I am happy to see that PrimeMinister Andrew Holness has arrived at the frustration level that the Jamaican people have been at for over four decades on crime. It has been a long slow climb for Holness, but he began seeing the light after the Haitian President was assassinated in his own home. Influential people in Jamaica have been insulated from the rampant violence that plagues other Jamaicans. As such, they have lofty and even Utopian ideas about the laws passed in Jamaica and the penalties meted out to dangerous and violent offenders.
The consequences to Jamaicans who want peace is that the poor are victims of violence while the privileged are passing observers to the carnage.
The result on the International stage is that Jamaica is the most violent country in the Caribbean and the entire Latin-American region, surpassing dangerous countries like Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, and others.
There is serious opposition to meaningful laws that would help to cauterize the violence; essentially, violence is a way of life in Jamaica from which many sectors make money, or as we say in Jamaican vernacular, ‘eat a food”.
Now I do understand that the Kumreds will be pissed at this article. The Laborites hate me when I speak out against their party. Frankly, anyone who knows me knows that I do not give a shit. And, oh, by the way, if my language offends you, this is not for you take your fake ass somewhere where they care because I don’t give two shits.
Some vocal groups include the trial lawyers who depend on criminals to eat; (the country can go to hell). Others include the parasites human rights lobby that has taken up residence in Jamaica like flies take to shit.
Of all the groups pushing against reform on the tiny Island nation, none is more offensive than the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP), on whose 221⁄2 year unbroken reign the nation denigrated from a prospering and growing nation to a nation whose people are shunned, reviled, and deemed persona non grata in other countries including our Caribbean neighbors.
This political party has done so much harm to the country that it is incomprehensible that the electorate does not force it to dissolve and disband.
I listened to one of the local radio stations on Friday morning at the prompting of a friend; on the program was the PNP’s so-called shadow cabinet member on Justice, Donna Scott-Mottley. To be honest, I did not want to waste my time listening to anything anyone from the PNP had to say; I should have followed my gut.
The sad reality is that the PNP has nothing to offer Jamaica outside more of the same, which is more failure, poverty, hyperbole, and nonsensical gibberish wrapped and packaged in flowery bullshit.
It was more of the same, politics, politics, more craven hunger for power and no solution. The People’s National Party has not reformed. Therefore, it has nothing to offer Jamaica; it is still the same old Manley party of failure that it offered Jamaica in the 70s and the unfortunate 221/2‑year period of disaster that has stunted Jamaica’s growth and development to this day.
The PNP is a party that cares nothing about crime and violence; what matters to them is that the whole thing is burned to the ground so they may govern over the ashes. It is the same take no prisoners party influenced by Cuban communism that cloaks itself in populism ‑dangerous populism that the poor believe is in their interest. That has been how left-wing populist parties throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, and Africa manage to corral the votes of the lumpen and keep them in poverty. At the same time, they line their pockets at the poor’s expense.
Both political parties are hardly worth shit, but on the seminal issue of crime, the PNP must cease and desist from playing politics with people’s lives and support the Government’s push to bring serious pain to the murderers?
When asked whether the view that criminal rights take precedent over the rights of crime victims, Donna Scott-Mottley stammered her way through a long litany of nonsensical arguments, including the point that Jamaica has been plagued with violence for over forty years.
Criticizing legislation that would make it a mandatory 15 years for an offender caught with a gun Donna Scott-Mottley, the mouthpiece for the criminal-coddling PNP, argued that it is grossly unfair because a person can borrow a car from a friend and had no idea that a gun was in the borrowed car.
Arguably, this reincarnation of Albert Einstein has no idea that those issues are sorted out in a trial in a court of law…
But what the Jamaican people [must] consider is that like so many before her in both political parties, this grifter, Donna Scott-Mottley is a trial lawyer who earns a living from criminals having their way. These are the conflicts of interest that are allowed to flourish in Jamaica. Grifters like Donna Scott-Mottley do not give a shit about dead Jamaicans. What they care about are the illicit dollars that flow into their bank accounts from the killers who employ them to get them out of jail. These grifters have zero care for where those monies come from.
But the People’s National Party never cared about the safety of the Jamaican people; the party has always been about gaining and holding onto state power. The party always tried to curry favor with the masses, positioning itself as the party of the poor. Its policies keep people poor; that’s by design so that it may manipulate them. But it is the poor who are getting killed, day in and day out.
The PNP is selling more of the bullshit it has been selling for decades, nothing new but the same old snake oil.
Fortunately, the Jamaican people saw through the bullshit and relegated them to the outside, where the small inconsequential group, like little mongrels, bark at passing cars. That is where they should remain.
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.
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