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Dirty politics, emancipation and Independence
Published: Sunday | August 1, 2010
Munroe should go on to form a 'bipartisan' group of ex-party members as a civic action group to help push the cleaning (of party politics) from their inside knowledge of the dirt. - file
Today, August 1, is Emancipation Day, marking 176 years of freedom from slavery. In the same calendar week this year, Friday is Independence Day, marking 48 years of freedom from colonial oversight. We need emancipation from the corrupt and corrupting politics which has led the way in frustrating much of the vision of independence.
The nasty partisan handling of the motion for the extension of the state of emergency by the People's National Party (PNP) and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) as Opposition and Government in the Parliament and the ensuing tracing matches outside the Parliament have confirmed in the minds of many already disillusioned Jamaicans that the political parties alternating in government are at the heart of the problems afflicting the country.
The crime problem and extradition problem which led to the need for a state of emergency are to an extraordinary degree the special creations of the dirty politics of the country. Every crime report has said that. Our leading criminologist, Professor Anthony Harriott in a passage in the book he edited, Understanding Crime in Jamaica which I have quoted ad nauseam, has gone so far as to labelling the political parties "criminal organisations". "The seeds of the crime-politics phenomenon in Jamaica were planted and nurtured over decades of competitive party politics."
Using electoral fraud as his point of departure, Harriott put the matter on the table: "This raises the issue," he says, "of the political parties being criminal organi-sations.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/glean...us/focus2.html
Published: Sunday | August 1, 2010
Munroe should go on to form a 'bipartisan' group of ex-party members as a civic action group to help push the cleaning (of party politics) from their inside knowledge of the dirt. - file
Today, August 1, is Emancipation Day, marking 176 years of freedom from slavery. In the same calendar week this year, Friday is Independence Day, marking 48 years of freedom from colonial oversight. We need emancipation from the corrupt and corrupting politics which has led the way in frustrating much of the vision of independence.
The nasty partisan handling of the motion for the extension of the state of emergency by the People's National Party (PNP) and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) as Opposition and Government in the Parliament and the ensuing tracing matches outside the Parliament have confirmed in the minds of many already disillusioned Jamaicans that the political parties alternating in government are at the heart of the problems afflicting the country.
The crime problem and extradition problem which led to the need for a state of emergency are to an extraordinary degree the special creations of the dirty politics of the country. Every crime report has said that. Our leading criminologist, Professor Anthony Harriott in a passage in the book he edited, Understanding Crime in Jamaica which I have quoted ad nauseam, has gone so far as to labelling the political parties "criminal organisations". "The seeds of the crime-politics phenomenon in Jamaica were planted and nurtured over decades of competitive party politics."
Using electoral fraud as his point of departure, Harriott put the matter on the table: "This raises the issue," he says, "of the political parties being criminal organi-sations.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/glean...us/focus2.html
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