sport util­i­ty vehi­cle was also miss­ing from their home.

Despite the killing of these trea­sured Jamaicans the for­eign con­trolled insur­gency group Jamaicans for Justice and its reac­tionary leader Carolyn Gomes did not utter a word of con­dem­na­tion to the killers of these pos­i­tive Jamaicans, not one word of sup­port to the fam­i­lies, nothing.

Yet true to form they were all over the news thanks to their friends at the Gleaner and oth­er acqui­esc­ing media hous­es , call­ing for the swift tri­al and impris­on­ment of ex-cop Walter Spikes who was alleged­ly deport­ed to Jamaica. Spikes was alleged to have fired the shot 8 years ago that killed a lit­tle girl Renee’ Lyons, Spikes was alleged­ly chas­ing a sus­pect at the time.

Why does Foreign han­dled Carolyn Gomes and JFJ not care about good decent Jamaicans that are killed by the hun­dreds annu­al­ly , but are obsessed with cops who in the exe­cu­tion of their duties make mistakes?

Why did Officer Spikes and the oth­er cops who decide not to face Jamaican courts flee, is there an inher­ent hos­til­i­ty in the Jamaican judi­cia­ry fuelled by out­side groups that makes it impos­si­ble for cops to get a fair trial?

We know there is a seri­ous prob­lem with judges who act like they are part of defense teams, we know mon­ey is chang­ing hands, between lawyers, accused, and judges. Does the pub­lic know that their secu­ri­ty is being com­pro­mised because cops can­not do their jobs because there are forces that want Jamaica to fail and are active­ly work­ing to keep the coun­try behold­en to agen­cies like the World bank, International mon­e­tary fund, and the European union?

Recently the European Union begged Agencies like Jamaicans for Justice to come get mon­ey to sup­pos­ed­ly strength­en human rights, does any­one know any­one or any agency that gives mon­ey for free, with­out an agenda?

It is time for ordi­nay Jamaicans to accept that the Foreign group called Jamaicans for jus­tice has noth­ing to do with Jamaica but is a spy agency for for­eign inter­ests . The soon­er they wake up the bet­ter , or it will be too late . Your chil­dren’s future depends on it.

mike beck­les:

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WE HAVE TRIED IT THEIR WAY:

Both Jamaican dai­ly’s car­ried the sto­ry of the Prime Minister sug­gest­ing that the mon­sters that are respon­si­ble for the series of grue­some decap­i­ta­tion should face the death penalty.

The prime min­is­ter said he is pre­pared for the debate that will fol­low his sug­ges­tions. Mister Prime min­is­ter , don’t you real­ly mean the howls of con­dem­na­tion that is sure to come. guar­an­teed the lib­er­al crim­i­nal cod­dling forces with­in Jamaica’s media, cler­gy Intelligentsia, legal fra­ter­ni­ty, and the crim­i­nal rights fra­ter­ni­ty will be up in arms…hold it hold it ..you can hold your breadth they will be com­ing at you..

Lets take a look at the death penal­ty : The debate sur­round­ing the death penal­ty will nev­er be set­tled , the pros and cons are pret­ty dug in on this sub­ject. I must con­fess that although I lean toward the death penal­ty being enforced . I have strong reser­va­tions about the prospect of an inno­cent per­son being put to death, that scares the liv­ing day­lights out of me, and places me square­ly on the fence on this issue.

Over the years there have been cas­es in the United States , where seri­ous doubts have been raised about an exe­cut­ed per­son­’s guilt. in States like South Carolina and Texas that does have the death penal­ty. In most cas­es activists point to the dis­pro­por­tion­ate exe­cu­tion of blacks and Latinos over whites that com­mit the same crimes, those have been argu­ments made for gen­er­a­tions , they make up a part of America’s his­to­ry and maybe her shame. In Jamaica the script is almost the same except the argu­ment is not one of racism , but class ‑ism.

Jamaica ‘s colo­nial past , and the Genesis of the con­stab­u­lary gives life to this argu­ment that poor­er peo­ple are treat­ed dif­fer­ent­ly by the Police. Much the same way Americas racist Jim crow past, lends cred­i­bil­i­ty to the argu­ments assigned to that country.

