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The underground narcotics industry and economy, which is what is all that is left to our largely unemployed and uneducated lacking other job skills, have to defend turf and the merchandise.
Therefore, "Cotton Comes to Harlem".
Pity Kenny's super-smart yard-fowl consultants are not that clever enough to collect tax on that.
St Lucia is full of salops. Children are not taught right from wrong, they fend for themselves. As a result they have no moral compass. Education is not encouraged like in European/indian families. Just drinking and revelry.
Lucians have an entitlement problem too. No concept of working and saving for the things they want. It's all about getting it quick, by hook or by crook.
The above mentioned are worthy overviews.
The final paragraph of the Article points to the most doable, measurable proactive assault on de problemo.
Here are some recommendations worth legislating-yesterday!
-Commission of ANY crime with a gun -a mandatory additional 5(misdemeanor) 10-20 (felony) years upon conviction of initial crime
-CONDUCT intermittent sweeps with armored personell carriers, light armored vehicles with ramming gear, rubber bullets, water cannon, flame /tear gas thrower, optical or laser guided super gatlings , smart robots.
-Conduct intermittent mass evacuation drills (national security drills) for rolling quadrants of neighborhoods at risk (based on crime stats)
During said drills search and confisticate warrants are issued and executed.
-Total body armor (with innovative vent cooling system) for each officer participating in said drills.
-ALL contraband/guns and persons associated with said capture are to be removed off island with optimal care and hospitality awaiting the processing of justice
Conviction of unlicensed gun holders-mandatory 5 years off island penal colony
Conviction as seller of guns 10 years m andatory off island penal colony.
ALL gun convictions above include confiscation and liquidation of all land homes cars stores etc. to meet the following tagged on fees
on a scale of $100,000 to $1000,000,
Estate of homicide victims are in automatic receivership with the state/ courts decide what share of these penalties victims receive. Victims also qualify to file civil suit for additional recovery pain suffering. Justice secures all assets in escrow till courts achieve final deliberations / judgements.
Note the mandatory penalties fees serve a viable safety valve that precludes any shanigans in normal court proceedings. Victims can have immediate access to some financial relief because the confiscation and liquidation of assets tied to gun/drug possession are dispensed with under separate swifter mandatory process
French Guiana, Brazil, Patagonia, abandoned Chilean mines, Venezuelan mountain redoubts- would consider a lease of their most remote jungle enclaves to build a spartan penal colony at cents per acre if not free.
AND THERE YOU HAVE IT
-TROPICAL SUPER MAX @ frugal cost with all of the "softening" capabilities of its ultra expensive U.S. counterpart.
O.K. Stan,
We all can agree that a serious problem of Gun-violence exists, and I read your article in search of a proposed solution - I have suggested a serious attempt at a Gun-buy-back program by the Police.
You suggest more punitive punishments for illegal gun possession, and I ask you how much more severe? then I take it to the limit - sentence the violator to Death (Penalty) - and I am thinking did the death penalty stop Murder?
GUN BUY-BACK is my suggestion - what's a Lucian life worth?? 1000, 2000, 5000, 10,000 dollars for turning in weapons and no questions asked.
Perhaps Francios has a better program, like killing truck-loads of young Lucians.
Some years ago while gleaning a National Geographic article , I came across the following facts on CHINA's penal system.
- It is designed to make your first incident of incarceration a most memorable event-So much so that you will do all you can NEVER to revisit
-The lone bullet used in executing a class 1 felon must be paid for by the family of the prisoner including burial rites.
Perhaps it's their no nonsense cultural approach that brought them from the abyss of the opium wars to World's Economic darling?
Saint Lucians do not value effort and hard work in improving themselves on a continuous basis. For 97% of the population, that is just unthinkable and unheard of.
You are finished with school or university? Good. Close all books. Well then, you are finished with learning. Now, it is time for the ra-ra talk shows, for the open universities of pathetic idiocy to do their work. Full of the heat of disgusting hapless ignorance, they bring no enlightenment.
It should be made MANDATORY for teachers to become RECERTIFIED EVERY TWO YEARS, in order not recite stale useless and unusable knowledge. In order to provide USEFUL AND RELEVANT LIFE OR JOB SKILLS.
Knowledge is NOT POWER, if it is useless and one cannot make a living out of it. Schools should stop their productions lines of walking encyclopedias heads filled with trivia, believed to be useful knowledge and job skills.
Teachers Training College and SALCC must robustly producing people who can produce the goods necessary to make a living with a national rather than an individual developmental purpose.
