When Even The Judiciary In Fast Becoming A National Security Liability.

Here is the dilem­ma for Jamaica, the peo­ple who inter­pret the Constitution have no imag­i­na­tion. Consequently, the 1962 Independence Constitution is inter­pret­ed as a sta­t­ic uncom­pro­mis­ing bul­wark rather than a liv­ing, breath­ing doc­u­ment rep­re­sent­ing our time.
Oh, and on that note, it is for those rea­sons that I con­tin­ue to believe and call for a new con­sti­tu­tion. One that is free from lan­guage that is remote­ly def­er­en­tial to our past colo­nial slavers.
The Government is to some degree con­strained as to )(a) what it can do legal­ly to bring the run­away mur­der rate down because of the court’s myopic inter­pre­ta­tion of the con­sti­tu­tion; (b) the law­less ele­ments and their apol­o­gists now believe that the law­less­ness in Jamaica is an enti­tle­ment and they will not allow that to be wrest­ed away from them. (Anything a any­thing”)
The sad real­i­ty is that there are not enough sane peo­ple in the nation of 2.8 mil­lion who real­ize that this is not a nor­mal prob­lem; there­fore, nor­mal enforce­ment pro­ce­dures will not suffice.
What pass­es for the judi­cia­ry is a crim­i­nal-friend­ly cabal of left­ist elit­ists that releas­es mur­der con­victs and oth­er vio­lent felons back onto the streets as soon as they are convicted.
Judi­cial bias must be exposed, and reforms to increase court­room hon­esty imple­ment­ed. To ensure a fair adju­di­ca­tion of each and every case, the judi­cia­ry has to be inde­pen­dent, impar­tial, and act with integri­ty. (Transparency. Org).
It is time for a new con­sti­tu­tion, new and effec­tive crime-sup­pres­sion laws. Jamaica’s judges are mak­ing a mock­ery of our sys­tem, cost­ing lives and expos­ing our coun­try to crim­i­nal overthrow.
It is time that they can no longer hide behind the cov­er of sen­tenc­ing guide­lines while scream­ing about the need for judi­cial inde­pen­dence. Independence comes with responsibilities.
One of the most press­ing dan­gers fac­ing our coun­try is that judges con­tin­ue to grant not just repeat mur­der accused bail (some hav­ing killed five sep­a­rate times after being giv­en bail and are yet to be tried on the first arrest); they release con­vict­ed mur­der­ers, tiny slaps on the wrist , then back onto the streets on the day they are con­vict­ed of murder.
What incen­tive does a con­vict­ed mur­der­er has for not going on a killing spree?

There is the feel­ing among some Jamaicans that our tiny coun­try should be a place where any­thing goes. They have no respect for the nation’s laws; the roads and high­ways are a case study in that lawlessness.
No one believes in join­ing a cue to be served; we all gath­er around shout­ing because the idea of an order­ly line is an alien con­cept to us.
We view obnox­ious coarse behav­ior as vir­tu­ous; def­er­en­tial, rev­er­en­tial & respect­ful behav­ior is scoffed at as weakness.
Badness is glo­ri­fied by what pass­es for media. For exam­ple, the radio, which once was a medi­um that attract­ed pro­fes­sion­als like Marie Garth, Don Toppin, Winson the Whip Williams, Allan Magnus, Tony Vertie, and oth­ers, is now pop­u­lat­ed with the likes of .….…Oh well, I won’t… you do the naming.
But there is sig­nif­i­cant data that proves that Jamaicans are not hea­thens who kill each oth­er at the drop of a hat. There are prob­a­bly twice as many Jamaicans liv­ing and thriv­ing in the dias­po­ra than Jamaicans liv­ing on the Island.
The com­mon thread that ties all Jamaicans over­seas togeth­er, allow­ing them to remain in their adopt­ed home­lands, is respect for the laws of those coun­tries. Those who have oth­er ideas.…… .…..receive a first-class one-way tick­et back.

This medi­um is loaded with infor­ma­tion going back over a decade, con­tribut­ing writ­ers and I have been warn­ing about what Jamaica would become if we failed to put guardrails in place to pro­tect inno­cent JAMAICANS from the mind­less socio­path­ic killers in our coun­try. Neither the PNP admin­is­tra­tions of the past nor the JLP took those warn­ings seriously.
Because, of course, those morons believed in their hearts that they knew bet­ter than the experts.…..actual crime fight­ers who did the hard work in the trench­es to keep the coun­try safe.
They ele­vat­ed antag­o­nists like Flo Oconnor, Carolyn Gomez, Mark Witter, Horace Levy, Terrence Williams, and oth­er dum­b­ass mouth­pieces who did not know their heads from their stu­pid ass­es. They demo­nized the valiant offi­cers who placed their bod­ies between the killers and ordi­nary society.
Finally, the street cops who knew the ropes knew how to deal with the threats pulled back. ( I warned about that too).
The idea of mod­ern­iza­tion became a ral­ly­ing cry. Police must now oper­ate as a cour­tesy corps, among some of the most blood-thirsty, mind­less killers, whose mantra is, ‘kill and col­lect, drink and for­get.’
Sure we rub­bished ZOSO’s and SOEs; we rub­bished the strate­gies employed because, as a for­mer street cop, I argued that as far as vio­lent crim­i­nals are con­cerned, the coun­try was actu­al­ly incen­tiviz­ing crim­i­nals. Added to the dilem­ma is the con­stant stream of depor­tees being dumped back onto the Island. Many of these peo­ple are sea­soned and hard­core crim­i­nals who spent decades hon­ing their craft against sophis­ti­cat­ed enforce­ment infra­struc­tures in devel­oped nations.
(We warned about that too, these pages are chock-full of those warn­ings), yet here we are. So while the peo­ple liv­ing in their gat­ed com­mu­ni­ties pat them­selves on the back believ­ing they are safe, may I remind them that the gang­sters have mon­ey too, they live right beside you in those gat­ed communities.
The sup­posed head of the Klansman gang, Andre “Blackman” Bryan, did not live in a Spanish Town hov­el; he lived uptown Saint Andrew. ( Money talks bull­shit walks). Uptown is now a haven for gang­sters and white-col­lar crim­i­nals alike.

