THE EDITOR, Sir:
IN HIS excellent piece on the word 'gay', Melville Cooke once again read my mind and confirmed why he is currently the best columnist around.
As soon as homosexuals truly start to believe what all rational human beings should (and have been urged by homosexuals to) believe which is that we are all God's children regardless of outer surface or inner desire, they will understand that they do not need to pervert the English Language in order to gain acceptance. In fact, as God's children, they already have all the acceptance they ought to need and only a lack of self esteem drives their need for acceptance of ignorant and intolerant Homo not-so-sapiens.
But, Melville's piece started me thinking about the many and variegated ways in which warped perspectives have blunted our progress. Homosexuals have forever destroyed our enjoyment of such classics as 'Hello Dolly' (Barbara Streisand, Walter Matthau and Louis Armstrong, in which a humble and sheltered store clerk expresses his joy at the prospect of a day in the Big City 'I feel so gay!').
WARPED PERSPECTIVE
Our Attorney-General's warped perspective causes him to publicly aver that an expression of regret is the same as an apology. Delroy Chuck's warped perspective has led him to suggest that the way to reduce crime is to put more guns in the hands of untrained civilians and encourage them to use those guns to shoot people. George 'Dubya' Bush's warped perspective has led him to try to convert an entire religion to his religion, and a nation to his system of government at the point of a gun and under a blanket of bombs. And, finally, the warped perspective of our tribalised society is about to permit 4000 unknown 'delegates', brainwashed for life to put party above nation, to elect the Prime Minister of Jamaica.
This blatant subversion of our Constitution, which makes specific provision for the appointment of a Prime Minister, is being perpetrated without a peep from our self-appointed guardians of freedom, including human rights lobby groups, the press and the PSOJ who have instead allowed themselves to buy the hype and to facilitate this perversion of due process with interviews, press conferences, panel discussions and breakfast meetings so that the 'candidates' can strut their stuff.
WAKE UP JAMAICA
People of Jamaica, please wake up and smell the burnt flesh of our nation being sacrificed on the altar of expediency whilst we provide the accompaniment of our veranda chatter just as Nero did with the fiddle when Rome was suffering a similar fate. We need to write to our MPs and tell them who to support for Prime Minister.
We need to inform them, in the clearest possible language, that failure to cast their constitutional vote for the person selected by the majority of their constituents will result in a further withholding of support when they themselves next go to the polls. We must reclaim our country from party hacks and professional ballot stuffers and insist on law and order, including the upholding of our Constitution.
I am, etc.,
GORDON ROBINSON
robinson@cwjamaica.com
69 Lady Musgrave Road
Kingston 10
Via Go-Jamaica