Prosecutors and law enforce­ment offi­cials argue that they arrest and pros­e­cute fair­ly, irre­spec­tive of class or race. Those assur­ances have done noth­ing to allay the fears of those opposed to cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment. My per­son­al feel­ings are guid­ed by what was taught to me at the Jamaica police acad­e­my in 1982.” It is bet­ter for the guilty to go free, than for an inno­cent per­son to be con­vict­ed . I have to how­ev­er bal­ance that with some­thing else I was taught at the same insti­tu­tion.” There can be no greater respon­si­bil­i­ty placed on any per­son, than that which requires you to bring the killer of anoth­er human being to justice.

Opponents of the death penal­ty argue that it is not a deterrent.

As a qua­si sup­port­er of the death penal­ty I ask how do you know?

As a child grow­ing up in the sev­en­ties I am acute­ly aware of the dread that was placed on my heart when I heard the word [Wanda ] Mister Wanda was the Hangman in Spanish Town​.As I recall , there was way less crime at that time, and cer­tain­ly the grue­some nature of what we are wit­ness­ing at this time was def­i­nite­ly not there.

The depraved indif­fer­ence, inher­ent in the crimes being com­mit­ted, seem to sug­gest to me a lay per­son ‚that the per­pe­tra­tors do not have any fear of being caught. Reports indi­cate that in some cas­es groups of 30 – 40 heav­i­ly armed men are involved in car­ry­ing out these atroc­i­ties. The sheer num­bers, if true , not to men­tion the weapon­ry involved , sug­gest they fear no one, and are pre­pared to take on all comers.

If a Police patrol that includes two offi­cers come upon these mili­tia mem­bers decap­i­tat­ing some­one ‚what chance do they have, except to try to save their own lives? As I have argued before, this is a mil­i­tary prob­lem, that requires a mil­i­tary solu­tion. The prob­lem in Tivoli Gardens was a mil­i­tary prob­lem that required a mil­i­tary solu­tion, that was effect­ed and now the com­mu­ni­ty of Tivoli gar­dens is open for police services.

What both­ers me is how in the name of God ‚could any­one in their right mind sit on their ass­es and talk about rights in the face of these goings on.

Agitators like Carolyn Gomes of Jamaicans for jus­tice ‚some pas­tors, those in the media who sit on their fat ass­es in radio stu­dios , and a pletho­ra of oth­er bleed­ing heart lib­er­al crim­i­nal sup­port­ing frauds, are quick to con­demn the police for doing what they are sworn to do, erad­i­cate the scourge from among us. Unfortunately some with­in the police force have com­pro­mised their posi­tion , allow­ing crim­i­nals to point to them as the enemy.

According to the prime min­is­ter, Parliament vot­ed more than a year ago to retain the death penal­ty, and the Government will uphold the law.
The Parliament has also passed laws, lim­it­ing the peri­od in which a con­vict on death row must com­plete all his appeals.
With that amend­ment, a con­vict will not be allowed to stretch out the appeals peri­od beyond five years when his exe­cu­tion would no longer be pos­si­ble based on the Pratt and Morgan ruling.
In the Pratt and Morgan case, the UK-based Privy Council held that it was inhu­mane to have a con­vict on death row for more than five years.
As a con­se­quence, con­victs on death row for more than five years would have their sen­tences com­mut­ed to life in prison. ( source: Jamaica gleaner)

Question to the Prime min­is­ter:Why did you not uphold the laws as you swore to do? Let me haz­ard a guess ! you refused to hon­or your com­mit­ment to the Constitution because you are behold­en to Amnesty International and their sur­ro­gates in Jamaica, Jamaicans for Justice.

