Who Will Save Bruce From The Bullies?

Funny how the Prime Minister can declare that the guvament will not be bullied. Hilarious when you look at recent interviews with him wherein he threatened to cut jobs if the guvament paid workers don’t stop demanding their contractually agreed on pay increase. Hell how he denied teachers their back pay with the lament; “We don’t have the money!”.

Congratulations on being flexible enough to repeal some of the stupid tax measures recently introduced, we know it hard, we know you need as much money as possible to get on with the business of the country.

However I would like to ask the guvament this: We don’t have any money you say, but you can find the money for not one or two labor day projects but three, how come?

Also, do you not think it looks very suspicious  that these projects are in constituencies where the members of parliament are facing challenges to their citizenship, and by extension their right to sit in parliament, will probably face a buy-election (like the well purchased one Vaz won), and are all JLP?

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You don’t have the money to pay teachers, police or civil servants, but to help protect your slim majority in parliament, you will find it to fund your pork barreled endeavours.

You will not be bullied!

No one in your circle of friends could ever survive on the pittance you pay the police, yet you demand they do.

You will not be bullied!

In the event of police “industrial action”, you have the military on stand-by. I suppose your intent is to have somebody safeguarding law and order, but it sounds more of a veiled threat to the police.

You will not be bullied!

You raise taxes, freeze wages, threaten to cut jobs (which you are still going to do) in order to get the underpaid people  to back down, to “tek wha dem get”.

You will not be bullied!

Meanwhile, rumblings in the Ministry of Mining and Energy are that James the Foul-Mouthed is busy cleaning house, kicking people out of their jobs to fill them with party loyalists.

He will not be bullied!

Traitor-to-the-trade-unions has declared war on gangs, declaring that “Gangs must be crushed!”.

We would love it if he indeed was not bullied, and that he does what he sets out to do, but since the bullies in the JCF won’t get their pay then it is difficult to see how much if any lasting effect your plans will have on crime in this country.

The guvament is going to ask these very underpaid men and women to risk their lives, even more than they currently do to fix the crime in society.

If I was a member of the constabulary I would quit.

$40,000 a month is not enough to face violent gangs, not enough to help my family, now, or if I die in the line of duty. Not enough to ensure my dedication to the job.

In fact, it is just the right amount at which the criminal element  may successfully bribe me.

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The criminals “bully” the country, the people who should be “bullying” the criminals are being “bullied” by Bruce, which makes us all buggered.

Hijack

I am sure people are going to lose their jobs for letting the gunman get on the plane, even after he was detected while still inside the terminal.

Armed security personnel were not usually in the terminal. This is an internationally accepted practice.

If this is indeed not the result of security personnel failing to carry out their duties then no one should lose their job.

But measures will clearly now have to be tightened up, maybe have armed security in the terminals. That is fine, because one would say why this wasn’t the case already, but you know that in order to save face or to make it seem as if they were doing something about it people are going to be fired.

Either Bruce  going to demand resignations or the operators of the airport will go about ‘punishing’ the ‘incompetent’ people for being ‘lackadaisical’ in their duty.

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Great to see the situation resolved with no one dying, can’t be said for the other people murdered over the weekend, in the same parish.

But, Jamaica’s rep gets another knife wound to its belly, sigh.

I can imagine now how the American news media will start producing reports on what is wrong with Jamaica, regurgitating the drug dealers from the eighties, that mad man from the train, and all the violence and murders happening now, twisting the above mentioned knife some more.

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Please could someone tell Bruce to give the Information portfolio back to Babsy? On CNN this morning, Daryl Vaz displayed his basic school level of competency with the English language. No, there are youngsters more capable of conveying information than that man was capable of.

Embarrassing.

Babsy has proven to be much more capable of imparting information than this heavy-tongued oafish-sounding man.

 

Wild Wild West?

We have lost our damned minds!

Why is it considered a legitimate response to crime, to arm the populace?

Even men of the cloth, those bible thumping megalomaniacs, are now calling for the ‘good’ citizens to be allowed firearms of their own, to protect them, their property and loved ones.

This tells me a few things:

1. We have abandoned any faith, or belief, in this guvament’s ability, and perhaps their desire, to quell the obviously out of control crime that plagues and depresses the nation daily.
2. That we can’t trust in the law enforcement to do their job, that we should now take matters into our own hands. The seeming incompetence or is it complicity that the police show to law breakers (all them buses that drive like is dem one on de roads, without a care for passengers’ lives), has now, put in the minds of the very ones who preach about the blessedness of the peacemakers, the thought that it’s better we all get to shoot it out ourselves.
3. These men of the cloth obviously have no faith in what they preach. Why should the rest of us.
4. If we all get firearms, Madden’s and BriteLite a go mek a bag ah money! Simple. The number of accidental, “mi did tink a gunman” , “ I was cleaning the gun”, incidents will skyrocket, and every night will be like New Years, with the constant gunfire putting us to sleep.

Scared people react irrationally, they don’t think in times of stress, Instead they react by either running away, or lashing out wildly. Giving these people a gun is only going to give the already stretched beyond their means police much more paperwork, wasting the time they could be using to tackle crime.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….

