The Editor, Sir:

Please allow me to express my horror, my disgust and my anger at the recent murders of babies, nine-year-old children, old men, women and other people across the spectrum by marauding miscreants turning their guns on this defenceless society. The Prime Minister calls himself the chief servant, so the rest of those in Parlia-ment are also servants of the people. Yet, they cannot decide whether or not to hang these rabid dogs that are slaughtering us, because we do not have the security guards, electronic fences and the high walls to protect ourselves.

The laws of the country state that if a person is found guilty of murder, the murderer's life must be forfeited. There is no ambiguity or grey area as far as my limited knowledge goes. So our servants in the House of Parliament must come to us and ask what we want to do because they are supposed to work for us, not us for them. The irony is we are paying for their princely lifestyle, their high security; and when we can't protect ourselves, they have the audacity to talk about conscience vote when we are being slaughtered like wild animals in this killing field we call Jamaica.

so-called activists

Then there are these other so-called human rights activists; what idiocy are they bringing forward? Also, the so-called church fraternity and bleeding hearts who live in their own ivory towers well protected, let these murderers fire-bomb your house, wait for you to come out, then slaughter you and your family, then you come and tell me rubbish about not hanging these murderers.If the death penalty should be abolished for people like these, then we the people of Jamaica should march on Gordon House. It takes a diamond to cut another diamond and more times than not, it takes a fire to stop the raging flames of a destructive fire that is threatening to engulf everything in its path. The death penalty is a must to send a message to these marauding killers amongst us that we have had enough.

I am, etc.,

PEPON RUDDOCK

ruddpe@cwjamaica.com