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clevon_raphael@hotmail.com
I
have decided
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I have decided how to deal with criminals attacking my
family.
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Why is Donna Cox picking for a fight with the media?
Two
issues recently caught my attention: the Donna Cox outburst
and the call for citizens to be given the right to bear arms
for their and their relatives’ protection.
At the risk of being labelled with all kinds of negative tags
today, I want to announce to the criminal elements and by
extension the national community a position I have reluctantly
agreed to take from now on.
It is not an original idea but one that has been gaining increasing
but silent endorsement from a population caught up to our
necks in the wanton death and destruction being heaped upon
us by the lawless breed.
Running scared of the bandits as many of us are, my stand
was taken after the arguments put forward last week by one
of the country’s top talk show hosts, Anil Roberts.
Some readers may recall hearing Anil appealing in a very dispassion
way for us law-abiding citizens to be given the right to bear
protective arms.
He recalled in graphic manner some of the horror stories in
which innocent lives were snuffed out by these godless beasts
who are taking out their hapless victims as easy as buying
coconut water around the QPS.
Should a man stand helpless, as is the case in so many of
those brutal slayings, and watch his wife, daughter, son raped,
killed or otherwise ravished and do nothing?
Should he depend on the police to protect his household when
the crime detection record is disgracefully under 20 per cent?
Should a man who is honour-bound to defend his family, even
with his life, be reduced to a jelly fish as he sees these
sorry excuses for humans wiping out all that he is living
for in a couple murderous minutes?
If we cannot get that measure of protection that the State
is constitutionally bound to provide its citizens, especially
the defenceless that are in the vast majority, must we continue
to throw our hands up and leave it to the goodwill (?) of
the criminals to take pity on us when they corner us in our
homes or wherever?
The right of citizens to bear arms now seems a very attractive
proposition to people who are afraid to venture out at nights
either by themselves or with their families.
Our homes are no longer a guaranteed place of safety when
these “shotters” are ready to “out our light.”
Nowhere is a safe haven anymore.
So what are we to do?
Unfortunately our confidence in the police has taken a nose
dive as is generally accepted by everyone, including those
in charge of affording us a degree of peace and protection
as we go about our legitimate business.
I do not like to criticise the police who are facing a monumental
task in fighting the criminals and this frightening situation
is caused by the very small rogue element in the Police Service
which is in cahoots with the criminals.
Citizens are afraid to report crimes to the police, are afraid
to become state witnesses because they know what can be the
fatal results if they should unwittingly cross the path of
these rotten ones who swore to protect and serve us.
So what alternative do we have if the State cannot protect
us and we are being gunned down with increasing frequency
and in more gruesome circumstances?
So I’m in favour of the proposition that citizens be
given the right carry firearms for our protection.
But knowing darn well that and God’s face this country
would never see, I have decided in my own way how to deal
with anyone who should endanger the life of any member of
my family.
I am not saying how because I don’t want to be accused
of taking the law into my own hands or encouraging vigilante
justice.
I have already written on many occasions that I subscribe
to the Moses doctrine which calls for an eye for an eye and
a tooth for a tooth.
In years gone by I used to be mad when police killed bandits
but, God forgive me, I no longer have that view and it is
a straight case of if they don’t kill you…
I recall recoiling in horror some years ago when a sub-editor
at the Guardian told me he would rather take his chances before
a judge in the court rather than being six feet underground.
That to me makes some sense.
Some may say this could led to anarchy but aren’t we
already in an unofficial state of anarchy when innocent people’s
lives could be so cruelly cut down and nobody is being hanged
for such crimes?
Is that fair to us law-abiding citizens? Call me what you
want, but I have already made up my mind.
Now to the second issue: why would Donna Cox, the Minister
of State in the Culture Ministry, chose to pick a fight with
the media?
I cannot understand why she is so unhappy being referred to
as a junior minister when in reality that is the fact.
For years her predecessors were so referred to and no one
was unhappy.
Is it that other similarly-placed PNM MPs are also dissatisfied
with their positions? I doubt it. Is she unhappy to accept
Marlene McDonald as her senior?
All that flashing of her call card is so unbecoming of a minister,
junior or otherwise. And to know that was her first public
“speech” since her recent appointment.
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