Sunday, October 16, 2005

Tivoli Gardens & its "maternal" powers

You get intelligence that says the 3 wanted men and some guns are in the community, You go in with 600 police & soldiers, surround the community & could only find 30 cell phones? Then you hold a press conference and pronounce the operation a success? Please! Unless the success is concerning an unknown (to the public) objective. You know how much money was wasted to engineer this latest operation? Why do they pick on Tivoli so much? The PNP garrisons are more numerous & are more crime-ridden so why focus on Tivoli, which has seen NO murders since the beginning of the year. I think it’s blatant hypocrisy on the part of the security forces. As a matter of fact, I believe they are being used as pawns to draw attention away from certain governmental “activities” & their consequences. Bruce isn’t much better though as he had no reason to be there and he broke the curfew to boot. He should be arrested as he broke the law. I don’t see why they hesitating to do so. Just because he’s opposition leader doesn’t give him the right to break the law! The JDF said that Tivoli is the mother of all garrisons in Jamaica. That is true but the PNP has about 15 while the JLP only has about 3. So who’s the greater agent of garrison politics now? Is the JDF descending into cheap politicking also? That would add a scary new dimension to our country’s development. Let’s hope not. Right now, both the police & army seem to be pro-government. What will happen if the JLP wins the next election? Interesting possibilities. Just a thought.

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