For the benefit of those who were in Mars over the past few weeks, during a television interview, Lewin said that within 15 minutes of telling the Minister of Security that Christopher Coke aka Dudus, would be extradited to the USA, the information was leaked to the wanted man! But the actions of the JLP government in regard to the request for Dudus' extradition would have told us from day one that the government was doing everything to protect this alleged criminal for the prime minister himself had said preventing the extradition was something he was staking his political reputation on. In fact he went as far as to say that if the Minister of Justice signed the extradition papers she should sign her resignation the same time! So wouldn't leaking the information before hand to Dudus that his extradition was requested be just a normal part of the procedure as far as they were concerned?
Of course, Golding did not admit that he was doing this because Dudus was the senior enforcer for the party who was needed for elections, but instead said he was doing it to protect the human rights of a Jamaican citizen. Ha! From I heard that I knew Jamaica had reached the pit for in the two plus years that Golding had been prime minister, never had his government done anything to protect the human rights of a citizen but rather abuses, especially at the hands of the police, had increased.
I think it was that one statement about protecting human rights that got me really mad and brought me to the realisation that politics in this country had reached rock bottom.
Oh yes, the PNP likes to gloat but have their actions been any different? Of course not for both our parities are indeed criminal organisations competing to see who is better at samfying the public. For don't forget that when George Flash and Tony Brown (the father of a senior PNP executive member) were wanted for the murder of permanent secretary Ted Ogilvie, the party which was then in power, arranged for them to be skirted away to Cuba where they spent 20 years, enough time for witnesses to disappear! And one could point to other acts where both parties have protected their own private criminals, (who is paying the multi million cost to defend the don from Golden Spring who was arrested for killing a man eating his dinner at home in Stony Hill, when the bus in which he was travelling from Peter Phillips' presidential launch, stopped in that town?) .
In Jamaica, politics and criminality are walking hand in hand to the mountain top and if civil society does not remain resolute that we will no longer put up with it, we will continue to be in the top three countries that enjoy the notoriety of being "murder capitals of the world"
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