Hypocrites Among Us

[Bricktop]

That it is still punishable by law to “cuss badwords” onstage during an adult event is nothing short of “f@ckery“. This “blood cl@@t” hypocrisy is allowed to go unchallenged by Jamaicans while we convince ourselves that we live in a democracy, and we have freedom of speech and other self expression.

The “system” justifies blatant censorship by arguing that it is to protect our children…who hear badwords at home, school, on the buses, on the road and every “blood cl@@t” place imaginable.

The last time I checked the dancehall is no place for minors, hence the criminalisation of badwords at these events is quite asinine. In the same way I can pay money at a massage parlor and get my “hood sucked” or pay to watch skanky ass russian girls dance naked at platinum, I would also like to reserve the right to hear every word written in a song including the “b@mbo cl@@ts“…thank you.

With ticket prices running into the thousands and the lack of talent among our current crop of DJs every, “raas“, “blood and b@mbo cl@@t“, becomes very important in ensuring value for money. That I am to be deprived by the “blood cl@@t” hypocrites who are going to make noise over a few well placed badwords, while the children they claim to be protecting are being “f@cked” and worse in places of “safety” is quite ironic.

This censorship is not about the effects of badwords on children. We see them all over the streets of Kingston neglected, abused and unwanted. If there well being was important, why then wasn’t ‘Elephant Man’ prosecuted for having children under 10 years of age as a part of his act? This is not about the society either, our murder rate is approximately 3-4 persons per day, yet murderers are not hunted down and prosecuted as ardently as foul mouthed DJs.

So what is this “f@ckery” really about?

Two “*f@ckng” syllables…control…con…”f@cking“…trol! It is an action outside of what is deemed acceptable, it is a challenge to the status quo that dictates that they control our voices and our ideas. They need to maintain control over the masses for the current levels of corruption to go unchecked, for the plight of the young and elderly to remain unseen, and for the rape and abuse of children in government facilities to go unnoticed.

Control our voice…they control our expressions! Control our expressions…they control our minds! And to that I say…not a “BLOOD CL@@T“.

It come een like dah bredda direct this rant to RBSC and it's members

[Exile]

What is the source of the article Bricktop?

[Bricktop]

http://www.lifeinjamaica.net/categor...fe-in-jamaica/

[Exile]

Thanks.

[Exile]

Interesting site...

[Exile]

Burning Candles for the Dead

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May 8, 2007 | Author: xhanubis | Filed under: General, Jamaican Politics |
A few weeks back I was forunate or unfortunate enough to be passing through U.W.I in Time to witness the Guild of Students candlelight vigil, a gesture in rememberance and solidarity with the victims of the Virginia Tech incident.
I laud the sense of community that drives the students to reach out to their fellow students in time of a great tragedy, but I couldn’t help thinking that there were no candlelight service for the 365 individuals killed January to March of 2007 on their doorsteps with not even a lighter flashing in remembrance.
Now don’t get me wrong I am as appalled and horrified by the Virginia Tech massacre as the next person, but isn’t it a little far removed from the roughly 5 persons who are killed in our own country daily?

Have we become so immune to the violence that we commit against each other, that it no longer elicits a response? Or is it that we just don’t care?

Is the fact that the majority of murders in Jamaica, occur outside our circle of friends and or our socio-economic group cancelled any feelings of kinship we might have had with these victims. While in the case of the Virginia Tech and U.W.I shared status as students resonates and form a bond where previously none existed thus creating a sense of oneness.
It is always a tragedy when such horrific acts takes place, but what is more tragic is when the same thing is happening in our own country and it does not move us to act. So 32 people did not get shot within a few minutes in Jamaica but 148 murders in January, 95 in February and 122 in March is a real grisly picture to paint, and no candles have been lit…by anyone!
Incidentally if you cast your mind back some months to the murder of a business man whose last name happened to be ”Azan”, the PSOJ was up in arms. Businesses were closed in condemnation of the murder in a move that was never before executed or duplicated since. Not even the recent double murder of six-year-old Tajax and his 15-year-old sister Tavia in Portmore elicit more than the token “We are outraged” statement from the PSOJ.
What seems to be the trend is for us to remain unmoved unless the people lying in the blood are in some way related or identifiable with us. This insularity among our population supports murder and the senseless taking of life as long as the life taken is not from among our ranks.
Our sense of justice is only ignited when we feel threathened, when we feel that the life that was taken could have been ours or one of our own.
SUGGESTION
(This is definitely numbered among the Crazy)
1. We need equal opportunity murder in Jamaica. Where every Jamaican has an equal chance of stopping the next bullet. Only then will the population act together to denounce the killings that we have become blinded to.
We need the deaths of, 1 policeman, 1 Azan, 1 U.W.I student, 1 Pastor, 1 Diplomat, 1 Minisiter of Government, 1 Nurse one representative from every class and segment, until we have blood flowing from every quarter of the society…Only then will we be motivated to voice our outraged for the loss of every life…Only then will we stop turning a blind eye…Only then will we “light candles for the dead” and rid our society of the scourge that is stalking us.
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[Mosiah]

Funny stuff.

I must tell you though, I am no prude when it comes to bad words. But yesterday, while at Jarrett Park for a high school football festival, I was treated to the most voluminous barrage of badwud, sexual references and just plain nastiness that one could ever imagine. I mean, I expect most of Jamaicans would have experienced something like this at a football match or in a bar or in forum post between Sickko and Willi, but what I witnessed yesterday would have made the Marquis de Sade cringe! No, it was not directed at me, but it didn't matter. And what made it worse, the main offender was matched by a "young lady" called Trudy, who knew no bounds herself. Decked out with fancy coloured finger nails, long enough to render housework or even good hygeine a near impossibility, and a set of awnings above her eyes, I wondered what she talked about at the dinner table with her children. Speaking of children, there were so many of them around us at the time of this barrage, some looking on attentively, while others tried to bury their heads into the other's laps, as they sat with their parents, embarrassed.

Now, this is where they need to apply the badwud law, or better yet, an indecency law. I would be all for that, because I know, after that onslaught yesterday, I'm going straight to hell the way I was covered with filth.

[Bricktop]

And this is where the authorities should focus their energies. The dancehall is an adult environment, a football match is not. I am all for removing those spectators from the stands and fining them heavily.