Can’t believe I said that.

Ahem, what I meant was that It would distract them from what they SHOULD be doing.

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There has been some defending the meager 5% crime reduction target the authorities have set for themselves, why?

Granted any reduction in violent crime will be most welcomed by all Jamaicans, but they must see where 5% is a a very low expectation. Now I not saying that they must make fairy tale targets, not at all, fairy tales are for Audley and Ed to spew, it’s just that 5% will hardly put a dent in criminal endeavors, not to mention, that the levels of crime ebb and flow of its own accord  regularly, and that this 5% might just happen with no further effort from the police.

Five percent is just not reassuring at all.

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I wonder how many bad drivers would get shot if more of us had guns?

Bruce Sad

Bruce dissatisfied with his guvament’s handling of crime.

Ah nuh him one!

Admitting that they are ineffective is a nice thing to do. Acknowledging your ineptitude is a step forward that all Jamaicans should cheer.

However, I am quite sure that during the campaign for the election, the JLP, as part of their promises, repeatedly made the point that they had a great plan to tackle crime in this country.

Where is that plan?

Dem laas it?

Or dem dash it weh?

Why would they do that?

Was their don/community leader friends objecting to some of the more stronger recommendations?

Was it not good enough?

Or did it just not exist, like all the fairy tale pronouncements this guvament seems to spew regularly?

Last year they revealed “bold” new measures to tackle crime, however, most sensible people saw where it was lacking in the prevention of crime and served only to punish those caught.

The problem remains, dem haffi ketch dem first!

I see no plans geared towards that.

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So, while its refreshing to see  them admit their impotence, people are dying at more than four a day.

DO SOMETHING ALREADY!

Or call elections so we can kick your ass out!

Wait is the same set a eediat dem pon de other side too.

 

Shithouse!

Bwoy(s) A Yard!

Number 1.

What a way the man a yaad haffi backtrack on the increased interest rates?

Eediat!

If you say that raising the interest rate is necessary to keep the economy afloat or even to improve the economic outlook, that’s fine.

But if you are going to take it back as soon as people gripe about the increase then it says to me that your original decision was a hasty, un-researched one that you pulled out of your ass, and the reason given was a lie!

And I bet Audley nor the guvament is going to understand the logic.

Who cares?

It is quite obvious to those with sense that these people have no clue as to governance, good or bad, but damn they still campaigning and not as good as they were before the elections.

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The next Bwoy is the prime Bruce himself.

After coldly dismissing the PSC last year and pretty much accusing them of violating protocol, and being very adamant and forthright with the accusations and their firing, he now settles out of court  when they bring forward a lawsuit to restore their besmirched integrity.

Did the crow taste good Bruce?

 

Man, Sangster is a bitter bitch!

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Bwoy #3.

Trevor.

Trevor, Trevor, Trevor.

You just over deh a warm de seat, don’t it?

I am sure you feel good after your speech the other night but it was not much comfort to the residents of Gravel Heights and the many other good citizens who have also been forcibly removed from their homes.

Ok, the good people have been run out, means that is only the gunman dem lef’ in deh, so what dat means is:

a) The police and military can now surround the area.

b) Announce their presence and demand everybody still in the community to put down their guns and surrender by a certain time.

c) If not, the security forces move in and shoot the lot of them.

Not too hard, right?

Sure Gomes and her bredrin dem a go feel a way, but remember you work for the people of this country and not  the special interest groups. Those people who worked so hard to build their lives and now have to abandon it, I can pretty much guarantee that right now, they are wondering where is the justice for them, what about their human rights.

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The 4th Bwoy.

Mike!

How you feel now that it is revealed you threw a state funeral (while cheapening it at the same time) for a man now revealed to be a crook and no good?

Before you say, that at the time you didn’t know about his shady character, you should have asked the employees of the JUTC what sort of person he was.

Hell many were happy to see him murdered.

But you wouldn’t know this because you all, are oblivious as to what is going on at street level.

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Bwoy of the Fifth.

Pickersgill, thank you for doing your work as the opposition to press for investigations into the JUTC’s shady dealings, but mek me ask Yuh sumting, why de rass when you was in guvament you never was as vigilant on corruption?

Right now Yuh is a rass hypocrite.

How unnoo so blind when unnoo inna power but Yuh eye dem get perfect when Yuh inna opposition?

But I shouldn’t be surprised, both sides do dem job when dem in opposition but get blind as dem get inna guvament.

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Assorted bwoys.

Daryl. Constitutionally you are to give up the seat. But mi understand, Bruce never liked the Jamaican constitution one bit.

Abe. A by-election not go hurt anybody. In fact if you do win it (good possibility as the approval rating of the JLP stinks) then nobody can say shit like: “you used the courts to get seat”.

Clive. It looks like the small majority the JLP have in parliament is what is keeping you in your ministry, hush.

Mark Wignall. Perhaps you should let Clovis know how things really look bad for the guvament so he can start lampooning them too, Butch be damned!

