The Incessant Killings In Jamaica Will Stop When The People Say They Do, Politicians Won’t Do It.

Yesterday’s incident at the Hunts Bay police station in which a gunman thought that he would kill another on the grounds of the Hunts Bay police facility sends several messages.
The Island continue to ignore them at it’s peril.

According to Jamaican media the man who was attacked was report­ing on con­di­tion of his bail agree­ment arrived at after he was charged with murder.
This in and of itself is a huge part of the prob­lem which has dri­ven the Island’s mur­der rate and has helped it to con­tin­ue to metastasize.
It mat­ters not how many peo­ple you are alleged to have killed you are almost assured that the courts will slap some sil­ly con­di­tions to a piece of paper and you will walk out of jail almost immediately.
This bla­tant abuse of the bail act leaves con­sci­en­tious observers who are unafraid of speak­ing out to con­clude that sev­er­al of the Island’s judges are on the take.

On reach­ing the entrance to the sta­tion he was pounced upon by a lone gun­man who opened fire at him. The police offi­cers who were on the com­pound chal­lenged the gun­man and a shootout ensued. The gun­man was shot and injured; he was tak­en to the Kingston Public Hospital, where he was pro­nounced dead.

Separate and apart from the many and var­ied attacks on police sta­tions over the years , is the lack of fear that the crim­i­nal-under­world has, know­ing that the police are not allowed to go after them.
Over the years crim­i­nals attacked the Olympic Gardens Police sta­tion and killed police offi­cers. They have on more than one occa­sion opened fire on the Cross Roads Police Station, Denham Town , Rockfort and many oth­er police sta­tions. Additionally they have burned the Darling Street Police sta­tion and sev­er­al oth­ers to the ground.
Every year sev­er­al police offi­cers are mur­dered on and off duty on the Island.
Every year hun­dreds and hun­dreds of Jamaican cit­i­zens are mur­dered with the slaugh­ter reach­ing crit­i­cal mass in the year 2005 when over two thou­sand homi­cides were report­ed to police.

In 2010 after the Military and Police depart­ment went into the moth­er of all gar­risons , (Tivoli Gardens) to extract want­ed gang­ster Christopher (dudus)Coke , noto­ri­ous gang­land over­lord, hun­dreds of mer­ce­nar­ies took up arms against the state.
In the ensu­ing process lead­ing up to the entry of the secu­ri­ty forces into the com­mu­ni­ty, police offi­cers and mem­bers of the mil­i­tary were mur­dered. Police sta­tions were destroyed, mem­bers of the pub­lic were mur­dered. Heavily armed mem­bers of the crim­i­nal under­world loy­al to Coke through their asso­ci­a­tions and the entreaties he made to them with the promise of mon­ey, open­ly dis­played their weapon­ry as they await­ed the assault of the secu­ri­ty forces.

In the end the secu­ri­ty forces went in and kicked ass as they should.
Soldiers and police offi­cers lost their lives in the process of annex­ing the then crim­i­nal epic cen­ter Tivoli Gardens ‚to the Island. According to esti­mates some 74 com­bat­ants lost their lives.
Several weapons were recov­ered, but as they could be count­ed on to do, the tough talk­ing mer­ce­nar­ies slith­ered away like the cock­roach­es they are when the sheer force of the secu­ri­ty forces entered the enclave.
The untouch­able state with­in the state was once again part of Jamaica.

The sheer weight of Christopher Coke’s pow­er top­pled Bruce Golding the Labor Member of the Parliament for west­ern Kingston and Prime Minister at the time, and in whose con­stituen­cy Tivoli Gardens lie.
The PNP was swept into pow­er after the demise of Golding. What the PNP did should have rel­e­gat­ed that par­ty to the dust­bin of his­to­ry for­ev­er, but not in Jamaica.

Instead of hon­or­ing the mem­bers of the secu­ri­ty forces and their fam­i­lies for their sacrifice.
Instead of join­ing hands with law abid­ing cit­i­zens and declar­ing once and for all, that from that day onward, Jamaica would eschew polit­i­cal vio­lence as a strat­e­gy toward achiev­ing state power.

The PNP com­mis­sioned and impan­eled an elit­ist pan­el of know-noth­ings to con­duct an expen­sive witch-hunt against the secu­ri­ty forces ‚to see if and where they went wrong, in the process of annex­ing Tivoli Gardens to Jamaica.

Heading the pan­el was David Simmons a Barbadian Jurist who clear­ly came into the process with a chip on his shoul­der and a total dis­dain for the secu­ri­ty forces.
As rep­re­hen­si­ble as Simmons and the oth­er two mon­keys on the pan­el were, they paled in com­par­i­son to the trea­so­nous actions of the PNP and its sad excuse for a leader, the incred­i­bly intel­lec­tu­al­ly chal­lenged Portia Simpson Miller.

There is no evi­dence which sup­ports any the­o­ry that Jamaicans are ungovern­able or inca­pable of gov­ern­ing themselves.
The vast major­i­ty of Jamaicans who move to oth­er coun­tries are hard work­ing , pro­gres­sive mem­bers of their adopt­ed soci­eties, to which they make sig­nif­i­cant and mean­ing­ful pos­i­tive contributions.
Those who stead­fast­ly refuse to adhere to the rule of law which exist in their adopt­ed home­lands find them­selves back on the rock in short order.
The com­mon thread which runs through those adopt­ed coun­tries ‚which just hap­pen to be miss­ing from Jamaica, is the rule of law.

Sure Jamaicans are able to obey and respect laws.
When they are made to.
When penal­ties are attached to break­ing laws , Jamaicans do the right thing like peo­ple from oth­er places.
Jamaica has become a cir­cus in which politi­cians. judges. lawyers. pas­tors and police are on the take.
Our coun­try is on a col­li­sion course with des­tiny , the solu­tions are in the hands of the peo­ple as it was with the Colombian people.
The new­ly installed Prime Minister Andrew Holness reminds me of the vain Emperor in the Hans Christian Andersen’s clas­sic, the “Emperor’s new clothes”.

He believes he will pre­side over a growth agen­da in which crim­i­nals roam the street heav­i­ly armed with weapons capa­ble of snuff­ing out mul­ti­ple lives in a nano second.
He naive­ly envi­sions a pros­per­ous Jamaica in which a large sub-set are allowed to keep their weapon­ry in pover­ty, even as they some­how ignore lav­ish excess of oth­ers liv­ing next door.
In that soci­ety will also exist a Labor par­ty installed Terrence Williams and an agency which stands between law-enforcement .
Effectively ter­ror­iz­ing police offi­cers in the courts which are bought and paid for by the crim­i­nal under­world while pro­tect­ing the mur­der­ous blood-thirsty killers who kill when they feel like it.

Can crime be cor­ralled in Jamaica?
You bet your ass it can be.
But in the same way crim­i­nals burned and destroyed the ves­tiges of pow­er which stood between them and their goals, the good peo­ple remain­ing in Jamaica will have to decide for them­selves what their crit­i­cal mass is.
They will have to decide as the Colombian peo­ple did against the Medellin and Cali Cartels.
It will have to come from the peo­ple. The lead­ers are too taint­ed by cor­rup­tion and the trap­pings of pow­er to care about the pain the mur­ders and rapes cause.

It’s all up to them to decide when enough is enough !!!!