THE EDITOR, Sir:ON FRIDAY, December 3, I had the unfortunate experience of driving up the main road in Greenwich Town and, as I passed Eighth Street I could see a large number of police cars and the road was marked off with a dead man lying on the road in clear view.
Then as I drove up the road at Fifth Street, I could see another set of police cars in much the same pattern and there also was a dead man lying in the middle of the road on his back.
Bad enough I thought all sorts of things and how this meant that the fabric of our society was steadily being destroyed by the callousness and wickedness of the gunmen who could so easily kill in broad daylight.
EVERYDAY EVENT
With trepidation, I continued to drive up the road and there on Third Street I saw a crowd of young men and as I slowed I looked gingerly only to see that they were playing football in the road.
The fact that two men were lying dead within their view was no reason to end a game of football. It had become such an everyday event that they could not care that a life had just ended; there was no feeling of sorrow in the death of their neighbours and there was no pause for reflection.
The social commentary and the implications of their actions are there for all to see and it means that there are frightening things to come.
When human life has no value, when death has no more sting, then good will have been vanquished and our national soul destroyed.
The demand is no longer for values and attitudes rather let us cry 'bring back the love'.
I am, etc.,
DR. J.V. FORD
Kingston 19
