The Editor, Sir:

Everyone seems to be picking on Ms. Betty Ann Blaine for suggesting that people should protest by not turning out to the polls. The truth is that there is a wide cross-section of the society that have been practising this misguided, recklessand selfish idea for decades, however misguided and selfish it is.

I have been appalled by the number of well-thinking, highly educated and Christian individuals who deliberately do not vote, but also complain about the number of ruinous idiots, vagabonds, thugs and morons that find themselves into public and representational offices.

Many non-voters become scared when it is explained that one day it is possible for a Prime Minister and Members of Parliament to be elected from a group of persons who have graduated from St. Catherine Adult Correctional Centre or the Tower Street Correctional facility with honours in murder, extortion, drug trafficking, degree manufacturing, rape and every known deviant behaviour represented.

This scenario is quite possible with the power of money, guns and idiocy. All decent law-abiding Jamaicans must immediately use their brains and not their bellies, pockets and SUVs to think, then vote for a better Jamaica. We should have our demo-cracy to work for us and not allow our beautiful country to be captured by criminals and scoundrels.

I am, etc.,

MICHAEL SPENCE

micspen2@hotmail.com

Liguanea, Kingston 6

Via Go-Jamaica