The More Things Change The More They Remain The Same:Or Do They Really Change?

The Jamaican Court of Appeal has a new President in the per­son of Justice Dennis Morrison QC.
Morrison was sworn in at Kings House yes­ter­day January 4^th.
Morrison comes from the Defense side of the Isle which seem to be the case every time a judge is cho­sen to hold high office in Jamaica.
Probably more sig­nif­i­cant is that Morrison lec­tured and tutored at the Normal Manley Law School and was President of the Jamaica Bar Association.
In this hum­ble blog I have con­sis­tent­ly point­ed out that though no sin­gle issue is respon­si­ble for the over­all crime sit­u­a­tion on the Island there is much to be said about the lax and lib­er­al stance of the Jamaican court sys­tem regard­ing vio­lent criminals.
There is hard­ly any place more lib­er­al than the Norman Manley Law School or the University Campus of the west Indies.
Juxtapose that with the fact that Morrison comes from the crim­i­nal defense side of the Isle, it offers key insights into where crim­i­nal appeals will be going in the near future.
The Island’s crim­i­nal defense lawyers and their clients has much to cel­e­brate in this appointment.
It can­not be over-empha­sized that if the rule of law is to be main­tained the Courts at every lev­el must uphold it’s end of the bar­gain, a task at which it has failed dismally.
Which has led this writer to con­clude that in all seri­ous­ness it can­not be that the courts wants crim­i­nals off the streets as many well mean­ing Jamaicans do and all should in light of the court’s actions over the decades.

Addressing the swear­ing in event the Island’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller said quote:
“A cohe­sive soci­ety is the fun­da­men­tal plat­form on which invest­ments are attract­ed and sus­tain­able eco­nom­ic growth is built. A cohe­sive soci­ety requires that our peo­ple believe in their hearts that the sys­tem pro­vides them with access to jus­tice when they require it,”
The speech-writer gets it but did Miller under­stand what she read?
Here’s the part which real­ly got me pissed, Simpson miller acknowl­edged the chal­lenges faced by those who work toward the deliv­ery of jus­tice, while mak­ing men­tion of the vol­ume of cas­es which gets to the courts on a dai­ly basis.
“With the awe­some vol­ume of their work, which forces the appel­late judge to work late into the night and invari­ably on week­ends, we can­not over-empha­size the grat­i­tude and appre­ci­a­tion we have for our nation’s judges,” .
I won­der how those cas­es end up in the courts?
No men­tion of the haz­ardous and crit­i­cal job the police does not a sin­gle men­tion of their sacrifice.
No police no damn case before the kan­ga­roo courts so the lib­er­al social­ists on the bench­es can turn them loose.

So I want to speak direct­ly to you serv­ing mem­bers of the police depart­ment who are run­ning behind this clown risk­ing your lives for her and her régime, here’s what it comes down to.
She does not care one shit about you even to men­tion the sac­ri­fice you make.
She does not care about your mur­dered colleagues.
On every occa­sion that offi­cers are mur­dered this clown is silent.
To be dissed even as you sac­ri­fice is hurt­ful, to be dissed by her sim­ply takes the cake.
You can be dissed by better.…..