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HOW JAMAICANS BECAME DIVIDED?
population is like the murder capital of the world as Jamaicans die daily at the hands of fellow Jamaican murderers. The old playground has become a battle field where kids that grew up together have now turned hostile against each other. The childhood guns made and carved out of wood has now been replaced by the real steel and it is no longer a game of pretend and make believe it is now the REAL DEAL and it shows daily, for every evening as the Jamaica news is being read you can guarantee that a murder will be reported. In this article I want us to identify the problems for only then can we properly seek to address them. So the scenario of a person being shot and killed in Jamaica could be seen as a problem yet a careful examiner would see it not as the problem but only a symptom of the problem, for to get to the problem one would need to find out how did that murderer get the gun, and then when the source is discovered one would then need to find out how did that gun come into the country, what was its original country of base, who sent it to Jamaica, who cleared it into the island for everything here must’ve preceded it ending up into the hands of that killer. Now that you are following me carefully you will begin to see that the DUDUS COKE case here should not be seen in the light that the media around the world would portray it. For in a nutshell it is reported that he is to blame for the loss of life and all the discomfort that Jamaicans are undergoing nationally and internationally but just look a little closer and then you will see that DUDUS should not be seen as the PROBLEM but instead he could be looked upon only as a symptom of the problem. I trust that my fellow Jamaicans regardless of loyalty to political party (JLP or PNP) regardless of religious beliefs, regardless of being on the island or overseas I would like all of you regardless of what you once thought, to just look at where this GUN thing, that is killing off our
well as I can debate on the high cost of living on an island with so much poverty but instead I choose to highlight the murders committed on the Island simply because it is Jamaica’s No1 problem. Now in seeking answers as to, Why did it come to this? We could go as far back as slavery and debate on the “divide and rule syndrome” imposed on us by our slave masters but why should we always blame everything on things that happened over a century ago when we should now be taking responsibility for our own actions. So let’s start by looking at Jamaica’s political history and there we will see its two major parties founded by two cousins (Alexander Bustamante JLP, Norman Manley PNP) you will know then that the very diverse political opinions of these two cousins also led to the island’s political divide as far back as in the late 1930’s. One would never understand the gun culture on the island unless they understand its political association. Jamaica’s biggest divide has always been the people’s political opinions, it divides Parties, it divides Communities, it divides friends and until this day it continues to divide even Families. In certain parts of the island one cannot enter certain political persuaded territories unless they share the same persuasion and that has been so for at least three decades. Communities are divided by political colours Green or Red, the V sign or the Fist, while voters know the importance of the vote, putting the X on that paper beside the Head or beside the Bell often times means so much to their future. The influx of guns (which was initially politically motivated) stretches way back to the neighbouring island of Cuba as well as to the not so innocent shores of the United States of America.
close for comfort. So the US observations of Jamaica possibly going in the direction of a Communist government was seen as a threat and thus international restrictions were put on Jamaica as the US tried to squeeze the Jamaican government to break that close friendship between Manley and Castro. A part of the US squeeze on the Jamaica government was to equip the then JLP opposition leader, Edward Seaga, with enough guns and ammunition to fight political warfare in an attempt to dethrone Michael Manley the then PNP Prime Minister. Yes you are correct! The guns were distributed by politicians to community DONS with intention to bring fear and to take lives but the sad thing is that the politicians ultimate goal was to gain votes for his party. To date thousands of Jamaican lives have been lost due to politics and we know that the nation stood in shock in the 80’s election when over 800 Jamaicans lost their lives and only because the guns were put into the perpetrators hands by foreign influence. Jamaicans! it’s time to wake up and see that the “DIVIDE AND RULE SYNDROME” has been implied upon us far too often and until Jamaica become united enough to understand that we don’t need to Hate each other because we disagree upon politics then we will never really begin to strive as a people or as a nation. Where responsibility, is concerned then let’s give blame where it is due and by now you should know that it doesn’t begin with Dudus, this problem started before he was born and let’s remember that he was only about age 10 when 800 plus Jamaicans were killed in the 1980’s election. Let us not be fooled by those who would like to use him as a scapegoat to say he is the problem because, you will quickly learn that if he is apprehended today then
2 the problem will still exist tomorrow. Personally I love America because it is a Democratic country but it is amazing to see the level of hypocrisy displayed by its government towards my tiny island Jamaica. Look here, we all know that the infamous shower posse was born, bred and fed out of politics and I ask the question as a citizen of Jamaica. Why is it alright for you to issue guns on our island so that we can kill each other while you stand by and watch and only when these guns are used (by the posse you formed) on your soil to kill individuals there that you begin to pay attention and want to take down such a posse. Oh how I wish that you had cared for the people of Jamaica in the same way you care about the people of your own land then today may be thousands of Jamaicans that are now dead, fallen victims to these guns would be alive today. The uproar in Jamaica has left scores of people dead and left thousands in mourning but at the end of the day until the government address the root of the problem instead of trying to deal with its symptoms never will we get closer to the a solution. This article is not written to cause offence it is only written to enlighten my Jamaican brothers and sisters, for a great work as gone into keeping us ignorant. In closing we have heard on international TV news how Dudus is like the most wanted drug dealer in the world and yet cocaine is not grown in Jamaica, neither are guns maufactured there and it is believed that he never personally visited the States so something don’t add up here either it is a lie told on him being so powerful or if it is true then he must’ve been given his power by foreign source YOU decide. FOOD FOR THOUGHT: DONS ARE ONLY NEEDED WHERE GOVERNMENT FAIL, SO IF GOVERNMENT WOULD CLEAN UP ITSELF THEN THE STREETS AND THE GARRISONS WOULD AU TO M AT I C A L LY FALL INTO LINE AND THE PEOPLE WOULD NEED TO LOOK TO NO ONE ELSE BUT THE GOVERNMENT.
For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. . Romans 8:2