Amnesty International which is based in London, with offices scat­tered over the world, cer­tain­ly does not get to tell the British Government how to secure that country.British cities are stitched togeth­er with secu­ri­ty cam­eras on every corner,more than any oth­er coun­try in the world,Arguable a civ­il rights vio­la­tion, British cit­i­zens are watched 24 – 7 year round 365. British Authorities do not tol­er­ate crim­i­nal­i­ty in their coun­try, Jamaica is as we speak , try­ing to cope with the avalanche of depor­tees being sent back to Jamaica. Conversely, as a cost sav­ing mea­sure the British Government is will­ing to pay pris­on­ers of Jamaican Nationality to go back home before their peri­od of incar­cer­a­tion is even over .

That amounts to a sim­ple fact we do not want you here. Prime Minister Golding ‚you dithered on this impor­tant issue, as you have on oth­ers. If you are a leader you must chart a course and fol­low that course.Many will hate you, even as they ben­e­fit from your hard deci­sions, great lead­ers have been known to make unpop­u­lar deci­sions and have his­to­ry vin­di­cate them. You have failed to asso­ciate your­self with that greatness.Greatness that could have been attrib­uted to lead­ers like Hugh Lawson Shearer.

As you have dithered on the Christopher Coke issue , you reduced your­self to a mere spec­ta­tor, you could have seized the moment , make the tough deci­sions , live and die with your deci­sions. Unfortunately you allowed your­self to for­ev­er to be seen as a pro­tec­tor of a man, accused of seri­ous crimes. Those who despise you will nev­er love you, you have almost a year to be deci­sive with this mon­ster of ter­ror­ism, put earplugs in , tune out the idiots, save Jamaica. Or for­ev­er be a flash in the pan ‚a sad mis­take in Jamaica’s history.

Jamaicans liv­ing over­seas and at home have long demand­ed that their Government car­ry out their sworn oblig­a­tions to the con­sti­tu­tion and hang those whom the courts say should be hanged, What I find strange is that, Jamaica has one of the most lib­er­al jus­tice sys­tem any­where on the globe, yet on the rare occa­sion they are spurred into order­ing some­one exe­cut­ed , the Executive branch of Government refus­es to car­ry out their sworn duties.

The last exe­cu­tion in Jamaica was car­ried out on 18 February 1988. There were more than a 190 pris­on­ers under sen­tence of death at the end of 1988. Currently there are nine pris­on­ers on death row. The reduc­tion is prin­ci­pal­ly attrib­ut­able to three events. In 1992 the Jamaican Parliament amend­ed the Offences Against the Person Act to clas­si­fy some mur­ders as non-capital.The amend­ment applied retroac­tive­ly and result­ed in the com­mu­ta­tion of sen­tences to life impris­on­ment of a num­ber peo­ple who had been pre­vi­ous­ly manda­to­ri­ly sen­tenced to death. In 1993 the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (cur­rent­ly Jamaica’s high­est court which sits in England) decid­ed, in the case of Pratt and Morgan v. the Attorney General of Jamaica, that exe­cut­ing a per­son who has spent a pro­longed peri­od on death row vio­lates Section 17 of the Constitution of Jamaica, which pro­hibits “inhu­man or degrad­ing pun­ish­ment or oth­er treat­ment.(source;amnesty inter­na­tion­al)

What this means is that the Government of the peo­ple’s nation­al par­ty, through­out its entire unprece­dent­ed 181⁄2 years in office, refused to hon­or their oblig­a­tions as guardians of the con­sti­tu­tion. when looked at in tan­dem with the fact that they allowed the secu­ri­ty forces to fall into seri­ous decay,not one detec­tive trained in ten years , it is clear to see where the prob­lem emanat­ed from. Populism, pan­der­ing, and the desire to hold pow­er ‚irre­spec­tive of con­se­quence to coun­try, has brought us to the brink of anarchy.

In 2008 when Jamaica’s Parliament was get­ting ready to vote on the issue of the death penal­ty , Amnesty International had this to say.

As Jamaican Parliamentarians are due to vote short­ly on a motion on whether to retain the death penal­ty, Amnesty International calls on the Jamaican author­i­ties to reject the death penal­ty and instead pri­or­i­tize reforms to the police and jus­tice sys­tem in order to tack­le the coun­try’s vio­lent crime epidemic.

