Dear Editor,
Oh, dear Lord, into what fresh hell of madness has Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Chairman Robert Montague plunged us? This man, who I hitherto regarded as sound, came close to shocking the life out of me by demanding from a political platform on Sunday that the People’s National Party (PNP) Government confirm or deny that some of the “bad gas” was being purchased by people in this country from ISIS, which is the quite dreadful terrorist organisation that all sane people abhor.
Then, to pile asinine comment one upon another, he went on to suggest that because of “bad gas” planes — that do not use gas — would likely be soon dropping out of the sky because the “gas” being supplied to our airports was bad.
Will someone not rid us of such piffle. Although it is election time that does not mean that one is free to regurgitate or download any resolutely nonsensical rubbish to assail the ears of all Jamaica — whether from the JLP chairperson or anyone else.
It is election time, not the stupid season. Chairperson Montague well knows that our gas money is not going toward supporting terrorists of the Islamic State, no more than our gas money is going to heat Siberia or to buy ice from the Atlantic Ocean. And he knows, or should know, as a sensible person, that jets fly on a fuel based on either an unleaded kerosene (Jet A-1), or a naphtha-kerosene blend (Jet B), and definitely not on the gas that goes into cars. So I am left with the overwhelming impression that the reason Senator Montague blurted out that level of absolute hogwash was to score political points. He simply said anything to please the tribalists at the political meeting.
Exactly what does he think of all Jamaican people? That they swallow any rubbish they are told? I doubt even the most hard-core Labourite truly believes that Jamaican gas is being bought from the world’s most hated terrorist group. Or, for that matter, that the fuel which is pumped into jet planes that are refuelled in Jamaica is in any way tainted.
We can laugh at his silliness, but he was talking a dangerous brand of nonsense. Hopefully no one believes this rubbish.
Philip Mascoll, OD
pmascoll1948@gmail.com
Oh, dear Lord, into what fresh hell of madness has Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Chairman Robert Montague plunged us? This man, who I hitherto regarded as sound, came close to shocking the life out of me by demanding from a political platform on Sunday that the People’s National Party (PNP) Government confirm or deny that some of the “bad gas” was being purchased by people in this country from ISIS, which is the quite dreadful terrorist organisation that all sane people abhor.
Then, to pile asinine comment one upon another, he went on to suggest that because of “bad gas” planes — that do not use gas — would likely be soon dropping out of the sky because the “gas” being supplied to our airports was bad.
Will someone not rid us of such piffle. Although it is election time that does not mean that one is free to regurgitate or download any resolutely nonsensical rubbish to assail the ears of all Jamaica — whether from the JLP chairperson or anyone else.
It is election time, not the stupid season. Chairperson Montague well knows that our gas money is not going toward supporting terrorists of the Islamic State, no more than our gas money is going to heat Siberia or to buy ice from the Atlantic Ocean. And he knows, or should know, as a sensible person, that jets fly on a fuel based on either an unleaded kerosene (Jet A-1), or a naphtha-kerosene blend (Jet B), and definitely not on the gas that goes into cars. So I am left with the overwhelming impression that the reason Senator Montague blurted out that level of absolute hogwash was to score political points. He simply said anything to please the tribalists at the political meeting.
Exactly what does he think of all Jamaican people? That they swallow any rubbish they are told? I doubt even the most hard-core Labourite truly believes that Jamaican gas is being bought from the world’s most hated terrorist group. Or, for that matter, that the fuel which is pumped into jet planes that are refuelled in Jamaica is in any way tainted.
We can laugh at his silliness, but he was talking a dangerous brand of nonsense. Hopefully no one believes this rubbish.
Philip Mascoll, OD
pmascoll1948@gmail.com