Me (We). I thank God I do not own a gun (even though Wignall says we should all have one) because some people need a shot or two. But I am an eediat too as are most Jamaicans, who don’t scream loudly enough, who don’t protest enough, who cower in the safety of anonymity, while our country goes to shit. We say that is for the sake of our loved ones that we keep our heads down, that it’s for their benefit.

Sure, in the short term.

But if we continue to allow the criminals and the guvament (both major parties, NDM is only a gathering) to screw us over like this, then in the long run we a go get jook!

Raise my children or put a target on my back, tough decision.

These should not be the only choice we have!

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Give the Fox the keys to the Hen house?

So now Trevor and Wignall (of Butch’s Bitch) are on the dons in parliament wagon.

Their argument is that the dons are integral to a solution to the crime problem.

I agree.

Send these “dons” to prison, along with their cronies and toadies, and we’d be well on our way to solving the crime problem.

What sense does it make to have the criminals help determine what should be done with the criminals?

Have we given up on basic decency?

What sort of hopeless losers are we to cede so much power and influence to these criminals?

Criminals setting curfew in some areas, acting as de facto law and order in many communities in Jamaica, and rather than break their power structure down we should now give them the utmost legitimacy by allowing them to determine sections of the law?

We have become so scared and so desperate that we are willing to give the criminals more power over us so we don’t get shot, raped or robbed.

If this is where Jamaica is heading, if we really are going to turn over power to these john crows and if we really are going to let them influence the laws of this country, well stop waste time because they already are in control.

We want the people elected to high office to rid us of criminals, not legitimize them.

No more of this foolishness!

I’d rather be shot.

One Year Since Election

It’s only one year since the general election which the JLP won, NOT a year in guvament! They did not assume office a day after the election.

Anyhow, unlike many people in this country I did not fool my self into believing that the guvament would by now have worked miracles, that they would have fixed whatever needed fixing. No. I was more realistic. I knew that our problems would never have been solved in a year’s time, so I won’t harass them for that.

However, there are a couple things which i must bitch about:

During the campaign they claimed in their manifesto that they had great plans to tackle crime in our country.

This was clearly a lie.

One year later, crime and criminal violence has become much worse, and it was obvious they had nothing when  a couple months ago they presented a flacid set of measures that will do more to hurt the innocent than prevent crime. It took the cries of the people and those in the media to get them off their asses and finally attempt to think up something.

Clearly they had nothing planned as they stated in their manifesto, and based on what they came up with, no clue as to what to do about it.

Clearly Derrick Smith wasn’t up to the task. But I will let him slide a little due to his extended period of ill health.

Clearly Bruce and Trevor have no clue. People are still being murdered en mass with now concern for the guvament’s crime plan, simply because it does nothing to stop or even reduce the incidents of crime.

After making the guvament bigger, by adding more Ministries and Ministers than ever before, the expenditure in setting up offices and outfitting them with equipment is astronomical. And yet despite such out of control spending some of these offices still aren’t fully ready for business.

Curiously no one in the media has said anything about the money being spent, money spent more on the ministers than on getting the necessary work done. 

And by media I mean any one except Butch’s bitch!

The next thing is the politics-minded budget that most sensible people realized  would be insufficient in running the country, that was obviously made to placate its supporters, that is now proven to be severely short-sighted.

Short-sighted in that it didn’t take into account the rate of inflation.

Short-sighted in that it failed to take into account the ever increasing number of tropical storms and hurricanes that now affect the island annually and numerous times annually. Even the JPS has put recovery costs into the bills now being charged to customers. 

Short-sighted in that it seems they only budgeted for their vehicles and office furniture and home furnishings and not for the rest of us.

We are now in the middle of a very crowded tropical period with three named storms hovering nearby or on a path that would bring them uncomfortably close to the island. Any action, even their mere presence, will go along way to making people feel satisfied that something is going to be done to help with the disaster. That si all well and good, but when the guvament fails to backup  their promises with action then they wont have more than the current term in office.

Someone said the other day that if the PNP had fixed the country’s roads, properly, they would still be in guvament. Now I am not so sure, but it is true that Jamaicans love you if things “look” good, and not that they actually are.

Sadly things are not even looking good.

How can i tell?

The once jubilant supporters of the JLP are no longer as hyper in their support for the guvament, in fact, there are many who are more cautious in their praise, and more passive of criticism of the guvament.

I guess bad roads, high cost of food, high cost of gas high cost of electricity, HELL, the high cost of every damn thing can put a damper on one’s expectations.

The murder rate  doesn’t help either.

 

sigh…..

CrackBerry

Why are we as a country now so in fear of the cronies of a criminal? When did things get so bad that if we let the criminal loose on the road, we in danger, and if we lock his criminal ass up we in even more danger?

Why was an entire section of our country allowed to get to a point where criminals hold so much power that to even arrest them is courting disaster?

Really now? Why? The man has no difficulty shoving a phone up his ass, is this really someone we should be so afraid of? He is the butt of many an office joke now.

Sometimes the trouble of locking up these john crows is not worth it, they probably should have just shot him and dumped his backside somewhere else.

Give JFJ and FAST a reason to continue existing.