We really gone, gone, gone, gone

I offer my concern as well to all others who have been swindled, robbed and murdered in the rising tide of criminality that has brutalised this country for many years now.

Maybe because a priest was the victim the country wants to bawl today that we gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone. The lines are a perversion of S Carter’s risqué song but the point is that the country is now in a state of anguish.

It happens that I differ from the general points of view on the situation because I and many others have always been of the opinion that we had gone past the point of no return already.

We were gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone a long time ago.

Some of us in NJAC in the 1970s witnessed the audience reaction to a film called The Executioner when the audience cheered as a man was thrown into a meat grinder. I remember when the late Chief Servant Makandal Daaga stated “the executioner is here” following a series of brutal murders in Point Fortin sometime in the 1980s.

Just last year Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley stated that we are losing the battle against crime.

Not too long the Prime Minister had blamed the parents for the criminality. He said the parents were breeding monsters.

This time he said, “able-bodied, gun-toting men sadly represent the worst that exists within our communities.” His press release added, “These miscreants have parents and I hope that somewhere in this country today there are a few parents who are hanging their heads in shame as they reflect in private as to what more they might have done to prevent any of our citizens from behaving in this despicable way.” Okay then. But the delinquent parents are really breeding very stupid monsters.

Because, if as Harvey allegedly stated, “one of the gunmen became agitated and said to him, ‘You is a priest, you must have money.’” And then asked Harvey if he was kidnapped, would Archbishop Joseph Harris pay a $50,000 ransom? I am saying that the bandit has no common sense. A ransom of $50,000 equally divided would give each gunman about $16,000 and some change. So out of that they would have to pay the “rent” for their guns, they would have brought two or three pairs of the most expensive sneakers, Brazilian bundles for their GFs and they would want to buy his and hers premium drinks, like Hennessy and Cîroc, pay car rent, go for boat rides, give the “side chick” nails price and so on and so on.

By then they would have spent it all.

What they did get eventually was $1,000, a watch and a cell phone. So after all the threats and pressure they put on Harvey they had to run, most likely to start all over again.

I repeat that we have been gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone years now.

AIYEGORO OME Mt Lambert