We are in a civil war
published: Monday | December 12, 2005

THE EDITOR, Sir:

IN AN article in the Sunday Gleaner December 4, entitled 'Organised crime and social disorder', Trevor Gordon-Somers alluded to the fact that gangs in Jamaica are using guerrilla tactics against the state. He continued to ask about the extent of structured organised crime networks in relation to common goals, agreed hierarchical arrangements of assets and command and controlled deployment of 'shottas' exercising illegitimate governance in various communities.

PREPAREDNESS TO FIGHT

I therefore ask about our preparedness to fight against terrorist insurgents who may graduate from mere power for areas or communities, drug or politically related, to a well organised coup, that will see Jamaicans running to our neighbouring countries.

Fidel Castro Ruz in 1954 said, "to have a successful revolution, one must have a strategy, a revolutionary climate and access to arms". How prepared are we to sacrifice our resources, both natural and human, for the greater good of the country we claim we love so much and when are we going to wake up from our delusions of grandeur to the realisation that we are in the middle of a civil war?

I am, etc.,

LEON St. CHARLES GRANT

leonst.charles@yahoo.com

P.O. Box 20,

Buff Bay, Portland

Via Go-Jamaica