The vote has emerged in the light of dis­cus­sion around the new Charter of Rights and Freedoms Bill, which seeks to replace Chapter III of the Jamaican Constitution ded­i­cat­ed to the pro­tec­tion of fun­da­men­tal rights and free­dom of per­sons. The pur­pose of the vote is to decide whether pro­vi­sions cre­at­ing the death sen­tence excep­tions to the right to life and to pro­tec­tion from tor­ture or inhu­man or degrad­ing pun­ish­ment or oth­er treat­ment, should be retained or delet­ed from the Charter. This vote also comes at a time of spi­ralling vio­lent crime in a coun­try with one of the high­est per capi­ta mur­der rates in the world.

Amnesty International under­stands that high lev­els of crim­i­nal­i­ty cre­ate vic­tim after vic­tim and wel­comes the Jamaican government’s com­mit­ment to address­ing vio­lent crime. However, the orga­ni­za­tion strong­ly believes that the use of the death penal­ty, as well as con­sti­tut­ing a cru­el, inhu­man and degrad­ing pun­ish­ment, is not an effec­tive method of pre­vent­ing crime.

Given the unlike­li­hood of ever being brought before the courts, it is high­ly implau­si­ble that before com­mit­ting a crime a crim­i­nal would con­sid­er the risk of being hung and would refrain from wrong-doing. On the con­trary, the reten­tion of the death penal­ty spreads across the soci­ety the mes­sage that killing is per­mit­ted. The death penal­ty also runs the risk of irrev­o­ca­ble error. Country after coun­try, includ­ing Jamaica, has inflict­ed the death penal­ty upon those inno­cent of the crime for which they were con­demned. Numerous stud­ies have also shown that it tends to be applied dis­crim­i­na­to­ri­ly on grounds of race and class. In a coun­try like Jamaica, where the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem is deeply flawed and cor­rup­tion is rife through­out dif­fer­ent insti­tu­tions, how can the pub­lic have con­fi­dence that the state will not kill inno­cent people?

Amnesty International believes that the true solu­tion to the appalling crime sit­u­a­tion does not lie with the death penal­ty. The answers can be found instead by pri­or­i­tiz­ing reforms to the police and jus­tice sys­tem that are already under way. These include imple­ment­ing rec­om­men­da­tions from the strate­gic review of the Jamaica Constabulary Force and the Justice Sector Reform Review and expe­dit­ing the pas­sage of leg­is­la­tion to estab­lish an inde­pen­dent com­mis­sion to inves­ti­gate police abus­es and an Office of Coroner to exam­ine alleged police kills.(source:amnesty inter­na­tion­al )

Jamaicans and peo­ple all over the world . What this lib­er­al left-wing group is say­ing is don’t both­er about the mur­der­ers, don’t both­er about the mer­ci­less killers,the orga­ni­za­tion strong­ly believes that the use of the death penal­ty, con­sti­tutes cru­el, inhu­man and degrad­ing pun­ish­ment, and is not an effec­tive method of pre­vent­ing crime.

Well we have tried it their way, since the 1980’s not one per­son has been made to pay for their crimes of mur­der. This state­ment was issued by that agency on the 21st of Nov: 2008 ‚their way .Since then thou­sands of Jamaicans have ben slaugh­tered , to include Police Officers and mem­bers of Jamaica’s military.

We have tried it their way .

Now let’s do it our way.

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EXPOSING THE LIES:

The fol­low­ing is an inter­view giv­en by Carolyn Gomes to a local tele­vi­sion station.

Dr. Carolyn Gomes OJ (born March 30, 1958 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican human rights activist. Dr. Gomes is also the co-founder and cur­rent Executive Director of Jamaicans for Justice.[1][2] On December 10, 2008, Dr. Gomes received the pres­ti­gious United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights.[3] On October 19 of the next year, she was hon­ored with the Order of Jamaica, in recog­ni­tion of her advo­ca­cy for human rights. Notice that Gomes has received one of the high­est hon­or that can be bestowed on any Jamaican.

http://​www​.youtube​.com/​w​a​t​c​h​?​v​=​T​H​P​K​7​Y​8​k​Rn4 See Gomes and JFJ at the Inter American Commission of Human Rights hear­ing in Washington DC.

