In a few days Jamaica will be immersed in celebration of the creation of a new Museum to celebrate the life and work of Peter Tosh , reggae Icon, celebrated founding member of the famed Bob Marley and the Wailers band.
There will be days of celebration , in attendance will be the Prime Minister the nation’s highest elected official among others.
Several evenings ago I turned on the radio as I was driving home from work and I was pleasantly impressed with the way Peter Tosh’s daughter acquitted herself as she represented her late father. She articulated her father’s life and work with intellect and conviction.
The entire nation will be enthralled as it engages in the celebration and the festivities which follow these events , . History will be rewritten and those not in the know will create their own narratives as they seek to bolster the already iconic image of these celebrity icons, elevating them to even higher heights of pagan idolatry.
Even as these events are in the works the murders continue unabated , Those who are shielded from the killers bullets continue to use the media to articulate, that their point of view that their way is working , “just trust us they say, we will get it together you will see”..
But things aren’t getting better. single murders doesn’t even raise an eyebrow anymore.
This until the next mass execution of another family. As a good friend told me today,” no one bothers to talk about murders of individuals anymore, most of the murders aren’t even reported anyway”.“Yes welcome to Jamaica”, he says with abject resignation and dejection.…
No one denies an artiste the accolade he or she deserves , whether while he or she lives or posthumously. But lets not sanitize their image,lets not rewrite their story to suit some fantasy we created in our heads in order to advance a fairy-tale narrative. Lets tell the whole story.
Not wishing for a news cycle to go without grasping for the hot glare of the cameras in an Article written to continue justifying his employment Terrence Williams wrote to the Sheep-le.
“The proponents claim that police are demotivated because of the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) and that is why they cannot fight crime effectively. They do not claim that INDECOM has acted illegally or unfairly; but that the robust oversight is deleterious to police morale. The commissioner of police has consistently denied that this is so. Indeed, if it were so, it would not speak well of our constabulary. If you intend to act lawfully and consistent with police regulations, oversight ought not to prevent you from doing your work. The righteous accountant is not hindered by the fear of the auditor”.
Actually that is not true, .….
Jamaicans are really sometimes too preoccupied with their daily lives to see that they are being taken advantage of , being sold a bill of goods . But there are some of us who do see and since Williams likes the limelight we shine our own light on him.
So lets speak directly to Williams since he is letting us know he is feeling the heat from our spotlight.
In fact you have acted improperly and outside your remit Terrence Williams . Yes you have your cheering section up in the nose bleed petty section but we have a front row seat to your shenanigans.
You see Terrence not all of us police officers who left the force were big foot fools as you and your friends like to channel so I will simply place a single case here to counter your lies.
You see you characterize yourself as the auditor , but me I see myself as the actuary .
The criminal charges you filed against Deputy Superintendent of Police Jason Anderson was dropped. In your overzealous exuberance to bloviate you charged the Superintendent with discharging a firearm within 40 yards of a public road and assault at common law. On December 18, 2013, Anderson allegedly discharged his firearm unlawfully and pointed it at a complainant before searching him and another civilian on Caribbean Estates Boulevard.
You Terrence Williams conducted an Investigation and fraudulently charged the officer. Thankfully there is a superseding authority over and above your rapacious abuse of power. .
In stopping the outrage the DPP said quote :“It is our considered view that the evidentiary material did not satisfy what is required to mount a viable prosecution and as such there was no reasonable prospect of conviction,”
There is much more Terrence, But I lay this one case down so the world can see that you are a liar . When you push-back under the guise that those opposed to your greedy self serving attack on our police cannot say you acted unlawfully . Let me say it here , In this single case I laid out here you acted un-lawfully. When you overstep your bounds and subject someone to the indignity of an arrest without proper evidence you are acting unlawfully.
What remedy does Superintendent Anderson have against your overzealous assault on his human rights? How are you different than the police officers you grandstand against daily?
Never mind the illegal attempts you and your office made and continue to make to cajole and entreat young constables to lie on their comrades so you can pad your statistics.
Yes , we hear about them . Officers call and tell us about these underhanded attempts you use to gain traction in your fight against local law-enforcement.
Of course the police need oversight. Just not you Terrence Williams a bloviating grandstanding self-serving narcissist.
Your lengthy article must be seen exactly for what it is, a panicked attempt to deflect attention from the harm you are causing as the bodies pile up . While the Minister of National Security stupidly suggest that he was placed by God in the Security Ministry people in the know knows that crime will only be dealt with with a heavy hand.
The nonsensical lie that tough policing did not seriously impact the paradigm is also laughable . Only in a place like Jamaica would you be able to preach such utter bullshit and not be chased out of Town. Unless one comes to the twisted conclusion that 1200 to 1600 reported homicides annually is no different than 300.
The lying distortions you proffer are truly the work of a con artiste, which you truly are.
My dear Terrence when you channel Peter Tosh to justify your professional existence you once again showed your ass.
Quote: When Peter Tosh sang: “I don’t want no peace; I want equal rights and justice”, I took him to mean that he did not want the kind of ephemeral “peace” that came from oppressive and arbitrary state agents. Rather than this kind of control, he appealed for the sustained order that comes from the uniform application of the law and the fair determination of disputes. Crime threatens social order; its solution must be justice”.
I understand your desire to attach yourself to the several days of celebration and idol worship which is coming as obscene idol worshipers gather to worship at the feet of another graven image. Maybe you should acquaint yourself with real Peter Tosh the man who believed that the nations’s laws did not apply to him , simply because he said so.
Maybe you should get your ass out of that easy chair and speak to older police officers who are now in retirement about the Peter Tosh who spoke militancy but refused to conform to social order. Yes ask them why he was so violently cut down in the prime of his life.
Ask them why was it that he had so many run-ins with agents of the law.
In your frenzied attempt to latch onto celebrity you once again demonstrated your lack of knowledge and your blatant attempt at fame.
I did not hear about Peter Tosh, we knew him, we knew his modus operandi., Dadrick Henry and I were the first two officers at his house on that fateful night he was gunned down. We don’t make up stories .
Even though his home was not in our police area we were in Barbarian when we heard the call , Jacks Hill Road is just a stone’s throw from Barbarian square , we were first on scene. We raced to try to save his life despite his life of disrespect for police officers because that’s what police officers do.
Something you would not understand.
But you wouldn’t know the difference between a righteous objector, a soldier for social change, over a militant unruly “I’ll do whatever I want, fuck the laws”, oblivious to rules looking for a fight .
Because you Terrence Williams are a one-eyed king in a land of the blind.