WAS INDEPENDENCE WORTH IT? Part 3 :

Spurred on by what seem to be a new lev­el of deprav­i­ty in the crim­i­nal under­world , Prime Minister Bruce Golding sug­gest­ed that hang­ing be resumed in Jamaica. The Prime Minister was react­ing to the spate of decap­i­ta­tion that occurred with­in a short peri­od of time. At least two of the vic­tims seemed to have been just ordi­nary Jamaicans whose only trans­gres­sions were that they spoke to mem­bers of the media. The PM whilst mak­ing the sug­ges­tion allud­ed to the debate that was sure to fol­low, I took the lib­er­ty to sug­gest to him in these blogs that there would be howls of con­dem­na­tion from the reg­u­lar quar­ters, rather than a debate.

It is now clear to rea­son­able peo­ple, that irre­spec­tive of the crimes being com­mit­ted ‚there are cer­tain ele­ments in Jamaica that will not be com­fort­able with any form of pun­ish­ment for those crimes. I did use the word “pun­ish­ment” , crim­i­nals should be pun­ished . I am more than a lit­tle pissed at those who lib­er­al­ly argue that what­ev­er course of action soci­ety take regard­ing crim­i­nals, should sole­ly be refor­ma­tive and of reha­bil­i­ta­tion. There must be with­in those frame­works an ele­ment of pun­ish­ment. We should not be in the busi­ness of reward­ing crim­i­nals, reform is reward clothed in a fan­cy package.

The Prime Minister must now decide by his actions , crit­ics be dammed , whether his com­ments were just a knee jerk response to the inci­dents, or he is pre­pared to use his high office to ensure that Jamaica’s laws are upheld. any inac­tion on this sub­ject must now be seen as a con­tin­ued capit­u­la­tion to Carolyn Gomes and Amnesty International, an indi­vid­ual and a for­eign body ‚over the clear and unequiv­o­cal wish­es of the vast major­i­ty of Jamaica’s 2.8 mil­lion people.

The major­i­ty rules in a democ­ra­cy, we pur­port to have a democ­ra­cy , if that be the case the views of the major­i­ty should be respect­ed and adhered to, this is not about some­thing that is yet to leg­is­lat­ed. This is an issue of car­ry­ing out the dic­tates of set­tled law,not capit­u­lat­ing to minor­i­ty views or for­eign Agencies . Agencies that have absolute­ly no pow­er in dic­tat­ing how laws gets enforced with­in their own country.

Jamaica and the rest of the Caribbean Islands all, have been occu­pied , and raped by European pow­ers ‚with­in the Caribbean, our African peo­ple who forms the vast major­i­ty of the inhab­i­tants, have ben forced to speak English, French, Dutch,Spanish and even Portugee’s, none of our peo­ple were allowed to con­tin­ue with our moth­er tongues from Africa. Once the occu­piers were done with their pil­lag­ing and dom­i­na­tion they were all too hap­py to cut the apron strings set­ting us adrift ‚as was the case with Jamaica’s sup­posed Independence from England.

There are some in Jamaica that engage in revi­sion­ist his­to­ry, per­pet­u­at­ing the myth that Jamaica had achieved a real coup in gain­ing Independence from England. The truth is,Jamaica was going to be let go whether we want­ed to go or not . England was by then a shell of its for­mer Colonial glo­ry and was in no posi­tion to be patron to an incon­se­quen­tial Island that was not bring­ing noth­ing into the Royal coffers.

My point is, as a result of the fore­gone, Jamaica must embrace its own iden­ti­ty, forge ahead under a new char­ter which must include con­sti­tu­tion­al reform , we are either an inde­pen­dent nation or we are not .

There can be no pledge of alle­giance to our sov­er­eign lady the queen.

I call on the Prime Minister to enforce the laws and let the chips fall where they may , crit­ics be dammed. On this issue the major­i­ty is with you.