Comments on: Lessons from a Hijacker and a Blockmaker http://www.abengnews.com/2009/04/26/lessons-from-a-hijacker-and-a-blockmaker/ Caribbean features, views and analysis Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:59:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Oliver Hunter http://www.abengnews.com/2009/04/26/lessons-from-a-hijacker-and-a-blockmaker/comment-page-1/#comment-152 Oliver Hunter Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:58:35 +0000 http://www.abengnews.com/?p=1756#comment-152 It is a striking contrast. This continues to happen because basic human rights in Jamaica is seen not as automatically wedded to every human being, but as some foreign idea with very selective relevance to us. The political leaders have never embraced it. The intelligentsia has mostly looked the other way. The church only wants the right to force their beliefs on everyone else. The Judiciary on this matter has been like an impotent man at an orgy. The general populace has never made it an issue. All this of course leaves the security forces the luxury of abusing at will (the only proviso being that the victim be from a poor background and black). It is a sad scenario. And the only thing that changes is the names of the victims. It is a striking contrast. This continues to happen because basic human rights in Jamaica is seen not as automatically wedded to every human being, but as some foreign idea with very selective relevance to us. The political leaders have never embraced it.
The intelligentsia has mostly looked the other way.

The church only wants the right to force their beliefs on everyone else. The Judiciary on this matter has been like an impotent man at an orgy. The general populace has never made it an issue. All this of course leaves the security forces the luxury of abusing at will (the only proviso being that the victim be from a poor background and black).

It is a sad scenario. And the only thing that changes is the names of the victims.

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