Friday, May 28, 2010

Extra Thursday music link, on a Friday

Just realised I should have picked this one yesterday:

It is a state of emergency, government call in the military. Dedicated to Christopher "Dudus" Coke, another person who doesn't think it's fair for him to be extradited to the US justice system.

I joke, but it's absolutely horrible. Jamaica has, of course, an amazingly high murder rate at the best of times (58/100k), but so far there have been 71 civilian casualties, plus however many of the Shower Posse gunmen and police officers who died (who aren't exactly noncombatants, but I doubt that any of them had particularly anticipated or expected something like this to happen to them). I don't know what to say. Here's a ludicrously hagiographic article detailing the political (Jamaica Labour Party) half of the atrociously dysfunctional political-criminal synthesis in Tivoli Gardens.

3 comments:

  1. I can't recall the number of times I've made the point re some ghastly "collateral damage" clusterfuck in Iraq or related that "they'd be more careful of bystanders in domestic law enforcement." Well it seems not, if "they" were the Jamaican police. Perhaps it would have been kinder to send in the IDF?

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  2. Didn't they send in the army as well?

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  3. This seems appropriate -

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2i-Gjm5Tmc


    The 12" is a lot better but you can't have everything.

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