Dear Editor,
There is a resurgence of Hillary Clinton’s 1996 comments about certain kids that were super predators who murdered victims without conscience or empathy. It befuddles the mind, at least my mind, as to why the term is never used in reference to white criminals, but I digress.
While Madame Secretary was boxed into a corner and had to apologise, I am doing no such thing in reference to the thugs who add to the spate of wanton and out of control killings in Jamaica. Psychopaths live in our midst and we must never become indifferent and hardened because of the frequency of these despicable acts of brutality and murder. We also should not be distant from the pain, because tomorrow that innocent young man whose life will be snuffed out could be your son.
Real parasites live among us. There seemed to have been no conscience or empathy in the murder of the Khajeel Mais, doctor to the Reggae Boyz Martin Garwood, and 14-year-old Jamaica College student Nicholas Francis.
Real thugs live among us. There seemed to have been no conscience or empathy in the murder of three-year-old Nevalesia Campbell of St Ann, caretaker ‘Gully’ on Barbican Road, and 60-year-old Edward Omoregie in St Ann.
Real savages live among us. There seemed to have been no conscience or empathy as the children screamed and begged for their lives before being murdered in the Africa Settlement area in Spanish Town. Five people, including three children, were shot, killed and their homes torched. It is reported that two of the children killed were murdered execution-style.
This is not name-calling; this is facing our reality. If we are afraid to appropriately label that part of our society, that nasty underbelly of criminality, that force of evil where all Beelzebubs live and thrive, then how will we even begin to face them, root them out and take them down?
Captain Sandra M Taylor Wiggan
sandra_wiggan@yahoo.co.uk
There is a resurgence of Hillary Clinton’s 1996 comments about certain kids that were super predators who murdered victims without conscience or empathy. It befuddles the mind, at least my mind, as to why the term is never used in reference to white criminals, but I digress.
While Madame Secretary was boxed into a corner and had to apologise, I am doing no such thing in reference to the thugs who add to the spate of wanton and out of control killings in Jamaica. Psychopaths live in our midst and we must never become indifferent and hardened because of the frequency of these despicable acts of brutality and murder. We also should not be distant from the pain, because tomorrow that innocent young man whose life will be snuffed out could be your son.
Real parasites live among us. There seemed to have been no conscience or empathy in the murder of the Khajeel Mais, doctor to the Reggae Boyz Martin Garwood, and 14-year-old Jamaica College student Nicholas Francis.
Real thugs live among us. There seemed to have been no conscience or empathy in the murder of three-year-old Nevalesia Campbell of St Ann, caretaker ‘Gully’ on Barbican Road, and 60-year-old Edward Omoregie in St Ann.
Real savages live among us. There seemed to have been no conscience or empathy as the children screamed and begged for their lives before being murdered in the Africa Settlement area in Spanish Town. Five people, including three children, were shot, killed and their homes torched. It is reported that two of the children killed were murdered execution-style.
This is not name-calling; this is facing our reality. If we are afraid to appropriately label that part of our society, that nasty underbelly of criminality, that force of evil where all Beelzebubs live and thrive, then how will we even begin to face them, root them out and take them down?
Captain Sandra M Taylor Wiggan
sandra_wiggan@yahoo.co.uk