WARNED ABOUT WHAT CONSTITUTES A FAILED STATE.

(1) Failed state, a state that is unable to per­form the two fun­da­men­tal func­tions of the sov­er­eign nation-state in the mod­ern world-sys­tem: it can­not project author­i­ty over its ter­ri­to­ry and peo­ples, and it can­not pro­tect its nation­al bound­aries. The gov­ern­ing capac­i­ty of a failed state is atten­u­at­ed. It can­not ful­fill the admin­is­tra­tive and orga­ni­za­tion­al tasks required to con­trol peo­ple and resources and pro­vide min­i­mal pub­lic ser­vices. Its cit­i­zens no longer believe that their gov­ern­ment is legit­i­mate, and the state becomes ille­git­i­mate in the inter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty’s eyes. A failed state is com­posed of fee­ble and flawed insti­tu­tions. Often, the exec­u­tive bare­ly func­tions, while the leg­is­la­ture, judi­cia­ry, bureau­cra­cy, and armed forces have lost their capac­i­ty and pro­fes­sion­al inde­pen­dence. Source- (Britannica).
(2) Nation-states fail because they are con­vulsed by inter­nal vio­lence and can no longer deliv­er pos­i­tive polit­i­cal goods to their inhab­i­tants. Governments lose legit­i­ma­cy, and the very nature of the par­tic­u­lar nation-state itself becomes ille­git­i­mate in the eyes and hearts of a grow­ing plu­ral­i­ty of its cit­i­zens. Source- (Brookings Institution).
(3) A failed state is a gov­ern­ment that has become inca­pable of pro­vid­ing a sov­er­eign nation’s basic func­tions and respon­si­bil­i­ties, such as mil­i­tary defense, law enforce­ment, jus­tice, edu­ca­tion, or eco­nom­ic sta­bility. Fail states’ com­mon char­ac­ter­is­tics include ongo­ing civ­il vio­lence, cor­rup­tion, crime, pover­ty, illit­er­a­cy, and crum­bling infra­struc­ture. Source- (Thoughtco​.com).
Typical fac­tors con­tribut­ing to a state’s fail­ure include insur­gency, high crime rates, inef­fec­tive and impen­e­tra­ble bureau­cra­cy, cor­rup­tion, judi­cial incompetence.

Some of the broad­er con­se­quences to the aver­age cit­i­zens in failed states are pret­ty steep; revo­ca­tion of visas, no grant­i­ng of new ones, the lim­it­ed abil­i­ty of cit­i­zens to trav­el to oth­er coun­tries because those coun­tries that [mat­ter] are unable to trust the gov­ern­ment bod­ies that they rely on to attest to the char­ac­ter of the cit­i­zens, brain drain, peo­ple try­ing to leave in droves, etc.
In sum­ma­ry titled “Bad Neighbors: Failed States and Their Consequences,” gsdrc​.org pro­claimed quote; ” When states fail, neigh­bor­ing states are also like­ly to expe­ri­ence high­er lev­els of polit­i­cal insta­bil­i­ty, unrest, civ­il war, and inter­state con­flict. State fail­ure is not con­ta­gious, but some of its most neg­a­tive con­se­quences dif­fuse to oth­er states. (gsdrc​.org)
For exam­ple, the inabil­i­ty of Haiti to form and main­tain a sta­ble and com­pe­tent gov­ern­ment has result­ed in a flood of Soviet-era weapons into the hands of Jamaican crim­i­nals through our porous borders.
That is not to say that all of the guns com­ing into our coun­try are being sourced through Haiti; much of it is still get­ting in from the United States.
Partly because (a) American author­i­ties have not attached the same vig­or and enthu­si­asm to pre­vent­ing its guns from get­ting out and into the hands of peo­ple who should not have them, as it does in try­ing to con­trol the drugs get­ting into the nos­trils and veins of its insa­tiable addicts. (b) due to the incom­pe­tence of the Islands cus­toms offi­cials who are more con­cerned with extort­ing mon­ey from peo­ple with goods to clear at the wharves than they are at pro­tect­ing our coun­try from con­tra­band com­ing in.
The peo­ple will­ing to pay can still bring in guns and oth­er con­tra­band because of cor­rupt cus­toms officials.

I had high hopes for Jamaica after the PNP was defeat­ed at the polls. I hoped against hope that the new admin­is­tra­tion would have had a greater under­stand­ing of what it takes to bring the vio­lent mur­der sta­tis­tics down.
Unfortunately, I was quick­ly dis­il­lu­sioned by the rhetoric of Andrew Holness. I real­ized ear­ly on that this was not going to be a change gov­ern­ment, just the lat­est iter­a­tion of the sta­tus quo.
And so, no.…… Jamaicans can­not sleep with their win­dows and doors open; the coun­try faces an exis­ten­tial cri­sis from the hun­dreds of gangs scat­tered through­out the coun­try. The type bot­tom feed­ers like Horace Levy renamed cor­ner crews.
No, ZOSOs and SOEs will not change the par­a­digm; those restric­tions are now time-worn. They will only serve to frus­trate and antag­o­nize an already edgy pop­u­la­tion that has already been asked to stay inside from COVID-19.
But by all means, if that is all that’s left, then it is what it is; this admin­is­tra­tion, too, is out of ideas.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.