Interviewer ; You said you made a pre­sen­ta­tion to the inter-American com­mis­sion on human rights the report looked at human rights issues in Jamaica since the state of emer­gency last year, now on the set with us to tell us more about that report is Jamaicans for Justice Dr. Carolyn Gomes exec­u­tive direc­tor of Jamaicans for jus­tice, good morn­ing again, wel­come once again to smile Jamaica, 

Gomes: Good morn­ing nice to be here with you>

Interviewer: So you did what exact­ly when you said you made a presentation.?

Gomes: We looked at the data we had in our files over the course of last year and we put it all togeth­er and we made a report, we asked for an oppur­tu­ni­ty to present it in per­son ‚because we could have sent it in and said here’s our report, but we ahem got an oppor­tu­ni­ty to present it in per­son at the inter-American com­mis­sion in Washington there was a pan­el of three com­mis­sion­ers plus the deputy exec­u­tive sec­re­tary and then the Government had an oppur­tu­ni­ty to respond and was rep­re­sent­ed by ambas­sador Marks and a mem­ber of the Consular staff.

Interviewer: And your report sug­gest­ed what? that you did­n’t like what was going on did you give a per­son­al opinion?

Gomes : We said we very upset by the rise in what was already an unten­able num­ber of fatal shoot­ings by the Police, which in fact went up by over 20% last year based on their own fig­ures, year on year, and that does not include the deaths of those killed in Tivoli, or those who the fig­ures acknowl­edged were killed by sol­diers out­side of Tivoli, when you put all of those togeth­er, we were at a rate of almost 400, and in con­text more than one in five peo­ple who died vio­lent­ly, died at the hands of the police.

Let’ just back up right here because I can­not rely on the Interviewer to ask ques­tions backed up by real facts and fig­ures of this per­son who took Jamaica’s name abroad, so let me present some facts.

Jamaica has one of the high­est mur­der rate in the world ‚we com­pete with coun­tries like Mexico and Colombia.

Jamaica’s crim­i­nals are some of the most vio­lent crim­i­nals on plan­et earth,they love to kill police officers.

During the time that this so-called report was pre­sent­ed the coun­try was expe­ri­enc­ing one of the most tur­bu­lent peri­ods in its his­to­ry, police sta­tions were torched , offi­cers mur­dered, to include eight offi­cers shot in one ambush on moun­tain view avenue , two offi­cers died that night at the hands of ter­ror­ists includ­ing the pop­u­lar sergeant Wayne Henriques.

Members of the mil­i­tary were killed.

Members of the ISCF were killed.

Untold num­bers of peo­ple were slaugh­tered by urban ter­ror­ists loy­al to alleged drug and gun run­ner Christopher( dudus )Coke.

The report made no men­tion of any of these facts.

Let’s read some more.

Interviewer: Does it nec­es­sar­i­ly mean an abuse of human rights when when.….

Gomes: Police kill? No absolute­ly not!and that is one of the things we have con­tend­ed from the very begin­ning Simon that the police are in fact on e of the only groups in the coun­try that are allowed to legal­ly kill some­body in defense of them­selves or oth­er peo­ple.…… the point becomes what are the legal­i­ty of a shoot­ing one of the things we have said from the very begin­ning is that the sys­tem put in place aren’t able to cred­i­bly clear police­men of act­ing absolute­ly with­in the law,and right­eous­ly, they call it a right­eous shooting.…

Interviewer inter­rupt­ing; so does that mean the process or the pro­cess­ing of each inci­dent is not suf­fi­cient and suit­able to give you a prop­er deter­mi­na­tion as as …

Gomes jump­ing in: the whole thing from the begin­ning com­ing right up to the end. the begin­ning is the preser­va­tion of the crime scene,or the shoot­ing scene if you pre­fer, don’t move the bul­lets so that you can make a deter­mi­na­tion, don’t move the spent shells, don’t move the dead per­son, take pho­tographs etc etc.

