THE EDITOR, Sir:
THE CALL by the JLP to have Scotland Yard investigate the CMU and Reneto Adams stinks of politicking. This is tit-for-tat. It is so because both parties are guilty of corrupting the police force when the Jamaican electorate gives them their turn to rule.
It is true that an independent body is needed to investigate police wrongdoing or neglect of their duties to serve and protect, but why Scotland Yard? Jamaicans, however, must learn to do these things by themselves with as little mistrust as possible.
Why, though, stop at the CMU and Adams, why not the entire police force and for that matter the two major political parties?
What bothers me, is that no one is calling for an investigation of the political parties' involvement in the blood-letting that has been going on in Jamaica for over thirty years. The human rights organisations in Jamaica who have been jumping all over the police force, and rightly so, should start jumping all over the political parties too. How on earth can anyone dismiss a Gleaner report a few weeks ago that the gang that shot up a section of Spanish Town killing children were affiliated to a political party? How the hell can a criminal gang be affiliated to a political party without the leaders of that party knowing?
The very fact that garrisoned communities exist and are led by so-called 'dons' says a lot about the state of our politics and who the political parties' affiliates are. They need to be investigated.
It is time for the politicians to come clean; they have blood dripping from their hands and it is ruining our beautiful country.
I am etc.,
BYRON TRUTH
Byront2003@yahoo.ca
Via Go-Jamaica
