The Editor, Sir:

Sir, I think the public defender should shut up or give up his post. Why chastise the goodly pastor, Terrence Brown, for saying he would do the hangman's job? I've never heard the public defender defending victims of crime.

I didn't hear him utter a word when 11-year-old Aamir Scott was gruesomely killed in St Mary, or when other children have been reported missing and end up dead. I have never heard him speak in defence of children who have been made orphans after their parents' lives have been snuffed out by criminals.

Crying out for justice

Almost every night on television news citizens are seen crying out for justice of some sort, whether protesting against the police, criminals, politicians, utility companies or whatever. Where was his voice?

At least the goodly pastor has made it clear that he wants an end to crime. What really does the public defender want? Does he want the crime to continue?

Such a mess

No one in the position to help fight crime effectively is doing so satisfactorily - no politician, no member of the secuirty forces, no member of the public, no civil servant, no one getting paid from the Government's coffers.

And here we have someone strong enough to speak out against this monster, only to be attacked by by someone who should be helping to fight that monster. No wonder Jamaica is in such a mess.

I am, etc.,

Fed-up Jamaican

emcamp@hotmail.com

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