Let me just jump in here , what a load of crock.Every time a killing occur it falls on some­one to inves­ti­gate that killing, irre­spec­tive of who does the shoot­ing there are peo­ple called Police that are required to do the inves­ti­ga­tions, if Gomes does not believe that Jamaican police are capa­ble of polic­ing Jamaica, then she should come out and say so , clear­ly she some­how feel that a coun­try that is over 90% black is inca­pable of polic­ing itself , is Carolyn Gomes push­ing for for­eign inter­ven­tion in our coun­try , from the lies with­in this report,?

Where does Carolyn Gomes get her crime scene inves­tiga­tive skills from? last time I checked she was a pedi­a­tri­cian, I am unaware that being a baby doc­tor qual­i­fies one on crime scene man­age­ment , but then again this is Jamaica where every­one knows how to do every­one else’s job but can­not do theirs, , let’s go on.

Gomes: then there’s the bal­lis­tics and you know we must be the stu­pid­est coun­try in the world because we have the high­est rate of gun crime and we have inad­e­quate bal­lis­tic test­ing facilities..

I am going to jump in here because I am get­ting real­ly mad right now, did I hear right,? did she call my coun­try stupid?

Now this is real­ly telling, she has no respect for the peo­ple she pur­ports to be con­cerned about, this is about Carolyn Gomes and her ego, and what­ev­er moti­va­tion she has for the anti police cru­sade she is on, but trust me she will be exposed. I have always believed that if an inves­ti­ga­tor real­ly wants the truth , just let the sus­pect talk „ let the sus­pect tell their ver­sion of events , then when he or she is fin­ished ask them to repeat what they had just relat­ed to you, the lies will be exposed.

So we know Gomes thinks our coun­try is stupid, .!

Was this the rea­son she opt­ed for a face to face meet­ing with her for­eign han­dlers with­in the inter-American com­mis­sion in Washington? or did the object of the face to face have a more sin­is­ter motive, say financial ?

Who funds Jamaicans for jus­tice? where does the mon­ey gets spent? does the Lobby group pay tax­es on the monies it takes in from over­seas, that influ­ences, and shape pol­i­cy with­in Jamaica ? who does over­sight of the Groups finances? the group hires high-priced lawyers , what rate are they paid,? what ser­vice do they pro­vide for the monies paid to them? Is there an inde­pen­dent audit of the groups books to deter­mine fideli­ty? , Is the lob­by group in com­pli­ance with all aspects of Jamaican laws par­tic­u­lar­ly as it relates to accept­ing funds from out­side the coun­try? .how much does Gomes and staff gets paid if any, sep­a­rate from the lawyers?

Now did she say we have the high­est rate of gun crime? yes she did say that , and again she is wrong , even when she tries to be objec­tive, we do not yet have the high­est per capi­ta rate of gun killings and I hope we do not attain that dubi­ous distinction.

Interestingly enough she made no men­tion of that in the report she took to her handlers.

She then moves on with the ram­bling unsub­stan­ti­at­ed attack , this time aimed at the office of the DPP.

Gomes:Then there’s that and all the way through to the chal­lenges of the office of the direc­tor of the pub­lic pros­e­cu­tion, it’s more than a year to get a rul­ing out of that office, she her­self acknowl­edges that she has a back­log of 700 cas­es of police fatal shoot­ings, and from there we get to court , we have cas­es that takes twelve years to pass through the coro­ner’s court, twelve years…

At this point one of the two men that made up the pan­el inter­view­ing Gomes ‚who kept chuck­ling , , mark you he had no notes nor any kind of doc­u­ments to coun­ter­act the bile she was spew­ing , chimed in to Gomes claims.

Interviewer; Which is absolute rubbish!

Gomes: At the end of it and the when the coro­ner’s jury says that the police man must be charged for mur­der you back in court , supreme court, wait­ing on a trial.

