Dear Editor,
In 2010, the United States allegedly threatened to suspended aid to Jamaica following the operation that preceded the extradition of West Kingston strongman, Christopher Dudus Coke, citing provisions under the Leahy Law, according to a report carried by the New York Times in 2011 and an admission made by National Security Minister Peter Bunting in Parliament recently.
Fast-forward to our impasse today, a much-competent police commissioner, Owen Ellington, demitted office under a cloud of allegations of human rights abuses that the US allegedly has pin-pointed Ellington to have administered. This is the talk.
Unfortunately, because of our economic woes and dependency on big brother economies like the US, we have had to fall in line when orders are spewed.
No other territory has the authority to even ask a nation to comply with moral orders, mind you -- this is not an excuse for countries such as ours to commit human rights abuses.
The United States has a bloody hand when it comes on to extrajudicial killings. An examination of Obama's war on terror since 2013 is alarming. Innocent civilians in Pakistan and south-east Asia are dying at the hands of drone strikes authorised by the Administration, yet the they walk the streets as if all is well. No matter how much talk and paperr the US State Department adds to its reasons for drone strike, it is unjustifiable. How many terrorists have been killed as a result of drone strikes? Since when did international laws change to allow drones to become judge, jury and executioner?
With the current conflict in the Middle East between Israel and Palestine, one has to wonder if the US has any role in ending this battle? Israeli's aggression towards Palestine is possible solely because of financial, diplomatic and even military support provided by the foreign states. Last evening, Obama was busy issuing sanctions on Russian officials over the crisis in Ukraine, but continues to ignore how Israel is devastating Palestine. As we say as Christians, there are two types of sins: the sin of commission (what you do) and the sin of omission (what you don't do).
The United States is found wanting in both instances. Yet the allegedly call the shots here.
Jevon Minto
Northern Caribbean University
mintojevon@gmail.com
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In 2010, the United States allegedly threatened to suspended aid to Jamaica following the operation that preceded the extradition of West Kingston strongman, Christopher Dudus Coke, citing provisions under the Leahy Law, according to a report carried by the New York Times in 2011 and an admission made by National Security Minister Peter Bunting in Parliament recently.
Fast-forward to our impasse today, a much-competent police commissioner, Owen Ellington, demitted office under a cloud of allegations of human rights abuses that the US allegedly has pin-pointed Ellington to have administered. This is the talk.
Unfortunately, because of our economic woes and dependency on big brother economies like the US, we have had to fall in line when orders are spewed.
No other territory has the authority to even ask a nation to comply with moral orders, mind you -- this is not an excuse for countries such as ours to commit human rights abuses.
The United States has a bloody hand when it comes on to extrajudicial killings. An examination of Obama's war on terror since 2013 is alarming. Innocent civilians in Pakistan and south-east Asia are dying at the hands of drone strikes authorised by the Administration, yet the they walk the streets as if all is well. No matter how much talk and paperr the US State Department adds to its reasons for drone strike, it is unjustifiable. How many terrorists have been killed as a result of drone strikes? Since when did international laws change to allow drones to become judge, jury and executioner?
With the current conflict in the Middle East between Israel and Palestine, one has to wonder if the US has any role in ending this battle? Israeli's aggression towards Palestine is possible solely because of financial, diplomatic and even military support provided by the foreign states. Last evening, Obama was busy issuing sanctions on Russian officials over the crisis in Ukraine, but continues to ignore how Israel is devastating Palestine. As we say as Christians, there are two types of sins: the sin of commission (what you do) and the sin of omission (what you don't do).
The United States is found wanting in both instances. Yet the allegedly call the shots here.
Jevon Minto
Northern Caribbean University
mintojevon@gmail.com
The big, international picture
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