Commentary

Deportees and crime

IT IS NOT surprising that the Bernard Headley study on deportees, entitled 'Deported: entry and exit findings on Jamaicans returned from the United States' would absolve the United States (U.S.) of all wrongdoing on the matter of criminals being returned to Jamaica.

After all, it was funded by the US Embassy in Kingston and done with data supplied by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

And that is their homeland, not ours, okay.

As The Sunday Gleaner reported yesterday, the Jamaican Security Ministry is sticking to its guns on the matter, insisting that the deportees are wreaking havoc on Jamaica, and especially Kingston, using the very findings of the U.S. sponsored study to show that the fault lies up North.

It is amazing that, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, the US insists that it is not at fault with the crime wave sweeping this country. And, how things are looking, this is just the beginning.

Of course, the true Jamaican findings will not make it into the US records. They will simply use the findings that they paid for as the official line; it will be noted, of course, that it was done by a noted Jamaican scholar.

Which makes no difference to the reality ­ and what is not noted in the study is that the guns with which the crimes are committed in the main are also from the U.S., which seems indifferent to guns flowing out, but insists that people take off their shoes going in.

It is ironic that these are the very things ­ weapons of mass destruction (for those guns add up to weapons of mass destruction) ­ and training terrorists that the U.S. and England manufacture invasions for. Is it not time for us to launch a 'pre-emptive strike', then?