Here are some impor­tant infor­ma­tion that Gomes should have her lawyers check. Jamaican law allows the DPP to file crim­i­nal charges against a police offi­cer to quell pub­lic out cry.Gomes may be unaware of this but the crim­i­nal Dons are well aware of it,hence the ever-present demon­stra­tion and pha­lanx of paid mourn­ers after every fatal shoot­ing by mem­bers of the secu­ri­ty forces.This accom­plish­es three things for the crim­i­nal under­world, (1) It gets front­line cops out-of-the-way, (2)demoralize oth­ers, and (3) cre­ates more oppor­tu­ni­ties for their crim­i­nal empires.

For those who won­der why so many cas­es of police shoot­ings dies before they leave the DPP’s office ‚and some gets dis­posed of for want of pros­e­cu­tion , the rea­son plain and sim­ple is that there was no evi­dence of wrong doing in the first place, .Gomes her­self allud­ed to that fact, right here in this inter­view, check your laws.

Interviewer:In your report you said it means that one in five homi­cides , and I use that word delib­er­ate­ly, com­mit­ted in Jamaica in 2010 was com­mit­ted by the secu­ri­ty forces.

Gomes: Correct. correct,homicide does­n’t say whether it was a right­eous , I mean jus­ti­fi­able homi­cide or not, it say that it was a fatal shoot­ing one in five shoot­ings were com­mit­ted by the secu­ri­ty forces.

At this point both ques­tion­ers chimed in .

But that’s inflam­ma­to­ry language.!

Gomes : Only to the lay per­son! It has tech­ni­cal mean­ing that does not nec­es­sar­i­ly mean mur­der, it does­n’t nec­es­sar­i­ly mean manslaugh­ter either , you have vehic­u­lar homi­cide, which can be you know.…..

Vehicular homi­cide? what or how does vehic­u­lar homi­cide fac­tor into this con­ver­sa­tion , in what con­text is it applic­a­ble, I thought the inter­view was about the lies she took to Washington , which by the way the Golding Administration called her out on , to which she had no response. Serve Golding and his friends right they are the ones who con­tin­ue to cheap­en National hon­ors on every char­la­tan that comes around , ignor­ing Jamaicans who sac­ri­fice for country.

Interviewer; but again it con­jure up ‚.. isn’t that a sug­ges­tion that they were doing this deliberately’?

Gomes : no it’s not !!!!! We are not say­ing that police are doing it though there is some ques­tion marks about what occurred in Tivoli and some of the shoot­ings that come to us.

Interviewer :Even the num­bers you don’t agree with , I think they said 73 you are say­ing   …

Gomes: We don’t have any evi­dence of more than 73, but in, we don’t ‚that 73 does­n’t take into account 3 peo­ple who have dis­ap­peared since being seen in the com­pa­ny of the secu­ri­ty forces , they can’t be seen since can’t be found so if you add that it’s 76. and the peo­ple dis­pute the 73, and so that is the rea­son we stand with Earl Witter for a com­mis­sion of enquiry, because there are a num­ber of things that needs to be clar­i­fied for Jamaica includ­ing how many peo­ple died.

What? the same lay per­sons that are from the stu­pid country?…but arent these the peo­ple you care about , and on whose behalf you are wag­ing this cru­sade, are you say­ing they are too stu­pid to under­stand the dif­fer­ence between a jus­ti­fi­able killing and a case of exces­sive police force?I will bet my life every­one knows the dif­fer­ence but Carolyn Gomes does not have too much con­fi­dence in the intel­lec­tu­al capa­bil­i­ties of the Jamaican peo­ple, the not-lay per­sons in Washington I am sure under­stands the dif­fer­ence, how insulting!

At this stage I was through with this non­sense I watched the rest of the inter­view which offered no more sub­stance or sense than the fore­gone , it was a love fest of sorts between her and the two males con­duct­ing what passed for an interview,basically a pletho­ra of issues, with Gomes gen­er­at­ing a lot of heat and absolute­ly no light.

Pictured top left is Jamaicans for jus­tice Carolyn Gomes receiv­ing a National hon­or for her work defend­ing criminals.

