Time for us to grow a backbone

THE EDITOR: Everyday, we are bombarded with media propaganda funded by the Americans. Over 90 percent of the world’s population is aware of the reasons for America’s war on Iraq. America wants to be the big dog of the world and no one should stand up to them (not forgetting oil).

The American legal system has failed society. Their education system has failed when compared to other countries with fewer resources. Their ideas of capital punishment have caused a complete breakdown in their society. We in TT seem ready to accept their failed systems. Are we so brain dead, can’t we be innovative and think for ourselves. I recently saw a documentary on HBO, “The Iceman and The Psychiatrist.” The Iceman being ‘Richard Kuklinski’ a world-renowned murderer, serving multiple life sentences for killing dozens of people. The contract killer reveals with pride his methods and his enjoyment of killing. These documentaries though informative do something to a person’s subconscious, inevitably it gives some people ideas on hot to commit murder. It makes these beasts seem like celebrities, when in fact they should have been eliminated immediately.

The iceman re-lived the glory of killing. He was diagnosed as having a genetic predisposition to fearlessness and a paranoid personality disorder, free of any conscience. The Iceman killed his victims if they disrespected him. He killed people if they were judgemental towards him, if they looked at him the wrong way. The irony of it is that it shows the incompetence of the US legal system, which allows serial killers and murderers to enjoy maiming and killing innocent people yet they continue to enjoy the rest of their lives, leaving he families of the victims to suffer and bear their loses and be traumatised till their death. This monster should have been executed. In our case, the international human rights organisations and the Privy Council prolong the lives of these monsters. Remember, “Justice delayed is justice denied.” We in TT are being forced to accept systems of failure; the PNM government is propagating a criminal society, just look at the breakdown in the school system and the crime situations that are plaguing us. Don’t think that the UNC was any better, they were just as bad. When will we grow a backbone and say to the US and Britain, we will not adopt their failed systems, we will no longer follow their dictates. After all, we are an independent sovereign island.

JOHN MOHAMMED
Chaguanas