All this blasted romanticism with education for education sake, or just misguidedly telling students and their parents that they are literate, once they happen to attend a glorified primary school, which is titled a secondary school, is a WHOLE lot of NATIONAL FOOLISHNESS!
For years, our Ministers of MIS-Education REMAIN CARICATURES of real Education Ministers. One of the most revered, "Fairty Schools" is a case in point.
Placing yard-fowls as heads of our key educational institutions, CONTINUES TO PRODUCE IDIOTS and MORONS WHOSE SUBSEQUENT INFLUENCE ON OTHERS IN THEIR CHARGE is to produce products whose mis-education leave them ill-equipped and with FEW ALTERNATIVES BUT TO COMMIT CRIME FOR A LIVING.
Prisons, more armed police etc are useful for the recurrent waves.
Our wise asses may be quite busy treating the symptoms, BUT THEY LEAVE THE SPIGOTS WIDE OPEN, to produce new crops or waves of miscreants.
The real causes of the crimes do not even get a mention from the powers that be, or our the political directorate.
Is it interesting that when Labour were in opposition they had all the answers to our crime problem, now that they are in power they don't even seems to know which day of the week it is. La Corbs hapless and hopeless, Kenny G Anthony blowing hot air and singing da blues...Fracois head of the crew that says the buck stop with us and goes into our pockets......Minister of Justice thinks.....its only just us (his friends and family) that matter. Poor jab St.Lucie
7:59
Right on! Your voice is needed to galvanize the much needed renaissance. Well said and so relevant.
A tribute to the Punk era before Operation Punk Sweep is mobilized
London calling to the faraway towns
Now war is declared and battle come down
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls
London calling, now don't look to us
Phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust
London calling, see we ain't got no swing
'Cept for the reign of that truncheon thing
The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
Engines stop running but I have no fear
'Cause London is burning and I live by the river
London calling to the imitation zone
Forget it brother, you can go at it alone
London calling to the zombies of death
Quit holding out and draw another breath
London calling and I don't wanna shout
But while we were talking I saw you nodding out
London calling, see we ain't got no high
Except for that one with the yellowy eyes
The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Engines stop running, the wheat is growing thin
A nuclear error but I have no fear
'Cause London is drowning and I, I live by the river
The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Engines stop running, the wheat is growing thin
A nuclear error but I have no fear
'Cause London is drowning and I, I live by the river
Now get this, London calling, yes, I was there, too
And you know what they said? Well, some of it was true
London calling at the top of the dial
And after all this, won't you give me a smile?
London Calling
I never felt so much alike
oops 4 got 2 credit The Clash for London Calling
A Clash is inevitable -if not RSLPF then external force or even hired mercenary hired to protect resorts etc.
Do recall that foreign intervention in Grenada was emotionalized by the sight of besieged medical students.
Do believe that resorts with millions at stake have the right and ability to proactively or preemptively
protect /maintain the smooth operations of their resorts.
There will be a clash between de Punks and the Protectors of Properties
Our justice system is a total failure and is partly to blame for our crime situation.
Unfortunatly even with a lawyer as a PM he is unable to produce a reform. Thats a SHAME !!!
Voters expecting the party producing something positive and showing results.
@3:43 PM, Don't hold your breath. They say that if it's not in you, it doesn't come out.
What we have in Saint Lucia today, especially since so-called independence is the cumulative result of the decisions and non-decisions made by ALL its so-called leaders, supported by those voters who voted them into office -- sometimes for a mere $100-bill or a chicken leg.
Well Prime Minister, Security Minister, and all other ministers - what do you have to say to these comments? Surely it's time to save St Lucia. Or will you only be happy when there is mass carnage and the tourist dollar stops coming? What a legacy.
Is this what investors were told about at the recent trip by the PM to London?... Come to St Lucia and take your life in your hands??
Guns are not manufactured in St.Lucia; therefore, they are brought in by planes or sea vessels.
So somebody out there isn't protecting our ports of entry; plain and simple.
Isn't Phillip J. Pierre responsible for such matters?
4:49
A chicken leg? lol - I thought it was a Piton beer, a Tee-shirt or a Fet bon-tan. A chicken leg, you guys are too funny. LOL
Well Lucians, is this your idea of 'better days'!?!?!?
Part of our problem is there are no jobs and men idling and dont know better how to kill the time.
Now,since we have no army why not to make it mandatory for all men to serve the country for 1year just for food, bed,clothing.All this with a kind of discipline.
We have empty factory shells what could be used for this purpose.
St.Lucia could look very clean with a system like this/social projects could be done even the country have no money to do it.
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