Dana Seetahal wasnt the first high profile murder in T&T, in fact, former Attorney General and Minister of National Security Selwyn Richardson was killed in broad daylight in his driveway. Davy Maharaj was killed on a tennis court i believe, again in broad daylight. Four hundred million in juice cans? Please. Try a billion in a yacht off Spain from T&T, try six hundred million on Monos. Dont be misled by your own short memory. Under the previous PNM administration a woman was followed into West End Police Station again in broad daylight and shot dead in the carpark. Another man was killed outside a Magistrates Court by a killer who just walked away. To the handful of misdirectionists who refuse to give law enforcement or the minister of National Security credit for reducing the crime numbers, would you prefer to go back to the days of multi million dollar blimps that could only look down on crimes as they were being committed but could do nothing about it? Or how about we buy an OPV and sail it around T&T in a continuous circle forever? How about two? Six? That might be a solution if you are devoid of logic. What needs to be done to curb crime cannot happen overnight because we are a democracy AND a Republic ruled by law. If we were a totalitarian state then we could just have police shoot bandits dead. Here, we have to have them arrested, processed and prosecuted before we know if the hard work of the police bore fruit. We need to rescue the two hundred and fifty thousand mostly (unfortunately) PNM supporters languishing in the hell of our ghettoes who are breeding criminals out of social failure and desperation. Can that happen overnight? Of course not. We also need to dismantle (read here go to violent war and break) the criminal gang system that is at the heart of most of our violent crime and murder. Can it be done overnight? Of course not. We also have to secure hundreds of miles of open coastline left open on forty one years of PNM watch for reasons they alone know, but again, that takes time. So the drug trade and the illegal guns trade and the human trafficking benefitting from those porous borders and making life hard for police, it is being dealt with, but its hundreds of miles and again, will take time. What we do know though is that every year since the PPG took over from the last administration crime has been steadily decreasing. Is it at zero yet? No, we still have ghettoes, we still have plenty PNM people to rescue from squalor and destitution, we still have gangs to war with, we still have prosecutions to deal with, borders to close, these things take time. But if under the PNM murder reached 550 after climbing every year and this year it was under four hundred, stand where you are and applaud the men and women of law enfacement. At least 150 people are alive because of their hard work. What we focus on grows and i want to tell each and everyone of you, failure is not hard to hit, it is pressing down upon us from all sides and if were blighted and unlucky, if we put God out of our thoughts and return the failed PNM to power we might still get it, but for now, for every dent in the numbers, every success, every reduction, every increased police presence and professionalism in their service, thank the Minister of National Security and the hard working men and women of our law enforcement who put their lives on the line for us strangers every single day. Can it get better? Of course it can. But it will take time. Until then our hearts must collectively pain that those evil bastards snuffed out Danas life and every other person killed this year. But every year that we have an improvement in the numbers is getting us closer to where we want to be. Focus on that. Phillip Edward Alexander Social & Political Activist
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 01:23:08 +0000
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