THE EDITOR, Sir:WHEN some members of the public can openly demonstrate for gunmen, attend their funerals, and use the media to vilify and destroy the credibility of the security forces, then I have to conclude that Jamaica has become the most dangerous country on the planet Earth.
Every day, criminals stalk the land to murder, rob and rape innocent law-abiding citizens, while assorted anti-Government pundits remain strangely silent. But let the police try to apprehend a murderer, whole communities and their public relations officers in the media and criminal rights apologists join hands and keep the entire society in a perpetual state of nervous tension.
The latest imbroglio is the alleged shoot-out between the security forces and seven alleged gunmen in Braeton, St. Catherine. Suddenly, all the assorted criminal rights and their media counterparts are giving ring-side accounts and blaming the police when they were all comfortably snoozing in their beds, while the security forces put their lives on the line against great odds trying to make the society safe.
The thing I find most amazing is that we live in a society where approximately 1,000 people are murdered each year, road hogs murder and maim thousands on the roads each year, people are raped every day, parents refuse to send their children to school, babies are burned to death, people are molested by criminals every day. I could list thousands of other woes that Jamaicans suffer every day, and not a word, not a whimper by these assorted one-sided groups.
When they are prodded they say that it is the responsibility of the Government to cure all the ills in the nation, like the Government is the great magician and the rest of the population are a bunch of useless cripples.
I can no longer continue to live in a country where there is no respect for law and order. As we continue to destroy every semblance of civilisation and embrace anarchy. I have decided to take one of these proverbial flights to Miami.
I am, etc.,
JOHN A. WILLIAMS
P.O. Box 1173,
Kingston 8
