Warfare On The Streets Of Jamaica

The proud African state of Jamaica has joined Mexico and Columbia as states totally destabilized by the drug policy of the United States. The policy of extraditing alleged drug traffickers to the United States for kangaroo courts has ignited a backlash.

It is no coincidence that violence, kidnapping, and assaults on police are prevalent in countries that extradite their "citizens" to the US for trial. Accused criminals like Pablo Escobar and now Christopher Coke would rather die in their own country fighting than submit to the white man's justice here.

The extradition policy is a policy of rendition, cloaked in the legal system. The US merely charges a foreign citizen with a crime, the more outrageous the better. The foreign government, without charging the individual with a crime, destroys half the country and kills countless civilians to deliver the citizen to a foreign land. A land the accused may have never visited.

In this case 30 people have died as a result of this policy. The civilians died for the defense of their sovereignty. The Police died as slaves to another country.

Does not every citizen have a right to be accused and tried in the nation where he was born, by a jury of his true peers, and by a government that benefited from his/her taxes? Anyone can understand extraditing individuals who flee to other countries to avoid capture. However, bringing drug dealers here who have never been here is another.

Strange that only Black and Brown people are extradited. Roman Polanski is still vacationing in France after raping a little girl. The French protect him as a citizen, even though he is from here and committed the crime here. Certain individuals in the drug business are labeled "kingpins" and "cartel chiefs" because they made money in the drug business. These individuals are always Black or Brown. Although the distribution of drugs has always been controlled by the government and the bankers, none are ever convicted as kingpins. Frank Lucas, Freeway Ricky Ross, Christopher Coke, and Pablo Escobar did not own any ships or planes with runways in the US. They did not own any banks. They did not run a single police department. However, these men were kingpins because they owned a few houses and cars, and sponsored a few community events. Meanwhile, the police, judges, bankers, lawyers, and politicians who benefit are left alone. The government started the crack epidemic in the 1980's, yet, no government official was ever convicted of even a parking ticket.

This ridiculous policy must end. If the money spent during the past 30 years to stop, try, and convict drug dealers had been spent on treatment and prevention programs, there would be no drug kingpins. Lots of people have to be benefiting for a drug war to continue unabated for as long as it has.

The real drug kingpins are the pharmaceutical companies who sell legal drugs at exorbitant prices to people who can't afford them. These drugs are not designed to cure but, to keep the user coming back over and over again. Blood pressure medications, cancer drugs, AIDS drugs, drugs for restless leg syndrome. Oxycontin, percocet, vicodin, Demerol. All legal drugs that don't cure anything, but they cost a lot. Yet, the drug companies make billions legally, even though their drugs kill many more people.

Christopher Coke should be tried in Jamaica, if they have any charges against him. The popular uprising occurring in the streets may cause the government to fall as more and more people see this as an issue of sovereignty, and the government as a tool of the US. Other individuals involved in the drug trade and find common cause with Mr. Coke and join the fight, which may already be occurring based on the number of roadblocks.

In the end Christopher Coke will be killed and a new "drug kingpin" appointed and targeted. The cycle of violence will continue and the drugs will continue to flow. Then another scapegoat will emerge.

Four Cops Killed In Washington

Before they announced a suspect I knew it was a Black man.

Black people have been harassed, tazed, and shot by police for decades. It was only a matter of time before they began to shoot back.

Of course there are the obvious questions. Why was a convicted felon out on the street? Where did he get the gun? What spawned his hatred of police? How can a person suspected of raping a thirteen year old get out on bond? How did he move to Washington from Arkansas?

Thanks to Governor Mike Huckleby four police officers are dead and their families are mourning. I refuse to mourn police officers because they never mourn when they murder us. This time they harassed the wrong brother and he took his revenge. The remaining cops are looking to shoot him on sight.

It is probably not a coincidence that all of the murdered cops were white. Even though the shooter is probably crazy, he was not crazy enough to shoot black cops. He stalked the murdered cops and observed their habits for days before he acted. There is a reason for that.

My blog is full of stories of cops tazing and shooting unarmed B
lacks, Hispanics and even Asians without consequence. The incident is usually swept under the rug, the officer suspended for a few days with pay. Fathers are routinely threatened with the loss of their children, incarceration, or beaten by police and probation officers.

Payback is a bitch.

Unfortunately, Mr. Cleamons story will never be told as plans are being made to kill him. Hopefully, he will find time to write a note explaining his actions, although it will probably never see the light of day.

RIP brother Cleamons. Maybe you will find the peace in heaven you never found here.

5 Cops Shot In Jersey City

Now that the major drug turf wars are over and gang wars are out of style. The thugs are now turning their weapons on the boys in blue. Increasingly, criminals are engaging in high speed chases and shootouts to avoid going to our overcrowded prisons and jails.

For years the black and latino communities have been dumping grounds for cheap automatic and semi-automatic weapons. Everything was fine as long as the weapons were being used to kill each other over drug profits that would eventually reach the banks, lawyers, and politicians that were profiting after each and every shooting.

The drug gangs finally wised up and learned how to make money quietly, just like the bootleggers and mafia of old. Now all of these guns are on the street in the hands of young thugs. The new breed is more violent because, in most cases, they have already experienced prison and the criminal justice system. They have no job, education, or training once free and therefore, no future. Violence is there only certainty.

Police nationwide are not prepared to deal with this 21st century thug. These thugs are better armed than any before, smarter, and more violent. The SWAT and Bull Connor tactics of the 70's won't work anymore. Brains will! What happened to negotiate first, shoot second. The first officer was wounded in the leg. Hardly any reason to bust in blasting.

A "Stop Snitching" program was initiated in the Black and Latino communities in the late 90's because many were tired of seeing young men and women locked up at four times the rate for whites. The campaign has now shifted from stop snitching to "start shooting". Maybe now is a good time to review those gun laws.