THE EDITOR, Sir:THE ONLY time I have any serious grouse against lobby groups is when they give me the impression that they are willing to sell out my country to watchdog organisations from places which, through slavery, colonialism and other manifestation of racial bigotry and capitalist greed continue to perpetrate terror on the entire Third World.
A critical component of justice is for guilty parties to make reparations to those who have been abused. Perhaps our local groups can get their international associates to assist their home states to appreciate the justice in paying for their atrocities.
Jamaica is not a police state. We have a proud democratic tradition. If people feel that they or their neighbours have been wronged, it is their constitutional right to protest such perceived infringements. It is also the right of those they protest against to defend and protect themselves against such protestations.
That is the reason I have now come to think that we need a State Against Family Terrorism (SAFT) lobby group. This has become necessary because the unplanned family is, and has been for a long time, the single most brutal and oppressive terrorist act against our national economy, our development, our collective peace of mind and our society in general.
Unplanned families, which result in a condition called overpopulation, wreak sheer havoc on the best efforts of a poor, underdeveloped state like ours in education, crime management, health care, children's homes, housing and all other forms of social engagement. And let us not forget that ours is one of those populations that also grows by deportation.
My word to the lobby groups is that the most prudent place to fight terrorism and to seek justice is in the containment and reduction of the national birth rate. In our context it also appears to be the birthplace of national development and the advancement of the quality society.
It is full time that there be some justice for Jamaicans who plan their families, pay their taxes and contribute to national development. And since the resulting deprivation, poverty and squalor is not sufficient a deterrent to those who terrorise the state in this manner, we could bawl blood, the solutions are going to have to be unconventional and draconian.
Let us be courageous and steadfast in our quest for Emancipation from all forms of oppression and be single-minded and relentless in our struggle for socio-economic Independence.
I am, etc.,
STANLEY REDWOOD
stanley_yahoo.com
Middle Quarters
St. Elizabeth
