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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SPAN class=TopStory>If they kill the cops in the morning...</SPAN>
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007
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<P class=StoryText align=justify>It would seem that we have become so inured to the daily murder toll that the killing of five policemen in 36 days, or one cop a week so far, has hardly brought a tear or ruffled a feather.<P class=StoryText align=justify>But as a nation, we had better awaken from our slumber. If policemen, who are expected to be armed and trained in the art of combat, stir no fear in our criminal gunmen, then it must truly be asked of whom will they be afraid?<P class=StoryText align=justify>Our law officers represent the final barrier between innocent law-abiding citizens and the lawless renegades who roam our streets so freely. While they roam and rampage, how can we go to bed with any sense of calm and security?<P class=StoryText align=justify>Until it is proven that policemen are killed for untoward activities, we must assume that they are killed because we have employed them and set them to watch over us. This is a job that is becoming more deadly every day. And it requires the backing and support of the entire family of Jamaicans.<P class=StoryText align=justify>We dare not leave our men and women alone on the front line of crime-fighting. It is clear that as a nation we have to do more to shore up our police force, especially at this time when their morale is bound to be low.<P class=StoryText align=justify>For that reason, we had expected that our national organisations would have jumped into action, would have been screaming bloody hell for action to end this attack on our state.<P class=StoryText align=justify>We had expected that our Government would have been mobilising our people to make a stand against these heartless villains, that our churches would have been doing more than praying, that our political parties would have been doing more than waiting for elections.<P class=StoryText align=justify>No one can disagree with the sentiment expressed by National Security Minister Dr Peter Phillips on Sunday that the murder of the five cops is "untenable in any country where decent, law-abiding citizens make up the majority of the population".
The country must stand with our police force. The murder of members of our security forces is too painful a sacrfice for their families to bear alone.<P class=StoryText align=justify>This is a time for action. Not a time for sitting on the fence, playing politics, or for hoping that it will all go away. Because it will not.
If they come for the cops in the morning, they will come for the rest of us in the evening.<P class=StoryText align=justify>
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007
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<P class=StoryText align=justify>It would seem that we have become so inured to the daily murder toll that the killing of five policemen in 36 days, or one cop a week so far, has hardly brought a tear or ruffled a feather.<P class=StoryText align=justify>But as a nation, we had better awaken from our slumber. If policemen, who are expected to be armed and trained in the art of combat, stir no fear in our criminal gunmen, then it must truly be asked of whom will they be afraid?<P class=StoryText align=justify>Our law officers represent the final barrier between innocent law-abiding citizens and the lawless renegades who roam our streets so freely. While they roam and rampage, how can we go to bed with any sense of calm and security?<P class=StoryText align=justify>Until it is proven that policemen are killed for untoward activities, we must assume that they are killed because we have employed them and set them to watch over us. This is a job that is becoming more deadly every day. And it requires the backing and support of the entire family of Jamaicans.<P class=StoryText align=justify>We dare not leave our men and women alone on the front line of crime-fighting. It is clear that as a nation we have to do more to shore up our police force, especially at this time when their morale is bound to be low.<P class=StoryText align=justify>For that reason, we had expected that our national organisations would have jumped into action, would have been screaming bloody hell for action to end this attack on our state.<P class=StoryText align=justify>We had expected that our Government would have been mobilising our people to make a stand against these heartless villains, that our churches would have been doing more than praying, that our political parties would have been doing more than waiting for elections.<P class=StoryText align=justify>No one can disagree with the sentiment expressed by National Security Minister Dr Peter Phillips on Sunday that the murder of the five cops is "untenable in any country where decent, law-abiding citizens make up the majority of the population".
The country must stand with our police force. The murder of members of our security forces is too painful a sacrfice for their families to bear alone.<P class=StoryText align=justify>This is a time for action. Not a time for sitting on the fence, playing politics, or for hoping that it will all go away. Because it will not.
If they come for the cops in the morning, they will come for the rest of us in the evening.<P class=StoryText align=justify>
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