Top right is Sergeant Wayne Henriques who was slaugh­tered along with anoth­er offi­cer on moun­tain view avenue ‚.Six oth­er offi­cers were shot in that Ambush that night. Wayne who was on leave, was cel­e­brat­ing his 17th wed­ding Anniversary and was called away to ser­vice . He left his beau­ti­ful wife and fam­i­ly, they would nev­er see him alive again. Gunned down by Jamaica’s urban terrorists. 

Those who lob­by on their behalf receive National Honors.

Wayne’s fam­i­ly mem­bers (center)gather to mourn their loss.These are the good guys, those who play by the rules,obey the laws and sac­ri­ficed their loved one in defense of our Nation. (pho­tos cour­tesy of nation­al forum)

Where is their National honor. 

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JFJ’S PREDICTABLE HYPOCRISY

By now most peo­ple in Jamaica and a sig­nif­i­cant por­tion of Jamaicans liv­ing out­side the Country are famil­iar with the mur­der of 17-year-old Kingston College stu­dent Khajeel Mais .
Young mis­ter Mais lost his life under the most egre­gious of cir­cum­stances ‚infor­ma­tion from the Jamaican Media and the Police sug­gest young mis­ter Mais was a lone pas­sen­ger rid­ing in the back seat of a cab to a fete being held at the Meadowbrook High school in Saint Andrew, the cab report­ed­ly rear end­ed a lux­u­ry BMW ‑x6 Sport Utility Vehicle , upon which all hell broke loose.
The reports alleged the dri­ver of the Sport util­i­ty, alight­ed from his vehi­cle gun in hand and opened fire at the cab , the dri­ver real­iz­ing he was being shot at ‚turned his cab around and sped off in the oppo­site direc­tion, he lat­er real­ized his young pas­sen­ger was dead.
Shot through the head.!!
This shoot­ing has evoked a firestorm of con­dem­na­tion and anger from all quar­ters of Jamaica , and the Jamaican com­mu­ni­ty liv­ing in oth­er Countries,the blog sites and social media has lit up with almost every­one call­ing for a swift res­o­lu­tion to this case .The demands are clear, find the shoot­er and bring him to Justice.!!
Most peo­ple read­ing the reports on a dai­ly basis were infu­ri­at­ed upon learn­ing that the shoot­er cow­ard­ly high­tailed it out of the Country after the shoot­ing, as more infor­ma­tion trick­led in it was report­ed he was an American Citizen , since then the shoot­er has report­ed­ly returned to the Island under the advise of his high-priced Attorney Patrick Atkinson, was detained by the Police, who up to the time of this post still has not released his name.
This has inflamed anoth­er fire storm of con­dem­na­tion, with most of those demand­ing more Information, claim­ing spe­cial treat­ment is being afford­ed the alleged mur­der­er. Despite how we feel about the actions of the Police ‚one thing we all share, is a com­mon out­rage that this young man’s life was snuffed out in this man­ner, now every­one has a right to due process, to the ben­e­fit of the doubt, and despite our out­rage I am sure the accused man has a sto­ry to tell, and so we await his day in Court, when hope­ful­ly we will get a chance to hear his ratio­nale, to what most peo­ple char­ac­ter­ize as a bar­bar­ic act. Now despite the National and International out­rage ema­nat­ing from this inci­dent, we have heard not one word from the car­ing peo­ple at Jamaicans for jus­tice, not one iota,not one peep of com­ment , no con­dem­na­tion, noth­ing that would assuage some of the hurt and pain the fam­i­ly of young Khajeel Mais must be feel­ing at this time. Yet true to form,as is their modus operan­di , despite expla­na­tion from oth­ers ‚and the Commissioner of Police, regard­ing the rea­son his Agency has made the deci­sion not to release the sus­pec­t’s name, the peo­ple at JFJ fear­ing irrel­e­vance, jumped onto this issue . Despite all the out­pour­ing of love and sup­port for the fam­i­ly of Khajeel Mais the peo­ple at Jamaicans for Justice has decid­ed that rather than con­demn the shoot­er , they would rather crit­i­cize the Police.

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