JACKASS SEY DI worl' no level. Jackass sey judge a order people fi get arres cause dem naa talk loud, but justice dumb bad.
Yesterday, The Gleaner reported that chairman of the Special Constabulary Association, Christopher Bowen, is demanding that a Resident Magistrate in St. Mary apologise publicly. This demand comes from an incident in which the judge placed a special constable under arrest for not calling names in court loudly enough.
There has been a private apology, but the policeman wants a public one as the judge performed her excessive act publicly, demanding that all remain in the court to see her do her deed.
Now, this is not the first time that a judge has ordered somebody jailed for not speaking loudly enough. A few years ago, a judge in Kingston ordered a woman from Portland who was the complainant in a rape case to be arrested because she was not speaking up loudly enough in court. The result was a public protest in downtown Kingston.
But back to the St. Mary case. It requires a serious amount of police lungpower to call the names of the persons coming up for trial. Jackass has been to traffic court for supposed hamper violations and not moving quickly enough on more than one occasion, and it is a very imposing thing when that round of name calling starts. And this is one person's name, mind you.
The Clerk of the Court reads the name from the list, say 'Jumping Jackass', quietly enough, then the policeman who is marshalling the line going up to his or her honour shouts from somewhere near his boots 'JUMPING JACKASS!'. Then another policeman by the door to the courthouse lets it rip with JUMPPINGG JACKASSS!!!!'. Before that one can die down, a police officer somewhere on the stairs lets out another, mightier 'JUMPPPPINGGGG JACKASSSS!!!!!!!!' and finally one law person downstairs bellows it another time (for the benefit, perhaps, of the people in the street and half of the town) 'JUMMPPPPINNGGGGG JACKASSSSSS!!!'.
The cumulative effect of all this, for one name, is something like 'Jumping Jackass', 'JUMPING JACKASS!', JUMPPINGG JACKASSS!!!!', 'JUMPPPPINGGGG JACKASSSS!!!!!!!!', 'JUMMPPPPINNGGGGG JACKASSSSSS!!!'. And sometimes the person is sitting right there in the courtroom already.
So unless things are very different in St. Mary, Jackass fails to see how one policewoman's low voice could be such a stumbling block to the stirring shouts of justice that she should be arrested.
But the world is not level at all, is it, because while there can be orders of arrests for people not speaking loudly enough, there is an instance where a person can go to court for violating bail procedures and instead of being arrested, get further bail.
Jackass sey di worl' no level. Jackass sey de justice system naa hear wha people a talk up loud bout, but a arres people fi no shout out dem t'roat 'ole.
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